Beedle the Bard SPOILERS\Animagi commentary

[JLyon]

No: HPFGUIDX 185191

I always considered Krum's transformation to be exactly what he was  
attempting. How could you rescue your hostage as a shark? All he  
needed was a way to breathe underwater and his transformation allowed  
that while maintaining hands and legs. The mistake so many made was  
NOT bringing a knife with them or using their wands to cut the ropes.
What I found so annoying, along with about a hundred other things in  
the series, was that Herms and Harry could find no record of the  
bubblehead charm in all their searching but a year later everyone in  
school knew it.
Personally, Harry's use of gillyweed was the only method that would  
keep someone from freezing to death after an hour in the loch in the  
middle of winter.
Also, has anyone figured out how the spectators whiled away their  
time during the second and third tasks? Very boring for the audience.

JLyon