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

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 45477

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "hickengruendler" <hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
> If really everybody were aware, that Harry and Cedric were portkeyed 
> away, that means, they must have seen the champions during the maze. 
> Then why nobody cared, when Moody attacked Fleur or put the imperizus 
> curse on Krum? Or when Krum put "Cruciatus" an Cedric? 
> 
> Hickengruendler

bboy_mn:
Tricky question. Based on my theory that the stands are elevated above
the hedges, people could see into the maze, but no one had complete
view all the time. The people in the center of the stands could easily
see into the rows of hedges that were perpendicular (at right angles)
to the stands, but couldn't see when the champions were in hedge rows
parallel to the center of the stands. Now the people on the ends of
the stands would have a better view of the parallel hedge rows, and a
worse view of the perpendicular row. And, of course, the higher in the
stands you are, the better you can see.

The point is nobody could see everything all the time. Fake!Moody may
have pick locations in the maze that had minimum visibility when he
made these things happen. Also, since all sound coming into the maze
appeared to be blocked, it's possible that all sound going out of the
maze was blocked. So when Krum attacked Cedric, all the crowd saw was
Cerdic on the ground and Krum standing near by. No real indication of
what either of them was doing, and again, it was probably only visible
to a limited number of people.

Given this limited visibility, it's possible that the people who could
see fake!Moody muttering incantations and waving his wand, couldn't
see anything happening in the maze to connect the two. So, no real way
to connect Moody's actions with events happening in the maze.

I also think that the location of the Cup was not a hedge row, but a
large square area at the center of the maze where everyone could see
the winning champion take the trophy. That's not based on canon, just
on what I see as a logical way to set up a maze for an event like
this. When Harry and Cedric were next to the spider discussing who
should take the Trohpy, they were standing in a narrow hedge row and
were only  visible to a very limited number of people. When they
walked together to take the trophy, I think they were visible to a
majority of people. They disappeared, although most people didn't know
that they portkeyed, and when they didn't re-appear outside the maze
in a minute or two, Dumbledore and everyone else started to freak out.
Dumbledore and the staff must have felt incredably powerless and
helpless. No wonder Dumbledore was looking old afterwards. He probably
aged 50 years from worry while Harry was gone.

As far as Harry and Cedric portkeying, I'm one of those who believes
that they were intended to portkey. The Cup was intended to portkey
the winner outside the maze. So when they dissapeared it wasn't that
big a deal. People didn't start sweating blood until they failed to
reappear.


Just a few thoughts on the subject.

bboy_mn