Sportsmanship/legitimacy

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 151982

> > >>Alla:
> > Well, they DID care about getting points in the game, didn't
they?
> > Cedric is a great kid. great kids make mistakes too.
> > <snip>
>
> Betsy Hp:
> I'm not sure a boy whose willing to let other people die just so
he
> can win a game can be described as a "great kid".  Sounds like a
> raging psycopath to me.  Cedric is seventeen years old, I
believe.
> He's old enough to be considered intelligent and responsible, I
> think.  If he thought the other hostages would die if they weren't
> saved by their champions than he willfully decided that their
deaths
> were okay as long as he got some glory.  Does that honestly fit in
> with the Cedric Diggory of canon?

Alla:

No, Cedric you described of course does not fit with Cedric of
canon. Cedric who may have known that hostages were not in danger or
Cedric who did not KNOW that Fleur was out of competition and that
is why he did not think of saving Gabrielle does to me fit with
canon Cedric. See quote I brought in my previous post. Cedric says
to Harry that Fleur and Krum are coming.


Betsy Hp:
> Fleur and Harry were both equally panicked about this task.  Both
> Cedric and Krum were calm.  The judges decided (for whatever
reason)
> that panic is better, has more moral fiber, than calm.  Which,
> actually fits in with how the WW does things.  But it don't
impress
> me much.

Alla:

I am afraid I honestly don't follow your line of reasoning here.
Judges decided that panic was better than calm? How does that
describe what happened at all? You mean that panicking champions
won? Well, Fleur took the last place. Cedric in the quote I brought
was panick stricken too. So, out of three panicking champions extra
points were awarded to the one who everything being equal, saved the
extra hostage.

I thought judges decided that the champion who saves the extra
person is better than those who don't because of showing his
character, which if I may say again at the risk of being a parrot
for all we know IS a part of evaluation.


> Magpie:
<SNIP>
There's no 
> reason this question of people dying ever had to have entered 
anyone's mind.
> 

Alla:

Yes, it was. It certainly looked to me as it entered Fleur's mind. 
See the quote of her reaction I brought upthread.


JMO,

Alla