Although Vizet had announced the end of the open class, the students and guests in the Great Hall did not choose to leave right away.
The students in particular—Vizet had only taken two steps before he was surrounded by the surging crowd.
Guests from North America like Charles Graves had originally wanted to go up and exchange a few pleasantries with Vizet.
But seeing such a surging tide of people, they merely exchanged glances, gave the expected regretful smiles, waved to Vizet from afar, then turned to bid farewell to Dumbledore and the others.
Autographs, questions... requests like these had already happened far too many times to Vizet by now.
Though he had never really grown used to this kind of treatment, he could still handle it calmly.
The new student from earlier, named Abercrombie, was also pushed in front of Vizet by Fred and the others crowding around him.
His face flushed scarlet as he stammered, "Th-thank you for remembering my name! I... I'm going to try coming into contact with Goblins! Because I... I used to be really scared of creatures that didn't look very nice!"
"That's a good idea!" Vizet suggested gently. "But don't forget... make sure it's under safe circumstances, and don't force yourself. You can take it slowly."
Abercrombie quickly nodded. "If, when the time comes... if I have any feelings about it, I'll... I'll definitely tell you!"
Vizet said, "I look forward to hearing what you share."
"Then can you... can you sign something for me?" Abercrombie held out the copy of Magical Tuning: Elementary Charms in his hands. "Right here!"
After receiving Vizet's autograph, he hugged it to his chest as though he had obtained a treasure, so excited he almost fainted again.
It was only when the prefects finally managed to squeeze