Answers, questions......(specifically the Triwizard Tournament)

[mysmacek]

No: HPFGUIDX 55615

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, iluvgahan <iluvgahan at y...> wrote:
> The Sparrow <basementgirl74 at y...> wrote:
> 
> <<<I have a question which has no doubt been raised
> before- In GoF (sorry can't give you exact quote)
> Hermione-I think-says that the heads of the three
> schools would be on the judging panel since they were
> alive at the last one in 1794. That was over 200 years
> ago, yet Dumbledore is only 150. This would also make
> Karkaroff and madam Maxine over 200 years old as well.>>>
> 
> now me:
> 
> The exact quote is, "...the Heads of the participating
> schools are *always* (my stressing) on the panel...because
> all three of them were injured during the Tournament of
> 1792, when a cockatrice the champions were supposed to be
> catching went on the rampage."  
> 
> ...which does NOT necessarily mean that Dumbledore, Maxime,
> and Karkaroff were the same Heads of school as in 1792,
> just that ever since that event the Heads have been given
> that privledge..

Well, my understanding of this quote is that is is *known* that they
are on the panel because it is written somewhere that all three of
them were injured in 1792 tournament - i.e. it's an evidence that at
least then the headmasters were on the panel.

Mysmacek