Sportsmanship in Harry Potter

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 151742

   
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> a_svirn:
> And let us not forget that where cunning and resourcefulness are 
> concerned Harry failed spectacularly. He never solved anything by 
> himself; he only made it through the tasks because Crouch made sure 
> that he would. Actually, even his daring in this instance is 
> questionable – since he was compelled to participate by the 
> unbreakable magical contract. No wonder he didn't want the prize 
> money. It was unfairly gained and *indeed* should have been 
Cedric's.
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Hickengruendler:

Except that Cedric didn't solve very much on his own either. Harry 
told him about the dragons. I suppose he did come up with a plan how 
to get th egg himself, but later it was Moody, who told him to open 
the egg under water. Therefore Cedric did have some help as well, as 
did Viktor and Fleur.

I suppose neither had as much as Harry, but ultimately I didn't mind 
all the help Harry got, for two reasons. 1.) He didn't ask to 
participate in this tournament, while the others did. While I agree 
with what sistermagpie wrote in an earlier post, that Harry never was 
the real outsider because JKR didn't allow him to be one, he 
nonetheless did not want to participate and it was due to 
circumstances outside his control, that he had to. Therefore I think 
he deserved every help he could get. 2.) Harry and his friends 
thought that his life was in danger. It therefore was much more than 
just a game for him, he theoretically could have expected a murder 
attack any time. In fact, Moody even made them believe that the fact 
that his name came out of the goblet already was the murder attack.

That said, I do find it extraordinaly stupid, that he honestly 
thought the judges would have let any of those hostages in the lake 
die. But the other champions didn't seem to think much clearer about 
this either. Fleur honestly seemed to have thought that Gabrielle was 
in real danger and Cedric later tells Harry, that he should have 
stayed back as well. This only leaves Viktor Krum as someone, who 
might not have believed this. 

Hickengruendler