[HPforGrownups] SuperMolly - Elective CoMC - Priori Incantatem - Werewolves - The First Task

[Marianna Lvovsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 25881


> 
> > I have always explained it by the 
> > following: "The first task is designed
> > to test your daring."  GOF-AE p281.
> 
> > How daring would a simple summoning 
> > charm be?  It would be like an olympic
> > diver doing a simple half-turn.  Very
> > safe, but not worth a whole lot of points.
> 
> But Harry DID do a Summoning Charm and got HIGH
> POINTS from all the
> judges except Karkaroff, whose unfairness in this
> scoring I have always
> assumed to be a little joke about the Soviet judges
> in the Olympics,
> back when there was a Soviet Union.

He summoned his broomstick, it is true, but he still
had to fly it around the dragon, try to distract it,
etc, thus demonstrating the required daring. If he
just stood 20 yards away from the dragon and said
accio egg, where would be the daring in that?

marsha/Marianna

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