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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Voldemort is later shown to be an offender, but his main agent in this book is ''not''. "Decent people are so easy to manipulate." Although the agent did have a moment. He assumed that Harry would ask absolutely everyone for help, but he didn't, because that would be cheating.instead stuck with just his close friends. This forced the agent to play XanatosSpeedChess.
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* AnachronismStew: A minor case: at the beginning of the book, Harry, in writing a letter to Sirius, makes a remark about Dudley and his PlayStation... in the summer of 1994. The console did not get released in Europe until September the following year. A bit of brilliance perhaps, since if he screamed enough his father could have ordered one from overseas.
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* AnachronismStew: A minor case: at the beginning of the book, Harry, in writing a letter to Sirius, makes a remark about Dudley and his PlayStation... in the summer of 1994. The console did not get released in Europe until September the following year. A bit of brilliance perhaps, since if he screamed enough his father could have ordered one from overseas.overseas, but Rowling fessed up to the minor mistake.
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* DubInducedPlotHole: A small one. When Hermione mentioned that the 1792 Triwizard Tournament was cancelled because of a cockatrice breaking free and injuring the judges, the Dutch edition translates cockatrice as basilisk. But this is impossible, since breeding basilisks is has been illegal since medieval times. And times, and they certainly don't want to use one of the most deadly creatures ever in a school tournament. Its gaze alone would have killed the entire audience.
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* TookALevelInBaddass: This is the point in the series where Harry seriously starts to improve as a spell caster. In the first book Harry is never seen casting a single spell successfully. In the second, he performs a spell here and there, but nothing particularly noteworthy. It takes most of the third book just to master one spell which, while admittedly difficult to learn, is an extremely situational charm. In ''this'' book, he learns a whole arsenal of jinxes, hexes and curses to survive the final trial, including Stupefy, his most powerful battle spell.
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* TookALevelInBaddass: TookALevelInBadass: This is the point in the series where Harry seriously starts to improve as a spell caster. In the first book Harry is never seen casting a single spell successfully. In the second, he performs a spell here and there, but nothing particularly noteworthy. It takes most of the third book just to master one spell which, while admittedly difficult to learn, is an extremely situational charm. In ''this'' book, he learns a whole arsenal of jinxes, hexes and curses to survive the final trial, including Stupefy, his most powerful battle spell.
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* IdiotPlot: The whole plot of the book hinges on the fact that [[spoiler: Bartemius Crouch Jr. was too stupid to simply use a normal object as a portkey instead of the Triwizard Cup to transport Harry to Little Hangleton graveyard. And for having Harry use said portkey in the most publicized event in Hogwarts history, as opposed to the privacy of his own office.]]
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* BondVillainStupidity: Near the end of ''Goblet of Fire'', Harry has been disarmed, gagged, and tied securely to a gravestone. Rather than simply killing Harry after using his blood to regain his body, Voldemort not only has Wormtail cut him loose and give him back his wand, but insists on fighting him in a one-to-one duel and forbids interference from any of his Death Eaters, for no other reason than to prove, once and for all, that he is the stronger of the two. Of course the final result of this is that Harry manages to escape Voldemort's attempt on his life, once again through luck, and warn everyone of his resurrection. It was reasonable of Voldemort to assume that Harry was no longer protected by love, but he was unaware of the twin cores. [[spoiler:However, Voldemort does use Harry's escape to his advantage in ''Order of the Phoenix''.]]\\\
Rowling stated that the reason for Voldemort's downfall was mainly because of his over-inflated ego. This scene was foreshadowing all the pride-related mistakes he'd make in the future. Also, RalphFiennes mentioned something about how the scene -- when you strip the magic elements away -- is really just a man humiliating a young boy. Voldemort was gloating over having his body back and wanted to mess with the kid who'd caused him so much trouble over the years. He wasn't exactly using his head at that moment.
Rowling stated that the reason for Voldemort's downfall was mainly because of his over-inflated ego. This scene was foreshadowing all the pride-related mistakes he'd make in the future. Also, RalphFiennes mentioned something about how the scene -- when you strip the magic elements away -- is really just a man humiliating a young boy. Voldemort was gloating over having his body back and wanted to mess with the kid who'd caused him so much trouble over the years. He wasn't exactly using his head at that moment.
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**Rowling stated that the reason for Voldemort's downfall was mainly because of his over-inflated ego. This scene was foreshadowing all the pride-related mistakes he'd make in the future. Also, RalphFiennes mentioned something about how the scene -- when you strip the magic elements away -- is really just a man humiliating a young boy. Voldemort was gloating over having his body back and wanted to mess with the kid who'd caused him so much trouble over the years. He wasn't exactly using his head at that moment.
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**Rowling stated that the reason for Voldemort's downfall was mainly because of his over-inflated ego. This scene was foreshadowing all the pride-related mistakes he'd make in the future. Also, RalphFiennes mentioned something about how the scene -- when you strip the magic elements away -- is really just a man humiliating a young boy. Voldemort was gloating over having his body back and wanted to mess with the kid who'd caused him so much trouble over the years. He wasn't exactly using his head at that moment.
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* FootballHooligans: The Irish after their win at the Quidditch World Cup. [[spoiler:Which accidentally becomes a very convenient cover for the riot the Death Eaters caused at the same night.]]
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* FootballHooligans: The Irish after their win at the Quidditch World Cup. [[spoiler:Which Cup, [[spoiler: which accidentally becomes a very convenient cover for the riot the Death Eaters caused at on the same night.]]
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->''"[[SacrificialLion Kill the spare.]]"''
-->-- '''Lord Voldemort'''
The fourth book in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series. Published in 2000. Following the events of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Voldemort now has a loyal follower by his side and is making plans to become stronger and regain his body. Meanwhile, Hogwarts is hosting the Triwizard Tournament between three Wizarding schools in Europe, and Harry discovers that he has been selected to compete, even though he is below the age restriction and did not, as a matter of fact, actually apply as a candidate. He begins to fear that he's a pawn in someone else's plan, whilst becoming slowly more aware of the rising specter of Voldemort...
This book was a turning point in the series in a lot of ways.
* It's the first book to even ''mention'' that there is a wizarding world outside of Great Britain, much less international magical politics. The scale of the story opens up in proportion to the plot.
* It's the first {{Doorstopper}}, about twice as long as the books that preceded it.
* It's the point which CerebusSyndrome really sets in, as Voldemort returns to power and a significant supporting character becomes a SacrificialLion, all of which is set up by the events of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]''.
* And finally, it's the first book in the series that arrived after Pottermania had gripped the world, making its release a major event in the year's entertainment calendar.
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!!Tropes exclusive to this book or at least especially prominent:
* EightPointEight:[[invoked]] Karkaroff gives Harry's performance in the first task a 4/10, in contrast to the 8's and 9's from the more impartial judges ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Bagman's definitely-partial 10]]). Naturally this provokes outrage from Ron, but Harry doesn't mind too much; he's too happy that [[spoiler: Ron is speaking to him again.]]
* AcademyOfEvil: Durmstrang, though the school itself is more of a DarkIsNotEvil place.
* AgonyBeam: This book introduces the Cruciatus Curse.
* AnachronismStew: A minor case: at the beginning of the book, Harry, in writing a letter to Sirius, makes a remark about Dudley and his PlayStation... in the summer of 1994. The console did not get released in Europe until September the following year. A bit of brilliance perhaps, since if he screamed enough his father could have ordered one from overseas.
* ArmyOfTheDead: [[spoiler:Voldemort's most recent victims (Harry's parents among them) emerge from his wand and block him from pursuing Harry just long enough for Harry to escape.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: During the first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson.
-->''"You need to be prepared. You need to be alert and watchful. You need to put that away, Miss Brown, when I'm talking."\\
Lavender jumped and blushed. She had been showing Parvati her completed horoscope under the desk.''
* AscendedExtra: Cedric Diggory and Cho Chang, both introduced as background characters in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Book 3]], have central roles in this book.
* AssholeVictim
** Barty Crouch, Sr.
** Barty Crouch Jr. in the film.
* BadassTeacher: Moody. [[spoiler:The fake one does a good job at acting the part, and the real one would have been one too if he'd actually been able to do the job.]]
* BeamOWar: A rare effect (their two wands have the same core from the same specific specimen of phoenix) makes Harry's and Voldemort's wands connect and results in an anime-style beam-of-war battle.
* BlindMistake: When Harry reads a letter sent by Sirius and considers its tone too much babying, his response hints at this: "You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls...."
* BloodMagic
* BondVillainStupidity: Near the end of ''Goblet of Fire'', Harry has been disarmed, gagged, and tied securely to a gravestone. Rather than simply killing Harry after using his blood to regain his body, Voldemort not only has Wormtail cut him loose and give him back his wand, but insists on fighting him in a one-to-one duel and forbids interference from any of his Death Eaters, for no other reason than to prove, once and for all, that he is the stronger of the two. Of course the final result of this is that Harry manages to escape Voldemort's attempt on his life, once again through luck, and warn everyone of his resurrection. It was reasonable of Voldemort to assume that Harry was no longer protected by love, but he was unaware of the twin cores. [[spoiler:However, Voldemort does use Harry's escape to his advantage in ''Order of the Phoenix''.]]\\\
Rowling stated that the reason for Voldemort's downfall was mainly because of his over-inflated ego. This scene was foreshadowing all the pride-related mistakes he'd make in the future. Also, RalphFiennes mentioned something about how the scene -- when you strip the magic elements away -- is really just a man humiliating a young boy. Voldemort was gloating over having his body back and wanted to mess with the kid who'd caused him so much trouble over the years. He wasn't exactly using his head at that moment.
* BrickJoke: In one of the first chapters, it is mentioned that a Hufflepuff girl tried to curse her pimples off, and had to have her nose put on again. Later, when the Trio are discussing Yule Ball date possibilities, that same girl is mentioned. Ron says he won't go with her, because her nose is slightly off-center. Mentioned ''again'' in the Yule Ball chapter, only to confirm that [[spoiler:her nose is perfectly fine!]]
* CensorSuds: The prefect bathtub is loaded with suds and bubbles, which come in handy when Moaning Myrtle decides to drop in on Harry.
* ChekhovsGun: The series [[ChekhovsGun/HarryPotter has its own page.]]
* CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator: The foreign officials to Fudge at the Quidditch game.
-->'''Bulgarian Minister of Magic:''' ''(in response to Bulgaria losing the Quidditch World Cup)'' Vell, ve fought bravely...\\
'''Fudge:''' You can speak English?! And you've been letting me mime everything all day!\\
'''Bulgarian Minister of Magic:''' ''(shrugging)'' Vell, it vas very funny...
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: "Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret."
* CoughSnarkCough: Ron accuses Hermione of only liking Cedric because he's handsome. When Hermione claims she doesn't like people just because of their looks, he gives a false cough that sounds oddly like "Lockhart".
* CovertPervert: Moaning Myrtle
* CreepyLongFingers: Voldemort
* DancesAndBalls: The Yule Ball.
* DietEpisode: The Dursley portion of the book involves Dudley being put on a diet.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Junior]], particularly in the movie adaptation.
* DubInducedPlotHole: A small one. When Hermione mentioned that the 1792 Triwizard Tournament was cancelled because of a cockatrice breaking free and injuring the judges, the Dutch edition translates cockatrice as basilisk. But this is impossible, since breeding basilisks is illegal since medieval times. And they certainly don't want to use one of the most deadly creatures ever in a school tournament. Its gaze alone would have killed the entire audience.
* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:Cedric]] asks Harry to retrieve his corpse, and Harry does.
* DungeonBypass: During the third task, Harry blasts a shortcut through the hedge maze when he hears one of the others being tortured. It takes a curse plus a bit of fighting to get through.
* EarlyBirdCameo
** During a trip into Dumbledore's Pensieve, Harry sees the trial of the Lestranges, being especially struck by the fanatic -- and, at this point, unnamed -- Mrs. Lestrange. [[spoiler:Bellatrix]] is an important villain in the later books.
** Much more minor one, but Cedric's father says that a family called the Lovegoods have been at the World Cup for a week.
* TheEndOfTheBeginning: The last chapter is titled "The Beginning".
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: The Beauxbatons students.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Voldemort is later shown to be an offender, but his main agent in this book is ''not''. "Decent people are so easy to manipulate." Although the agent did have a moment. He assumed that Harry would ask everyone for help, but he didn't, because that would be cheating. This forced the agent to play XanatosSpeedChess.
* FandomNod: The pronunciation of "Hermione", which was finally clarified by Hermione herself in this book -- then [[Film/HarryPotter the films]] were released, so everyone knew how to pronounce it anyway.
* FixingTheGame: The Weasley twin subplot is driven by Ludo Bagman's welching.
* FootballHooligans: The Irish after their win at the Quidditch World Cup. [[spoiler:Which accidentally becomes a very convenient cover for the riot the Death Eaters caused at the same night.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** In the first chapter, "I will allow you to perform an essential task for me, one that many of my followers would give their ''right hands'' to perform...."
** [[spoiler:Voldemort's warning to Wormtail when he gives him the silver hand.]]
** [[spoiler:Dumbledore gets "an odd look of triumph" after learning that Harry's blood was used in Voldemort's ressurection spell. It's not until very late in the final book that this pays off.]]
** [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Jr. in disguise as]] Mad Eye saying "If there's one thing I hate, it's a death-eater who walked free." Pays off when it's discovered that [[spoiler:it's not really Mad Eye but a loyal death eater in disguise who said it.]]
* FunWithAcronyms: The '''S'''ociety for the '''P'''romotion of '''E'''lfish '''W'''elfare.
* GutPunch: [[spoiler:Cedric's]] death is this for both the book and the series.
* HateSink: Rita Skeeter
* HedgeMaze: The setting of the third challenge.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: When Barty Crouch was head of Law Enforcement.
* HighSchoolDance: The Yule Ball.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction / InterspeciesRomance
** Hagrid has been secretly breeding manticore/firecrab hybrids called "Blast-Ended Skrewts". The actual creation of magical crossbreeds is forbidden in [[TheVerse the Potterverse]].
** Human variants appear with Fleur Delacour, whose (presumably) human-wizard grandfather married a veela and [[spoiler:Hagrid, who had a wizard father and giantess mother]].
* HypocriticalHumor: Before the Weasleys come to get Harry, Uncle Vernon calls Mrs. Weasley a "Dumpy sort of woman." Harry reacts with private outrage that he dares to call Mrs. Weasley dumpy when Dudley is the size of a small whale.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Padma and Parvati Patil's uniforms.
* IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt
** Harry offers the Triwizard Cup to Cedric Diggory, because his entrance in the tournament was unfair.
** Harry offers the prize money from the tournament to Cedric's parents, who turn it down. He then gives it to Fred and George Weasley.
* IHaveNoSon: Barty Crouch, Sr. He says this exact line [[spoiler:at his son's trial]].
* ImprobablyPredictable: Harry predicts how Ron and Hermione will react to his dream about Voldemort, and they both react more-or-less exactly as he thought they would.
* INeedYouStronger: The reason for [[spoiler:fake Moody's]] assistance to Harry in the Tri-Wizard's challenges. See XanatosRoulette.
* InevitableTournament: A straight example. A super-dangerous and challenging tournament takes place at Hogwarts, and despite being three years too young, Harry finds himself [[spoiler:forced into]] competing.
* {{Jerkass}}: Rita Skeeter. IntrepidReporter nothing, she seems to live not to tell the truth but to ''humiliate people!'' Case in point: Hermione just for criticizing her, and Hagrid due to him confessing he's half-giant with her deliberately eavesdropping.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: A lot of this, both from Voldemort and [[spoiler:Moody/Crouch]] at the end of the book.
* KaizoTrap: The GiantSpider at the very end of the third task, meant to blindside champions who were focused on the Triwizard Cup ahead. It was only thanks to Harry's yell that poor Cedric wasn't killed[[spoiler:, well, not immediately anyway]].
* KangarooCourt: The trials in the PensieveFlashback are stacked against the defendants. Sirius says he didn't even get that much. However, Ludo Bagman managed to get off, largely because he was a popular Quidditch player, making him [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion acquitted by public opinon]]. We also find out later that [[spoiler:the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr. ''did'' deserve to be tossed in jail]].
* KickTheDog: Snape in the exchange of spells outside the Potions dungeon. After Hermione is hit with a spell that enlarges her already noticeable buck teeth to a cartoonish size (and Goyle's nose having done the same). Snape tells Goyle to go to the hospital wing, and then turns his attention to Hermione when Ron points out that she's been hit with a spell too. Snape says, "I see no difference." Hermione ''runs off crying.''
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Cedric]]
* KnightTemplar: Barty Crouch Sr.
* LadykillerInLove: Viktor Krum, who's surrounded by female admirers for his first few months at Hogwarts, [[spoiler:asks Hermione to the Yule Ball]] because she's the one girl who wasn't throwing herself at his feet.
* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: Still played straight in this book despite [[{{Doorstopper}} being longer than the last three combined.]] The plot is just that complex, and if it's not part of the plot now, [[{{Foreshadowing}} it's bound to come up later]], such as, say, [[spoiler:the entire first chapter.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The Harry Potter Lexicon speculates that the title of the chapter "The Madness of Mr. Crouch" is a reference to ''Film/TheMadnessOfKingGeorge'', especially since George III is reputed to have mistaken a tree for the King of Prussia, while Crouch mistakes a tree for Percy Weasley.
* LivingLabyrinth: The third task.
* LooseLips: Bertha Jorkins gives Hagrid a run for his money on blabbing secrets. Hagrid at least has enough sense to realize at times that he shouldn't have blabbed; [[TooDumbToLive she doesn't]].
* MeaningfulName
** Beauxbatons means "pretty wands" and that school's crest shows two crossed wands, while Durmstrang is a {{Spoonerism}} of "Sturm (und) Drang", "storm and stress", a German cultural movement.
** Ludo Bagman, who starts as a shifty character and we later learn is actually a bagman. "Ludo" also means "I play" in Latin; Ludo is the Head of Magical Games and Sports.
** ''Rita Skeeter''. Skeeter is an annoying, bloodsucking parasite who thrives on human misery... and so are mosquitoes, a.k.a. skeeters.
* MobileMaze: The third task.
* MoodWhiplash: As said in the description, the series gets ''dark'' after this book. It starts with [[spoiler:Cedric's]] death and goes downhill from there.
* MoralGuardians: It was with this entry that they started coming out in full force against the series. Just as the series became a worldwide phenomenon, it also brought a wave of [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal parents, politicians, and preachers]] raging against the series, accusing it of glorifying witchcraft and Satanism to children, some having burnings of it. Of course, this [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity required them to buy copies to burn]].
* MotiveMisidentification: Throughout the story, everyone thinks that someone put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire in an attempt to get him killed while making it look like an accident. In the end it is revealed that [[spoiler:his name was entered in the hope that he would ''win'', touch the Triwizard Cup, and restore Voldemort to life.]]
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Crouch can't seem to remember that Percy's last name is "Weasley" and not "Weatherby". Fred and George have a lot of fun with this.
* NiceToTheWaiter
** Crouch's treatment of Winky, as lampshaded by Hermione and Sirius. Sirius, oddly, [[spoiler:fails to live up to his own advice]] in the next book, although that was partially to do with [[spoiler:Kreacher being a reminder of the family he hated]].
** Hermione attempts this with the House Elves of Hogwarts. She means well, but it doesn't go over too well.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Harry, when going to the Triwizard cup in the third task, is forced to make a decision of whether to save Cedric Diggory from something in the maze, or to go for the cup. He ultimately decides to save Diggory, and they take the cup together. [[spoiler:Let's just say that Harry really should have left Cedric Diggory behind, [[KilledOffForReal for Cedric's]] [[SacrificialLion own good]].]]
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: Moody mentions explicitly that cheating is a traditional part of the tournament. And Harry even goes out on a limb to help Cedric when it turns out that Cedric was the one person who hadn't had any done in his favor.
* NothingIsScarier: Harry's trek through the hedge maze was rather unnerving because of this. [[spoiler:Crouch Jr. was making sure that he had a clear path to the cup.]]
* NotJustATournament: Doubly subverted. Everyone thinks the tournament is a ruse to kill Harry during the contest. In truth, it is rigged for him to win, so he can be captured at the moment of victory.
* NotMeThisTime: Harry's trio ''did'' steal Polyjuice Potion ingredients from Snape 2 books ago, but they're not the ones who did it this time.
* OffOnATechnicality: The only reason the Muggle authorities didn't convict Frank Bryce for murdering Tom Riddle Senior and his parents (a then human-looking Voldemort was the real culprit) was the fact Muggles cannot establish a cause of death for victims of ''Avada Kedavra''.
* OneHitKill: Although it appeared in the first book, this one gives a name to the flash of green light that Harry kept remembering. It's revealed to be the Killing Curse, ''Avada Kedavra''. (There's a reason this series has its own "ChekhovsGun" page.)
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until Dumbledore calls him "Alastor", it doesn't occur to Harry that "Mad-Eye" isn't Moody's first name.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Refreshingly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with Cedric, Fleur, and Krum, who, whatever their flaws, are pretty decent people and end up having cordial relationships with Harry. [[spoiler:Indeed, by the end of the series Harry and Fleur are in-laws.]]
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: See the page for details.
* OutscareTheEnemy: A group of Death Eaters run amok at the Quidditch World Cup as the Ministry tries in vain to control them. The riot only ends once an unknown person conjures the symbol of Voldemort, from which the Death Eaters immediately retreat. They're more afraid of the punishment they'll get for denouncing Voldemort when he lost his power than they are of the Ministry.
* {{Paparazzi}}: Rita Skeeter
* PartingWordsRegret: Molly Weasley worries about this when the twins have a close call with the Death Eaters.
* PensieveFlashback: The TropeNamer. This book is the first time they're used, at least directly (as Harry notes, the exact same concept previously drove the diary flashback in ''Chamber of Secrets'').
* RedHerring
** [[spoiler:Igor Karkaroff]] basically spends the whole book acting as suspiciously as possible. For readers GenreSavvy enough to know it would never be someone so obvious, [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes Ludo Bagman]] ]] is made a viable suspect with evidence against him occasionally brought up, but nearly always dismissed by the characters as irrelevant.
** We learn about mid-way through the book that Voldemort has a spy at Hogwarts. A little while later, Harry finds out that Snape was accused of being a Death Eater after Voldemort's fall. Is Snape Voldemort's eyes and ears in the school? [[spoiler:No. But he ''was'' a Death Eater.]]
* TheReveal: "It was I who did that."
* RiddlingSphinx: Harry encounters a sphinx in the hedge maze and has to answer a riddle in order to pass by it safely.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: The jury that acquitted [[spoiler:Ludo Bagman]].
* RuleOfThree
** The Triwizard Tournament is a competition between three wizards [[spoiler:though this is later subverted when Harry is chosen as an unprecedented ''fourth'' contestant]], with three rounds.
** Also there are three Unforgivable Curses.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Cedric. Former TropeNamer.]]
* SadistTeacher
** Snape continues the role from the previous books, but really reaches his peak in this book, not even trying to hide his favoritism for his Slytherin students and his bias against the students from the other houses. This is most notable when he not only lets Malfoy off scot-free when he hits Hermione with a charm that makes her front teeth grow huge but then tells her he "sees no difference", causing her to run off crying, then has the nerve to take points from Griffyndor, and then give Harry and Ron detention when they get angry over this. Fortunately, in the next book, Umbridge appears, replacing him in this role and making Snape look not nearly as bad by comparison.
** [[spoiler:Imposter]] Moody briefly becomes this to Malfoy when he turns him into a ferret, until [=McGonagall=] shows up and rebukes him for using CoolAndUnusualPunishment.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Hermione at the Yule Ball.
* ShesAllGrownUp: Again, Hermione at the Yule Ball.
* ShoutOut: Creator/MontyPython. Harry gains entrance to Dumbledore's office by trying various passwords, all of which are different kinds of sweet; the one that actually works, Cockroach Cluster, is a flavour used in the "Whizzo Assortment" sketch. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in that Harry is amazed that it works and insists that he was kidding, which suggests that Harry is in Muggle-world a Monty Python fan. Cockroach Clusters are also shown to be a type of candy in the Harry Potter universe, though not a popular one.
* ShutUpHannibal: Malfoy's boasting speech to Harry at the end of the novel gets interrupted by Harry, Hermione, Ron, Fred, and George blasting off a variety of spells simultaneously. Also see BerserkButton. Qualifies as CrowningMomentOfAwesome
* SpottingTheThread: Dumbledore realizes that [[spoiler:Moody is not the real Moody]] when he removes Harry from his sight.
* SpySpeak: A SubvertedTrope: a Muggle believes that terms such as "Quidditch", "Muggles" and "Ministry of Magic" are codenames used by gangsters or spies, but these are just normal wizarding words.
* StrawmanPolitical: Averted or even subverted. Hermione, after seeing a house-elf get fired for the crime of being terrified, decides that house-elves are "uneducated and brainwashed" slaves and need to be liberated. But when she meets other house-elves, they're quite satisfied with their way of life, claiming that [[GoodFeelsGood virtue is its own reward]]. There's a lot more details on all sides, but the point is that what ''could'' have been some sort of equal rights crusade gets pretty well deflated; if anything, ''Hermione'' ends up looking the fool due to her heavy-handed tactics, which the house-elves find amusing or even insulting. (Later books have Dumbledore pointing out that Hermione generally has the right idea, and Hermione [[CharacterDevelopment gaining a better understanding of house-elf psychology]].)
* TalkAboutThatThing: Used by Hermione as an excuse to get her, Harry, and Ron out of the room before Mrs. Weasley blows up at Fred and George.
* TantrumThrowing: Upon discovering that Fred and George have engorged Dudley's tongue, Uncle Vernon begins throwing things at the Weasleys and Harry, who flee the house via Floo Powder.
* TechnicolorFire: The eponymous object lights up with blue-white fire at the beginning of each tournament. When it's about to spew out the name of an accepted contestant, it turns bright red.
* ThereShouldBeALaw:
-->''Giggling should be made illegal, Harry thought furiously, as all the girls around Cho began doing it.''
* TournamentArc
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Crouch!Moody]], a TournamentArc example.
* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: ''Mega Mutilation Part Three'', a game played by Dudley.
* {{Understatement}}: "Potentially problematic? When was the last time you held your breath underwater for an hour, Hermione?"
* UnscaledMerfolk: Viktor become half shark for the undersea challenge. It's later revealed that he messed the transfiguration up, and apparently one of the teachers had to put him back to normal. Giving himself only a shark's head was on purpose, since wizards who completely transform themselves without being an animagus lose their humanity. Not being able to say the incantation to turn himself back with a shark's mouth, however, was pretty straight DidntThinkThisThrough.
* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Jr.'s motive. Since he'll [[FreudianExcuse never have approval from his own father]] he is seeking it from his substitute father figure: Voldemort.]]
* WhiteMansBurden: Hermione's house-elf liberation subplot is basically this. Somewhat unusually for this trope, it's portrayed in-universe as a bad thing, and she gets called on it by practically everyone. Even an attentive reader can notice the inherent [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] of her cause: launching a house-elf freedom campaign on her own for the benefit of other elves without so much as ''asking'' for their help, forcing them into unwanted freedom. She also bases her entire view of house-elves on Dobby, whose views on freedom, payment and clothing are quite different than the average elf. And she [[ComicallyMissingThePoint completely misses the point]] about why house-elves are unhappy -- their working conditions, not the work itself or lack of pay.
* WhyDontYouMarryIt: Percy just won't stop gushing about Mr. Crouch. Ron's waiting for them to announce their engagement.
* WitchHunt: The trials, or lack thereof for Sirius, of suspected Death Eaters at the Ministry.
* WronskiFeint: The TropeNamer.
* XanatosRoulette: [[spoiler:The whole Tri-Wizard Tournament is hijacked by the scattered remnants of Voldemort's followers for the sole purpose of kidnapping Harry Potter by having him touch a object that would magically teleport him away to their SupervillainLair. Their overly elaborate plan hinges not only on manipulating the title Goblet of Fire to draw Harry's name -- an act that immediately draws suspicion since it violates half a dozen Tri-Wizard rules -- but also on Harry's '''winning''' (and, for that matter, surviving) a multi-stage tournament that culminates in an obstacle course through a large maze. Surely there had to be a simpler way to get to Harry.]]
* XanatosSpeedChess: [[spoiler:Fake Moody]] had to change his plans when Harry didn't ask Neville for help.
* YoureInsane: Harry's response to [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Jr.'s]] MotiveRant.
* YourMom: Malfoy insults Ron's mother and Harry responds by insulting Malfoy's mother:
-->'''Malfoy:''' Oh yeah, you were staying with them this summer, weren’t you, Potter? So tell me, is his mother really that porky, or is it just the picture?\\
'''Harry:''' You know your mother, Malfoy? That expression she’s got, like she’s got dung under her nose? Has she always looked like that, or was it just because you were with her?
* ZombieAdvocate: Hermione for House Elves, via S.P.E.W.
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->''"[[SacrificialLion Kill the spare.]]"''
-->-- '''Lord Voldemort'''
The fourth book in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series. Published in 2000. Following the events of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Voldemort now has a loyal follower by his side and is making plans to become stronger and regain his body. Meanwhile, Hogwarts is hosting the Triwizard Tournament between three Wizarding schools in Europe, and Harry discovers that he has been selected to compete, even though he is below the age restriction and did not, as a matter of fact, actually apply as a candidate. He begins to fear that he's a pawn in someone else's plan, whilst becoming slowly more aware of the rising specter of Voldemort...
This book was a turning point in the series in a lot of ways.
* It's the first book to even ''mention'' that there is a wizarding world outside of Great Britain, much less international magical politics. The scale of the story opens up in proportion to the plot.
* It's the first {{Doorstopper}}, about twice as long as the books that preceded it.
* It's the point which CerebusSyndrome really sets in, as Voldemort returns to power and a significant supporting character becomes a SacrificialLion, all of which is set up by the events of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]''.
* And finally, it's the first book in the series that arrived after Pottermania had gripped the world, making its release a major event in the year's entertainment calendar.
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!!Tropes exclusive to this book or at least especially prominent:
* EightPointEight:[[invoked]] Karkaroff gives Harry's performance in the first task a 4/10, in contrast to the 8's and 9's from the more impartial judges ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Bagman's definitely-partial 10]]). Naturally this provokes outrage from Ron, but Harry doesn't mind too much; he's too happy that [[spoiler: Ron is speaking to him again.]]
* AcademyOfEvil: Durmstrang, though the school itself is more of a DarkIsNotEvil place.
* AgonyBeam: This book introduces the Cruciatus Curse.
* AnachronismStew: A minor case: at the beginning of the book, Harry, in writing a letter to Sirius, makes a remark about Dudley and his PlayStation... in the summer of 1994. The console did not get released in Europe until September the following year. A bit of brilliance perhaps, since if he screamed enough his father could have ordered one from overseas.
* ArmyOfTheDead: [[spoiler:Voldemort's most recent victims (Harry's parents among them) emerge from his wand and block him from pursuing Harry just long enough for Harry to escape.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: During the first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson.
-->''"You need to be prepared. You need to be alert and watchful. You need to put that away, Miss Brown, when I'm talking."\\
Lavender jumped and blushed. She had been showing Parvati her completed horoscope under the desk.''
* AscendedExtra: Cedric Diggory and Cho Chang, both introduced as background characters in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Book 3]], have central roles in this book.
* AssholeVictim
** Barty Crouch, Sr.
** Barty Crouch Jr. in the film.
* BadassTeacher: Moody. [[spoiler:The fake one does a good job at acting the part, and the real one would have been one too if he'd actually been able to do the job.]]
* BeamOWar: A rare effect (their two wands have the same core from the same specific specimen of phoenix) makes Harry's and Voldemort's wands connect and results in an anime-style beam-of-war battle.
* BlindMistake: When Harry reads a letter sent by Sirius and considers its tone too much babying, his response hints at this: "You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls...."
* BloodMagic
* BondVillainStupidity: Near the end of ''Goblet of Fire'', Harry has been disarmed, gagged, and tied securely to a gravestone. Rather than simply killing Harry after using his blood to regain his body, Voldemort not only has Wormtail cut him loose and give him back his wand, but insists on fighting him in a one-to-one duel and forbids interference from any of his Death Eaters, for no other reason than to prove, once and for all, that he is the stronger of the two. Of course the final result of this is that Harry manages to escape Voldemort's attempt on his life, once again through luck, and warn everyone of his resurrection. It was reasonable of Voldemort to assume that Harry was no longer protected by love, but he was unaware of the twin cores. [[spoiler:However, Voldemort does use Harry's escape to his advantage in ''Order of the Phoenix''.]]\\\
Rowling stated that the reason for Voldemort's downfall was mainly because of his over-inflated ego. This scene was foreshadowing all the pride-related mistakes he'd make in the future. Also, RalphFiennes mentioned something about how the scene -- when you strip the magic elements away -- is really just a man humiliating a young boy. Voldemort was gloating over having his body back and wanted to mess with the kid who'd caused him so much trouble over the years. He wasn't exactly using his head at that moment.
* BrickJoke: In one of the first chapters, it is mentioned that a Hufflepuff girl tried to curse her pimples off, and had to have her nose put on again. Later, when the Trio are discussing Yule Ball date possibilities, that same girl is mentioned. Ron says he won't go with her, because her nose is slightly off-center. Mentioned ''again'' in the Yule Ball chapter, only to confirm that [[spoiler:her nose is perfectly fine!]]
* CensorSuds: The prefect bathtub is loaded with suds and bubbles, which come in handy when Moaning Myrtle decides to drop in on Harry.
* ChekhovsGun: The series [[ChekhovsGun/HarryPotter has its own page.]]
* CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator: The foreign officials to Fudge at the Quidditch game.
-->'''Bulgarian Minister of Magic:''' ''(in response to Bulgaria losing the Quidditch World Cup)'' Vell, ve fought bravely...\\
'''Fudge:''' You can speak English?! And you've been letting me mime everything all day!\\
'''Bulgarian Minister of Magic:''' ''(shrugging)'' Vell, it vas very funny...
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: "Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret."
* CoughSnarkCough: Ron accuses Hermione of only liking Cedric because he's handsome. When Hermione claims she doesn't like people just because of their looks, he gives a false cough that sounds oddly like "Lockhart".
* CovertPervert: Moaning Myrtle
* CreepyLongFingers: Voldemort
* DancesAndBalls: The Yule Ball.
* DietEpisode: The Dursley portion of the book involves Dudley being put on a diet.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Junior]], particularly in the movie adaptation.
* DubInducedPlotHole: A small one. When Hermione mentioned that the 1792 Triwizard Tournament was cancelled because of a cockatrice breaking free and injuring the judges, the Dutch edition translates cockatrice as basilisk. But this is impossible, since breeding basilisks is illegal since medieval times. And they certainly don't want to use one of the most deadly creatures ever in a school tournament. Its gaze alone would have killed the entire audience.
* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:Cedric]] asks Harry to retrieve his corpse, and Harry does.
* DungeonBypass: During the third task, Harry blasts a shortcut through the hedge maze when he hears one of the others being tortured. It takes a curse plus a bit of fighting to get through.
* EarlyBirdCameo
** During a trip into Dumbledore's Pensieve, Harry sees the trial of the Lestranges, being especially struck by the fanatic -- and, at this point, unnamed -- Mrs. Lestrange. [[spoiler:Bellatrix]] is an important villain in the later books.
** Much more minor one, but Cedric's father says that a family called the Lovegoods have been at the World Cup for a week.
* TheEndOfTheBeginning: The last chapter is titled "The Beginning".
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: The Beauxbatons students.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Voldemort is later shown to be an offender, but his main agent in this book is ''not''. "Decent people are so easy to manipulate." Although the agent did have a moment. He assumed that Harry would ask everyone for help, but he didn't, because that would be cheating. This forced the agent to play XanatosSpeedChess.
* FandomNod: The pronunciation of "Hermione", which was finally clarified by Hermione herself in this book -- then [[Film/HarryPotter the films]] were released, so everyone knew how to pronounce it anyway.
* FixingTheGame: The Weasley twin subplot is driven by Ludo Bagman's welching.
* FootballHooligans: The Irish after their win at the Quidditch World Cup. [[spoiler:Which accidentally becomes a very convenient cover for the riot the Death Eaters caused at the same night.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** In the first chapter, "I will allow you to perform an essential task for me, one that many of my followers would give their ''right hands'' to perform...."
** [[spoiler:Voldemort's warning to Wormtail when he gives him the silver hand.]]
** [[spoiler:Dumbledore gets "an odd look of triumph" after learning that Harry's blood was used in Voldemort's ressurection spell. It's not until very late in the final book that this pays off.]]
** [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Jr. in disguise as]] Mad Eye saying "If there's one thing I hate, it's a death-eater who walked free." Pays off when it's discovered that [[spoiler:it's not really Mad Eye but a loyal death eater in disguise who said it.]]
* FunWithAcronyms: The '''S'''ociety for the '''P'''romotion of '''E'''lfish '''W'''elfare.
* GutPunch: [[spoiler:Cedric's]] death is this for both the book and the series.
* HateSink: Rita Skeeter
* HedgeMaze: The setting of the third challenge.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: When Barty Crouch was head of Law Enforcement.
* HighSchoolDance: The Yule Ball.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction / InterspeciesRomance
** Hagrid has been secretly breeding manticore/firecrab hybrids called "Blast-Ended Skrewts". The actual creation of magical crossbreeds is forbidden in [[TheVerse the Potterverse]].
** Human variants appear with Fleur Delacour, whose (presumably) human-wizard grandfather married a veela and [[spoiler:Hagrid, who had a wizard father and giantess mother]].
* HypocriticalHumor: Before the Weasleys come to get Harry, Uncle Vernon calls Mrs. Weasley a "Dumpy sort of woman." Harry reacts with private outrage that he dares to call Mrs. Weasley dumpy when Dudley is the size of a small whale.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Padma and Parvati Patil's uniforms.
* IFeelGuiltyYouTakeIt
** Harry offers the Triwizard Cup to Cedric Diggory, because his entrance in the tournament was unfair.
** Harry offers the prize money from the tournament to Cedric's parents, who turn it down. He then gives it to Fred and George Weasley.
* IHaveNoSon: Barty Crouch, Sr. He says this exact line [[spoiler:at his son's trial]].
* ImprobablyPredictable: Harry predicts how Ron and Hermione will react to his dream about Voldemort, and they both react more-or-less exactly as he thought they would.
* INeedYouStronger: The reason for [[spoiler:fake Moody's]] assistance to Harry in the Tri-Wizard's challenges. See XanatosRoulette.
* InevitableTournament: A straight example. A super-dangerous and challenging tournament takes place at Hogwarts, and despite being three years too young, Harry finds himself [[spoiler:forced into]] competing.
* {{Jerkass}}: Rita Skeeter. IntrepidReporter nothing, she seems to live not to tell the truth but to ''humiliate people!'' Case in point: Hermione just for criticizing her, and Hagrid due to him confessing he's half-giant with her deliberately eavesdropping.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: A lot of this, both from Voldemort and [[spoiler:Moody/Crouch]] at the end of the book.
* KaizoTrap: The GiantSpider at the very end of the third task, meant to blindside champions who were focused on the Triwizard Cup ahead. It was only thanks to Harry's yell that poor Cedric wasn't killed[[spoiler:, well, not immediately anyway]].
* KangarooCourt: The trials in the PensieveFlashback are stacked against the defendants. Sirius says he didn't even get that much. However, Ludo Bagman managed to get off, largely because he was a popular Quidditch player, making him [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion acquitted by public opinon]]. We also find out later that [[spoiler:the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr. ''did'' deserve to be tossed in jail]].
* KickTheDog: Snape in the exchange of spells outside the Potions dungeon. After Hermione is hit with a spell that enlarges her already noticeable buck teeth to a cartoonish size (and Goyle's nose having done the same). Snape tells Goyle to go to the hospital wing, and then turns his attention to Hermione when Ron points out that she's been hit with a spell too. Snape says, "I see no difference." Hermione ''runs off crying.''
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Cedric]]
* KnightTemplar: Barty Crouch Sr.
* LadykillerInLove: Viktor Krum, who's surrounded by female admirers for his first few months at Hogwarts, [[spoiler:asks Hermione to the Yule Ball]] because she's the one girl who wasn't throwing herself at his feet.
* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: Still played straight in this book despite [[{{Doorstopper}} being longer than the last three combined.]] The plot is just that complex, and if it's not part of the plot now, [[{{Foreshadowing}} it's bound to come up later]], such as, say, [[spoiler:the entire first chapter.]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The Harry Potter Lexicon speculates that the title of the chapter "The Madness of Mr. Crouch" is a reference to ''Film/TheMadnessOfKingGeorge'', especially since George III is reputed to have mistaken a tree for the King of Prussia, while Crouch mistakes a tree for Percy Weasley.
* LivingLabyrinth: The third task.
* LooseLips: Bertha Jorkins gives Hagrid a run for his money on blabbing secrets. Hagrid at least has enough sense to realize at times that he shouldn't have blabbed; [[TooDumbToLive she doesn't]].
* MeaningfulName
** Beauxbatons means "pretty wands" and that school's crest shows two crossed wands, while Durmstrang is a {{Spoonerism}} of "Sturm (und) Drang", "storm and stress", a German cultural movement.
** Ludo Bagman, who starts as a shifty character and we later learn is actually a bagman. "Ludo" also means "I play" in Latin; Ludo is the Head of Magical Games and Sports.
** ''Rita Skeeter''. Skeeter is an annoying, bloodsucking parasite who thrives on human misery... and so are mosquitoes, a.k.a. skeeters.
* MobileMaze: The third task.
* MoodWhiplash: As said in the description, the series gets ''dark'' after this book. It starts with [[spoiler:Cedric's]] death and goes downhill from there.
* MoralGuardians: It was with this entry that they started coming out in full force against the series. Just as the series became a worldwide phenomenon, it also brought a wave of [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal parents, politicians, and preachers]] raging against the series, accusing it of glorifying witchcraft and Satanism to children, some having burnings of it. Of course, this [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity required them to buy copies to burn]].
* MotiveMisidentification: Throughout the story, everyone thinks that someone put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire in an attempt to get him killed while making it look like an accident. In the end it is revealed that [[spoiler:his name was entered in the hope that he would ''win'', touch the Triwizard Cup, and restore Voldemort to life.]]
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Crouch can't seem to remember that Percy's last name is "Weasley" and not "Weatherby". Fred and George have a lot of fun with this.
* NiceToTheWaiter
** Crouch's treatment of Winky, as lampshaded by Hermione and Sirius. Sirius, oddly, [[spoiler:fails to live up to his own advice]] in the next book, although that was partially to do with [[spoiler:Kreacher being a reminder of the family he hated]].
** Hermione attempts this with the House Elves of Hogwarts. She means well, but it doesn't go over too well.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Harry, when going to the Triwizard cup in the third task, is forced to make a decision of whether to save Cedric Diggory from something in the maze, or to go for the cup. He ultimately decides to save Diggory, and they take the cup together. [[spoiler:Let's just say that Harry really should have left Cedric Diggory behind, [[KilledOffForReal for Cedric's]] [[SacrificialLion own good]].]]
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: Moody mentions explicitly that cheating is a traditional part of the tournament. And Harry even goes out on a limb to help Cedric when it turns out that Cedric was the one person who hadn't had any done in his favor.
* NothingIsScarier: Harry's trek through the hedge maze was rather unnerving because of this. [[spoiler:Crouch Jr. was making sure that he had a clear path to the cup.]]
* NotJustATournament: Doubly subverted. Everyone thinks the tournament is a ruse to kill Harry during the contest. In truth, it is rigged for him to win, so he can be captured at the moment of victory.
* NotMeThisTime: Harry's trio ''did'' steal Polyjuice Potion ingredients from Snape 2 books ago, but they're not the ones who did it this time.
* OffOnATechnicality: The only reason the Muggle authorities didn't convict Frank Bryce for murdering Tom Riddle Senior and his parents (a then human-looking Voldemort was the real culprit) was the fact Muggles cannot establish a cause of death for victims of ''Avada Kedavra''.
* OneHitKill: Although it appeared in the first book, this one gives a name to the flash of green light that Harry kept remembering. It's revealed to be the Killing Curse, ''Avada Kedavra''. (There's a reason this series has its own "ChekhovsGun" page.)
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until Dumbledore calls him "Alastor", it doesn't occur to Harry that "Mad-Eye" isn't Moody's first name.
* OpposingSportsTeam: Refreshingly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with Cedric, Fleur, and Krum, who, whatever their flaws, are pretty decent people and end up having cordial relationships with Harry. [[spoiler:Indeed, by the end of the series Harry and Fleur are in-laws.]]
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: See the page for details.
* OutscareTheEnemy: A group of Death Eaters run amok at the Quidditch World Cup as the Ministry tries in vain to control them. The riot only ends once an unknown person conjures the symbol of Voldemort, from which the Death Eaters immediately retreat. They're more afraid of the punishment they'll get for denouncing Voldemort when he lost his power than they are of the Ministry.
* {{Paparazzi}}: Rita Skeeter
* PartingWordsRegret: Molly Weasley worries about this when the twins have a close call with the Death Eaters.
* PensieveFlashback: The TropeNamer. This book is the first time they're used, at least directly (as Harry notes, the exact same concept previously drove the diary flashback in ''Chamber of Secrets'').
* RedHerring
** [[spoiler:Igor Karkaroff]] basically spends the whole book acting as suspiciously as possible. For readers GenreSavvy enough to know it would never be someone so obvious, [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes Ludo Bagman]] ]] is made a viable suspect with evidence against him occasionally brought up, but nearly always dismissed by the characters as irrelevant.
** We learn about mid-way through the book that Voldemort has a spy at Hogwarts. A little while later, Harry finds out that Snape was accused of being a Death Eater after Voldemort's fall. Is Snape Voldemort's eyes and ears in the school? [[spoiler:No. But he ''was'' a Death Eater.]]
* TheReveal: "It was I who did that."
* RiddlingSphinx: Harry encounters a sphinx in the hedge maze and has to answer a riddle in order to pass by it safely.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: The jury that acquitted [[spoiler:Ludo Bagman]].
* RuleOfThree
** The Triwizard Tournament is a competition between three wizards [[spoiler:though this is later subverted when Harry is chosen as an unprecedented ''fourth'' contestant]], with three rounds.
** Also there are three Unforgivable Curses.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Cedric. Former TropeNamer.]]
* SadistTeacher
** Snape continues the role from the previous books, but really reaches his peak in this book, not even trying to hide his favoritism for his Slytherin students and his bias against the students from the other houses. This is most notable when he not only lets Malfoy off scot-free when he hits Hermione with a charm that makes her front teeth grow huge but then tells her he "sees no difference", causing her to run off crying, then has the nerve to take points from Griffyndor, and then give Harry and Ron detention when they get angry over this. Fortunately, in the next book, Umbridge appears, replacing him in this role and making Snape look not nearly as bad by comparison.
** [[spoiler:Imposter]] Moody briefly becomes this to Malfoy when he turns him into a ferret, until [=McGonagall=] shows up and rebukes him for using CoolAndUnusualPunishment.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Hermione at the Yule Ball.
* ShesAllGrownUp: Again, Hermione at the Yule Ball.
* ShoutOut: Creator/MontyPython. Harry gains entrance to Dumbledore's office by trying various passwords, all of which are different kinds of sweet; the one that actually works, Cockroach Cluster, is a flavour used in the "Whizzo Assortment" sketch. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in that Harry is amazed that it works and insists that he was kidding, which suggests that Harry is in Muggle-world a Monty Python fan. Cockroach Clusters are also shown to be a type of candy in the Harry Potter universe, though not a popular one.
* ShutUpHannibal: Malfoy's boasting speech to Harry at the end of the novel gets interrupted by Harry, Hermione, Ron, Fred, and George blasting off a variety of spells simultaneously. Also see BerserkButton. Qualifies as CrowningMomentOfAwesome
* SpottingTheThread: Dumbledore realizes that [[spoiler:Moody is not the real Moody]] when he removes Harry from his sight.
* SpySpeak: A SubvertedTrope: a Muggle believes that terms such as "Quidditch", "Muggles" and "Ministry of Magic" are codenames used by gangsters or spies, but these are just normal wizarding words.
* StrawmanPolitical: Averted or even subverted. Hermione, after seeing a house-elf get fired for the crime of being terrified, decides that house-elves are "uneducated and brainwashed" slaves and need to be liberated. But when she meets other house-elves, they're quite satisfied with their way of life, claiming that [[GoodFeelsGood virtue is its own reward]]. There's a lot more details on all sides, but the point is that what ''could'' have been some sort of equal rights crusade gets pretty well deflated; if anything, ''Hermione'' ends up looking the fool due to her heavy-handed tactics, which the house-elves find amusing or even insulting. (Later books have Dumbledore pointing out that Hermione generally has the right idea, and Hermione [[CharacterDevelopment gaining a better understanding of house-elf psychology]].)
* TalkAboutThatThing: Used by Hermione as an excuse to get her, Harry, and Ron out of the room before Mrs. Weasley blows up at Fred and George.
* TantrumThrowing: Upon discovering that Fred and George have engorged Dudley's tongue, Uncle Vernon begins throwing things at the Weasleys and Harry, who flee the house via Floo Powder.
* TechnicolorFire: The eponymous object lights up with blue-white fire at the beginning of each tournament. When it's about to spew out the name of an accepted contestant, it turns bright red.
* ThereShouldBeALaw:
-->''Giggling should be made illegal, Harry thought furiously, as all the girls around Cho began doing it.''
* TournamentArc
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Crouch!Moody]], a TournamentArc example.
* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: ''Mega Mutilation Part Three'', a game played by Dudley.
* {{Understatement}}: "Potentially problematic? When was the last time you held your breath underwater for an hour, Hermione?"
* UnscaledMerfolk: Viktor become half shark for the undersea challenge. It's later revealed that he messed the transfiguration up, and apparently one of the teachers had to put him back to normal. Giving himself only a shark's head was on purpose, since wizards who completely transform themselves without being an animagus lose their humanity. Not being able to say the incantation to turn himself back with a shark's mouth, however, was pretty straight DidntThinkThisThrough.
* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Jr.'s motive. Since he'll [[FreudianExcuse never have approval from his own father]] he is seeking it from his substitute father figure: Voldemort.]]
* WhiteMansBurden: Hermione's house-elf liberation subplot is basically this. Somewhat unusually for this trope, it's portrayed in-universe as a bad thing, and she gets called on it by practically everyone. Even an attentive reader can notice the inherent [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] of her cause: launching a house-elf freedom campaign on her own for the benefit of other elves without so much as ''asking'' for their help, forcing them into unwanted freedom. She also bases her entire view of house-elves on Dobby, whose views on freedom, payment and clothing are quite different than the average elf. And she [[ComicallyMissingThePoint completely misses the point]] about why house-elves are unhappy -- their working conditions, not the work itself or lack of pay.
* WhyDontYouMarryIt: Percy just won't stop gushing about Mr. Crouch. Ron's waiting for them to announce their engagement.
* WitchHunt: The trials, or lack thereof for Sirius, of suspected Death Eaters at the Ministry.
* WronskiFeint: The TropeNamer.
* XanatosRoulette: [[spoiler:The whole Tri-Wizard Tournament is hijacked by the scattered remnants of Voldemort's followers for the sole purpose of kidnapping Harry Potter by having him touch a object that would magically teleport him away to their SupervillainLair. Their overly elaborate plan hinges not only on manipulating the title Goblet of Fire to draw Harry's name -- an act that immediately draws suspicion since it violates half a dozen Tri-Wizard rules -- but also on Harry's '''winning''' (and, for that matter, surviving) a multi-stage tournament that culminates in an obstacle course through a large maze. Surely there had to be a simpler way to get to Harry.]]
* XanatosSpeedChess: [[spoiler:Fake Moody]] had to change his plans when Harry didn't ask Neville for help.
* YoureInsane: Harry's response to [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Jr.'s]] MotiveRant.
* YourMom: Malfoy insults Ron's mother and Harry responds by insulting Malfoy's mother:
-->'''Malfoy:''' Oh yeah, you were staying with them this summer, weren’t you, Potter? So tell me, is his mother really that porky, or is it just the picture?\\
'''Harry:''' You know your mother, Malfoy? That expression she’s got, like she’s got dung under her nose? Has she always looked like that, or was it just because you were with her?
* ZombieAdvocate: Hermione for House Elves, via S.P.E.W.
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