You've obviously never tried to drive a car through an obstacle course.


Or, more relevantly, evade a fucking dragon with a broom.

 

I was just saying it was not the most magical solution.

 

No, you very clearly stated that 'It doesn't require skill', which is factually incorrect.

I get your point but, weird as it sounds, Harry Potter has never really been about the magic.

 

I read those magical crystals in a fanfiction. That would have been a good solution because well I wouldn't have liked watching a lake for 1.5 hour.

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I apologies I meant to say magical skill. He indeed never really put much effort in the magic.

 

'Harry Potter' as in the series, not the character.

I find your statement particularly funny, considering 4th year is probably the time Harry invested the most in magical training and practice.

 

What about looking at it from a different angle? Instead of having air being the challenge, make it the goal.

Consider each champion placed in a shrinking bubble of air inside a voided room. The goal is to make it out of the room before the air supplied runs out. The catch is, the air supplied is miniscule enough that the champions would have to come up with a way to keep themselves breathing.

 

He did but he didn't use much magic in the first nor the second task. In the third he used some magic. But in the end in the whole series he doesn't show that much interest in learning magic.

 

How about something like this :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4HjmWLkq8 with obstacles ??

 

I think arkkitehti had quite a good idea. Relying on broom riding skills would give a big advantage to any participants, who are also quidditch players. Flying without brooms makes a task a real battle of wits. They would be forced to use advanced spells, rare artificats or complicated plans relying on getting thestral, hippogriff or similar creature and luring it into task area.

Climbing to the top of Astronomical Tower is also interesting idea for a task.

 

I like the idea of using a hippogriff or thestral for an air based course. Using creatures instead of brooms is something we see a handful of times in canon that could be explored further. Perhaps have a group of air based animals at the start of the task. Each one may have its advantages and disadvantages (the thestral has an exceptional sense of direction, but can you see it?) based on how much care of magical creatures knowledge each competitor has.

Putting a thestral on the main stage also opens up the chance to talk about what characters can see it and why.

Putting the competitors on animals in the air gives it that inherent life risking danger of "they could fall off and die at any time".

As far as the people in the stands - I always wondered about that in the books. They all sat around and stared at the lake for an hour? The concept of scrying is a common one in magical fantasy, and there should be enough muggleborns around who are acquainted with tv - there's a connection to be made here.

 

IMO Canon tasks lacked in the terms of showing Wizardry or Witch abilities.
First tasks all champions knew what is involved and just used few spells to get desired result.
Same with the second task, btw Harry solution was the worst, eat a herb and you get gills? why not actually make a potion. Put your magical skills into the test.
third task was better, Harry used several disciplines.
1) Divination to find north (point me spell)
2) Solving riddles (The Sphinx riddle)
3) Thinking under stress (The illusion)
4) DADA of CoMC (Dealing with the various creatures Hagrid provided for the Maze)
5) Magical battle if you meet any of the other champions.

If I have to create a Triwizard task, I will use what Taure pointed out about the themes of the tasks.
However I will also think what magical skills are required from the champions.
Because canon was quite disappointing.
Jbern in the Lie I Lived, took the original tasks and enhanced them to become far better adventure it might inspire you.
Especially check his Lake task, it involved several magical disciplines and be proficient using it, in order to succeed.

 

All that presumes that the point is to showcase academic magical ability, you know. That they have magic doesn't mean that literally everything they do must be concerned with magic.

 

It is a Triwizard tournament, they need to show their Wizardry or Witchcraft skills.
Clearly they need to show adaptation, creativity and other skills and maybe showing from what stuff they are build.
Canon just seems to me lacking in that aspect, especially all the fics that has Harry solving things using none magical methods.

 

It depend on how you define what a champion and winner of the TriWizard tournament.
After all not just any Wizard or Witch can be a champion, survive it and become the Winner.

In my eyes in comes down to how you use it.
Knowing advance spells or esoteric magical trivia won't cut it, it might help in a certain task, however Wizards and Witches are suppose to be Wise people at least by the word definition, so it come downs is how you use common stuff and turn them into legend, and that is were deduction skills, daring and ability to cope with danger enter into the equation.

 

A head to head simulated aerial battle with the combatants being on brooms. The champions will be the commander of the forces. Combatants will move similar to the pieces in wizard chess. If you have seen the movie Ender's game it will be similar to that in a way.