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|    Timothy Bruening to Benjamin Esham    |
|    Re: Goblet of Fire: Harry Potter's entry    |
|    02 Aug 20 02:49:18    |
      From: tsbrueni@gmail.com              On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 12:09:27 PM UTC-7, Benjamin Esham wrote:       > Timothy Bruening wrote:       >        > > The Goblet of Fire choses Harry Potter at the 4th Champion, but Harry       > > denies either putting his name in the Goblet or getting an older       > > student to enter his name for him. Why doesn't anyone suggest       > > comparing the name on the entry form to Harry's handwriting?       >        > I think it would have been incriminating if the paper had had Harry’s       > handwriting on it, but it wouldn’t have proved his innocence if the writing       > *hadn’t* been his. If he was willing to have another student drop his name       > into the Goblet then it stands to reason that he wouldn’t have minded       > getting another student--that same older student or a third one--to write       > his name on the paper.       >        > Was it ever mentioned whether a Quick-Quotes Quill uses the handwriting of       > its user or whether it has a script of its own? In the latter case--and       > assuming there’s a non-Quick-Quotes version that just transcribes things       > straight--then that would be another option for wizards who want to write       > anonymously.       >        > (On this topic, I’ve always thought it was odd that the book never       mentioned       > the name of the fake school for which Crouch Jr. submitted Harry as a       > champion. Like, there was something written on that paper other than “Harry       > Potter,” and we were just never told what it was? Rowling could have at       > least put in a Latin pun or some kind of red herring.)              If there had been a 4th school on that paper, wouldn't Dumbledore have noticed       it and called it out?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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