Thoroughly Prepared

"Just as expected of you—you even managed to talk Harry into believing you."

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 absolutely 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 has a problem too?" George asked with a frown.

"Can't you lot have a bit of humour?" Lee Jordan complained. In truth, he believed Albert as well, though his friend always liked using the truth to fool people.

"Do you remember Harry's first year at school? There was the incident with Quirrell trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone, and Professor Quirrell was supposedly possessed by Lord Voldemort." Albert began listing the events that had happened during Harry's three years at Hogwarts.

"The year before last, there was the Chamber of Secrets monster attack. Lockhart might not have been directly involved, but he was undoubtedly a fraud. He was attacked too, and still hadn't been discharged from the hospital."

"And last year, there was Black's escape from Azkaban. Harry got dragged into that as well, Professor Lupin turned out to be a werewolf and Black's good friend, and then Peter showed up—a rat who had faked his death for over a decade." Fred thought it was perfectly normal for Harry to be persuaded by Albert, because he felt the same way himself.

There were certainly coincidences in the world, but one coincidence after another was no longer a coincidence.

"You think this term's Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor has a problem?" Realising the three of them were not joking, Lee Jordan's smile