Names in goblet

[Linda]

No: HPFGUIDX 59755


> > The Sergeant Majorette says:

> > This is something that really bothers me, and I have the sinking 
> > feeling that it is merely a plot hole; namely, how dumb does a
> magic 
> > object have to be to be fooled into thinking there could be a 
> > *fourth" entrant in a *tri*-wizard tournament?

   Me(Linda):

        I think the quote in question is this " "Because they 
hoodwinked a very powerful magical object!" said Moody. "It would 
have needed an exceptionally strong Confundus Charm to bamboozle 
that goblet into forgetting that the only three schools compete in 
the tournament..." "

        I always read the passage to mean that the Goblet was 
sentient to the same extent that the sorting hat is sentient. It has 
an intelligence of it's own, put there hundreds of years before by 
the originators of the tournament. IMO, Moody/Crouch wouldn't be 
lying here- not in front of Dumbledore, Kakaroff and Madam Maxine. 
As the heads of their repective schools they would undoubtably know 
what the goblet was and was not capable of and would see through any 
lie. There is no reason for M/C to jeapordize his cover this early 
in the game. I think the goblet knew exactly how many schools were 
supposed to be competing. M/C refers to a Confundus charm. In PoA, 
Snape maintained that HHR had been been "confounded". I think that 
they were both talking about the same charm. If that is the case, it 
makes me wonder how much conciousness the goblet has if the same 
charm that would be used on a human is necessary to decieve it.

   -Linda...just my two knuts