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I imagine the crowd might feel a little cheated?
It seemed like a strange mechanism to be sure, but I doubt it would make a game less exciting to watch, knowing it could still get reversed at the last minute. keeps the losers still playing as hard as they can even at the end, just in case. keeps the crowd from getting up and leaving halfway through.
yeah, actually it seems like a great, if weird, idea - maybe not in terms of games theory, not that I know anything about game theory, but in terms of making sports a little more spectacular and profitable. isn't the Superbowl normally a pretty shitty game, precisely because it's a total mismatch and almost always very one sided? I might actually tune in for more than the halftime show if the 49ers might still lose even though it's 347 to 0.
Potter's a total underdog in the Muggle world, where he has no money, no friends, pretty much no anything. which makes him act like an underdog in the wizarding world most of the time, since he's not used to having any real power and doesn't really seem to know what to do with it, sometimes. Which is how it's possible for us to forget, sometimes, that he's actually got the best of everything.
Really, it's all like a lot of wish fulfillment, poor picked on kid gets everything he ever could have wanted. Right from the start - in fact, especially at the start, in muggle land, with talking snakes and flying motorcycles and Harry living under the stairs - it's been a sort of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake. Unfortunately, much of that weirdness sort of climaxes early in the first book and then turns into the school stuff, which was for me quite a letdown, though still fun enough for me to finish it up. |
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