[HPforGrownups] Re: Beedle the Bard SPOILERS\Animagi commentary

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 185199

> Potioncat:
> In the second event, the contestants were under water and out of sight.
> In the third event, the contestants were in the maze and out of sight.
> None of the spectators or judges had any idea what was going on until
> the young wizards came out of the water/maze.
>
> The question is what were the specators doing all that time? Maybe it
> was just a big party waiting to see the results. But they had nothing
> to watch during the contest.

The water task was what- one hour? And you knew that contestants could 
arrive before that hour was up. Not really much time to wait, with everyone 
talking about who would come up first, taking up bets with the Weasley twins 
(laying down their coin, or um, galleons), and predicting what horrors could 
lie below those murky waters. People had seen Victor diving in the lake to 
practice, and I bet someone knew what the egg had told the contestants. 
Surely someone noticed the missing "friends" that were down below to be 
rescued. I bet that task went fast.

And the maze- you saw sparks rise up in the air from Fleur, bushes move, 
flames lighting up spots in the maze, and such, and again, I bet the 
audience would be taking bets and predicting what was inside the maze. 
Someone had to know something about a Blast-Ended Screwt, or heard rumors of 
another monster secured for the task. I don't think it would be very boring 
at all. I bet the audience was such a sea of excitement that hardly anyone 
felt any boredom.

Shelley