Sportsmanship/legitimacy

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 151925

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:
>
> Geoff:
> I seem to sense that you have an agenda to
> blame Harry and suggest that he cheated right from the beginning.
> 
> a_svirn:
> Well, you got it all wrong. I never said a word against Harry. It is 
> the way the tournament is organized that raises my hackles. If 
> anyone's integrity is in question it's Dumbledore's, not Harry's.

Geoff:
Well, if I "got it all wrong", it was possibly because the tournament was 
raising your hackles and you didn't make your points particularly clear.

> Geoff:
> I am trying to avoid a "table tennis" post, but I must return to my 
> point
> that the hosts didn't introduce an extra person. This was due to
> Moody!Crouch's altering the Goblet of Fire.
> 
> a_svirn:
> And who was Moody/Crouch? More or less Dumbledore's deputy, wasn't 
> he? I'd say it qualify him as a "host". And it was Hogwarts – the 
> school that hosted the event – that got extra champion because of 
> Crouch's actions. 

Geoff:
The REAL Moody would probably have been in that position had he been 
there but you cannot blame Dumbledore and the school for Harry's name 
being in the Goblet. Crouch!Moody was working to his own agenda which 
was totally different from anything Dumbledore intended.

If your suggestion above is taken seriously, then you are implying that 
Dumbledore clearly knew that he was an impostor and yet was allowing him
to set up Voldemort's plan.