Second Task Choice (was: Emotional Intimacy in the HP stories...)

[kyntor70]

No: HPFGUIDX 105583

Anasazi wrote:

"Hi, Jason. I found my copy of GoF.

This is what the egg said:
"Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
And while you re searching, ponder this:
We've taken what you'll sorely miss,
An hour long you'll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
But past an hour- the prospect's black,
Too late, it's gone, it wont come back"

And this is what Dobby said when he woke up Harry that morning.

"What?" Harry gasped. "They've got. . . they've got Ron?"
"The thing Harry Potter will miss most, sir!" squeaked Dobby.

So it seems that, though the choice was made for Harry by the Powers
That Be, Harry's feelings were the determining factor in the choice.
It must have been that way too with the other champions, including
Krum's choice of Hermione."

Kyntor replies:

I don't know if Harry's feeling were a factor in the decision.  
Instead I think it was what Dumbledore thought Harry's feeling were.  
I don't really know if you can read anything into the fact that Ron 
was chosen to be Harry's "thing he would miss most" over Hermione.  
If Krum would have not had claims on Hermione, it would have probably 
of been a coin toss.

In order to find out who someone would miss the most (for sure) some 
sort of legilimency would probably have to be involved.  I do not 
think that goverment officials (The Triwizard Tournament was 
officailly sponsored by the governments) would want legilimency to be 
practiced on children.

Kyntor