The Third Task Audience

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., A.E.B.Bevan at o... wrote:
> Just occured to me why Ive never had any problem with what the 
> Audience was seeing during the Third Task in GoF... 
> 
> Comes from having Orienteering as my sport years ago.  That takes 
> part in forests and so on and basically the competitors are not 
> visible to the audience. Competitors have to navigate from control 
> point to control point in the course, chosing their own routes.
> 
> In major championships though there are 'reporting points' at 
> selected locations so the progress of competitors is flagged. It can 
> get quite exciting. What I subconsciously assumed in the Third Task I 
> realise is that as each champion encountered one of the obstackes a 
> commentary flashes up in a form the Champions can't detect. ( " 
> Potter runs into the boggart and its a dementor - away goes a 
> Patronus from Potter!  And he keeps his head and uses Riddiculus!" )  
> 
> This rather magnifes the problem of what happens between Harry and 
> Cedric grabbing the trophy and Harry getting Cedric's body back as 
> the audience would have known the contest had ended ...
	Great post! We've speculated about reporting, but nobody's ever 
made me see how it could work before. As for what happened at the end 
of the contest, we only need to imagine that when *Moody* altered the 
cup, he altered the reporting spell as well. I also imagine that 
Dumbledore, Mme Maxime and Karkaroff left the judges' box to tend to 
the injured Fleur and Krumm. Maybe Moody had an opportunity to put the 
confundus curse on Bagman and Fudge so that they never noticed the Cup 
was gone.

Pippin