"Albert, are you all right?"
At lunchtime, Shanna sat down beside Albert. She was still brooding over Snape deducting a point from him for no apparent reason that morning.
"I'm fine. What is it?" Albert skillfully spread a generous amount of mayonnaise onto his sandwich, added sliced tomatoes, two pieces of fried bacon, and finally a cold sausage before covering it with another slice of bread.
"I can't believe you can still eat." Shanna lowered her voice. "Did you offend Professor Snape somewhere?"
"No," Albert replied without hesitation.
Even if he had, he would never admit it. The answer would only ever be no.
"I know about this." With a piece of pie in his mouth, George took a bite and said with a grin, "It started two days before term began. We were wandering around the castle when we happened to run into Snape. Albert went over and asked whether he could take a photo of him."
The thought of it made George want to laugh.
"Yeah, yeah, I remember. That was it." Fred chimed in from beside him. "Later, Snape said he'd call on Albert in Potions Class."
"So that was why all that happened this morning?" Shanna asked in surprise.
"Snape didn't manage to make Albert look foolish, so he changed tactics." Lee Jordan continued the topic. "That's why our Potions professor assigned Albert extra homework after class."
"Ahem, you've got that wrong. What do you mean, make me look foolish?" Albert cleared his throat and said solemnly, "Professor Snape thinks I have a talent for Potions and plans to give me special attention to improve my skills. Isn't that right?"
"Right, right, we misspoke just now." The twins quickly corrected themselves, wearing expressions that said, Exactly, that's how it was.
Shanna was amused by them, but