Tuesday, 30 December 2025

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter Book #4)

  1.  The first book in the series to kind of get a bit dark.
  2. How did Fred and George know that Ireland would win and Krum would catch the snitch?!
  3. How did Bulgaria make it this far - presumably they made sure they were within 150 points of the other team before catching the snitch - which is an interesting strategy.
  4. Interesting concept to introduce wizards from different countries and schools of different lands 
  5. Winky conjuring the Dark mark with Harry's wand..?
  6. Percy taken aback by Hermione scolding him re Winky the elf because she gets on well with him,  relatively speaking 
  7. If George and I died, how did you feel knowing that the last thing we ever heard from you was an unfounded accusation?
  8. Why is everything I own rubbish
  9. Moody's mad electric blue eye 
  10. Hermione muttering about slave labour
  11. The Weasleys trying to enter the competition underaged
  12. Hermione eating in a hurry to go to library
  13. "There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting in front of me."
  14. Hedwig's nips of affection and pride at not wanting to be replaces
  15. Fearing Snape would poison them so they worked harder at antidotes!
  16. Brilliant plot device of being entered into a dangerous competition - someone mysterious rigging the rules
  17. Gryffindor celebrations!
  18. Great plot device of no one believing Harry didn't put his name in including Ron - and the concept of the undeserving hero
  19. Hermione his good mate, the voice of reason and the true friend 
  20. Angry jealous Hedwig again to make things worse πŸ˜‚
  21. Great exploration of school dynamics re other houses hating Gryffindor 
  22. The next few days were some of Harry's worst at Hogwarts.. was Rowling saying this as at that moment or was she making that statement as a foretelling for the series as a whole
  23. Since when have you been a top student..or is this a school you and Longbottom have set up? πŸ˜‚
  24. "Harry liked Hermione very much but she just wasn't the same as Ron"
  25. Moody: "Nice Cloak, Potter"
  26. Harry's rather face a Dragon at Hogwarts than go back to Privet Drive
  27. "That was a very decent thing you just did, Potter" Moody said quietly re tipping Cedric off
  28. Play to your strengths, a spell to get what you need
  29. You're the underdog here Harry..nobody would know
  30. Fear left him as soon as he sat on the Firebolt
  31. Our youngest champion is quickest to get his egg! We'll this is going to shorten the odds on Mr Potter! - Bagman
  32. Extravagant praise from McGonagall 
  33. Fingernail marks on Hermione from nerves
  34. Ron finally coming aroundπŸ™‚
  35. They grinned at each other and Hermione burst into tears and gave both a hug πŸ˜‚ "you two are so stupid!"
  36. Biased judges
  37. Harry's surprise party - courtesy of Fred and George nicking enough food from the kitchens
  38. Fred asking Angelina to the ball on the spot
  39. Hermione calling out Ron for looking for the best looking girl even if she's horrible 
  40. "That shut Harry and Ron up" - just ban turned down by girls they asked to the ball
  41. "Oh did I?" ..Hermione's eyes flashed dangerously
  42. Ginny going with Neville
  43. Krum was accompanied by a pretty girl in :4blue robes Harry says he didn't know πŸ˜‚
  44. Harry looked away from Diggory and Cho so he wouldn't have to talk to them
  45. Her my oh nee
  46. Krum mustering the courage to talk to "Hermy-on" πŸ˜‚
  47. "Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, not as a last resort!"
  48. Ron: I hate being poor πŸ˜” 
  49. Abruptly asks about the leprechaun gold vanishing and why didn't Harry tell him!
  50. Researching about magical eavesdropping to get back at Rita Skeeter
  51. Mrs Weasley gave Hermione a tiny egg and Harry and Ron Dragon eggs - "Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg"
  52. Flour beamed at Harry
  53. "You fly very well. I vos watching at the first task" 
  54. Dumbledore knew Harry wanted to write to Sirius
  55. "You're another one who might think about a career as an Auror. Mind works the right way, Granger"
  56. Sirius' warning letter to Harry
  57. Harry can't be killed yet in the item until after the final task for Voldemort's return...
  58. Practising stunning hexes and impediment jinx
  59. Potter wants a word with you Dumbledore
  60. "Dumbledore come!" said Crouch angrily (this is clearly a typo on page 503)
  61. Ludo Bagman passing info on to Rookwood, a death eater
  62. Barry Crouch Jr used the Cruciatus curse on Longbottom's dad and mum
  63. "We alone were faithful! We alone tried to find him!"
  64. The pensieve
  65. "Quite understandable" - Dumbledore I'm Harry falling asleep in Divination class
  66. How could [Voldemort] have held a wand?
  67. Dumbledore connecting the dots on the disappearances
  68. Mrs Weasley and Bill - Harry's visiting family - Harry had such a good time
  69. Mrs Weasley, you didn't believe that rubbish in Witch Weekly did you?
  70. Amos Diggory upset at Harry 
  71. Cedric dies in part because of his nobleness but also because Harry insists on being a joint winner with him
  72. Voldemort has a Muggle dad who left his wife before V was born - Harry had a Muggle mum.
  73. Followers abandoned him for 13 years but Wormtail paid some of the debt back
  74. Dementors, Lestranges and Giants are V's allies 
  75. Voldemort could not touch Harry because of his mother's love but he can now
  76. He was so weak and waiting for one of his followers to return to restore his body
  77. Quirrell was easy to bend to V's will 
  78. Rats told Wormtail there was an Albanian forest where a dark shadow was possessing them
  79. Wormtail made a body for Voldemort using Nagini's poison and unicorn blood
  80. Dumbledore's ancient magic in the care of Harry's relatives
  81. Nice how Rowling keeps the identity of the loyal Death Eater at Hogwarts mum
  82. Death eaters stop laughing when Harry resists the Imperius curse
  83. Cedric Diggory reappears 
  84. "Your mother's coming.. she wants to see you..it will be all right..hold on.."
  85. Mad eye takes Harry back!! The ultimate twist - suspiciously says "How did he treat them? Did he forgive them"
  86. The clue: he told Harry he hated Death Eaters who walked free
  87. Harry understood for the first time why Dumbledore was the only wizard feared by Voldemort 
  88. The moment he took you I knew - and I followed - Dumbledore 
  89. Typo page 594 - said Moody not Crouch
  90. Sirius exclaimed and Dumbledore stood up so quickly that Harry started - when Harry said Wormtail pierced his arm
  91. Cornelius Fudge - great plot device for the disbelief that Voldemort is back
  92. "You fail to recognise that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!"
  93. "If you are against him, then we remain, Cornelius, on the same side"
  94. Mr Weasley's fondness for muggles set him back in his work
  95. Dumbledore a great leader and taskmaster
  96. Sirius freaks Mrs Weasley out 
  97. Fudge's attitude changes everything
  98. "He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother"
  99. Diggorys did not blame him for what happened
  100. S'long as we've got him, I'm not too worried
  101. "Yeh did as much as yer father would've done, an' I can' give yeh no higher praise than that."
  102. And why.. why..was Dumbledore so convinced that Snape was truly on their side?
  103. P626: "it is my belief, however, that the truth is preferable to lies, and that any attempt to pretend that Cedric died as the result of an accident, or some blunder of his own, is an insult to his memory. "
  104. We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. 
  105. Remember Cedric Diggory.
  106. Harry's gift to Fred and George.
  107. Initial thought is it probably sits just behind Azkaban because "you can't beat time travel" - but I love the concept of a traitor lurking in the midst of a tournament. This book has serious Mafia vibes and I actually think I like this slightly better than Azkaban. Snape's loyalty being explored and developed adds to this.
  108. 4.85/5

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