Dumbledore WAS: Re: Love and Joy vs. Hate and Despair

[willsonteam]

No: HPFGUIDX 190905


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> Alla:
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> Ah, but thats the whole point though, isn't it? Yes, nobody knows that Fake Moody put Harry's name in there, but doesn't it make the "magical contract" invalid by definition since one party did not *enter* into it?
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> No, of course there is no canon that Dumbledore could have gotten Harry out, of course not. My point is that Dumbledore should have tried IMO. He at the very least suspects false play, or should suspect it, since Goblet spit out four champions instead of three and he just lets it be? Dumbledore breaks rules left and right when it suits him and here he does not even attempt to do so? 

Potioncat:
Excuse me for being blunt, but you are thinking like a Muggle.

Magical Contracts are not the same as Muggle contracts. We know for example, that House Elves must work for their Wizard families unless freed(sacked) by the gift of clothing. It doesn't matter that the "gift" was unintended or even that the wizard didn't know clothing was involved. Lucius Malfoy accidentally freed Dobby when Harry put his own sock in the diary. Very similar to what happened with the Goblet of Fire.