[ WP ] `` You , sir , clearly do not understand my current predicament . ''

`` You, sir, clearly do not understand my current predicament.'' 
 
 
 `` You're running out of time to get yourself out of whatever predicament you might be in, *young man. *'' 
 
 
 `` I ca n't, sir, or else I would have by now instead of being the embarrassing situation of explaining it to you.'' 
 
 
 `` Do n't you get sassy with me, mister.'' 
 
 
 
 `` Sir, please, just this once let me go, I promise I wo n't do it again!'' 
 
 
 
 `` Do *what*, boy?'' 
 
 
 
 `` Be outside in the courtyard after curfew singing nursery rhymes at the top of my lungs as a distraction so Harry and Tom could sneak into your office and lock the door from the inside.'' 
 
 
 
 Headmaster Perry started forward, but the child was gone, escaped into the night.'' 

