"You," Pete said, jabbing his finger towards Spencer's face and, this time, managing not to knock anything over. "You, sir, are a..."
There were a lot of words he could use here. None of them were appropriate in front fo the children. And as this was mostly for the benefit (see also: entertainment and distraction) of the children, that was an important consideration. "Scalawag!" Pete blurted out. Okay. Not ideal, maybe, but he could work with that. "Heartless jezebel," he said, warming up the seldom used reaches of his vocabulary. "Cruel, usurping home wrecker." Oh, that was good. "Siren! Slytherin siren. You should be ashamed of yourself."