The TWT - a peculiar event

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 152072

 
> Geoff:
> > 
> On the question of the binding contract, we know little or nothing 
> of its raison d'être; this seems to be lost in the mediaeval mists 
> surrounding the first tournaments. However, we cannot just shrug 
> off the contract with a casual "Why didn't Dumbledore cancel it?" 
> We know of the existence of vows which cannot be reversed or 
> cancelled – the Unbreakable Vow for example - so it is possible 
that, 
> for some reason, the tournament is covered by something similar.
> 
a_svirn:
Well, I don't suppose that folks in the WW going about making 
unbreakable vows every day, don't you? You'd need a *very* good 
reason to make one. Not for nothing we've been spending months after 
months in order to puzzle out what Snape's reason might have been. 
And I simply don't see why the organisers of the TWT saw fit to 
subject champions to that shabby trick. Just because there was a 
precedent in the thirteenth century? Rather insufficient grounds, 
I'd say. 

If tournament is "covered by something similar" to UV, then they 
probably shouldn't have revived it, should they? It had been in 
abeyance for centuries and good riddance! There was no need to go to 
such length in order to foster international friendships. A few 
friendly Quiddtich matches would have done the trick just fine. 
Of course Rowling would have had to think of some other plot 
device...