Chapter Thirty-Two: Flesh, Blood, and Bone
In chapter thirty-two of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry gets stabbed by Wormtail, but all of that pales in comparison to Cedric dying and Voldemort coming back to life.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
We open our chapter with Cedric and Harry transported by portkey to the Little Hangleton graveyard while the bones of Tom Riddle Senior spin trying to hide from the two teenaged wizards and his creepy undead baby monster son.
Cedric and Harry are both freaked the fuck out for good reason, not knowing if this is part of the tournament or not. Poor Cedric goes out with “wands out, do you reckon?” as his last words which is just cruelty. An unusual occurrence for me, I actually preferred Cedric’s movie death. He worries about Harry’s scar hurting, and then at least confronts the weirdo figures of Wormtail and child instead of just…dying. Of course, him dying with “wands out, do you reckon?” as his last words is far more realistic.
Either way, Cedric Diggory deserved better then dying from Wormtail on Voldemort’s orders with the icy cold words of “Kill the Spare.” How dare you, Voldy! Cedric Diggory is no one’s spare! Cedric Diggory is a national treasure!
It’s at this point that Harry Potter the series and Harry Potter the character is forever changed. No more light-hearted romps that are solved with Dumbledore being oblique at Harry while he wins the house cup. Now Voldemort is back, and more importantly, Harry has learned the awful lesson that bad things happen to good people for absolutely no reason.
So Cedric is dead, depriving us of Robert Pattinson antics and gifs until another, far more terrible book series is made into unintentionally hilarious movies
and Harry is chained up to Tom Riddle Senior’s gravestone (bet you wish you’d just spent money shipping the spawn to boarding school, eh TR Senior?) gets his arm cut up by Wormtail, who is ungrateful as FUCK for that whole thing where Harry saved his life, and gets to watch as another creepy baby man gets turned into…Lord Wossface.
What?! It’s Uncle Vernon’s best line!
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