[HPforGrownups] Re: Sportsmanship in Harry Potter / Bad Slytherins

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 151806

> Alla:
> Without plan to get Harry to Graveyard, he would have never entered
> the Tournament at all, so to say that Harry WON the tournament when
> the "prise" was getting to Graveyard, I just don't see it at all.
>
> To me it is clear that Harry lost and big time.

Magpie:
I didn't say he "won" the tournament the way you're using it. Of course he 
"lost big time" in the end because it was all leading him to Voldemort, but 
while we're passing time during the school year we're watching him forced to 
compete in difficult contests and win.  Each time there's a contest Rowling 
has to come up with something interesting to happen, some way for the 
contest to go down.  She sticks to a more limited formula than she might.

-m