Cheating in the Third Task/ Harry's wand

[tiger_queen429]

No: HPFGUIDX 59531

Hey! I have two questions...

Does anyone think that it was possible for the champions to cheat in 
the Third Task of the TWT? Harry who came into the task first and had 
the least amount of obstacles to face should have reached the cup 
first without any trouble. Yet Moody/Crouch Jr. said "I stunned Fleur 
Delacour as she passed." I take this to mean as she passed Harry. 
Which I think would be nearly impossible as she was the last one to 
enter the maze unless she knew exactly which way to go. My theory is 
that it is not too hard to sneak on to the Quidditch field or the 
stadium to inspect or map out the maze. This is something I would 
expect from Madame Maxime or Karkaroff, but I wonder about Cedric. 
would he do the same? With more obstacles than Harry had to face that 
should have slowed him down considerably. Or is it just that Harry's 
bad sense of direction and the Four-Point Spell only slowed him down 
or sent him on a path that was very long? But that would also mean 
that Cerdic would have cheated. This would have been more that 
accepting Harry's advice about the dragon or Moody/CJ's help about 
the egg. I do not see Cedric as one to do that or maybe his 
instistence that Harry take the cup was his way of coming to terms 
with the guilt he had about cheating.

How powerful is Harry's wand? We know that it is the brother of 
Voldemort's ward. And we know that Mr. Ollivander say this about the 
Dark Lord's wand: "Thirteen and a half inches. Yew. Powerful wand, 
very powerful, and in the wrong hands". Yet when Harry gets his wand 
the only thing Mr. Ollivander says about it is that it is "supple". 
Could Harry's wand be weaker that Voldemorts or is it just as 
powerful? I would think that because they share the same core that 
they should be equally as powerful, but Harry has not shown that sort 
of power yet unless his Patronus.

Tiger queen