Terry Boot shot back, "Criticize? Vizet is so easygoing, he'd never do that!"
"If we really dueled, he'd definitely separate us, wait until we'd calmed down, and then ask what happened."
Michael Corner teased, "As expected of a loyal reader of Wizard Vede and the Magical World! You really understand Vede's real-life model!"
"Hm? You're not going after Chris, and you're making fun of me instead?" Terry raised his eyebrows and slipped a hand into his pocket, as if feeling around for something. "Great! Then I'll have to..."
"Terry! Wait a second!" Michael hurriedly changed the subject. "Weren't we talking about the Prefect Badge? It's all Anthony's fault for changing the subject!"
"I feel like he's definitely hiding something!" He raised a hand and pointed at Anthony Goldstein's nose. "Talk! What exactly is going on with this Prefect Badge?"
"Don't tell me this Prefect Badge... was actually something you took from Vizet?" Suspicion and scrutiny showed in his eyes. "And then you deliberately used it to mess with us?"
"Now that you mention it..." A thoughtful look appeared on Terry's face as well. "I actually think, could it be that Vizet felt becoming a prefect would delay his studies, so he simply had Anthony manage things for him?"
Chris Moen agreed, "Terry, your guess is much more reasonable than Michael's!"
Anthony let out a long sigh and said in a disappointed tone, "And you call yourselves Ravenclaws..."
"You were all picking on me for why I used the word 'criticize,' so why didn't you realize that was my hint?"
"Criticize..." Terry frowned and propped his chin in his hand, thinking. "Could it mean... criticizing prefects?"
"Criticizing prefects?" With Terry's reminder, Michael realized it and stared at Anthony with wide eyes. "Anthony... don't tell me..."
"You lot! And you call yourselves