Is this the real life...
So I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire last night. You will note that this movie does not open until tomorrow. But I digress. I decoded to see this mostly because of a comment of Brandon's that it "looks like the chuunin exam for wizards." That and the fact that cute little Hermione is growing up fast, and the girl playing Fleur is 22
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a) They could only get Harry away from Hogwarts by having him touch the TriWizard Cup? They couldn't turn anything else into a port key? It had to be the cup? There was no other way to remove him from the grounds other than a port key? It was worth all the incredible amount of trouble to 1) force the cup to have four contestents (something that is against the very nature of this magical object) 2) ensure that the cup picked Harry and 3) Rig every single contest in the cup to make sure Harry won? What if Krum or Whats-his-face (Neville I think) touched the cup first, and were transported instead? Would Voldemort just be like, "Oh, oh well. Forget it then."
I could understand using the Wizard Cup for cover, getting Harry away while everyone is distracted, but entering him into the cup, and then rigging it? Not worh the effort.
b) The first sentence is not supposed to be stupid or funny. I didn't say his being an orphen is stupid. Nor did I say that at any point Harry actually said (or thought) any of this. In point of fact, I didn't at any point suggest that I was talking specifically about Harry Potter, which I wasn't.
I simply said that this is just kind of a depressed orphan's sad fantasy. It starts out fine, wishing his absent parents were much better people than those he is forced to live with, but such isn't always the case. The stupidity (absurdity or comedy, if you will) is when he delves into wishing his parents not only left him a secret hord of gold, but that they were Wizards (a type of person, I'll remind you, that does not actually exist) and that he clearly must be a wizard too.
And now that I've typed all that I doubt that Tom will ever bother coming back to read it either...
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