Originally Posted by Eli Jarod

Eli approached the cup, standing just back from the age line. Thinking, and listening to the gossip of the other students. Growing beards, even death was considered. But they were right- no way would Tate kill a kid for putting their name in, right? He thought some more, then began speaking to anyone-who-was-listening:

"I was reading about age lines. It says if you cross the age line when you aren't of-age, the charm goes into effect. And the Goblet requires your parchment to be dropped directly from a hand, so simply levitating it won't work. But I wonder. D'you think putting it into the hands of another would do the job? I mean, like if I gave my parchment to an older student... or..."

He took a small mouse out of his pocket. "What if I gave a parchment to this little guy and levitated him up into the goblet? Do you think that would work? I think it would deflect the effects of the age charm onto him, as he's obviously not of-age. But the parchment would make it in." He glanced around at the older students. "Do you think that would work?"

Originally Posted by Ashwinder

"That settles it," Kellen faux-scoffed at Sabel's words, "if they ever want the Goblet re-designed, I'll be sure to put my name in for the design team. For the sake of all future Sabels."

He turned at Sabel's call and grinned at Raiden. Another of his friends was putting their name in! Suddenly he was conflicted, and he tapped a finger off his chin as he considered his options, "Well now I'm not sure what to do... maybe you two could decide on a common pompom colour." Because he didn't think it would be possible for him to shake four at the same time.

"Just because our train didn't crash on the way here, doesn't mean it couldn't have," Kellen returned cheerfully to Arya. Though really, he was pretty sure the Hogwarts Express had about a billion charms on it to prevent such a thing.



Interesting theory. Kellen considered it before answering, "I don't think so. The Goblet probably has some modified charms on it to ensure that the name on the parchment came from that same person's hand. Even if it did select your name, it might magically bind the mouse into the contract of champions, and not you."

As far as the levitation went, Kellen had a theory about that too, "It might, that's true, but it's also possible that the Age Line will pick up on the levitation charm and backfire the effects of crossing it onto the caster of the spell."

Maybe he was over-analyzing it, maybe not.

Originally Posted by Lockhartian

Sigh. Perhaps Arya was right and no one will be trying that.

They'll never know.

Unless...his eyes went over to a girl who spoke about Harry Potter's times. True, that had happened.

On the other hand, Treyen eyed the Ravenclaw boy while he spoke of Cedric, "He was still competing in the Tournament" whether if was Voldemort who killed, that was another thing, but he was still competing.

But, ooooh, lookit! It was the dog!boy, and the dog!boy was also thinking of entering his name? Was the Head Boy thinking that Arya was the Goblet of Fire? Because the Goblet was the other way around, and his eyes seemed rather lost in thought. Maybe he got confused, the dog!boy.

Ack! Treyen didn't enjoy being reminded of that class. Pixie!Diggy was mean. And still owed him a butterbeer.

Introductions! The little Huffie boy had his eyes on the Gryffindor one as he introduced them all. Ahhhh, so the dog!boy was named Raiden...oh, well, that explains it, Professor Kingsley had called him by his name in that class, and Treyen thought he only meant the boy was a Raider.

"I already know Arya" he said, almost at the same time as Arya told Sabel that she knew him. Haha. Funny.

And then Raiden placed his name between the blue flames of doom.

Awesomeness!

And he agreed with Arya, "Whether we all know that death could be around somewhere..." he couldn't help to think of Durmstrang, "...the most important thing is that you do what feels right, whether for fun or knowledge..." or eternal glory, and a pretty shiny cup, yes, cups were shiny, "...and try to think of the best possible way to gain life experience from the challenges" he said, with a smile, to both the boys who'd put their names in the Goblet, "And possibly win, because we all want Hogwarts to win" yeah, he wasn't entering, so all he wanted was that, seeing Hogwarts win, no?

Originally Posted by Eli Jarod

"I think we should try it. Strictly for the sake of academics, of course." Eli said with a sly grin. "We should use three underaged students, one should get an of-age student to put his name in, one should try to levitate the name in and one should try to use good ol' Puck here." He held up the little white mouse, who blinked at them nervously with its black oilspot eyes. "Come now, who is in this with me? It's educational!"