Harry Potter, Cedric Diggory, and Draco Malfoy continued competing.
Beauxbatons and Durmstrang each added two more contestants.
Rita Skeeter, a reporter for the Daily Prophet, arrived at Hogwarts to interview and photograph Harry and the others.
This took quite some time. Rita Skeeter was just as irritating and detestable as she was in the original story, and she even wanted to add Katelyle to her list of interview subjects, which displeased him.
The reporter was far too sure of herself. Both the questions she asked and the way she suddenly turned up to interview people without their consent were obnoxious.
Katelyle had no choice but to have Severus Snape play the bad guy and drive the reporter away before he finally gained a little peace.
In the days that followed, Harry Potter and the others attended classes as usual.
The Hogwarts students had no objections whatsoever to Harry, Cedric, and Draco representing Hogwarts in the competition, and they were full of confidence in them.
The students from Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and Durmstrang had also begun attending classes and had their magical affinities identified by Katelyle.
When teaching Viktor, Pheobe, and the others elemental magic, Katelyle still started with the basics, correcting the muddled elemental magic they had already learned.
He also picked up the pace of his teaching considerably so they could learn more in a shorter time.
Whether they could master it, however, depended on how much effort they put in afterward.
Finally, Katelyle encouraged them to keep participating in dueling competitions, which would help them gain more practical experience and become more familiar with elemental magic.
Although Hagrid's humor sometimes fell flat, he was no fool. On the contrary, he was quite entertaining.
Lately, Hagrid had begun paying attention to his clothes and appearance, and he looked