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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
So tell me, why do the other schools only have 8 students (or so) and how does coming in second get you tied for first? And why is Harry Potter such a waste of space?
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In the book, each school brings a full contingency of students. There were even boys that came with the girls from Beauxbaton. I think we're supposed to figure that they only brought the best of the best to compete in the tournament.
And the dragon challenge, there was no first place winner. They weren't competing against each other, I don't think. It wasn't a time challenge or anything, so the goal must have been just to finish the task. They didn't start ranking them until after the underwater challenge, and then Harry got bumped up due to his heroism (or whatever.) So maybe the dragon thing was scored somehow like the Olympics and then that evened the playing field or something. I'll have to check the book.
I felt it went really fast through a lot of stuff, and if you hadn't read the books you missed things. Like, if you didn't know Neville's last name, there was no way you would catch the part about his parents in the trial, and you wouldn't have the explanation as to why the cruciatus curse disturbed him so much.
I really liked it though! And I was glad that Daniel Radcliffe's acting was much improved this time out, not so much of the huffing and puffing and stammering.