Sportsmanship/legitimacy

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 151957

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:
>
> a_svirn:
 Magical contracts in effect make hostages out of champions, 
completely at the mercy of the hosts and the jury and pretty much 
everyone else. The question is therefore WHY did Dumbledore feel it 
necessary to introduce them?
> To include one rule that renders all the other rules defunct?


Tonks:
I am not a big sports fan in any world. Therefore, I haven't been 
following this discussion very closely, so forgive me if I am total 
off here.

I am not aware that it is DD who sets the rules for the Tri-wizard 
Tournament. I thought they were very old rules that can not be 
changed.  Rules that perhaps only a few totally understand. I wonder 
if part of the game isn't to figure out the rules as one goes. The 
Tri-wizard Tournament is like the Olympics. It is a very old game 
and has its own rules written long ago. Unlike the Olympics the 
rules are magical rules and enforcing on all that come after. They 
can not be changed or updated. 

It has been awile since I read GOF. How is DD involved in making any 
of the rules? 

Tonks_op
Who can't tell a Bludger from a pin-pong ball. (Ouch! Rubs head.)