House-elves, TWT, Prefects, Sirius losing shape, Ron, MWPP/Trio

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No: HPFGUIDX 16910

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> The plot is definitely the most complicated and sprawling, but the 
> more I read it (I think it's been 4 times now) the more I think it 
all 
> hangs together just fine (though that final, crucial matter of 
needing 
> the Cup to be a Portkey still seems like a stretch to me).  The 
> all-year TWT never bothered me.  I figure it is so exhausting and 
> demanding for the champions that the events have to be a few months 
> apart.  Also, if the idea really is to foster international 
> cooperation, it would make sense for them to use the TWT as an 
> all-year immersion for the visiting groups.  This would be stronger 
if 
> we actually saw the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students taking 
> classes.  They appear to have spent their year eating bonbons and 
> occasionally showing up at a ball or the library.
> ----------------------------------------------

And Krum spent a lot of time jumping in & out of the lake. 
I agree with you, Amy - just a one liner from Fred or George that the 
veela-girl from Beauxbatons was proving to be a major distraction 
when they have Herbology with the Ravenclaws & Beauxbatons students, 
or that they were supposed to have DaDA with the Slytherins and 
Durmstrang students, but the Durmstrangers got to be exempt and were 
all working  on a project with Karkaroff - isn't that odd? - would 
have gone a long way.
I do suspect, though, that if they did take classes with the Hogwarts 
students, they were probably taken with 6th and 7th years, and would 
never intersect with the 4th years in the classrom. It would've been 
awkward if they had.