Ludo Bagman, Who Lightened the Mood

On the morning of the first task, an undercurrent of tension quietly emerged and soon spread throughout Hogwarts Castle.

Vede sensed it because he and Luna happened to run into the Creevey brothers while returning from the greenhouses.

The Creevey brothers talked and gestured at the same time, offering all kinds of well-wishes and telling Vede not to be nervous.

But in Vede's eyes, the Creevey brothers were even more nervous than he was. Sweat had beaded on their foreheads as they gestured.

When he arrived in the Great Hall for breakfast, students kept coming over to the Ravenclaw table, offering him blessings and support just like the Creevey brothers had.

As more and more students appeared like this, even Vede's roommates began to feel the same way.

"Vede, why do I feel like..." Michael Corner wore an odd expression. "They seem even more nervous than you?"

"Oh, right! When I came over just now, I heard Justin and the others saying that the first task involves dragons..." Chris Moen recalled something. "Is that why?"

"If it's dragons..." Terry Boot picked up the thread. "Isn't it normal that Vede isn't nervous?"

"When Vede went to New York before, it wasn't like he hadn't encountered dragons. And there were lots of them, weren't there?"

As a devoted reader of The Quibbler and Wizard Vede and the Magical World, he had great faith in Vede.

"I think so too..." Anthony Goldstein nodded in agreement, then turned to Vede. "Vede, do you know what exactly the test will be?"

"I don't..." Vede shook his head. "Cedric told me before that the dragons this time all seemed quite large, and they were bad-tempered too..."

"According to his assessment, those dragons are most likely females. As for the specific task, that makes it easy enough