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I am really interested in how this is all going to work back at Hogwarts. Harry has already been pushing the envelope in the past, but this was a public power display. Draco's out for a while, Hermione will be considered a murderess by significant portions of the school (and apparently she's now magically sworn to obey Harry?), Quirrel is doing... something... and all the schemers and plotters are scheming and plotting on overdrive. I think the money will really be the least of Harry's concerns before this tangle is unwoven. I sort of enjoy learning little bits about Eliezer in the author's notes. "Why yes, I do lead the same sort of life as fanfiction characters, thank you for noticing," made me laugh quietly to myself. This is doubtless because I am a gossip-monger and a hopless platonic voyeur of other peoples lives.
That's attempted murderess and Minion#1 in Harry's Dark Army.
Maybe Hermione needs to join Chaos Legion now. I don't see how she can be credible as a leader in opposition to Harry anymore, even in a game.
"I order you to do everything in your power to beat me. Including cheat."
He'll say that publicly, but how's anyone else supposed to believe he didn't give contradictory orders in private?
... He's The Boy-Who-Lived. EVERYONE knows everything he does is insane.
Also, he already has history giving multiple individuals exactly that order. And one of them made good with it (which is why Dragons also wear green goggles.)
I'm with you on that. Few will believe, and the doubt in Sunshine Army will be a liability.
At this point... who cares? Surely both Harry and Hermione have reached the stage where they realize that they have things more important than children's team sports to worry about! There's a world to win, their own security to protect and a government that... they may decide is a liability at some point in the future.
Not only is Sunshine's morale likely irreparably damaged, Dragon Army's general is rather unlikely to return to Hogwarts. The games are going to undergo some serious changes one way or another.
Perhaps they'll lose all three generals and each be led by a former Chaotic Lieutenant.
This sounds easier to write than another over-the-top battlefield miracle from HJPEV.
Unless EY adds it in, Harry forgot to snap his fingers.
But he threatened to, and that's almost as bad.
Snapping fingers means “I can do anything”. Saying “Boo” means “I scare Dementors”.
He doesn't need a miracle to scare dementors.
Sweet! That would have been much better than Boo!
Nah, snapping fingers doesn't possess meaning for the Wizengamot, that's what Harry is known for in Hogwarts. "Boo!" is better in the circumstances.
I think it's better to tie his miracles in Hogwarts to his miracles elsewhere. Consistent product branding.
Hogwarts news seems to hit the Quibbler. I think Magical Britain is aware of HJPEV's antics.
Snapping his fingers, though, could have been a bit beneath the dignity of the institution, or something.
Saying Boo shows more dignity than snapping your fingers? Our dignity meters are uncorrelated.
If a child says 'boo' that's just childish. But snapping fingers is rude where I come from. It says that whomever's attention you are trying to get by snapping your fingers is below you.
That would be everyone in the room.
And so it might be below the dignity of the Wizengamot.
To me the "boo" issue is somehow a way for Harry to remind everyone he's still a child, to both unsettle them a bit more and make them more prone to forgive his impertinence.
Or maybe it's not that calculated. After all, Harry is still a child, as smart and rationalist as he is, and it just pleased him to say "boo" and he didn't think much about that part, not sure.