tbh my favourite scene from Bartimaeus is still the bit in Golem’s Eye where that one guy (I think it was Nat’s boss? Idk it’s been fucking ages since I read the books) casts a stupidly overwrought spell to catch a stupidly overwrought demon but he fucks up so the demon eats him

AND THEN

the other trapped demons just fucking stand around gossiping about it

“Goodness, did you see that?” 

“Lucky bastard”