The three Champions, each with their own uncontrollable power, had all fallen into unprecedented isolation.
They were like three immensely powerful yet uncontrollable magical objects, out of place in the world around them.
The Golden Eggs at their bedsides had become their shared nightmare.
Whenever they opened them, the piercing shrieks only made their already fragile mental states worse.
The riddle seemed to have become an unsolvable dead end.
Yet the Champions' plight acted like the strongest stimulant, thoroughly igniting the Hogwarts students' enthusiasm.
The brutality and excitement of the first task had made everyone realize that this Three-School Dueling Tournament was far more explosive than they had imagined.
They had originally thought that the eventual winner would merely face a Champion in a relatively civilized, one-on-one duel.
Who could have imagined that the appetizer would be three living, breathing dragons!
What would come after that?
A Manticore? Or the legendary Acromantulas?
For a time, Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures became the most popular elective at Hogwarts.
Many older students came to sit in.
They no longer complained about how boring the slugs and Flobberworms were. Instead, their eyes wide, they chased after Hagrid to ask what other dangerous yet fascinating fantastic beasts existed in the wizarding world, and what their weaknesses were.
For the first time in his life, Hagrid enjoyed the supreme glory of being a scholar.
He discovered that Hogwarts actually had so many kindred spirits who shared his interests.
Especially whenever Madame Maxime appeared within sight of his hut.
His enthusiasm for teaching would reach its peak.
He would deliberately stand at the door of his hut and address a large crowd of students in his thunderous voice, loudly explaining, in great detail, the techniques for hatching Norwegian Ridgebacks or the courtship habits of Hungarian Horntails.