WorldCup / Omnioculars / First Task / Draco /Logo

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No: HPFGUIDX 5864

Caius wrote:   Hear, hear!  My owl will be bringing you two choice seats
to next year's World Quidditch Cup.

Do we know whether the Quidditch World Cup is annual, or is it every
four years like the soccer football World Cup and the summer Olympics?

Scott wrote: to watch, I think [Quidditch] would be overwhelming as
there are so many  different balls and people to keep up with.
Nodigio replied:  Isn't that why they have Omnioculars?

As Omnioculars can show instant replays, as I always wonder if they can
show the whole game over and over after it's finished, store the video
for years and years?

John Walton wrote: Oh, it's lovable, honest, reliable, moral Harry
::puke:: who feels that he must even up the playing field. There is such
a thing as a surfeit of scruples. However, it is possible that Harry
couldn't live with himself if  he didn't tell Cedric. However, we note
that he didn't tell Fleur or Viktor. He probably feels that he "owes"
Cedric something for the mermaid clue (as we see when they're at the end
of the TWT).

1) Cedric gave Harry the mermaid clue for the SECOND task to repay Harry
for giving Cedric the dragon clue for the FIRST task.
2) Harry gave Cedric the dragon clue because Cedric was the only one of
the four who didn't know: Fleur knew because Madame Maxime told her
after Hagrid informed Madame Maxime. Viktor knew because Karkaroff told
him after Karkaroff found out by sneaking around spying on Maxime and
Hagrid. And Harry knew because Hagrid showed him.
3) I suppose Hagrid knew about the dragons because it would be part of
his job as gamekeeper to work with/for the dragon wranglers to prepare
the place to which they were going to bring the dragons, and of course
he hung around the dragons as much as possible just because he loves
dragons.

Heidi wrote: Finally, in both Cassandra's and Lori's stories, it took a
major shock to  the system to make Draco chose not to support the
insane, homicidal maniacs [snip]. It will probably take something like
seeing his father kill someone  in cold blood [snip]

(Lucius and some of the other killers probably aren't homicidal maniacs.
Murdering people to achieve some goal is evil but not the same as
murdering people mostly for fun. Lucius seems to have been killing
people for the goal of gaining power for Voldemort and himself.)

Unfortunately, the world is full of people who see their friends and
associates kill someone in cold blood and DON'T get distressed -- maybe
even think it was kewl. I suspect the canonical Draco is in that
category, as he was not displeased to see Cedric's dead body. It is that
scene at the end of GoF that discourages me of the possibility of
redeeming Draco.

On the other tentacle, I'm worrying that the category of people who see
their friends and associates kill someone in cold blood and DO get
distressed is the category of people who are wimps. If so, I *should* be
able to think of a better reason why Snape turned against the Death
Eaters than that he is a wimp.

Logo: could we combine the Round Glasses of Simon and the Sorting Hat of
r.yoo?
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