Sportsmanship in Harry Potter

[Joe Goodwin]

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horridporrid03 <horridporrid03 at yahoo.com> wrote:
    So I was poking about the online fandom and ran across this article by 
Mariana Hyde:
http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1762184,00.html
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In the article Hyde points out, "[t]he whole point about being 
sportsmanlike is that you don't get any prizes for it.  It is a reward 
in itself, and usually involves forfeiting something you'd have held 
on to if you hadn't bothered." 

Does Harry getting a big point bonus for being noble actually taint 
his nobility a bit?  Do these books ever give us an example of good 
sportsmanship?
   
  Joe:
 First let me say that I can not think of a worst example of a sports article ever.
   
  Now do we know the judges broke the rules in awarding Harry extra points? Remember that they are judges as in figure skating and other "sports" that have elements of interpretation in them. They are not referees who are there to only see that the rules are obeyed.
   
  Even if Harry shouldn't have gotten the bonus points though it doesn't diminish the nobility of it. He did not expect to get the extra points and he thought he had done poorly. It could have only affected his nobility if he had known he would recieve thsoe points and he clearly didn't.
   
  The Triwizard Tournament wasn't even a true sporting event(IMO) but just another form of Competition.
   
  Joe