Karkaroff bared his yellow teeth in a distinctly unfriendly smile.
"Now, Dumbledore, really – I must protest this. The boy returned last..."
"Come on, Karkaroff!" Ludo Bagman thumped him a little too hard on the back. "Harry was trying to rescue all the hostages! Quite brave of him, you have to admit."
Karkaroff scowled.
"On the contrary, he should have known they weren't in actual danger; it was his own ignorance that—"
"It's the spirit of the thing, Igor," Dumbledore said. "Full marks?"
The other judges agreed. Karkaroff remained firmly seated as Bagman announced points.
Moral fiber. What absolute rubbish.
