"It wants discipline," he answers delicately. "Let's put it this way--I'd take her on as an apprentice myself, if asked, but there are only one or two other masters I'd trust her to, and neither lives either in Britain or in Europe proper."
"They were," he agrees with cold satisfaction. They may have found his weak points and splintered him there, but they never made him bend.
"There are a pair of patrons paying attention to us," he answers, over the rim of his glass, without directing Rus's gaze to them. "The pointilated pictures may have been unwise."
Well, he understands it, but yes. (g) I picked up OotP (the book) recently... evidently I didn't quite remember how much Snape enjoys alliteration. ^,^