Names in goblet

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 59792

<<The Sergeant Majorette says:
....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?>> 

>> bboy_mn: 
> I don't see it as that hard. While the Goblet does have some 
intelligence, there is nothing to suggest that any magical object, 
the Sorting Hat, the 'living' paintings, the Goblet, whatever, has 
the full congnitive, analytical, rational, reasoning thought 
processes of a human being. The Goblet's job, for purposes of 
illustration, is to pick the most able and qualified champion from 
among the list of candidates from EACH school whether it is 3 schools 
or 10 schools.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette, again:
*Tri* means *three*. The magical objects I am familiar with 
(computers), instructed to pick one of column A, one of column B and 
one of column C, would spit out an error message if instructed to 
make a fourth choice. In fact cognitive, reasoning human beings as a 
group are probably easier to bamboozle than analytical and rational 
non-animate objects.
--JDR