My thoughts on some things.......

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 148338

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Maria Holub <sopraniste at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Adzuroth"
> > <adzuroth@> wrote:

Adzuroth: 
> > > Oh yeah, one other little detail.  In the first
> > triwizard challenge, 
> > > why didn't Harry simply say "accio dragon egg"
> > instead of "accio 
> > > firebolt"? 

Maria Holub: 
> I agree! That was MY first thought when he started
> working on summoning charms. Silly Harry!

Geoff:
Just think how we might have reacted. The obvious sometimes passes us 
by.

Crouch!Moody had suggested to Harry that he played to his strengths 
and had planted the idea in his head that flying was one of them.

Hence, Harry went out with the plan firmly in his head to summon his 
broom.  

Secondly, the eggs might have been protected against Accio spells; it 
might not have escaped the minds of the organisers that the spell 
existed. :-)