I'm not, like, a better writer than women generally, I'm not even a better writer than the women I follow on Twitter But most everyone I follow on Twitter is more thoughtful and a better communicator than Rowling
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As in, the big exciting upset of Gryffindor taking the House Cup back from Slytherin had already been done and couldn't really be repeated so she felt the need to escalate it somehow and tie it into the Voldemort plot
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Like, it actively DOES NOT MAKE SENSE that something like the Triwizard Tournament would just let them give Hogwarts two champions and double the chance of winning on a technicality It's EXTREMELY awkward
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I really don't agree with any of this. It's a running theme throughout the books that as the characters get older, they keep revisiting touchstones of the earlier books and seeing them with more mature eyes. The House Cup/Triwizard Tournament parallel is one example of this.
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But you see it, also, in the way that the later books mirror the earlier ones. The childish obstacle course in Philosopher's Stone vs. the more dangerous scavenger hunt in Deathly Hallows. The two diaries in Chamber of Secrets and Half-Blood Prince.
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