History Headscratchers / HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire

** Veritaserum not only would tell them what would happen in the graveyard but could possibly tell you who stole the boomslang skin in Harry's 2nd year, the elf responsible with the Rogue bludger in the same year. The fact Harry was in contact with Sirus..a lot of stuff he doesn't want to be found out.

** What's more egregious is that Dumbledore at this point wields immense political influence as both Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. Yet as far we can tell, there is no attempt ever to have Harry testify to Voldemort's return in front of the Wizengamot, or to Amelia Bones, head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, or really, well... ''anything'' that could circumvent Fudge. Despite their ability to prove that Harry speaks the truth several ways. That just is a pretty huge plot convenience.

** For the memories and veritaserum, the books tend to prove that these can be tainted by [=PoV=]; i.e. can be altered by the enforced belief of the person to whom the memories belong. Crouch Jr. editorializes when speaking under Veritaserum, and Slughorn showed that Pensieve memories can be tampered with. As Fudge spends the next book making Harry out to be borderline insane, this would be a plausible excuse to ignore Harry's testimony.

* Similair to the previous book, is there anyone else who have the feeling that a perfectly good way to resolve the matters was quietly omitted in the end? "Omigod, the evil Minister's just fed the very important witness to a Dementor, and now we have no way to prove the truth!" Yet the confession of said witness is recorded in the memories of four people along with, in one case, the very events in question. Make a quick dash for the Pensieve, and suddenly Fudge is faced not with an unsubstantiated allegation, but with a solid (well, ethereal) proof that is far harder to reject without looking like a coward.

** The stay as a ghost might be permanent. He might only get on chance to move on upon death and avoiding it then would be mean being stuck as a ghost forever. Note how Nearly Headless Nick regrets staying a ghost and yet hasn't moved on to the afterlife, implying he ''can't'' now.

*** Even in real life CPR does not revive people, you're thinking in what you see in movies, which is unrealistic. In real life CPR is done in order for the heart to keep beating artificially and the brain keep receiving oxygen thus avoiding brain damage until higher medical treatment is applied. If the person survives long enough until medical care is giving by paramedics then probably would expend at least two weeks in bed, if not more (as other organs like the liver may have suffer damage do to lack of blood flow). So even if CPR exist in the magical world it can't be apply to a person whose heart is already paralyzed.

** Isn't Fleur's sister about 8?. So unless Fleur's school started REALLY Young (which is doubtful) , what in the world was an EXTREMELY under-age witch doing at Hogwarts?

** To remember correctly, her sister was actually like, 11 Harry just thought she was 8 because she looked so young.

*** Because the people making the movie couldn't be bothered with details like that. It's the same as the other example posted on this page about expelliarmus physically incapacitating Krum but failing to disarm him, the people making the movie just didn't care about getting details like that right.

** WordOfGod states that Durmstrang is in northern Scandinavia, specifically Sweden or Norway. During the Yule ball Krum gives several clues about where Durmstrang is located, which are apparently telling enough for Karkaroff to interrupt him before he had given away the school's location. First, Durmstrang has apparently very short days in winter, implying that it's even farther north than Scotland, though there seem to be some daylight in winter, so it's south of the polar circle. These facts together limit it to Scandinavia, Iceland and northern European Russia (it's stated earlier in the book that Durmstrang is an European school). The second clue is that there are lots of mountains and lakes around the school. Mountains are not that common in this part of Europe, so this narrows it down to Iceland, Norway, western Sweden and the Ural mountains. Iceland and Norway do not really seem to fit with other descriptions of Durmstrang. It's not really that cold there and it's also not really that far away from Scotland. The mountains of western Sweden are more appropriate regarding the cold weather, though they're not that far away, either. The Ural mountains on the other hand are very far away, very cold and this fits better the Russian influence in Durmstrang (if nothing else, the headmaster has an obvious Russian name). In the region, there is also a series of large lakes, which coincides with Viktor stating there are two large lakes near Durmstrang.

** Well there's the thought it was Russia since 1)fur cloaks 2) doesn't someone say they (Durmstrang) only use fire for their Poitions class? and 3)didn't Hermione say that the water is much colder near Durmstrang, so that the water the Giant Squid is warm? (it was probably January when Victor Krum did that)

** Drumstrang is not a german word or name nor does it sound really german to somebody who knows the language (well you could make a {{Spoonerism}} for Sturm und Drang (a period of german literature) of it). If they didn't say it was to the north, it seems a reasonable guess that it's located in a country which was part of the austro-hungarian empire. There have always been relations to russia in the past (pan slawism), so it would make sense that russians as well as eastern europeans attend it.

** That doesn't really count in the Potter series because like Hermione said "The ministry was interfering ar Hogwarts" since the Ministry didn't want Harry or Dumbledore to try to persuade people that Voldemort was back. Also that Fudge was afraid that Albus was going to try to usurp the Minister postion.

** Maybe Hogwarts has some sort of financial aid system and Gringott's offers student loans. There's the inclination to think Hogwarts receives some government support, or else why would the Ministry be able to appoint teachers and otherwise meddle in school affairs?

** Why is everyone assuming that DD did that? The Triwizard is ''old''. If the Cup can bypass the wards, or was let into the wards deliberately, that probably happened centuries ago, especially if the traditional last task is 'put everyone in one place, winner is the one who grabbed the cup first'. In fact, someone grabbing the cup after the task start might signify the 'legal' end to the magically binding contract everyone is in. And each Triwizard someone is supposed to program a logical destination into the cup for the winner. (This would obviously change from year to year...you wouldn't want the winner of a Triwizard to appear at the Quidditch stands if the last task was a three-way duel in the Great Hall, or whatever.) Fake Moody did just one of two things:
** Cast a portkey in front of the existing one, somehow. So the 'victory' portkey didn't trigger until the second touch. In this hypothetical, the Triwizard wasn't over until the ''second'' time Harry touched it, making Harry alone the actual winner. This requires the 'Hogwart ward override' to be part of the Cup, instead of part of the 'winner Portkey spell', which makes the cup a rather large security risk. If any Portkey cast on the thing can avoid the wards it raise the question of why Fake Moody didn't just hunt Harry down and throw the cup at him at the start of the year.

** Why is everyone assuming that DD did that? The Triwizard is ''old''. If the Cup can bypass the wards, or was let into the wards deliberately, that probably happened centuries ago, especially if the traditional last task is 'put everyone in one place, winner is the one who grab the cup first'. In fact, someone grabbing the cup after the task start might signify the 'legal' end to the magically binding contract everyone is in. And each Triwizard someone is supposed to program a logical destination into the cup for the winner. (This would obviously change from year to year...you wouldn't want the winner of a Triwizard to appear at the Quidditch stands if the last task was a three-way duel in the Great Hall, or whatever.) Fake Moody did just one of two things: