Well, that's just it, isn't it? You can't look seriously because she's just a halfblood. So're Brocklehurst and Fawcett and they're much--er, more mature than Perks.

(I mean, have you seen the way Fawcett's robes are fitting her this year? Hopkins said this afternoon that he reckons her foster family haven't bothered replacing them and they're just unusually tight.)