Fics like there’s a flaming goblet loose in the castle, what crimes will it commit?

The Ministry of Magic had decided that if they were going to be putting on the tournament anyway, they may as well go all in and dig the damned cup out of the archives for a few days for the sake of tradition. However, there were a few fallacies to that logic which ultimately led to the events of Samhain, 1994. Number one: the Goblet was, by nature, bound to the terms of whatever contract was being created. No exceptions. Number two: magical objects with long-term enchantments only last if they are able to absorb ambient magic to feed off of in order to continue to function in perpetuity. Number three: the Goblet of Fire was a wily old bastard which tended to have a lot of fun with the given definitions of “worthy” and also obeyed clauses to the letter rather than the spirit of the original agreement. Number four: wixen are notoriously bad at writing contracts and should, as a general rule, leave that sort of thing to the goblins, who tend to be in possession of quite a bit more common sense. Bartemius Crouch Junior entered Harry Potter’s name, he did it while not knowing that one of the terms of the contract was that anyone chosen must be an adult. This had consequences.

Fics like there’s a flaming goblet loose in the castle, what crimes will it commit?

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