During breakfast the next day, Albert leafed through the latest issue of the Bullfighting Daily and discovered that his odds had actually dropped. To be precise, the odds for him to win the gold award had fallen to 6-to-1. Evidently, the people at the Bullfighting Daily had noticed someone placing a massive amount of Galleons on him and panicked, hurriedly lowering the odds.
Even if the people running the Bullfighting Daily had lost their minds, discovering that someone was slamming huge sums of Galleons into the bets would make them realize something was wrong.
Up until now, virtually no one believed that Number 17 (Albert) would win the Barnabas Cuffe Award for Exceptional Spell-Casting. Even if a few people placed bets, they were just small-timers with very limited amounts.
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