[HPforGrownups] Re: 3rd Task

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 34238

  Greetings!

> cindysphynx wrote to us:

c> Eh, there has been some discussion of this in the past, but I don't
c> really recall it clearly.  I thought the consensus was that both the 
c> second and third task are rather FLINT-like because great numbers of 
c> people come to watch something they can't see.  Maybe it is like 
c> bobsledding -- you can be at the finish, but you can't be someplace 
c> positioned to see everything.  

  Well, there could be lot of ways to keep the spectators
entertained while revealing no direct data. For example, a
cool thing would be to display absolute distance from the
Cup for all 4 contestants - keeps the suspense (if only a
little) and such...

c> Sounds weird, but that's how it looks like JKR intended
c> it to be. Go figure.

  JKR is overconcentrated on major figures. As the immediate
result, all other processes go into complete chaos.

c> By "labirinth", do you mean the walls? If so, I don't
c> think that works because Harry states that he came back
c> to the "edge of the maze."

  Yep, this true. I misread it initially.

c> Aw, gee. Making up wacky theories and trying to prove
c> them based on logic with a foundation in canon is half
c> the fun. How else are we supposed to survive the
c> interminable delay in the release of OoP? :-)

  That's where the difference lies. You can spend time by
creating wacky theories about characters real intentions and
actions, while I spend time trying to figure just HOW does
Potterverse manage to survive... Analytic me... :)

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
(Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed),
who is already running out of quotations... :(

    - Humanity  tries  to be good and nice, though it has no
    reasons  to  do  so.  Like  a ballerine who is trying to
    dance  on  the  snow.  And snow is different - somewhere
    it's  hard,  somewhere soft, and somewhere it breaks and
    cuts your legs. But still you must dance. In defiance of
    Nature,  in  defiance  of  everything.  Because the only
    option is to lie down into the snow and freeze to death.
        Stas the Knight of Avalon.
        (Sergey Lukyanenko, "Dances on the Snow").