[HPforGrownups] Re: Sportsmanship in Harry Potter

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 151768


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  Carol responds:


  In any case, regardless of what Harry did once he was under the water,
  all he did to enable himself to compete in the task in the first place
  and prevent himself from drowning was to chew on and swallow a rubbery
  plant suggested by a DE in disguise and provided by a house-elf. No
  resourcefulness on Harry's part is involved. Surely any credit for
  resourcefulness here belongs partly to Dobby but mostly to
  Crouch!Moody, who despite being a fanatic and a madman is apparently
  also a brilliant and gifted wizard like his father.

  Carol, who hopes she doesn't sound like a fan of Crouch!Moody as she's
  nothing of the sort


  kchuplis:

  At the risk of repeating myself (bear with me elves. Maybe Yahoomort lost this: 
  Here is my lonely take on it: if you showed every student what happened to Harry
  at the Graveyard  and said, "you can have all kinds of help and a nice broom and
  be given extra points in games, but you have to go through that or you can skip
  having to experience that and not get quite so much help" how many students
  would choose to be tortured, cruciated, terrorized, humiliated and have people
  killed in front of them, (only because they are  who they are) and the person
  "came with" in order to get help and extras? I'm thinking mmmm....no one would
  trade for that?

  It's just a thought to put this in perspective.


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