I know. The entire frame story is so incredibly farfetched - up to and including the fact that Dumbledore didn't realise that he was dealing with an imposter and not with one of his oldest friends.
Ironically, the following year Harry expresses doubt that Percy could have promoted for doing a "good job" the previous year since after all he failed to notice his boss was under Voldemort's power...
...conveniently forgetting to that Dumbledore, the most wise, failed to notice that his good friend was also working for Voldemort, and in fact was now someone else entirely.
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I know. The entire frame story is so incredibly farfetched - up to and including the fact that Dumbledore didn't realise that he was dealing with an imposter and not with one of his oldest friends.
Ironically, the following year Harry expresses doubt that Percy could have promoted for doing a "good job" the previous year since after all he failed to notice his boss was under Voldemort's power...
...conveniently forgetting to that Dumbledore, the most wise, failed to notice that his good friend was also working for Voldemort, and in fact was now someone else entirely.