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

[lyraofjordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 126238


> 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)
>  
> '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.


Lyra:
This probably won't clear anything up, but Hermione addresses what 
they could see in OOTP (pge 251, U.S.) 
"Look, you don't understand what it was like after it happened," H 
said quietly. "You arrived back in the middle of the lawn clutching 
Cedric's dead body ... None of us saw what happened in the maze. ... 
We just had Dumbledore's word for it that You-Know-Who had come back 
and killed Cedric and fought you."

"None of us saw what happened in the maze. ... " could be 
interpreted to mean they didn't see what happened at the end of the 
task (possibly because, as Geoff has pointed out, it was dark), or it 
could mean they couldn't see what happened in the maze during the 
entire task.