Dumbledore's age

[evangelina839]

No: HPFGUIDX 78984

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Maris" <maris at m...> wrote:

<snippety snip, before and after this bit>

At a second read, though, I understood Hermione to be referring to the current Head 
of each of the respective schools at the time of that particular match.
> 
>   "Who are the judges?" Harry asked.
>    "Well, the Heads of the participating schools are always on the panel," said 
Hermione, and everyone looked around at her, rather surprised, "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."  ~~"Harry Potter and the Goblet 
of Fire"

OK - now that I know what the books *originally* said, it feels safe to add this. In the 
Swedish translation, the word order was a bit different, pretty much saying that it was 
the three *champions* that were injured, and not the judges. But that could be a 
mistake on the translator's part; in fact, it also says that the champions were 
supposed to catch a basilisk. (I have no way of checking what a cockatrice could be in 
Swedish, but if I'm not totally crazy the basilisk is a basilisk in both languages, right?) 
Thanks for the quote, Maris.
evangelina