Watching tasks 2 and 3 (wasRe: Dumbledore the teacher)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 126211


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:
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> > bboyminn:
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> > I think Bagman who was commentating, and who was likely in the 
top 
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> > probably had the best view. 
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> a_svirn:
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> Then he would have seen how one champion was busy torturing another 
> champion. Surely, someone would have to step in at this point?
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> a_svirn

Geoff:
Don't forget the time of day. It was evening.

'They walked onto the Quidditch pitch, which was now completely 
unrecognisable. A twenty-foot-high hedge ran all the way around the 
edge of it. There was a gap right in front of them; the entrance to 
the vast maze. The passage beyond it looked dark and creepy.'

(GOF "The Third Task" p.538 UK edition)

'Thw towering hedges cast black shadows across the path and, whether 
becasue they were so tall and black or because they had been 
enchanted, the sound of the surrounding crowd was silenced the moment 
they entered the maze. Harry felt almost as if he was underwater 
again. He pulled out wand, muttered "Lumos" and heard Cedric do the 
same just behind him.'

(ibid. pp.539-540)

'The maze was growing darker with every passing minute as the sky 
overhead deepened to navy.'

(ibid. p,540)

Apart from the illumination where the Cup was, spectators would have 
had trouble seeing a lot of the action because it was happening on 
darkened paths. So a lot of the "fun and games" probably wasn't seen.