Things You Probably Didn't Know About The Triwizard Tournament

Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory's names will forever go down in Triwizard Tournament history as they are the final champions ever for the competition. This is because the tournament was never conducted again following Cedric's death, making him and Harry permanently its final winners. Cedric's passing was proof for all three schools that the Triwizard Tournament wasn't a good idea, to begin with, and not worth losing lives over.

There have been at least 125 Triwizard Tournaments according to school record. While the figure could be more due to erroneous reporting of classical tournaments, the recorded count is in Hogwarts' favor, although Beaxbatons Academy is very close behind. In fact, the two schools were neck-and-neck until Harry and Cedric won, with Hogwarts inching ahead with 63 wins following 1994-95. Strangely enough, this implies that Durmstrang Institue never, not once, won any edition of the tournament as Beaxbatons won the remaining 62 editions.

It's been confusing for many fans as to how Harry's name had ever come out of the Goblet of Fire even with the explanation that Barty Crouch Jr. had used a Confundus Charm on it. The truth is that Harry's name was guaranteed to be selected as Crouch had actually fooled the Goblet into thinking that there were four schools competing in the tournament. This means that Harry's name was the only one from this bogus school and the Goblet inevitably selected him since he was the only applicant.

During the controversy of Harry's name being selected for the tournament, Ludo Bagman and Barty Crouch Sr. confirmed that Harry had no choice but to compete since the Goblet of Fire had been extinguished until the next tournament began. Since there was never any tournament following Harry's victory, the Goblet of Fire has no chance of ever coming back to life and is now extinguished forever, effectively making it useless.

It's been outright stated that the Galleon was worth much more in the 13th century, which was when a 150 Galleon prize translated to over a million Galleons by today's terms. Since the Triwizard Tournament began in the same century, and the prize money was set at 1000 Galleons, the winners would win almost 10 million Galleons by present value.

However, Harry's winnings were the same at 1000 Galleons in 1994-95, meaning the Triwizard Tournament didn't account for inflation, making Harry's winnings minuscule in comparison to winners centuries prior. This was proven when his winnings could only fund Fred and George's joke shop, whose investment was clearly far lower than millions of Galleons worth.

Cutting corners in the Triwizard Tournament were never grounds for dismissal, and cheating was actually a tradition. This makes sense too, seeing as partaking in the tournament was mandatory, meaning competitors couldn't get disqualified. With the threat of being booted from the competition gone, every school's champions were encouraged by their Headmasters to cheat to win, and this was shown several times in the 1994-95 edition.