Albus had to stop and think about Minerva’s request. If not for the events of this summer, Albus would be sure that he could persuade Miss Granger to accept her prefect badge—and thus, to do Mr Weasley’s prefect-work for him. But now Harry and Miss Granger were betrothed, and Harry had spent the past week and a half saying only unflattering things about Albus. For the first time since the bushy-haired genius Muggle-born had been Sorted, Albus was not confident that Miss Granger would blindly believe and would blindly obey Albus’s every word.