Violet winced involuntarily as one of the hooded figures shot a spell at Ashley--oh, why couldn't she ever hold her tongue? Hadn't she learned by now that these guys weren't kidding around? Violet wondered what they'd done to her, but there was not much anyone could do about it as long as class was going on and those goons were watching.

If anyone thought this was a way to improve the way students learned, they had rocks in their heads.