"If you think that, you haven't been using the right spells," Ben shot back, with a dangerous look to his eye that was — a little put on, honestly. He hadn't ever done any lasting damage to anyone with a wand (or with any other weapon), but at the moment he was quite confident in his ability to do so. When the person on the other end of the spell was Macmillan, anyway.

"He's not going to say another word about her when I'm finished with him," Ben promised solemnly.