"Sure . . . would you like to try to fine Mage Hracin, or something else?"  Pytyar was more or less free, his students could handle themselves until lunch.  At leat witht he threat of his ire if they didn't.  Of all the people at the academy, they knew he could take the whole class on and get all of them, with or without magic.  Most of his current students having yet to learn to cast spells without their foci left them disadvantaged in a fight.