After that first controversial announcement, it became rapidly clear that nothing else she had to say was even remotely as interesting, and the collective attention of the school waned. Harry could see more than one student staring into space in a daze, their large meal clearly catching up to them. In fact, few people noticed when her speech actually ended, and it was only Dumbledore starting to clap that drew everyone’s attention back in, but he had stopped before any kind of actual applause could gather momentum.