some pointless questions from GOF

[Marie Jadewalker <marie_mouse@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50098

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Wolber 
<katydid3500 at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > 2. Was there a House Cup at all in the fourth year? 
> 
> Yes, there was a House Cup, but because of
> Cedric's death, it wasn't announced at the end of year
> feast or shown in the decorations.  I think (this is
> just something I think I remember so no one jump down
> my throat if I'm wrong) Harry thinks(like in the
> narration, not dialogue) that though Gryffindor won
> the House Cup, the drapes were black in mourning of
> Cedric's death.
> 
> Kathryn

Hi!  I'm a first time poster, and this is definitely not 
meant to be jumping down your throat.  :)  I had to look it 
up myself to be sure.  In GOF Chapter 37, all we're told is:

When he, Ron, and Hermione entered the Hall, they saw at 
once that the usual decorations were missing.  The Great 
Hall was normally decorated with the winning House's colors 
for the Leaving Feast.  Tonight, however, there were black 
drapes on the wall behind the teachers' table.  Harry knew 
instantly that they were there as a mark of respect to Cedric.  

At least, that's all it says in my Hardback US edition (I 
have no idea what printing it is).  The only reason I raise 
this point is that I wonder who *did* win the house 
championship that year.  Naturally, it *would* have been 
highly inappropriate to announce it after Dumbledore's great 
speach about Cedric, but I suppose I'm still curious.  Given
that Harry and co. had gotten tons of points during their 
first and second years for outstanding performance at the end
of the year, is it possible that the house cup was given to 
Hufflepuff (privately) to honor Cedric?  I'd like to hear 
people's thoughts on the matter.  

As for the first question, why Moody/Crouch Jr. taught Harry
to resist the Imperius Curse, I think it has to do with his 
duel nature.  Hasn't it been argued that he started to take
on some of Moody's characteristics from Polyjuicing into him
for so long?  If so, that could have been Moody's personality
showing through.  Alternately he could have figured it was a 
fair risk to take because doing things like that would make 
people like Dumbledore less likely to question him.  Or, if 
he was truly thinking long term evil, he might not have been
casting a "full strength" Imperius on Harry.  Why?  So Harry
(and everyone else) thinks that Imperius doesn't affect him;
that could be useful to Voldemort later on.  

Oh, and just for the record, I think it's Harry in the 
flowerbed and that he's stargazing.  Maybe he'll wonder what
the centaurs were talking about that night in the Forbidden
Forrest first year and half wish he could tell what lies ahead.

~Marie