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but my point is that it's an awful lot of effort, "only a truly powerful spell could have confounded the goblet" and all that jazz. If moody was so skilled and voldemort was so clever they probably could have come up with another method. For all the things Moody did to help Harry, he still almost died a LOT of times. Every time that happened was a time Moody would have screwed up the whole master plan. Every second in the arena with the Horntail, in the lake when he gets caught with the grindylows etc.

But sorry to lurk my own question just to respond argumentatively. I see that's what you think of the book but I wasn't saying they didn't help Harry and they left it completely up to luck, I'm just saying that between the two of them they must have been an easier way that didn't have to involve the triwizard tournament at all. Yes it'd be a boring book that way lol, but my suspension of disbeleif really suffers through this book.

I can see what you mean, HOWEVER; keep in mind that it's not as though the dark lord planned the tournament itself, it needed to happen. So there's that. Voldemort had to work with what was going on at the time...and wasn't there higher security at the castle? Not to mention a lot more wizards competing in one place. Voldemort's timing had to deal with this, so he wanted to get Harry alone somehow. With the caution being increased (even from Harry's end) he had to figure out a way to force him to be alone.