Sportsmanship/legitimacy

[Joe Goodwin]

No: HPFGUIDX 151972


a_svirn:
They didn't HAVE TO save other hostages. What's wrong with Cedric's 
and Krum's character? Are you saying that they deliberately 
abandoned other hostages to the certain death?  
   
  Joe:
  They either knew that the other hostages weren't in danger or they didn't care. If they knew then they had outside knowledge. They could have also just not given any thought to the other hostages. I think the latter is the case.
  
a_svirn:
And they certainly *were* punished. For one thing this is the nature 
of contest: when your rival gains you loose. Since Harry should have 
been on the third place, and was promoted to the first, Cedric and 
Krum were correspondingly demoted – Cedric should have had 
unchallenged advantage and had to share with Harry instead, and Krum 
had two people ahead of him instead of one. For what crime?

For another thing, crediting Harry with points for fiber casts 
aspirations on Krum's and Cedric's fiber. They did exactly what they 
should have done and got ugly slurs cast on their character for 
their pains. Even you seem to doubt them. 

Joe:
  The fact that Harry did something extraordinary and was rewarded for it does not cast slurs on any of the others. It merely shows that he went into the task with a different mind set, one that should be rewarded IMO.

A teenaged boy put aside competion and glory to help someone he had never met and we are discussing if he has been given an unfair advantage. Setting aside that we have no idea what if any the rules were we do know that the judges have a great deal of latitude in scoring the events. Krum's head master gives Harry a score in the egg stealing event that is very out of line with the other judges. 
   
  Joe