Harry’s stunning victory in the First Task made things much better for the young champion. Just about everyone in Hogwarts (barring the Slytherins of course) had given him their congratulations and said they’d always believed in him. For the huge majority of people Harry knew that was baloney, but he didn’t want to upset anyone and ruin his newfound peace when he’d only just won it. So he smiled and nodded his head every time someone came to talk to him, let people bother him with questions about his sword and how he’d come up with the plan to fight the Horntail, assuring concerned people (mostly girls) that he was fine even though he was still walking on crutches and his torso was completely bandaged underneath his robes and just tried to be as polite as possible. Madam Pomfrey had done all that she could to fix him up, but she said that some of the burns would never heal properly and leave scars for the rest of his life.