Seeing Karkaroff give an eight, Harry said with some feeling, "He finally gave a high score! I thought he was going to give another four!"
Draco frowned, his tone full of disdain. "Four doubled into eight..."
"Look at his face... Karkaroff must feel very uncomfortable giving that score."
Harry very much agreed with Draco and nodded. "That's exactly it..."
After their earlier exchanges, Cedric, Draco, and Harry had already learned from the Champions of the other schools what scores they had received in the First Task.
When scoring the Champions from the other schools, most of the Referees, including Seraphina Piqueri, gave relatively fair marks;
As long as the task was completed, the score would fluctuate between seven and nine;
Even if the task was not completed, they would give five or six points;
There were also cases of bias. For example, Ilvermorny had failed the trial, yet Seraphina Piqueri still gave them a high score of nine;
In fact, when Madame Maxime and Kamba Headmaster scored the Champions from their own schools, they would also give high scores of nine;
As for that, Harry and the others could actually understand it. After all, they were Champions from their own schools, and having that little bit of selfishness was a perfectly normal thing.
Since there was "most Referees were relatively fair," then naturally there was also "the small minority of Referees who were not fair at all," meaning Karkaroff;
When scoring the Champions from the other schools, Karkaroff's standards were extremely harsh. For example, Uagadou, Beauxbatons, and Hogwarts, who had completed the trial, all received only four points from him;
The Ilvermorny Champions had failed to complete the trial, so Karkaroff naturally had to deduct points. As a result, the Ilvermorny Champions received an ultra-low two points from him;
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