Sportsmanship in Harry Potter

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 151814

> kchuplis:
> 
> No, no, of course we should discuss it. We are discussing it. 
Just  
> merely pointing out another point of view. And since we know that 
the  
> folks involved in judging have probably even a better idea of 
what  
> Harry's life is they have a different point of view. Just want to  
> give a new direction of thought. Maybe it does sound kind of 
vaguely  
> shaming. Maybe it should. I mean, lots of other posts sound 
outright  
> damning. Maybe Fudge and DD et al. have something to be a little  
> ashamed about when it comes to Harry.

a_svirn:
Different point of view on what exactly? On how hard Harry's life 
has been? I don't think it is all that different from the 
predominant POV. Although I doubt that Fadge would give a damn about 
it, I suppose everyone on-list would agree. 

On their duties as referees? So that because Harry's life has been 
so hard it's OK to make it up to him with a few extra points? That's 
exactly my point. It is damnably unfair to compensate Harry at the 
expense of other champions. Not only it undermines the rules of the 
game, it even casts slurs at Krum's and Cedric's characters, and 
surely they don't deserve that. If it wasn't Harry's fault that he'd 
got selected, it certainly wasn't theirs. If anyone was at fault it 
was Dumbledore, but rather than admit it publicly and offer an 
official apology to other combatants (the least he could do under 
the circumstances), he made the bad game worse by showing his 
blatant preferment of someone who shouldn't even have been there in 
the first place.