GoF: Beauxbatons and Durmstrang? And what of the ship?

[babelfisherperson]

No: HPFGUIDX 30942

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "I_was_Xia" <mirafrac at h...> wrote:
> As I was reading "Goblet of Fire" earlier on, I realized that there 
> is no mention whatsoever of any of the Beauxbatons or Durmstrang 
> students attending a class. As we know that there are more 
> Beauxbatons students than just Fleur Delacour, and more Durmstrang 
> students than just Viktor Krum, do they simply not attend courses?
> Of course, if they did attend at Hogwarts, they wouldn't be in year
> with Harry and friends, but surely there would be some mention,
> would there not?

Maybe all the Durmstrang & Beauxbatons teachers were there too, and 
they held their classes somewhere other than the Hogwarts classrooms. 
How big was Durmstrang's ship, for example? Could they have held 
class on board?

Or maybe this is just more proof that Hogwarts is the best wizarding 
school there is: they don't stop classes for tournaments, and other 
schools do. :D

> Of course, there's also the matter that with the headmasters all at 
> Hogwarts for most of the year, how are the schools handling? There 
> seems to be no mention made.

Well, if the students had all come to Hogwarts to watch the 
tournament, there wouldn't be much going on back at the schools, 
would there?

> Also, we know that the Durmstrang ship surfaces and stays in the 
> Hogwarts lake, exactly where the second task is held. Yet, there is 
> no mention of it being gone *or* of it being there.

I never gave this any thought at all. I guess the ship just stayed 
out of the way during the 2nd task.

Red XIV