Well, there was that. "I was 11, discovered magic powers, and sent to public school in a castle," Verity pointed out, with what she thought was very sound logic. "I had to get in some mischief.
"Anyway," she defended without any actual heat, "most of it really was the fault of some Gryf or another. Did you ever meet Patricia Stimpson? Curly brown hair, freckles?"