"Sirius Black broke into the Gryffindor tower with a knife to assassinate Harry Potter?"
Albert suppressed a yawn as he listened to Fred, George, and Lee Jordan recount the events of the middle of the night. Tilting his head, he looked at the undamaged portrait hole and asked, "How on earth did Black manage to get into the Gryffindor common room without the password?"
"Longbottom wrote the password down on a slip of paper and lost it, and Black picked it up," Lee Jordan said, pulling a handful of toad mints from his robe pocket and sharing them around. He unwrapped one for himself, popped it into his mouth, and mumbled vaguely, "You weren't there, so you didn't see Professor McGonagall's face. She was so furious her voice was shaking."
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