Chapter Sixteen: The Goblet of Fire
In chapter sixteen of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry can’t catch a damn break, Ron’s crush on Viktor Krum INTENSIFIES, and Cedric Diggory gets called pretty a lot, but DOES HE SPARKLE?
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
There are moments in the series I think Hermione is right, moments I think Harry is right, and moments Ron is behaving in a not so great way yet I still relate to him. “The Goblet of Fire” starts out with one of those latter moments when Ron fanboys to the nth degree over Viktor Krum and Hermione and Harry laugh at him. (Okay so maybe I’m an adult woman who loves a children’s series of books to an unhealthy level shut your mouth about it already!)
Sidenote it is odd to me that Krum is an internationally famous Quidditch player who is still in school, but I can reconcile that in my mind by assuming that he only plays for Bulgaria in random matches, and is not on a regular Quidditch team, maybe?
Anyway, random girls + Ron + Malfoy are all vying for Krum’s attention while Hermione rolls her eyes and Harry giggles and LOOK GUYS STOP JUDGING ME ahem, I mean, Ron for his totally innocent obsession with Krum.
A brief movie interjection: I have always hated that they made all of the Beauxbatons students girls and the Durmstrang students boys, as if no French wizards or Bulgarian witches exist at all, and I wish they had portrayed it accurately, with a mix of gender.
So the Beauxbatons students are being snobs about Hogwarts and how cold it is and I know this is annoying to you Hermione but as someone who was recently there the UK is super cold to some of us so calm your outrage, but things only get worse when Fleur Delacour shows up to make Ron question his allegiance to Krum and make Harry drool over Cho while Hermione has to endure teenage boy hormones a fate worse then death.
OK I’m sorry Hermione, I forgive you for laughing at me Ron earlier!
After Barty Crouch Sr. acts weird a bit *cough*
Karkaroff is an ass to any students not named Famous Viktor Krum, spots Harry and acts like a deer in the headlights, spots Not!Moody and turns into a deer hit by a car, and I can’t help but wonder which of the real Mad-Eye Moody and Barty Crouch Jr. hates Karkaroff more.
The next day, Fred N’ George N’ Lee decide to attempt to trick Dumbledore’s magic (lol good one Goyles) and instead end up with some truly fantabulous old man beards. We hear that Angelina Johnson, Warrington, and Cedric Diggory enter but no other confirmations, and Seamus pisses off the Hufflepuffs when he points out how Cedric is a pretty, pretty man and, for the record, has anyone seen the man in direct sunlight?
Hermione tries to recruit Hagrid to SPEW and Hagrid tries to talk some logic to her that she doesn’t listen to (sigh, Herms) and then it’s time. You know what time it is. It’s time for Harry’s life to be ruined again!
No, not that moment!
Ah yes, that’s the one! Have fun never being an anonymous bystander, Harry!
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How is Viktor Krum a professional Quidditch player when he’s still in school?
Who hates Karkaroff more, Mad-Eye Moody or Barty Crouch, Jr?
What is the worst thing that happens to Harry from the first book up until his name comes out of the Goblet in your opinion?
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