"Hey! Look! Aren't those guys hilarious?"
"Shh! Keep it down..."
"How miserable..."
"Are they crazy? Who was being malicious enough to make them deliberately provoke our Professor Annie?"
"Tsk! They really do look pitiful..."
"I bet they live too far away and don't know about Professor Annie's achievements. That must be it, right?"
"!!"
"Impossible. The Gringotts incident back then is probably known by wizards all over the world!"
"Then how did they dare?"
"Maybe they wanted to test her personally..."
"Merlin be my witness, that was a terrible idea!"
"..."
It was highly dramatic...
After the visiting second school—the students of Durmstrang Institute—finished their "performance" and hurriedly entered, the students of Hogwarts did not give those "handsome guys" and "tough men" the enthusiastic applause they had given the "senior and junior sisters" from Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. Instead, they began whispering to one another, mocking them with deeply sarcastic looks.
Because they had witnessed the funniest and most ridiculous thing of the term—bar none!!
"Haha..."
"Look, Harry! Look at them! Krum finally isn't handsome anymore, is he? He looks like a lump of burnt coal!"
Having finally recovered his senses and enjoyed the passionate entrance performance by the beautiful students of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, Ron now saw a group of people even more miserable than himself. One of them was Viktor Krum, whom many Hogwarts girls admired. After seeing Krum covered in soot, Ron felt somewhat balanced and naturally began gloating.
After all, Ron had only just suffered his own misfortune. Professor Annie had thrown him from the top of Hogwarts Castle, nearly scaring him to death. Now that it was someone else's turn to suffer—and they looked even more wretched than he had—how could he miss such an opportunity to kick them while they were down?
"Ah..."