Cedric's Death and the TWT maze

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91277

"oogems7" wrote:
><snip>> 
> Harry is found holding Cedric's dead body in the maze.  I'm assuming 
> that the ministry has some way of telling if he died of AK, so why 
> did they try to explain it away with a 'tragic accident.'  We know 
> that Harry was no longer popular in the WW and that the justice 
> system is a joke, so why did no one raise any questions into how 
> Cedric died. <snip>

Carol:
Couldn't the spectators and the judges see into the maze? If not, why
have spectators, and how would the judges know who had won? Surely
they would have seen both boys grab the cup and disappear (explainable
only if the cup had been turned into a portkey) and then Harry
reappear holding the cup and Cedric's body. If he had wanted to AK
Cedric, or kill him in any way, the time to do it would be before they
reached the cup, not after. Also they would have seen (though not
heard) Harry and Cedric both hesitating to get to the cup first. That
being the case, no one would have suspected Harry of killing Cedric.

But what I don't understand is how the guards or protectors or
whatever they were could get into the maze to help the champions who
sent up sparks to indicate that they were in trouble. The protectors
were apparently at ground level outside the maze and couldn't see in.
They'd have had to pass the same obstacles as the contestants to get
to them. They also wouldn't have been able to see when the champions
reached the center of the maze, though the judges (sitting somewhere
in the stands) must have been able to do so. (There's no indication
that the judges were on brooms like a quidditch referee!) But, again,
if the only way into the middle is through the maze, obstacles and
all, how is the winner supposed to get out again (assuming that the
cup is not a portkey) without the help of the protectors, who would
also have to get through the maze? And how would the protectors know
they were there, except for the roar of the crowd, which had witnessed
the winner seizing the cup?

So I don't think anyone thought that Harry had killed Cedric, but I'm
still confused by the intricacies of the maze itself.

Carol, who is trying not to get sidetracked by the etymology of "amazing"