No one expected that the Dragon would suddenly change targets.
One second it was chasing the dog around and in the next second, it suddenly turned around and sprayed fire at the position of the dragon eggs.
Cedric had never been so close to death, but his survival instincts made his body act one step ahead of his brain.
But even though he desperately jumped to the side, the dragon's fire still brushed against the side of his handsome face.
Fortunately, he managed to get the golden egg.
As long as the golden egg is taken out from the nest, the task is considered complete.
"Merlin, he succeeded. Our first champion successfully got the golden egg! Although he suffered a little injury..."
Bagman shouted excitedly, but the last part was said more quietly.
Madam Pomfrey entered with a large number of dragon tamers.
Seeing that half of Cedric's face was burned by the dragon's firebreath, she immediately applied the ointment prepared in advance to his face.
"Son, drink this, it will make it less painful."
Cedric took the potion and drank it down.
Fortunately, the magic potion worked fast, and Cedric felt that his face didn't hurt so much just a couple of seconds after.
At this time, the dragon tamers finished subduing the Swedish Short Snout dragon again, then they led the dragon away from the arena like walking a dog with a thick iron chain.
Bagman, seeing that the on-site affairs were handled well, immediately said: "Very good, next is the scoring session!"
The voice just fell and some spectators in the stands held up signs with numbers.
Especially the Hufflepuffs, everyone held up signs with the number 10.
A pity that the scoring is decided by five "impartial" judges.
As Headmaster of Hogwarts, Dumbledore was the first to give his score for Cedric. He raised his wand and the number 9 floated above his wand, he deducted one point because of the injury at the end.
If Cedric had completely escaped the dragon's breath, he would have given a perfect score of 10 points.
Barty Crouch gave the same score and for the same reason.
When it was Madame Maxime's turn, she gave 8 points.
This score is still acceptable. As the Headmistress of Beauxbatons, of course she has to prefer her own school.
But nobody could accept the scores given by the next two people.
Bagman held up a 4-point sign, ignoring the boos around him and explained: "I admit that Mr Diggory's transfiguration spell was brilliant."
"But he was completely oblivious to his surroundings when he was stealing the golden egg, which was very fatal."
"If the position of the dragon's breath was a little bit off just now, Mr. Diggory might not be just a little injured at this moment, he could have been dead."
Just as he finished the explanation, the booing got even louder.
Amos Diggory even took the lead in accusing Bagman: "There must be something wrong here, it's not fair!"
Bagman didn't care so much, he turned his head to look at Karkaroff, and motioned for the other party to quickly show his score.
3 points!
A lower score just made things more chaotic and the students of Hogwarts protested collectively this time.
Durmstrang's students smiled at each other, while Karkaroff didn't seem willing to explain why he gave such a low score.
After holding up the sign, he closed his eyes, no matter what the people around say, he doesn't seem to hear it.
The complaints lasted for more than ten minutes before subsiding. Unfortunately, the scores already given cannot be changed.
The audience reluctantly accepted this fact, and then turned their attention to the next champion to appear.
The loud cannon sounded again.
Fleur took a deep breath, looked at Lucas beside her and smiled slightly.
"Let's go, I'll walk you out."
Lucas cast a disillusionment charm on himself, and accompanied Fleur to the exit.
"Go, I'll be here watching you."
Hearing the voice from beside her, Fleur suddenly took Lucas's hand.
"Thank you!" She thanked him in a low voice, and then strode out of the passage.
The avalanche of cheers sounded again.
Fleur Delacour, with her radiant beauty and Veela allure, easily got everyone's favor.
Everyone here refers specifically to men, but they cheered even louder than if everyone in the site cheered normally. (Power of horny, Banzai!)
The Welsh Green Dragon was crouching in front of a pile of dragon eggs. Like the previous Swedish Short Snout, it also has 4 legs, which makes it fast in land and not just in air.
Its eyes were fixed on the dragon eggs in front of it, and it didn't seem to notice that there was someone else who just entered the field.
Fleur approached it cautiously.
When she came to a proper distance to maximize the power of her spell, she stopped immediately.
Madame Maxime gripped the railing in front of her with both hands. It was obvious that she was very worried about her student.
Fleur raised her wand and pointed it at the green dragon.
She moved very slowly, probably because she was worried that she would attract the green dragon's attention if she moved too fast.
Before the green dragon detected her presence, a blinding light flew from the tip of her wand.
Hit by the spell, the green dragon started wobbling before its head fell to the ground, scattering dust.
After a while a loud snoring sounded.
The surrounding audience cheered.
They hailed the wit and wonderful spell of the girl in the field.
Madame Maxime also breathed a sigh of relief and let go of the somewhat deformed wooden railing.
Lucas, who was invisible, was also a little surprised, but soon became relieved.
What Fleur just used was a sleeping charm specially designed for calming fire dragons, which is usually used by dragon tamers.
But this spell has a big drawback.
That is, the effect on dragons who are not calm is almost zero.
Luckily, the Welsh green is inherently docile, and it hadn't noticed Fleur all this time, so after being hit by the spell it worked quite fast.
But if it was angry, it would probably take over 10 dragon tamers to use it at the same time for it to be effective.
Seeing that the green dragon fell asleep, Fleur breathed a sigh of relief, but just when she stepped forward to pick up the golden egg, an unexpected accident happened again.
The green dragon snored, causing a flame to burst from its nostrils and Fleur's skirt was instantly ignited.
Fortunately, she extinguished the flame with the water making spell just in time, so that no more serious consequences ensued.
"Very good, congratulations to our second champion for successfully completing the task, let's see the judge's score next."
9 points, 9 points, 10 points!
Dumbledore, old Crouch, and Madame Maxime raised their scores almost at the same time.
The reason why Crouch deducted points was that the method was not exciting enough.
Hearing the reason, the audience nodded involuntarily.
Although it looks frightening, it is indeed less exciting compared to Cedric's task.
Fleur Delacour had no contact with the green dragon the whole time.
After seeing the scores of the first three judges, the entire audience focused on Bagman and Karkaroff.
Bagman looked at the scores of the first three and especially focused on Madame Maxime's score.
After hesitating for a moment, he raised his sign.
3 points!
Another new low, but not waiting for the audience to protest, Karkaroff held up his sign as well.
Also 3 points.
Like last time, he closed his eyes while lifting his wand that released the score.
His face showed a look that said: I am the judge and I call the shots, so what can you do to me?.
Bagman meditated for a long time and whispered: "As a beautiful lady, the burning of her skirt is a very serious problem, and the task was not exciting enough."
Hearing his reasons, Lucas laughed first.
Bagman also fought hard for the gamble, and he was able to say such a stupid reason for deducting points.
Fleur didn't mind her own score.
She was already thankful that she could successfully pass the first task against something as dangerous as a dragon.
Waiting until Fleur walked into the tent on the other side to rest, Lucas also returned to the tent.
Krum and Harry were both sitting in chairs with their heads bowed at the moment.
Having time to think, Harry's face looked even paler than before, he was obviously very nervous.
As for Krum, he still looked gloomy, his face just looked a little gloomier than before.
The cannon sound came from outside again and Krum stood up abruptly from his chair.
Under the gaze of Lucas and Harry, he frowned, clenched his wand and walked towards the passage leading to the arena.
Bagman glanced at the roster and his eyes lit up when he saw the name on it.
"Next up is the famous Bulgarian Quidditch player, Viktor Krum!"
When he pronounced Krum's name, the audience erupted in cheers far higher than before.
There are very few people in the wizarding world who don't follow Quidditch matches.
Viktor Krum is equivalent to the top sports star, with countless fans.
Accompanied by the cheers, Krum walked out of the passage step by step.
As a star, he subconsciously raised his hands to show himself to the audience around him, and this made the people in the stands even more crazy.
At the same time, Bagman, who was the commentator, was feeling very satisfied.
There is a player who can cooperate with himself and create topics. It will be very easy for him to make comments.
"It seems that Viktor Krum is very confident. He is saying hello to everyone. Let us respond to him with a warm applause!"
The crowd applauded after hearing Bagman's voice.
The atmosphere was mobilized instantly.
In the corner of the stands, the three girlfriends of Lucas were sitting there. Since this morning, their brows have not relaxed at all.
"How could it be this gorilla, when will Lucas show up?"
Hearing Hermione whine, Cho patted the back of her hand as a sign to be calm.
"Actually, this is also good, at least it will give Lucas more time to prepare."
Ginny nodded in agreement.
The three women were huddling together, and the topic never left Lucas. They didn't even bother to pay too much attention to the previous champions.
Because all of their thoughts and worries were focused on their boyfriend at the moment.
At this time, Krum was ready.
Looking at the menacing Chinese Fireball Dragon, this is a bipedal dragon with scarlet red scales and its head is surrounded by golden spikes that look almost like a mane.
Krum moved his hands and feet twice and did a simple warm-up.
Then under the gaze of everyone, he raised his wand and walked towards the dragon.