"Just as I expected of you—you even managed to talk Harry into it."
After watching Harry walk away in a daze, Lee Jordan said to Albert with a smile, "Honestly, I've always thought you'd make a great priest. You could definitely talk a whole crowd of believers into anything."
"You know, if I were Harry, I'd believe Albert too." Fred was not joking in the slightest. He genuinely believed the two things Albert had mentioned.
"You think Mad-Eye is suspicious too?" George asked with a frown.
"Can't you lot have any sense of humor?" Lee Jordan complained. In truth, he believed Albert as well, though his friend always liked using the truth to fool people.
"Do you remember what happened in Harry's first year? Professor Quirrell tried to steal the Philosopher's Stone, and supposedly The Dark Lord had possessed him." Albert began listing the events that had occurred during Harry's three years at school.
"The year before last, there was the Chamber of Secrets monster attack. Lockhart wasn't directly involved, but he was a complete fraud. He was attacked too, and he still hasn't been discharged from hospital."
"And last year, there was Black's escape from prison. Harry got dragged into that as well, Professor Lupin turned out to be a Werewolf and Black's close friend, and then Peter turned up, having spent more than a decade pretending to be a dead rat." Fred thought it was perfectly normal for Harry to be persuaded by Albert, because he felt the same way.
Of course coincidences existed, but one coincidence after another was no longer a coincidence.
"You think this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor has a problem?" Realizing the three were not joking, Lee Jordan dropped his smile and began considering it seriously. "Come to think of it,