Because the celebration had gone on so late, Harry and Ron both looked drained when they got up the next morning. This earned them a few words of criticism from Professor McGonagall.
But considering Professor McGonagall's usual strictness, Harry and Ron, at least, thought the criticism was very mild.
Heh, Professor McGonagall really must have been a little happy that we became Champions, right? So the two little goofballs thought.
There was an extra student in this Transfiguration lesson: Ilvermorny's Champion, Ryan Moning Meng, had come along to join the class. Apart from her, all the other students who had come to take part in the Champion selection were sixth and seventh years. She was the only fourth year.
Judging by her performance in class, the standard of teaching at Ilvermorny seemed quite good. At least, Meng's abilities were considerably above the class average.
Her performance was every bit as good as that of the three top students in the class-Hermione, Ron, and Harry.
At noon, an owl delivered a letter from Sirius, and Harry remembered, a little sheepishly, that he had been so happy yesterday that he had forgotten about Sirius.
But Sirius's letter did not bring that up. Instead, he spoke of something Harry knew nothing about.
Last night, after the Goblet of Fire had selected the fourteen Champions, Dumbledore, several professors, Sirius, and a few others had examined the Goblet of Fire together.
They had wanted to understand why the Goblet of Fire had called out Harry's name twice.
In the end, even Dumbledore had needed to put in some effort before he figured it out.
Someone had used a powerful Confundus Charm to make the Goblet of Fire mistake the seven schools participating in the Triwizard Tournament for eight, then put Harry's name into the Goblet