- The first book in the series to kind of get a bit dark.
- How did Fred and George know that Ireland would win and Krum would catch the snitch?!
- 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.
- Interesting concept to introduce wizards from different countries and schools of different lands
- Winky conjuring the Dark mark with Harry's wand..?
- Percy taken aback by Hermione scolding him re Winky the elf because she gets on well with him, relatively speaking
- If George and I died, how did you feel knowing that the last thing we ever heard from you was an unfounded accusation?
- Why is everything I own rubbish
- Moody's mad electric blue eye
- Hermione muttering about slave labour
- The Weasleys trying to enter the competition underaged
- Hermione eating in a hurry to go to library
- "There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting in front of me."
- Hedwig's nips of affection and pride at not wanting to be replaces
- Fearing Snape would poison them so they worked harder at antidotes!
- Brilliant plot device of being entered into a dangerous competition - someone mysterious rigging the rules
- Gryffindor celebrations!
- Great plot device of no one believing Harry didn't put his name in including Ron - and the concept of the undeserving hero
- Hermione his good mate, the voice of reason and the true friend
- Angry jealous Hedwig again to make things worse π
- Great exploration of school dynamics re other houses hating Gryffindor
- 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
- Since when have you been a top student..or is this a school you and Longbottom have set up? π
- "Harry liked Hermione very much but she just wasn't the same as Ron"
- Moody: "Nice Cloak, Potter"
- Harry's rather face a Dragon at Hogwarts than go back to Privet Drive
- "That was a very decent thing you just did, Potter" Moody said quietly re tipping Cedric off
- Play to your strengths, a spell to get what you need
- You're the underdog here Harry..nobody would know
- Fear left him as soon as he sat on the Firebolt
- Our youngest champion is quickest to get his egg! We'll this is going to shorten the odds on Mr Potter! - Bagman
- Extravagant praise from McGonagall
- Fingernail marks on Hermione from nerves
- Ron finally coming aroundπ
- They grinned at each other and Hermione burst into tears and gave both a hug π "you two are so stupid!"
- Biased judges
- Harry's surprise party - courtesy of Fred and George nicking enough food from the kitchens
- Fred asking Angelina to the ball on the spot
- Hermione calling out Ron for looking for the best looking girl even if she's horrible
- "That shut Harry and Ron up" - just ban turned down by girls they asked to the ball
- "Oh did I?" ..Hermione's eyes flashed dangerously
- Ginny going with Neville
- Krum was accompanied by a pretty girl in :4blue robes Harry says he didn't know π
- Harry looked away from Diggory and Cho so he wouldn't have to talk to them
- Her my oh nee
- Krum mustering the courage to talk to "Hermy-on" π
- "Next time there's a ball, ask me before someone else does, not as a last resort!"
- Ron: I hate being poor π
- Abruptly asks about the leprechaun gold vanishing and why didn't Harry tell him!
- Researching about magical eavesdropping to get back at Rita Skeeter
- Mrs Weasley gave Hermione a tiny egg and Harry and Ron Dragon eggs - "Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg"
- Flour beamed at Harry
- "You fly very well. I vos watching at the first task"
- Dumbledore knew Harry wanted to write to Sirius
- "You're another one who might think about a career as an Auror. Mind works the right way, Granger"
- Sirius' warning letter to Harry
- Harry can't be killed yet in the item until after the final task for Voldemort's return...
- Practising stunning hexes and impediment jinx
- Potter wants a word with you Dumbledore
- "Dumbledore come!" said Crouch angrily (this is clearly a typo on page 503)
- Ludo Bagman passing info on to Rookwood, a death eater
- Barry Crouch Jr used the Cruciatus curse on Longbottom's dad and mum
- "We alone were faithful! We alone tried to find him!"
- The pensieve
- "Quite understandable" - Dumbledore I'm Harry falling asleep in Divination class
- How could [Voldemort] have held a wand?
- Dumbledore connecting the dots on the disappearances
- Mrs Weasley and Bill - Harry's visiting family - Harry had such a good time
- Mrs Weasley, you didn't believe that rubbish in Witch Weekly did you?
- Amos Diggory upset at Harry
- Cedric dies in part because of his nobleness but also because Harry insists on being a joint winner with him
- Voldemort has a Muggle dad who left his wife before V was born - Harry had a Muggle mum.
- Followers abandoned him for 13 years but Wormtail paid some of the debt back
- Dementors, Lestranges and Giants are V's allies
- Voldemort could not touch Harry because of his mother's love but he can now
- He was so weak and waiting for one of his followers to return to restore his body
- Quirrell was easy to bend to V's will
- Rats told Wormtail there was an Albanian forest where a dark shadow was possessing them
- Wormtail made a body for Voldemort using Nagini's poison and unicorn blood
- Dumbledore's ancient magic in the care of Harry's relatives
- Nice how Rowling keeps the identity of the loyal Death Eater at Hogwarts mum
- Death eaters stop laughing when Harry resists the Imperius curse
- Cedric Diggory reappears
- "Your mother's coming.. she wants to see you..it will be all right..hold on.."
- Mad eye takes Harry back!! The ultimate twist - suspiciously says "How did he treat them? Did he forgive them"
- The clue: he told Harry he hated Death Eaters who walked free
- Harry understood for the first time why Dumbledore was the only wizard feared by Voldemort
- The moment he took you I knew - and I followed - Dumbledore
- Typo page 594 - said Moody not Crouch
- Sirius exclaimed and Dumbledore stood up so quickly that Harry started - when Harry said Wormtail pierced his arm
- Cornelius Fudge - great plot device for the disbelief that Voldemort is back
- "You fail to recognise that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!"
- "If you are against him, then we remain, Cornelius, on the same side"
- Mr Weasley's fondness for muggles set him back in his work
- Dumbledore a great leader and taskmaster
- Sirius freaks Mrs Weasley out
- Fudge's attitude changes everything
- "He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother"
- Diggorys did not blame him for what happened
- S'long as we've got him, I'm not too worried
- "Yeh did as much as yer father would've done, an' I can' give yeh no higher praise than that."
- And why.. why..was Dumbledore so convinced that Snape was truly on their side?
- 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. "
- We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
- Remember Cedric Diggory.
- Harry's gift to Fred and George.
- 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.
- 4.85/5
This used to be a site dedicated to Board, Card and Party Game reviews but, in the end, I realised that there are plenty of other things to talk about =)
Tuesday, 30 December 2025
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter Book #4)
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