Vindictus was sitting in his usual seat - directly to the right of Tate and used the Daily Prophet to shield himself from watching the students (it wasn't his fault that the sports section was embedded in the middle of the newspaper!) His thoughts were on the current Quidditch World Cup that was to be played in the Kalahari Desert in one month's time and he was keeping himself current on the teams that qualified.

Basically, he was doing head official Quidditchy stuff while waiting for Tate to speak before they could eat.