"Sirius contacted me just now."
George pushed open the door and entered the room, looking at Albert, who was flipping through parchment behind his desk.
"Oh, what did he want with me?" Albert asked, though he already knew.
"You really are calm about this!" George gave a helpless, bitter smile. He did not believe Albert could not guess the reason.
"What else should I do?" Albert set down the parchment and looked up at him. "I've already done everything I should and everything I can."
"They still haven't managed to find out Professor Burbage's exact whereabouts."
George had actually long guessed Albert's attitude toward the matter. If he had truly been willing to help, he would have helped search for her instead of sitting there chatting with him.
What Albert had just said was practically the same as saying outright that Professor Burbage's life or death had nothing to do with him.
No one wanted to pay for someone else's mistakes. Albert's willingness to make a prediction was already a gesture of consideration for their past friendship.
"Can't find her? There's nothing I can do about that either. Crystal Ball Divination is like that. Sometimes it really is difficult to extract the information you need from the images in a prediction."
Albert was not surprised in the slightest. If Crystal Ball Divination were truly that powerful, Divination would not be so widely doubted.
Yet, as a Divination Master, Albert knew perfectly well that many people simply did not want to believe in so-called divination or prophecy.
Thus, watching disaster unfold before their eyes without being able to stop it had become a fate most Prophecy Masters found difficult to escape.
If they dwelled on it, they would only be driven to death by frustration.
That was why he usually only