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?
Why is the plot to kill Harry so needlessly complex?
More terrifying: willingly eating cockroach clusters or a Voldemort nightmare?
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My theory with the Voldemort-Crouch-TriWizard-Cup-is-a-portkey plan is, that Barty could not have turned some random object into a portkey inside Hogwarts, because only portkeys allowed by Dumbledore can be used inside Hogwarts. The only reason the TriWizard Cup is functioning is, because it is a portkey to begin with. If it would have worked normally it would have brought the winner out of the center of the maze right to the winning ceremony on the edge of the maze. This is what happens when Harry flees from the graveyard and Voldemort. Normally a portkey should lose its transporting abilities after getting to the destination. So all what Barty did was adding a halt in between (like on a navy) on to the Cup with Little Hangleton.
Than I have an idea why Voldemort choose the TriWizard Tournament and goes to the length to get Harry through it. We learn, that the TriWizard Tournament is one of the most renowned and famous competitions in the magical world (atleast for Europe) and this never took place when Tom Riddle were attending Hogwarts. An ambitious man like him would like to have participated in it to get even more fame. He isprobably jealous that he never got a chance, so he tries his best to make a farce out of this tournament to just make it a part of his plan to return. With Harry winning and the amount of help he is giving him via Barty Crouch he probably sees it as his own victory in this tournament. And I also think he wanted to kill Harry Potter at a point where he thinks he is at his happiest (knowing nothing that Harry isn’t out there for more fame and attention) by winning this prestige tournament and making his death even more humiliating for him. The same as Voldemort was at his height when Harry Potter stopped him at Godric’s Hollow.
And what also could be possible. The TriWizard Cup as the symbol of the most prestige competition of magical schools in Europe could be one of these valuable items Voldemort likes so much and could even be a possible Horcrux.