Not thorough, JKR? Seeing the TASKS

[buddhacat]

No: HPFGUIDX 53387

> bboy_mn:
> 
> The first and third tasks are easy to understand. The first is
> obvious, and the third, sitting in high stands would allow you to 
see
> into some parts of the maze, that's simple mechanics. So I think
> without a doubt there was at least some limited vision into the maze
> of the third task. Someone somewhere has to see at least something 
at
> sometime. For me it's not a question of IF but a question of how 
much
> and when.

me:

I don't think that answers the question.  If you are up (very!) high, 
yes, you could see a little bit of the maze.  The walls have to be 
fairly high to avoid giving away what's around the corner, high 
enough that you wouldn't be able to see the people in the maze, 
although you might see taller monsters and such.  So it still leaves 
the question, what were the spectators really spectating at?  While 
they may have seen glimpses here and there, for the most part they 
were watching plants grow.

And so for me the problem is with JKR.  After the first task, she has 
the kids tell Harry what happened with the other champions, so we 
know they could see everything.  She doesn't after tasks 2 and 3 
(admittedly, people were occupied with other things after the third 
task).  So I assume they saw nothing.

She also doesn't describe any way the spectators could see much of 
anything in tasks 2 and 3.  She could have had Dumbledore devise 
magical ways to follow the action in 2 and 3.  But she doesn't 
describe them, so we'll have to again assume they weren't done. 

That leaves two choices: either she didn't think about how there was 
nothing to watch, or she did and she didn't think it mattered.  
Either way we are left with an oddity, people attending a "sporting 
event" in which most (if not all) of the action is hidden from their 
view.

-- Buddhacat