A Thick Barrier Now Stood Between Us

Professor McGonagall was still somewhat dazed when she left Andrew's laboratory.

The impact of A Legend was simply too great. Even now, she felt a little lightheaded.

Wait, what? Taylor? A Legend?

She had never associated those utterly unrelated things before today.

But now that she thought about it, it did make sense. Taylor's logic when handling documents, his everyday reading habits, and his overly practiced way of dealing with paperwork in the office...

Merlin's beard, he's only a first-year!

Professor McGonagall shook her head. Should she say that Ravenclaws truly lived up to their reputation? Whenever they pulled something off, it was always about exploiting loopholes?

Even Professor McGonagall, who had spent years watching Gryffindors cause every imaginable sort of trouble, found this hard to adjust to. This was simply too unexpected.

Wait, did I just accept an interview?

Professor McGonagall recalled what had just happened—Taylor, whose secret had been exposed, should have been the panicked one. Yet she had somehow ended up giving him a brief interview and selling Albus out all over again.

Those things might even be edited and included in A Legend, becoming popular reading across the Wizarding world in its next issue.

She had grown accustomed to chatting with Andrew. Sometimes, she would naturally bring up matters concerning the school of magic, or relations between the school and the Ministry of Magic. So when something involving Albus came up, she had not paid it much mind.

The students probably did not know about Albus's habit of slacking off, but Taylor definitely knew it inside out—how many times had he been dragged off to work? She had chosen an office assistant, not an idiot...

*Forget it. Let Albus worry about Albus's affairs. Even if you beat him to death, he'd never guess who writes A