History Foreshadowing / HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire

* During the Quidditch Cup riot, Harry searches his pockets for his wand, but doesn't find it -- "The only thing he could find was his Omniculars". [[spoiler:Where did the leprechaun gold that Ron gave him go?]]

* At the Yule Ball, Percy says Rita is always “buzzing about”, foreshadowing the fact that [[spoiler: she’s an unregistered beetle animagus]].

* Hagrid mentions that Rita Skeeter wasn't happy with his favourable report about Harry. Ron jokes that she wants a new angle -- "You were supposed to say Harry's a mad {{delinquent}}."[[spoiler: By the end of the book, Rita does exactly that, laying the groundwork for a year-long Ministry smear campaign.]]

** Similarly, after Sirius gives the Trio the rundown on the Crouch Family's backstory, Ron wonders if Percy knows all this ugly history. He conduces that even if Percy does, he'd approve of Crouch Sr. choosing the rules over his own flesh and blood. When Hermione protests Percy would ''never'' throw the Weasleys under the bus, Ron disagrees; he knows his older brother's ambitious enough that if he felt the Weasleys were doing anything to endanger his career, Percy just ''might'' do it. [[spoiler: Ron's predictions are right on the money, as this very scenario will come to pass during the interim between ''Goblet'' and ''Order of the Phoenix''.]]

* Snape thinks someone is stealing ingredients from him to make Polyjuice potion and suspects Harry (who actually had played a part in stealing ingredients back in Year 2). [[spoiler:Someone ''is'' brewing Polyjuice potion, but it's Barty Crouch Jr, who is using it to pose as Mad Eye Moody.]]

* In the aftermath of the riot, Percy casually says he thinks it was unwise for Arthur to make a public statement that Rita Skeeter twisted into an article to make the Ministry look bad. In the next book, [[spoiler:we learn that during their argument that led to Percy disowning the family, Percy told Arthur that he's a lousy employee whose poor reputation he had to fight against since starting his job there.]]

* During the first DADA class, Neville offers up information about the Cruciatus Curse and is quite shaken after Moody demonstrates it on a spider. Many chapters later, [[spoiler:we learn that his parents were tortured into insanity by a group of Voldemort's supporters using that curse and that's why he lives with his grandmother.]] [[spoiler: For extra irony, Crouch Jr. is one of the very group of Voldemort's supporters who did that, at least according to the charges that Crouch Sr. brought up during their trial.]]

* Hermione's championing of house-elf rights is mostly treated with scorn and annoyance and nobody takes her cause seriously. [[spoiler:The next book, Kreacher's casual mistreatment by everyone in No. 12 Grimmauld Place causes him to betray the Order, leading to Sirius' death. Hermione cites this as a cautionary tale, and when Harry starts showing Kreacher courtesy in Book 7, he becomes instrumental in the fight against Voldemort.]]
* Moody covers for Harry when he's nearly caught out of bed and they even joke about "taking the egg for a walk." In the previous book, Lupin chided Harry for breaking the rules even after covering for him against Snape. [[spoiler:The first hint that Barty Crouch Jr. doesn't actually care about Harry's safety]].

* When Snape accuses Harry of stealing from his stores, he says, "Boomslang skin. Gillyweed." Harry immediately thinks of Hermione stealing ingredients for Polyjuice Potion back in his second year... but readers might remember that Hermione also stole bicorn horn, which Snape ''doesn't'' mention. [[spoiler:Snape isn't referring to ingredients stolen two years ago, he's referring to ingredients stolen ''this'' year, by Crouch Jr.]]

* At the quidditch cup Mr Weasley mentions a colleague called Bode who works as an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries, which plays an important part in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix the very next book.]]

* At the quidditch cup Mr Weasley mentions a colleague called Bode who works as an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries, which plays an important part in [[Literature:HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix the very next book.]]

* At the quidditch cup Mr Weasley mentions a colleague called Bode who works as an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries, which plays an important part in [[Literiature:HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix the very next book.]]