Which School?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 131292

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "uscsmarine4" <wargames at s...> wrote:
>   ... 
> I was re-reading Goblet of Fire and noted that the goblet has to
> have the name and school of everyone who wishes to participate. ...
> JKR never says what school Harry was entered under. ... What, if any, 
> significance is this obvious failure to say what school he was entered
> under.


bboyminn:

Well, first the fourth school isn't mentioned by name because there is
no fourth school; it can't have a name because it doesn't exit.

The Goblet, if I recall correctly was hoodwinking into forgetting
there were only three school. So even if Harry entry was missing a
school name, he would have still been the only candidate his his
catagory, and that catagory would have defaulted to 'Other'. In a
sense, the Goblet sorts the names into catagories, one catagory for
each named school, and one unnamed catagory. Then it picks the best
from the list of names in those catagories. Harry was in a 'class' by
himself, so of course he was picked.

Also, if Harry's name was entered in this format -

Harry
Potter


Then 'Harry' become the name of the champion, and 'Potter' becomes the
name of the school.

Further, the fourth school could have been ".", or " " or some other
nondescript punctuation. The point is, since the Goblet is confused,
it doesn't matter what the fourth school is, whether it's 'blank' or
'Potter'  or period ('.'), just as long as it's different from the
others, and by being different, creates a fourth catagory.

Did that make sense?

Steve/bboyminn