Sportsmanship in Harry Potter

[Joe Goodwin]

No: HPFGUIDX 151816


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. 


Joe:
 Exactly what were the rules for the Tri-Wizard Tournament? I don't remember a list of them being handed out in GOF. I know the goal sounded simple, rescue what you would miss most but I am assuming that their is a whole list of rules about the tournament otherwise you could do anything to win and since we know you can cheat in the tourney then there must have been other rules.
   
  There are people who think that the only rule in football is to get the ball in the endzone. Of course there are a host of other rules that go with the game. The same is probably true for the TWT, so how can you say the judges may have undermined the rules when you don't even know for certain what the rules are?

Joe