Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 2767724" data-attributes="member: 31216">I've read the first book, but not the rest. So my point of view is from just the movies.I was able to get past the danger of the Quidditch game, but with this latest movie, I'm having a hard time overlooking the terrible, deadly danger the wizard-world/school puts their young folks through. I mean, they put 17-year-old kids up against fire-breathing dragons, as a spectator sport. They kidnap fellow kids to use as bait for the champions to wrest free from the merfolk in the Black Lake. Then they send the kids into a dark and dangerous maze to battle it out in a final contest. And they force Harry, a 14-year-old child, to go through all this gladiatorial challenge even though they've specifically ruled against under 17s -- that very year!.And according to the movie, this is all acknowledged as very dangerous -- like what would have happened to the little girl under the lake if Harry had not rescued her? The French girl seemed very concerned that she would have been lost.Good god! Do the books explain this extremely dangerous stuff better than the movies do? Do the books give any explanations that perhaps these "games" are not as dangerous as they seem in the movie(s)?Bullgrit</blockquote>