Bobbobovic rambled on for a long time, and Richard learned about the whole affair.
It turned out that Harry and Cathy were indeed Bobbobovic's students, but he had dozens of them. Bobbobovic alone, teaching so many students, even with the help of Wizard Apprentices, simply couldn't keep up with the daily demands. So at first, Bobbobovic didn't notice anything amiss, and at that time Richard had just begun to educate Harry and Cathy on philosophical knowledge.
Then things changed.
As Richard introduced more and more philosophical knowledge to Harry and Cathy, both of them couldn't help but come up with all sorts of novel ideas. Both were children and couldn't keep things to themselves, inevitably sharing with other students in the academy, and little by little, they influenced everyone else.