Maybe how we're here has less to do with whatever's strange about our memories and more about whatever's strange about this place's magic?

[ Because let's be honest here. The magic in this place seems really weird to him. Especially at the moment. ]

Although even then, from what I've talked to you and Petra about, it still seems the Professor is the one thing that stands out as the catalyst behind just about everything we remember differently.

[ At least debating this gives him a momentary distraction from getting lost in a spiral over all the needless death they're both avoiding addressing. ]