Chapter Six: The Portkey
In chapter six of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire I cannot handle the awfulness of getting awoken in the middle of the night, Ron is the only Weasley allowed friends, and Cedric Diggory is dreamy.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
Harry is woken up early by Mr. Weasley and–
Oh sorry, I was just relieving the trauma of how much I loathe being woken up early, one of my top five hated things in life, unless it’s to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and then I suck it up and grab at my boobs like Ron Weasley.
We get a lot of exposition about wizard travel this chapter, which is not as dull as it sounds, and I yearn for the power to Apparate and how much better our lives would be if we could actually do it. Think of all the time I could save traveling that I could then instead spend on weird failed quests to get Harry Potter merch like I did today for an hour no I am not at all bitter about this.
Cedric Diggory shows up, and while in the movie he sparkles pops out of a tree while Hermione and Ginny make eyebrows at each other
in the books we see part two of Cedric Diggory is Really an Alright Dude when he corrects his father’s rather obnoxious boasting about how he beat Harry at Quidditch. Like, ok DAD, but it’s kind of not that cool when the kid was knocked unconscious by dementors, DAD.
Amos Diggory also joshes Arthur about all of his children, and when Arthur corrects Amos that Harry and Hermione aren’t his, I’m reminded afresh of the weirdness that Ron is always allowed to bring his BFF’s places and none of the other Weasley children. Is that because they are the only friends of Weasley spawns that live in the Muggle world? The rest are friendless aside from Lee Jordan? Or plot contrivance?
We get a Lovegood shoutout, and one of my favorite random phrases of “manky old boot” that’s so delightfully British I can’t handle it, and our first indication that wizard travel is always nausea inducing when the boot spins them around until most people would puke and I twitch some more when we find out it’s barely 5AM.
Morning people I love you but I will never understand you.
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