"Ay, he!" Harry agrees. The disdain comes as no surprise: he assumes everyone is as open with their feelings about people as he, and who wouldn't hate this Javert person?

"O, a marvel he, a monster-marvel, a man made all of pride yet claims he has none, who says he will not fight yet holds his ground as stout as any siege works, who snidely counsels peace and spits upon those who fight for it. --my talk with him did grow well heated, friend, I will deny it not."