12 Biggest Lies In Harry Potter We All Accept

Supposedly beloved amongst the wizarding community, The Triwizard Tournament sees a triumvirate of the world’s finest schools of witchcraft and wizardry select a champion apiece to represent their fine institution in a series of elaborate spectator tasks designed to test their brawn, brains, and cunning as well as reasoning.

So you already that the school with a Whomping Willow that beats students and no maths curriculum is hosting it, and it goes without saying that the first challenge is a fight with an actual fire breathing dragon capable of easily killing any of the literal children taking part.

Now, that may sound like something no school on earth would allow, but assuming there are no insurance companies in the wizarding world, it’s easy to see why the feats featured in this contest are so appealing to an audience. The next two challenges, for example, sees competitors race to—the bottom of a lake and the centre of a maze, meaning the viewers are presumably thrilled by… staring at a lake’s surface and a maze’s entrance for a couple of hours with no idea what’s going on inside either.

Captivating, and well worth risking life and limb for.