Sports and Cheating

[Patty]

No: HPFGUIDX 50843

As you've pointed out, DM, it does seem to be rather easy to use magic of sorts to tamper with these sporting events. Maybe in the case of the World Quidditch Cup, there could be some sort of charm placed around the field of play that would not allow any magic to cross. Something like the spell that Dumbledore put on the line around the Goblet of Fire to prevent any underage entries. 


Patty
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Danger Mouse 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:34 AM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Sports and Cheating


  I'm watching the superbowl with my family right now (actually it's a commercial break) and I was thinking about magical cheating and it's use in sports. Dumbledore is able to slow Harry's fall to the ground in PoA, and, in CoS, the rogue bludger is destroyed by Finite Incantatem. In SS, Quirrel jinxes Harry's broom... In Quidditch games, at least at Hogwarts, it is clear that there are no charms that prevent the use of magic (other than brooms). What about at official league games? Sound amplification charms work, but curses? I'm curious if anyone's ever tried to curse someone off their brooms there... It leads to interesting thoughts.

  Think about the Raiders--their fans have rioted and pillaged and done Bad Things occassionally. Fully trained and armed wizards could do a lot of damage. This was somewhat explored in GoF, with the Death Eater Fiasco, of course.

  And back to the subject of cheating. What prevents wizards from making bets on a certain muggle sport, then magically sabotaging the game? Slowing down or accelerating a competitor, or casting banishing charms on a flying football... a creative wizard could get a lot of money this way. It's just a matter of not getting caught...

  -DM




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