''Stupid things'' he murmured.

As the creatures insulted him, Josh kept glaring at them this time without saying anything. He was already feeling deeply humiliated with those clothes and the Jarveys were adding to it. If onlt the professor had not been there and he had had his wand then... The boy stopped fantasising about dealing with the Jarveys when a bright idea hit him.

He turned to face the professor as he spoke ''You can let them out if you'd like to, sir. But what if i don't care what they say?'' actually that was a hard thing to do for a boy who had nerves like his yet this bluffing, he thought, might work.