"Good morning, everyone!" No sooner had Vizet finished speaking than thunderous applause swept through the Great Hall.
He smiled and bowed to the whole room. "Thank you, thank you all. I'm truly honored to receive your encouragement, and a little... overwhelmed."
"At first, I thought all I had to do in this open class was share a few thoughts with my classmates. I never expected it to grow to this scale. To be honest, seeing so many people here makes me rather nervous."
His words drew a ripple of quiet laughter from the students. The slightly oppressive atmosphere in the Great Hall eased, and the students no longer felt quite so restrained by the sheer number of guests present.
The smile on Vizet's face did not change, but his tone grew steadier than before. "The nervousness I feel at this moment comes from every one of you here today... from your expectations, and from your eyes upon me."
"But I was thinking that every person here, whether you are a student preparing for exams or an Auror fighting on the front line, must have felt another kind of nervousness in your hearts over the past few months, more or less."
"It is the nervousness we feel when we open the newspaper and see that the power of firearms has exceeded our imagination..."
"It is the nervousness of receiving a notice from the Ministry of Magic, of having to support a certain area, of being forced to fight others... It is the nervousness we feel when we realize that the Shield Charm we have relied on for so long actually has so many flaws!"
"Clearly, this nervousness comes from one fact. The world we know is changing at an unprecedented speed. The old rules are failing, and new threats are right