Second Task points

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 152082

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
> I could never figure out why the second task in book 4 was considered
> five times as important as the first, the most points you could get in
> the first task was 10, in the second it was 50. For that matter in
> Quidditch why do you get 10 point for scoring a goal and 150 for
> catching the snitch, why not 1 and 15?
> 
> Eggplant
>

Geoff:
It isn't considered five times as important. It's the same:

'"It's marks out of ten from each one," Ron said...
(GOF "The First Task" p.314 UK edition)

Harry, for example, scores:
Maxime-Crouch-Dumbledore-Bagman-Karkaroff = 8-9-9-10-4
hence a total of 40.

In the second task, we do not see the individual scoring; Bagman merely announced the 
aggregate figures.

With regard to Quidditch scores being odd,  have a look at tennis scores.....
:-)