" Hermione, a wizard in Mr. Crouch's position can't afford a house-elf who's going to run amok with a wand! " said Percy pompously, recovering himself.
As disciples fretted about status and earning " prestige points" , Newton—who was divorced from Pearce in the early 1970s and married six times in all—ran amok.
The barriers that prevent most youngsters from running amok—an inherent sense of right and wrong; concern for their job and education prospects; shame—seem not to exist in the minds of the rioters.