Taking the photographs took a long time.
There were two main problems they had to solve.
First, no matter where Madame Maxime stood, she blocked someone else from view. She was simply too tall and large.
The second, unsolvable problem was that there were too many people, and the portly photographer had not brought a camera designed for large group photographs.
In the end, at Dumbledore's suggestion, they took the photographs one school at a time. The photographer seemed particularly eager to put Pheobe at the front, but Rita Skeeter kept rushing forward to pull the Hogwarts team into a more prominent position.
It took them ages to finally get away. Only when Rita Skeeter started asking them about competing in a week's time did it dawn on them that the First Task was about to begin.
The next morning, the school's Great Hall was almost silent. Everyone was staring intently at the newspapers in their hands.
Rita Skeeter really had not been lying. The Super Goblet of Fire was currently the hottest topic in the entire Wizarding World, and everyone was desperate to learn more details about the Goblet of Fire.
What events would there be, for instance? Who had been chosen as Champions? Were there any amusing stories about the Champions' private lives?
The Daily Prophet was tearing its hair out over this. Secrecy had been maintained so thoroughly that the paper had no choice but to report on things that were not confidential.
It turned to introducing the teams from each school, adding several extra pages specifically to tell wizards about the other schools.
This proved an extremely wise choice. The newspaper sold like crazy and went through several additional print runs, because even among adult wizards, many knew nothing about any school but the one