GoF timing

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No: HPFGUIDX 2277

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at p...> 
wrote:
.  Same thing for
> Task 3... I just can't see the excitement of staring at a bunch of 
bushes
> for an hour waiting to see who comes out at the end.  If I was 
cheering for
> someone in a tournament, I'd want to SEE them performing the tasks, 
as
> everyone got to do in Task 1 with the dragons.  Otherwise, it's 
like waiting
> outside the Olympic stadiums to see which athletes come out with 
the medals,
> without knowing how or why they won.

I could be mixed-up, here, but I think they COULD see.  The maze was 
in the quidditch field, wasn't it?  In that case, the stands were 
built up high.  In SS the quidditch stands are described, "Hundreds 
of seats were raised in stands around the field so that the 
spectators were high enough to see what was going on." And the goal 
posts were like "the little plastic sticks Muggle children blew 
bubbles through, except that they were fifty feet high."  Surely 
stands built high enough to see activity around fifty foot goal posts 
would be high enough to see down into a maze.  How high were the 
shrubs? Twenty feet?
> 
> How wonderful it would have been, on the other hand, for the entire 
school
> to witness the final scenes before Harry and Cedric decided to 
share the
> Triwizard Cup.  Even if they couldn't HEAR what was being said, 
they would
> have been able to figure out what was going on.  The tension in the 
crowd
> would have been unbearable, waiting to see who won.  Then, of 
course, the
> pandemonium that would have ensued when both champions vanished 
from the
> spot.