Triwizard Tournament

The **Triwizard Tournament** is a magical contest held between the three largest wizarding schools of Europe: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Durmstrang Institute, and Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, each school being represented by one champion.

Selected champions compete in three tasks — traditionally judged by the Headmasters or Headmistresses of the competing schools — designed to test magical ability, intelligence, and courage. Champions compete for the honour and glory of winning the Tournament, for the Triwizard Cup, and a monetary prize. The first Tournament was held sometime around the late 13th century.

## Rules

Judges graded the champions' performance on each task. The Heads of the three participating schools were customarily judges. The selection of the champions from each participating school was done through a magical object called the Goblet of Fire. Each competing school was allowed one champion to represent them during the Tournament.

Each Tournament consisted of three tasks designed to test the champions' courage, intelligence, resourcefulness, and magical ability. These tasks were exceedingly dangerous and differ from year to year.

The Goblet was a large, roughly hewn wooden cup, brimming with dancing blue flames. Basically, anybody wishing to submit themselves as champion had to write their name and school upon a slip of parchment and drop it into the goblet. Aspiring champions had twenty-four hours in which to put their names forward*.* On Hallowe'en, the goblet returned the names of the three it had judged most worthy to represent their schools.

The Goblet was placed in the entrance hall the day the visiting schools arrived, where it would be freely accessible to all those who wished to compete. To ensure that no underage student submitted their name, an Age Line was drawn around the Goblet of Fire in 1994. This was apart of the new restrictions that were enacted to decrease the death toll. No one under the age of seventeen was able to cross the line.

Dumbledore also impressed upon those who wished to compete the seriousness of it, how it should not to be entered into lightly. Once a champion has been selected by the Goblet of Fire, he or she is obliged to see the tournament through to the end. The placing of a student's name into the goblet constituted a binding, magical contract. There could be no change of heart once a student was selected as a champion. After Cedric Diggory's death, the tournament was to be cancelled permanently. However, it was revived once more using new safety regulations in 2010.

## Customs

Champions were supposed to stand alone during the Tournament. They were suppose to receive no outside help from anyone, including friends and teachers. Cheating was frowned upon, though it had been known to take place several times during the history of the Tournament. Cheating was so common, some people believed it to have been a traditional part of the event.

The Yule Ball (held on Christmas Day night) was a traditional part of the Tournament. The Ball included a feast, and a formal dance where the champions and their partners led the host school in dancing. Students old enough to attend were allowed to bring a friend. Students that were too young to attend might attend if invited by a student old enough to attend the ball.

The 1994 Yule Ball was a festive, with music provided by the Weird Sisters. Students dressed in their best formal clothes. Males wore dress robes (which was probably why dress robes were on the 1994 supplies list) and females wore gowns or other formal attire. While students should have had partners for the ball, apparently not all do; Crabbe and Goyle did not seem to have partners.

The four Champions entered the hall last: Cedric Diggory with Cho Chang, Fleur Delacour with Roger Davies, Viktor Krum with Hermione Granger, and Harry Potter with Parvati Patil.

## Rankings

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## History

The Triwizard Tournament was established approximately seven-hundred years ago as a friendly competition between the wizarding schools the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, and the Durmstrang Institute. Held every five years, the competition would be hosted by each school in turn, the judges for the Tournament comprising the headmasters or headmistresses of the schools.

Due to the risks involved in overcoming the extremely dangerous tasks, and an increasing number of deaths, the Tournament was eventually discontinued at some point in or after the 1790s. Multiple attempts had been made to revive the Tournament, but none succeeded until the 1994–1995 school year, when it was held at Hogwarts Castle.

Despite a new set of rules imposed to prevent any more deaths, a champion nevertheless died at the end, though this only occurred due to the tournament being sabotaged. Due to this, the tournament had been permanently discontinued.

### 1792 Triwizard Tournament

The Triwizard Tournament was held in 1792, and one of the tasks involved catching a cockatrice. However, the beast went on a rampage and injured three of the judges, the Heads of Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. The event was recorded in the book *Hogwarts, A History*, indicating that the 1792 Tournament was possibly held at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Tournament was cancelled after this incident, but several unsuccessful attempts were made to resurrect it.

### 1994 Triwizard Tournament

A revival of the Tournament occurred in 1994. Barty Crouch Snr, Head of the Ministry of Magic's Department of International Magical Co-operation, in conjunction with Ludo Bagman, Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports, worked with their opposite numbers in other countries to revive the Tournament.

However, due to the dangerous nature of the Tournament, it was decided that some changes were to be made to the rules, with the main one being that no student under the age of seventeen was allowed to enter or compete (some students did try to).

The Tournament preparations were shrouded in secrecy, although Cornelius Fudge was obliged to inform the Muggle Prime Minister that the Ministry would be importing several dragons from Romania, as well as a sphinx from Egypt, for use in the competition.

### End of the Tournament

Returning to Hogwarts with Cedric's body, Harry was promptly whisked away from the crowds by Crouch Jnr, still in the disguise of Professor Moody. As the assembled crowd learned that Cedric was dead, Dumbledore realised that something was amiss with Moody, since the real Moody would never have taken Harry away from the tragic scene.

In Moody's office, Crouch Jnr started to question Harry about what had happened, and how it felt to stand in the Dark Lord's presence. Harry, unnerved by Moody's seeming adoration of Voldemort — something that went against everything he knew about Moody — was shortly rescued by Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape. Soon the effects of Crouch Jnr's Polyjuice Potion wore off, since, in the excitement, he had neglected to take it at the proper time to maintain his cover, and his duplicity was revealed. Under the effects of Veritaserum provided by Professor Snape, Crouch described Lord Voldemort's plan to resurrect himself and Crouch Jnr's own involvement in getting Harry to the graveyard.

Dumbledore passed the information of Lord Voldemort's return to Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge, who had been acting as a judge for the Third Task. Because he had been reading Rita Skeeter's slanderous reports, Fudge insisted that he could not be back. Meanwhile, the minister had a Dementor Kiss Crouch Jnr, effectively eliminating any corroborating testimony of the Dark Lord's return. In the face of the Ministry's refusal to accept the truth, Dumbledore reconstituted the Order of the Phoenix to stand against Voldemort.

Despite Cedric's death, Harry was recorded as the official winner of the Tournament and given the thousand Galleons prize money; there was originally supposed to be an award ceremony, which was cancelled due to the circumstances. He attempted to give it to Cedric's parents, but they refused it. In the end, he gave the money to Fred and George Weasley, who used it to establish Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.

Right after Harry's victory, two judges of the Tournament fled far away immediately. Karkaroff felt Voldemort's return and summoning all Death Eaters, and being one who sold out many of his comrades, he abandoned the tournament's results for the sake of his life. Bagman made a bet against his goblin creditors that Harry would win the tournament, but they accounted that Harry and Cedric won together. Therefore not what Bagman wagered on, Ludo fled to avoid paying a highly increased debt that he could not afford to.

Because of the Ministry's denials that Lord Voldemort had returned, Cedric's death was labelled a tragic accident. The true cause would not be made public until a year later when Fudge saw Voldemort with his own eyes. As a result of Cedric's death, the Triwizard Tournament was permanently discontinued, and no further plans were made to reinstate it, despite the new safety regulations imposed.

### 2020 Triwizard Tournament

Following the new revival of the Tournament in 2010. Due to the dangerous nature of the Tournament, it was decided that some changes were to be made to the rules, with the main one being that no student under the age of seventeen was allowed to enter or compete and that there would be highly trained safety keepers during every challenge to ensure the health and safety of the champions. There were also numerous other new safety regulations put in place. It was hosted at Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and the winner of the tournament was Alexandre Durand.