Names in goblet

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 59832

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jdr0918" <jdr0918 at h...> wrote:
> <<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. ..... 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

bboy_mn:

Easy to see that if you were a programmer, you would be doing a lot of
re-programming (no offense intended). A point I made in my original
post which I now reframe into a computer model, is that a good
programer builds flexibility into his program. If the creator of the
Goblet of Fire took the number of school to be a variable rather than
a constant, that might create a point in the 'programming' that was
less secure, and therefore, easily bamboozled but a confundus charm.   

Using the computer model, it could just as easily read all the school
names, sort them making a column for each school under which is would
put the names of the student matching a given school then pick the
best student from each school column of names.

True computers can only do what you TELL (program) them to do, even if
that's not what you wanted them to do.

As far as the TRI-Wizard's Tournement, it is only TRI because at the
moment there are only three school available to compete. At some point
in the future Russia, Spain, Italy, or Scandinavia could have a magic
school that advances to the ranks of the existing three school. Then
it would be invited to join the tournement and it would be the
Quad-Wizard's Tournement. The title of the tournement does not
necessary define the entire scope and function of the Goblet of Fire.

I'm not trying to tell you what IS, but trying to find a likely
explanation for what we already know happened. It's pointless to say,
'it can't be that way' because it is that way. What needs to be asked
and answered is, 'how can it be that way?'.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn