Champion choosing (WAS: Fleur Delacour And Bill Wease...

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No: HPFGUIDX 59491

Brief Chronicles:

In the first task, Fleur "was trembling from head to foot (GoF, 
Chapter 20, pg. 352 US edition)," when she went to fight the dragon, 
and it took her ten minutes to complete the task (shorter time than 
Cedric, who took 15 minutes). Later we learn that she did a succesful 
charm to put the dragon to sleep, but the whole plan got a little 
botched when it snored fire onto her skirt. Harry tied for first 
place in the task with Krum. Fleur presumably came in third, since 
she didn't take as long as Cedric. (GoF, Chapter 20, US edition)

In the second task, Fleur came in last place because she failed to 
complete the task at all. She was awarded 25 points, but said, "I 
deserved zero (GoF, Chapter 26, pg. 506, US edition)." Cedric got 47 
points, putting him in first place for that task, Krum got 40, and 
Harry got 45 points, coming in second place for the second task, and 
tying for first place with Cedric for the entire tournament. (GoF, 
Chapter 26, US edition)

Me(Bill):

So after the first task we have:

T1: Harry
T1: Victor
3:  Fleur
4:  Cedric

But after the seconds task we have:

T1: Harry (45 points) - still tied for first
T1: Cedric (47 points) - moved from last to tied for first
3:  Victor (40 points)
4:  Fleur (25 points)

In other words, the difference between first place and last place, 
after the first task, was only 2 points.  Huh?
Bill