Triwizard Tournament --- a mystery to me

[Mindy C.L.]

No: HPFGUIDX 27121

Rereading the two chapters "Beauxbatons and Durmstrang" and "The Goblet
of Fire" today, I suddenly became very perturbed by the very idea of the
Triwizard Tournament. I was filled with some troubling questions. Perhaps
some of you can shed some light on these?

1) If the headmasters of the two other schools spent most of the year at
Hogwarts, did someone else take their place? Can you imagine Dumbledore
missing for 8 months from Hogwarts, spending it in France or Scandinavia?
Or did Madame Maxime and Professor Karkaroff return to their schools
between tasks?

2) What on earth did the visiting students do during those 8 months?
Didn't they miss an awful lot of schoolwork? We hardly see them mentioned
at all, save for the times they perform the tasks. Did they spend all
their time cooped up in the carriage and ship? Why did the others, who
were not chosen as champions, stay on? To support their champions?

3) Isn't it odd that so few pupils came from both schools? There were
'barely twenty additional people' at the welcoming feast. Why would so
few pupils choose to enter the competition? Were the only kids who came,
the ones who entered their names in the tournament? Why didn't the entire
last years of both schools come, to at least show their support for their
school? Or are those schools so small that they didn't have more than 12
pupils in the oldest year?

The entire thing doesn't seem to make much sense to me....
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