Before Professor Trelawney's departure, her sudden outburst truly astonished all the teachers and students at Hogwarts, refreshing everyone's previous impression of the old fraud.
No one had imagined that all of this was actually orchestrated by someone behind the scenes, and that the actual operation wasn't even that difficult.
Professor Trelawney herself was an experienced fraud who had spent decades mastering the art of mystification and deception—or, to put it in Albert's euphemistic terms, she was a master of linguistics. With the help of Felix Felicis and a complete script, an extraordinary performance was not surprising at all.
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