[HPforGrownups] What happened while Harry was gone? (was: Task 3 point of view)

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 Deb331 wrote:

> When Harry and Cedric were portkeyed away, what did the crowd know of 
> what was happening?  Was Dumbledore aware that something had gone 
> wrong?  Was everyone else in the crowd aware, or did they just think 
> the tasks were taking a VERY long time?  Were the professors all 
> running around trying to solve the mystery of the missing champions, 
> until Harry showed up face down on the grass?

I think that yes, everyone was aware.  However, I don't think the crowd (or all 
of them) quite knew what to make of it.  Perhaps they thought, as Harry and 
Cedric briefly did, that being teleported was part of the task.  They had to be 
able to see, wasn't that the point of having the maze on the Quidditch field?  
It seems they did have a good view from the stands.  Dumbledore and those "in 
charge" would have known something was terribly wrong, as they hadn't in fact 
made the cup into a portkey.  So they knew someone had, and I'm sure Dumbledore 
immediately knew Harry was in big trouble, but had no way to help him.  If I'm 
remembering correctly, didn't Harry and Cedric turn up at the edge of the 
maze?  Perhaps Dumbledore etc. were making their way into the maze during the 
time they were gone, looking for clues or something.  In which case they may 
have been on their way back out, allowing for a brief moment before the 
footsteps, etc. that Harry heard.  

As for Mrs. Weasley, I'm sure she'd already started her "I knew they shouldn't 
have let Harry do this, he's too young, he's too little, something terrible has 
happened, etc."

Richelle 
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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Melody" <Malady579 at h...> wrote:
> Pip!Squeak replied:
> >>>I think Dumbledore was fooled (and he* was* fooled, he did not 
plan
> the Graveyard Scene) by the `no apparition in and out of Hogwarts'
> rule. The maze was patrolled by Moody,(who he hadn't spotted as 
Crouch
> Jr,) Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick and Hagrid. The 
hazards
> within were known (he thought). With loyal wizards patrolling the
> entrances and exits, no one could get in the maze to harm Harry. A
> rejigged Portkey never occurred to him...<<<
> 
> Me (Melody):
> To add to what Pip said...the maze was on the Quidditch field.  All
> the judges (which includes Dumbledore), students, parents, and other
> teachers (i.e. Snape) were in the stands, which are raised from the
> ground originally for better view of Quidditch, but come in handy to
> have a bird's-eye-view of a very tall maze.  All eyes were on the
> competitors and were able to see all that was going on in the maze.
> Hey, the audience at least had better seats in Task #3 than they did
> in Task #2.
> 
> Judge Dumbledore was *supposed* to watch Harry, and Non-patroling
> Snape was completely free to *only* watch Harry.
> 
> Melody

This thread on the spectators of the third task (including popcorn!) 
is indirectly related to a question that has long lingered in the 
back of my brain:

When Harry and Cedric were portkeyed away, what did the crowd know of 
what was happening?  Was Dumbledore aware that something had gone 
wrong?  Was everyone else in the crowd aware, or did they just think 
the tasks were taking a VERY long time?  Were the professors all 
running around trying to solve the mystery of the missing champions, 
until Harry showed up face down on the grass?

I have even wondered if there was some sort of time glitch (a la 
Narnia) where the whole graveyard scene (which must have lasted about 
an hour) was just a blip in Hogwarts time.  That doesn't seem likely, 
though, since the graveyard and Hogwarts aren't in two different 
worlds.

I would love to know what theories people have on this question.  
I've always tried to imagine Ron and Hermione, and what they were 
doing during that whole part.

Deb331





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