Did everyone want nothing more than to see Dolores Umbridge fall into ruin?
Perhaps.
But more than that, they simply enjoyed the spectacle. Once it was over, no one cared whether Umbridge lived or died.
Now, most students had focused their attention on the final exams, especially the fifth years and seventh years. They simply did not care about Umbridge, nor did they have the time or inclination to.
The toad's much-anticipated trial was thus ignored by everyone.
After all, what did it have to do with them whether Umbridge was sent to Azkaban?
In all of Hogwarts School, Harry Potter was probably the only one who cared about Umbridge's situation, but the O.W.L. exams had taken up most of Harry's energy as well.
Recently, Albert had often heard seventh years complaining that the practical exams were too difficult. Quite a few students had lost marks in the Charms exam after the examiners caught them muttering their incantations.
Yet the Charms practical was not even the hardest one. The Transfiguration practical on the second day of the Ultimate Wizard Exams left the vast majority of candidates dumbfounded.
The students were required to perform human transformation: using Transfiguration magic to alter their own appearances, in other words, magically disguising themselves. It seemed simple, but it stumped many of them. Their bizarre new faces made the examiners shake their heads again and again.
In addition, the candidates had to transform a table into a pig or some other creature. The larger the object being transformed, the greater the difficulty, and transforming a table was undoubtedly a challenge for everyone.
The final task was easier instead. They had to use the Charm of Transformation to alter an entire passage on a sheet of parchment according to the examiner's requirements, causing the content on