November 3
I promise that I'm not trying to sign up. Participants have to be seventeen years old, and the next one won't be until I graduate.
No, I don't think you are omniscient. Beauxbatons is the French version of Hogwarts, and I'm not sure where Durmstrang is. Krum plays quidditch for Bulgaria, and the uniforms are obviously meant for cold weather. I'm going to have to look it up.
And maybe sports aren't so bad after all, if only to people watch. I wrote the day before yesterday about the other schools coming. That was cool, but this has great soap opera potential. Then at the introduction feast, the Headmaster introduced the goblet of fire, saying it was to be the impartial selector.
The Halloween feast was cool, though I'm getting tired of pumpkin. The school really goes all out for the holiday. I guess it's understandable; this is a school for witches and wizards!
The star attraction was the introduction of the Triwizard Tournament. The goblet spit out Viktor Krum as the Durmstrang champion. He's the professional quidditch player, and half the girls in Ravenclaw have a crush on him. I don't understand it. He's rather ugly. Then Fleur Delacour was chosen from Beauxbatons and Cedric Diggory from Hogwarts. Diggory is in Hufflepuff, but he's not bad. The girls who don't have a crush on Krum have one on him.
Then the goblet spit out another name—Harry Potter. He's a fourth year Gryffindor. I don't think I've mentioned him before. He got a spot in a couple of the books we got for research, and I think the Ministry orientation witch mentioned him. He's the Boy Who Lived, and is famous for defeating the Dark Lord. (I haven't been able to find out much about the dark lord, not even his name. I'll look into it and write more later.)
He also can't be older than thirteen or fourteen. The teachers were peeved. Apparently, no one underage was supposed to be able to put their names in the goblet, and several tried and failed. Everyone in Ravenclaw is trying to figure out how he did it.
Now Hogwarts has two champions to the other schools' one.
If the purpose of this thing was to create school unity, it failed. Hogwarts is split almost perfectly in half.
Predictably, Hufflepuff House is behind Cedric Diggory, and Gryffindor is behind Harry Potter. Most of Slytherin are rooting for Diggory, though I'm not sure if this is because they like him, or don't like Potter. The enmity between Slytherin and Gryffindor is legendary. Earlier I saw a group of them wearing badges that flash "Potter Stinks."
Ravenclaw is more complicated. Traditionally, we're closer to Gryffindor than to Hufflepuff, but a lot of the older students are jealous that Potter got picked. Ravenclaw will probably end up half for each.
This tournament might be interesting after all, if only for people watching.
-Liss