To whoever said Margot Maynard: she is a vile little hellbeast, but it's not really surprising when she's been pigeonholed as The Bad One from birth. If the Maynards were real, Margot would need a lot of therapy. I mean, her family keep going on about her devil and she gets castigated for being in a form with girls her own age and not older girls like her sisters.
This has been done to death on the CBB but one thing that really bugs me about the Swiss books is the Maynard Get Out of Jail Free card. Margot bullies and blackmails Theodora and she just gets a telling off and is ignored by her dad. Margot nearly kills another girl, but she just gets told off and the other girl is blamed for being tactless, even though she was just telling Margot to keep her voice down. Margot acts like a total thundercunt in a games class, bullies Evelyn and causes Evelyn to whack the ball so hard she injures Lesley's leg, and the younger girls are scared of her, but Miss Burnett just goes 'aww poor Margot such a hard row to hoe'. Someone on the CBB wrote a fix-it fic where Miss Wilmot demoted Margot and it was glorious. Thekla got expelled for less.
Peggy Bettany can fuck off too tbh. She's so boring and she has a stick up her arse and I hate how she punishes the Regency prank by ruining an entire weekend for the girls and the prefects too. It was just a bit of fun, hun, they weren't hurting anyone and your auntie Madge just laughed it off when Joey and friends did the same thing. Get over yourself.
I think that's what jars about the CS, because usually there's a real sense of right and wrong and bad guys always get punished. But because Margot is Joey's kid and Joey and Jack are perfect parents, she can act like a horrible little arsehole and never get into trouble for it because all she has to do is cry, and it seems really unfair when other characters get punished for less (like the girls who get bollocked for gasping when Verity refuses to sing). The fact Miss Annersley is BFFs with her mum doesn't help.