Silence. Everyone fell silent.
Since its founding, the whole of R.B. had never been as quiet as it was at that moment. All because of the answer the twins had given when everyone asked what they wanted to safeguard.
"What we want to safeguard is the great, noble cause of pranks, to which we must devote our entire lives."
The twins had delivered that sentence by alternating one word at a time.
But their coordination was so astonishing that there had not been the slightest pause between them. Anyone listening with their eyes closed would never have been able to tell that two people were speaking.
Yet compared with that coordination, the content left everyone even more amazed and full of feeling.
"Why..." After a long while, Ron, their younger brother, was the first to speak. "Why am I not surprised at all to hear something so ridiculous?"
Ron looked thoroughly puzzled as he spoke.
Then almost everyone nodded in agreement.
Almost everyone had experienced the same thing. This was clearly something utterly ridiculous, yet none of them felt surprised at that moment. That was what made it so ridiculous.
Harry rubbed his brow. He felt just as Ron did.
The twins' explanation had clearly reached a certain level of absurdity, yet somehow, he felt that their thinking that way and consequently producing Corporeal Patronuses actually seemed quite reasonable.
Just ridiculous!
The twins seemed a little dissatisfied with everyone's reaction. Continuing to demonstrate their coordination, they alternated sentences.
"You know, if someone like Voldemort came back to power, he definitely wouldn't let us carry on with our pranking career.
"The thought of that filled us with more excitement and passion than ever, and made us want to protect our career more than ever.
"I think that's why we were able