Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Dream
In chapter twenty-nine of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Barty VonEvil makes a bunch of in jokes to himself some more, Sirius is a hilarious hypocrite, and Dumbledore is a sick, sick man.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
The trio are discussing Crouch and his strange disappearance when they’re interrupted by Fred and George Are Up to Something: This Red Herring Plot is Going on Longer Than the Extended Version of Return of the King.
Why are there like seven endings to this movie, Peter Jackson?!
I’d like to take this moment to point out something. I have always believed there are distinct differences in Fred and George’s personalities that are subtle, but there if you notice them, and this scene points it out. George is the more low-key twin, the more cautious one, and Fred is the one that’s just a hair more boisterous and sometimes, a little meaner in his jokes. So George is saying they shouldn’t blackmail someone *Bagmancoughcough* and the trio are like dafaq was that about and move on to interrogate Bartimus Prime about what happened to Crouch. Somehow, Darth Barty doesn’t do this
when he is like “guys Barty totes got away, wow what a mystery, btw Granger you’d be a great Auror too, heh heh I’m insulting you and you don’t know it.” Man, this guy is good!
Sirius writes back Harry and harangues him like a shrew about walking around with Krum and COME ON SIRIUS let’s not be ridiculous, we all know the shenanigans you got up to at Harry’s age.
Harry insists that the attack of Barty Sr and Krum has nothing to do with trying to kill him, because why wouldn’t someone trying to kill Harry just do it then and WOW GOOD QUESTION HARRY. Why does Voldemort and Bart Boy come up with this convoluted, extremely awkward plan to kill him when oh, any of the times Harry’s alone with “Professor” “Moody” he could literally just be like “Hey Potter, catch!” throw something at Harry that he’s turned into a portkey, and watch when Harry catches said object and is transported to Voldemort.
Seriously the plot to kill Harry makes NO SENSE. ZERO. NONE. B.C. Junior could’ve gotten Harry to Voldemort twenty times over!
Anyway. Moving on! Harry falls asleep in Trelawney’s class like the relateable king he is, and has a horrible dream where Wormtail is getting tortured for letting someone get away. He wakes up to a bigger nightmare: finding out Dumbledore actually eats and enjoys Cockroach Clusters.
My goodness, won’t someone knock the poor boy out so he can have another Voldemort nightmare and forget that Dumbledore likes to eat candy coated cockroaches! Hasn’t he suffered enough?
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Do you think Fred and George have differences in their personalities? If so, how?
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More terrifying: willingly eating cockroach clusters or a Voldemort nightmare?
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