Harry - you come here an' help me with this big one." "Er - yeh might want ter put on yer dragon-hide gloves, jus' as an extra precaution, like. "Roun' the middle," said Hagrid, demonstrating. "And where exactly are we supposed to fix the leash? Around the sting, the blasting end, or the sucker?" "Take this thing for a walk?" he repeated in disgust, staring into one of the boxes. The only good thing about this plan was that it distracted Malfoy completely. To the class's horror, Hagrid proceeded to explain that the reason the skrewts had been killing one another was an excess of pent-up energy, and that the solution would be for each student to fix a leash on a skrewt and take it for a short walk. "Got your autograph books? Better get a signature now, because I doubt he's going to be around much longer.Half the Triwizard champions have died.how long d'you reckon you're going to last, Potter? Ten minutes into the first task's my bet."Ĭrabbe and Goyle guffawed sycophantically, but Malfoy had to stop there, because Hagrid emerged from the back of his cabin balancing a teetering tower of crates, each containing a very large Blast-Ended Skrewt. "Ah, look, boys, it's the champion," he said to Crabbe and Goyle the moment he got within earshot of Harry. Predictably, Malfoy arrived at Hagrid's cabin with his familiar sneer firmly in place. He would have been looking forward to seeing Hagrid under normal circumstances, but Care of Magical Creatures meant seeing the Slytherins too - the first time he would come face-to-face with them since becoming champion. Harry thought even Professor Sprout seemed distant with him - but then, she was Head of Hufflepuff House. Hermione sat between them, making very forced conversation, but though both answered her normally, they avoided making eye contact with each other.
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Ernie Macmillan and Justin FinchFletchley, with whom Harry normally got on very well, did not talk to him even though they were repotting Bouncing Bulbs at the same tray - though they did laugh rather unpleasantly when one of the Bouncing Bulbs wriggled free from Harry's grip and smacked him hard in the face. It was plain that the Hufflepuffs felt that Harry had stolen their champion's glory a feeling exacerbated, perhaps, by the fact that Hufflepuff House very rarely got any glory, and that Cedric was one of the few who had ever given them any, having beaten Gryffindor once at Quidditch. One Herbology lesson was enough to demonstrate this.
The Hufflepuffs, who were usually on excellent terms with the Gryffindors, had turned remarkably cold toward the whole lot of them. Unlike the Gryffindors, however, they did not seem impressed.
He could no longer avoid the rest of the school once he was back at lessons - and it was clear that the rest of the school, just like the Gryffindors, thought Harry had entered himself for the tournament. If Harry had thought that matters would improve once everyone got used to the idea of him being champion, the following day showed him how mistaken he was. "First Ron, then you," Harry said angrily. When the barn owl had flown off, Harry reached out to stroke Hedwig, but she clicked her beak furiously and soared up into the rafters out of reach. She kept her back to Harry all the time he was tying his letter to the leg of a large barn owl. Hedwig gave a very loud hoot and took off so suddenly that her talons cut into his shoulder.
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