Logic in the WW (was:Re: How can they tell who's a Muggle?)

[Risti <pretty_feet51@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52483

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch <finwitch at y...>" 
<finwitch at y...> wrote:
> Still, none thought of summoning the egg, nor the cup? With the 
Egg, 
> well - Passing the Dragon was part of the Task...
> And well - I think the Cup was somehow protected against summoning, 
> but the protection went away once it had been touched. (Really, it 
> couldn't be _that_ easy? Just summon the cup and be done?)
> 
> -- Finwitch

Of course, this is digressing, but while reading this last section, I 
couldn't help but think of Hermione's comment back in PS/SS about 
wizards having no logic.  To me, this just proves that.  I think that 
it would be completely possible for both of those scenarios to 
happen, I just don't think anyone would ever think of them.

After all, wouldn't another logical idea be for Harry to have done 
the first task underneath his invisibility cloak, where he presumably 
could have snuck around the dragon?  Or for Harry to have again 
called his broom in the third task, and simply flown above the maze?  
For that matter, we know that no one seemed to care that he went 
*through* the walls of the maze at one point.  Why didn't he just use 
the four points spell from the beginning and cut himself a straight 
path right to the cup.

When Hermione first made that comment, I couldn't quite see what she 
meant.  The more I think about it though, the more I realize how 
right she is.  Witches and wizards get so caught up in doing 
things 'magically' that the simplest solution very often escapes 
their mind, because it's not the way they've been raised to think.

~Risti