Triwizard Tournament

The Triwizard Tournament is a fictional tournament featured in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It was established in the late thirteenth and continued to the early fourteenth century as a friendly competition between the three most prestigious magical schools in Europe, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland, Beauxbatons Academy of Magic in France, and Durmstrang Institute in (presumably) eastern Europe (more likely Bulgaria as its champion was in the Bulgarian Quidditch Team - Seeker). Its function was raising ties between the students. However, after the death toll mounted, the tournament was ended.

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Fiction - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Thirteenth - Fourteenth century - Magical - Europe - Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Scotland - Beauxbatons Academy of Magic - France - Durmstrang Institute - Eastern Europe

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The Department of International Cooperation and the Department of Magical Games and Sports of Great Britain's Ministry of Magic re-established the tournament in 1994, this time with special precautions to avoid loss of life. The prize was a thousand Galleons.

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Great Britain - Ministry of Magic - 1994 - Galleons

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The tournament was held in Hogwarts and consisted of three tasks taking place during the school year at intervals of several months. Each participating school would enter one contestant - called a champion - into the tournament. Entry was open to all students of at least 17 years of age and therefore legally considered adults in the wizarding world. Shortly after the other schools' representatives arrived in October, a powerful magical artifact known as the Goblet of Fire selected the champions, who were:

Related Topics:
Wizarding world - October - Goblet of Fire

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• Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons
• Viktor Krum from Durmstrang
• Cedric Diggory from Hogwarts
• Harry Potter, also of Hogwarts and underage, rather inexplicably at first.
 
Triwizard Tournament: Course of the 1994-1995 Tournament ►