Triwizard Champions (was:schapter 16 and food

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 4719

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Simon J. Branford" wrote:

> The important point was to get one champion on each of the house
> tables. (snip) The more important thing was to select Cedric, from
> Hufflepuff, for Hogwarts.

There is a difference between explaining the events in a work of 
'fiction' based on what the AUTHOR needed to do to make the plot 
work, use complex symbolism, or put Draco into leather trousers, and 
explaining the events in a work of 'fiction' in their frame of 
reference (i.e. as if they were 'real' events in the 'real' world).

I mean, JKR knew that Hogwarts would get TWO Champions ('two bites 
at zee apple', said Mme. Maxime), one from Gryffindor and one from 
Hufflepuff, so SHE knew to put the visitors at the other two tables 
if she wanted to have one Champion at each table. But Karkaroff, 
Maxime, and Dumbledore didn't know that Hogwarts would have TWO 
Champions, nor which House Hogwarts' expected one Champion would be 
from, so when Karkaroff, Maxime, and Dumbledore planned where the 
guests would sit, they did not base their plan on having one 
Champion at each table.