"Get The Golden Egg" Plot Hole!

[anglinsbees]

No: HPFGUIDX 37877

Delurking a bit here, to bring up a point that struck me real hard 
as I listent to the GOF Book on tape this morning.

Damn I'm Dense.
So is Harry.
So are all the triwizard Champions.
So are We all!

Why didn't Harry just use the summoning charm he had ready to summon 
the golden egg to himself?  If He could summon his broom all the way 
from the castle, on a route that is certainly not direct. (It had to 
come around the woods, after all.  Then Why not just summon the egg 
he wants from the other side of the enclosure.

He is told in the tent that his task is to "Get the golden Egg" 
Not 'Get past the dragon.'  or 'Prove your bravory by getting the 
egg in as showy a way as possible."  Just "Get the Golden Egg" 


I wouldn't be suprised if Moody/ Crouch was standing by, cursing the 
obtuse Griffindor for not making the easy leap to simply summoning 
the egg.  His conversation with Harry before hand, when he drops the 
hints to the summoning charms could be interpreted as especially 
subtle manupulation.  He asks Harry what he is good at. (Build up 
their confidence.) Then drops a suggestion- a simple spell to "GET 
WHAT YOU NEED!"  

Ok, So Harry now has ample motivation to learn the summoning charm, 
to get the broom.  It must have just about given Moody/Crouch Jr. an 
ulcer to watch that Grandstanding Griffindor actually fly about the 
Dragons head, instead of making the <OBVIOUS> leap to just summoning 
the damn egg into his arms. 

On the same line, the only reason I can see for not using a 
summoning charm to get the Goblet of Fire as soon as he had stepped 
into the maze, is they were, if I recall correctly, told to get to 
the middle of the maze.  (Or were they?)  Would summoning the GOF 
over or thru the Maze have been considered cheating?  Given the rule 
bending going on all over the competition, I suspect not.

I think summoning Spells may be an even more dangerous loophole than 
Veritaserum. 

Ellen A.K.A. Moriel Malkin
A Pottering Beekeeper
Thinking that playing a Slytherin in Naginis_Kiss RPG is warping me 
slowly but surely. Now if it would only give me some backbone.