Accio Egg

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In a message dated 8/2/01 10:13:48 AM, "Amy Z" <aiz24 at hotmail.com> writes:

<< Wow.  I've read GoF 5 times and it never occurred to me, nor has it 
shown up as a question on this list in the 7 months I've been here, so 
I suppose it's realistic that it wouldn't occur to any of the 
champions either.

Or, assuming they're all thinking more clearly than we are (?):  Since 
none of the champions did this, maybe there's a reason very obvious to 
them, e.g. dragons are known to shield their eggs from Accio.  Why 
they don't shield them from being manually carried away, I dunno. >>

Elizabeth wrote:

>Also, in GoF - The First Task. Why didn't Harry just use the 
Summoning Charm to Summon the Golden Egg?

My jaw dropped with Amy's post. Hadn't occurred to me the post referred to 
the first task!

 I've been assuming the why didn't Harry use the Accio charm to summon golden 
egg referred to being trapped on the trick staircase with the egg and map 
dropped out of reach.
I agree with whomever suggested (sorry,  forget who) that Harry simply didn't 
think of it, in shock, etc.

To answer Amy- Re: summoning the egg from the dragon. Harry didn't know he 
had to retrieve an egg - he just knew pre task that he had to get past a 
dragon. Moody/Crouch had oriented him to his broom, that's what he had 
practiced, so that's the way his thoughts went.

So, none of the triwizard champs used Accio? Wonder how fast an unstunned, 
fully alert and suspicious Momma dragon would respond to a levitating egg 
anyway?  Cindered wizard (with outstretched hand)....if the triwizard champ 
had to stay within the field to perform the task!
Aylihael
P.S. Hugs (the way Californians applaud) to Ebony, Luke and David for great 
posts!
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