History Literature / HarryPotterAndTheGobletofFire

-->'''Barty Crouch, Sr.:''' You have now come very close to accusing the two people in this clearing who are least likely to conjure that Mark! competing.

* FailedASpotCheck: Play for drama after Harry asks Dumbledore if the final Pensieve flashback was discussing Neville's parents. A surprised Dumbledore asks if Neville's never told his friends about why he's been brought up by his Grandmother. Harry confirms he hasn't, then realizes then realizes that despite knowing Neville for nearly 4 years, he'd never really noticed this or thought to ask Neville about it.

** Arthur Weasley is clearly annoyed at Fred and George slipping Dudley one of the Ton-Tongue Toffees, but seems to want to keep it from their mother, showing he didn't think it was that bad.

* LongTitle: When Hermione creates the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare to help house-elves, she initially calls it Stop the Outrageous Abuse of Our Fellow Magical Creatures and Campaign for a Change in Their Legal Status. Realizing that SOAOFMCCCTLS won't fit on a badge, she instead makes it the heading of her manifesto. Later, when complaining about the fact that ''Hogwarts: A History'' never mentions that there are over 100 house-elves working at Hogwarts without pay, she suggests a couple of alternate titles for the book, one of them being ''A Highly Biased and Selective History of Hogwarts Which Glosses Over the Nastier Aspects of the School''.

* BuryMeNotOnTheLonePrairie: Cedric's ghost asks Harry to take his body back to his parents.

* CensorSuds: The prefect bath is loaded with suds and bubbles, which come in handy when Moaning Myrtle decides to drop in on Harry. Myrtle lampshades this, saying "nearly all the bubbles had gone", when Cedric was in the bath. Despite this, Harry is [[NakedFreakOut embarrassed enough]] to [[HandOrObjectUnderwear cover up his groin with his hands]] on reflex, and later wraps himself with a ModestyTowel and gets into the water with it so he can think about the egg with Myrtle without worrying about his modesty.

* ChewOutFakeOut: Moody overhears Harry warning Cedric that the First Task is dragons, and asks to talk with Mr. Potter. Harry braces himself because he's not supposed to know anything about the First Task...and Moody praises him for being a decent and fair competitor. He says that generally it's every witch or wizard competitor for themselves in the Triwizard Tournament, and cheating is a long-time tradition. In fact, Moody wanted to make sure Harry had a strategy for getting past the dragons. [[spoiler:Of course, we learn that Moody had an especially good reason to make sure Harry survived: so as to make it to the graveyard for Voldemort's resurrection with the Third Task]].
* ChildProdigy: Viktor Krum has been playing Quidditch long enough to be well-known as an international star, but he's only eighteen and hasn't left school yet.

** The entire plot of the book turns out to be a scheme by [[spoiler:Barty Crouch, Jr.]] to deliver Harry Potter to a certain place at a certain time via Portkey. Left unanswered is why [[spoiler:Crouch Jr.]] couldn't have just kidnapped Harry, or turned any old object in his office into a Portkey and arranged for Harry to pick it up. (Dumbledore does this in the next book when he has to get Harry and the Weasleys out of Hogwarts in a hurry.)

** If Bertha Jorkins had not been on holiday in Albania and gone to the same inn as [[spoiler: Wormtail]] at exactly the same time, it is unlikely that [[spoiler: Voldemort]] would have learned about the Triwizard Tournament or Moody's appointment at Hogwarts; the two key facets of information that his master plan is formed from.

** In a throwaway line, Moody is said to track some passing girls with his magic eye. [[spoiler:The real Moody would probably never do this. But Barty Crouch Jr., who's only in his early 30s, would.]]

* CrazyPrepared: Dumbledore announces that he has placed an age restriction on the Goblet of Fire, to prevent students under seventeen from entering. Fred and George Weasley try to enter their names anyway, thinking they can outsmart one of the most powerful wizards of all time by using an Ageing Potion. They soon learn better. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the Goblet still isn't immune to the Confundus Charm]].

** Charlie mentions that the English and Scottish national teams lost by wide margins in the qualifying rounds (England were crushed 390-10 by Transylvania).
* CutenessProximity: Parvati and Lavender go into "transports of delight" during Hagrid's lesson on unicorn foals. Not even Pansy Parkinson is immune either, despite trying to appear otherwise.

* DancesAndBalls: The Yule Ball is a Christmas dance attended by the students of Hogwarts and their guests from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons. Since Harry is in a life-or-death competition with them while his friends are stuck in a life-or-death love triangle, the dance provides much comedic tension and teenage angst.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Invoked; Moody at Karkaroff's trial was grumpy about how he might get a shorter prison sentence due to knowing information, after it took months to catch him. He says to just hear the information and toss him back to the Dementors. This actually makes Dumbledore argue with Moody that no one deserves the Dementors.

* PronouncingMyNameForYou: Hermione pronounces her name correctly for Viktor Krum, a foreign student, as he's unfamiliar with it.[[note]]In reality, JK Rowling intentionally wrote this for the benefit of the reader, as there had hitherto been confusion over the correct pronunciation.[[/note]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He may be called Mad-Eye, but Professor Moody ends up being quite reasonable. Moody praises the students for being honorable, noble and hard-working while testing their defense against curses and telling them that they need to know how the world works. Consider how he treats Karkaroff and Snape versus how he treats Bagman; the former two were Death Eaters, while Bagman was accused of being one. Moody brought in Karkaroff personally and was annoyed that he was getting a reduced sentence, and he treats Snape with disdainful hostility. In contrast, he's pretty civil with Bagman in the present when the latter is a government official. [[spoiler:Crouch Jr. as fake Moody revealed these feelings were NotAnAct; he does hate Karkaroff and Snape for defecting, and knew that Bagman was an idiot]]. Moody admitted at Bagman's trial that he thinks that the kid (at the time) was an idiot and not truly malevolent when talking to Rookwood and inadvertently being part of a spy ring; the way that Bagman describes it, Rookwood led him on believing that he would get the kid a job at the Ministry and Bagman had no idea the man was a Death Eater.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dumbledore gives one to Fudge in the penultimate chapter, which is quoted at the top of this page. He even calls Fudge and Voldemort [[NotSoDifferentRemark no different]] in the excerpt and points out precisely the Minister's FatalFlaw that will cause a vital year to be lost in stopping the Dark Lord's progress.

** Midway through the book, Harry witnesses Bartemius Crouch [[spoiler:sneaking out of Snape's office]] on the Marauder's Map. The PowerTrio spend the rest of the book wondering why an ill rule-abider from the Ministry would do such a reckless thing. [[spoiler:We later find out that it was Barty Crouch, ''Jr.,'' stealing Polyjuice ingredients. The Marauder's Map is not fooled by Polyjuice, but it also can't distinguish two people using the same name.]]

* TheReveal: The villain who put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire, putting him in a deadly, rewarding tournament, says "It was I who did that." [[spoiler:This is spoken by Mad-Eye Moody, Harry's new mentor during the year, who also reveals that he's actually a long-thought-dead servant of the Dark Lord who magically kidnapped and impersonated Mad-Eye as part of a plan to kill Harry and restore the Dark Lord to power.]]
* RewatchBonus: When rereading the book, all of Mad-Eye Moody's actions take on a new meaning with knowledge that [[spoiler:he's actually Barty Crouch, Jr]]. For example, why is Moody so startled by the Marauder's Map, and why does he confiscate it from Harry? Because [[spoiler:Crouch, Jr.]] realizes that the map is not fooled by Polyjuice, and it nearly revealed and still could reveal who he really is (and ''would'' reveal who he is if Harry got a look at it at that moment).

** Moody [[spoiler:/ Crouch Jr.]] briefly becomes this to Malfoy when he turns Malfoy into a ferret, until [=McGonagall=] shows up and rebukes him for using a CoolAndUnusualPunishment.

** During the Yule Ball chapter, the Beauxbations carriage is described to look like "a giant frosted pumpkin", like the carriage in Cinderella.

* SingingInTheShower: When Harry opens up his egg to reveal the clue for the second task of the Triwizard Tournament, there's a screechy wailing and George says that it sounds like Percy singing, saying that Harry may have to attack him while he's in the shower. This would imply that Percy sings, albeit poorly.

* SkewedPriorities: Skeeter cares very little about the real possibility of Hagrid illegally breeding magical creatures for his class, giving it little more than a cursory nod in her article on him - [[FantasticRacism instead focusing on his half-giant heritage.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: This is the point in the series where Harry seriously starts to improve as a spellcaster. In [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone book one]], Harry is never seen casting a single spell successfully. In [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets book two]], he performs a spell here and there, but nothing particularly noteworthy. It takes him most of book three just to master one spell, which, though 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 the Stunning Spell, ''Stupefy'', his most powerful battle spell.

* ZombieAdvocate: Hermione becomes indignant at how wizards treat the servant race known as house-elves and starts an organisation preaching freedom for these elves called S.P.E.W. Hermione's incessant campaigning pushes away anyone from joining her group, especially since the house-elves want to act like servants and don't want the freedom Hermione is pushing.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Retroactive one with Snape after the revelations of ''Deathly Hallows''. [[spoiler: Judging from Snape's reaction to Sirius' presence in the Hospital Wing, Dumbledore did ''not'' reveal the truth that Wormtail, not Sirius, helped Voldemort kill Lily in the interim since the last book. It's probably justified, as the entire incident demonstrated to Dumbledore that Snape lost all emotiona control and objectivity; he ''couldn't'' be trusted with that information at the time. Now with the Second War's opening salvos, it's time to reveal the turth.]]

* AlcholInducedIdiocy: Arthur theorizes this is why the Death Eaters pulled their stunt at the Quidditch World Cup. He thinks they all got drunk during the post-game victory celebration and decided to have a bit of fun (and rub it in the faces of the Wizarding community that they were still out there and free even after Voldemort's fall).

* ReducedToRatburgers: Sirius mentions, upon meeting the trio in a cave outside Hogsmeade, about having to eat rats and other stuff while on the run from the ministry. At least it could be said that being in dog form while doing so would make it more bearable, but he still chomps on the food the kids bring him when they meet. Harry then makes sure to have owls bring extra food to him regularly for the rest of the school year, and Ron remarks on Sirius' diet upon catching a whiff of Elf-made dinner at Hogwarts after they return.

* MotiveMisidentification: ZigZaggingTrope. Throughout the story, everyone thinks someone put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire in an attempt to get him killed and MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. 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. The plan was then to kill Harry and send his corpse back, playing it off as if an inexperienced fourteen-year-old died in a Tournament accident]].

* ImagineSpot:
** When told about splinching, Harry briefly imagines [[AnArmAndALeg a pair of legs]] and [[EyeScream an eyeball]] lying abandoned on Privet Drive.
** When told that he is to open the Yule Ball's dancing, Harry has one of himself in a top hat and tails with a girl dressed in a salmon-coloured dress like the ones Aunt Petunia wears to Uncle Vernon's parties.

* InevitableTournament: A straight example. A super-dangerous and challenging tournament takes place at Hogwarts, and despite being three years too young, Harry finds himself forced into competing.

* WhatAnIdiot: In-universe. Barty Crouch Sr. and Arthur Weasley tear Amos Diggory a new one for implying that ''Harry Potter'' conjured the ''CallingCard of the wizard who killed his parents and has wanted him dead his whole life''. Diggory himself quickly realizes how idiotic his line of thinking was and becomes quite embarrassed at the fact that he actually said it. He then gets this again when he accuses Winky, and Crouch Sr. points out that Amos is accusing ''him'' by default, when Crouch's words and deeds show his fervent hatred of the Dark Arts and Death Eaters.
-->'''Barty Crouch, Sr.:''' You have now come very close to accusing the two people in this clearing who are least likely to conjure that Mark!

* AcademyOfEvil: Durmstrang, though the school itself is more of a DarkIsNotEvil place. Karkaroff is a former Death Eater, and [[UnreliableExpositor Draco Malfoy]] claims they don't admit Muggle-borns, but most of the actual students seem to be decent people. In some scenes, they come off as ''less'' snobbish than their Beauxbatons counterparts and nicer than the Slytherins.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Viktor Krum's trouble pronouncing Hermione's name serves to clear this out.[[note]]Interestingly, the Bulgarian translator successfully avoided this trope back in the first book -- Hermione's transliterated name was spelled in FunetikAksent and the only mispronunciation possible would be via AccentUponTheWrongSyllable, which she prevented by adding a stress to her name when it was first mentioned. This also makes Krum's mistakes something of a case of RealityIsUnrealistic where Bulgarian readers are concerned.[[/note]]

** Midway through the book, Harry witnesses Bartemius Crouch [[spoiler:sneaking out of Snape's office]] on the Marauder's Map. The PowerTrio spend the rest of the book wondering why an ill rule-abider from the Ministry would do such a reckless thing. [[spoiler:We later find out that it was Barty Crouch, Jr. stealing Polyjuice ingredients. The Marauder's Map is not fooled by Polyjuice, but it also can't distinguish two people using the same name.]]

* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: Harry ruins his chances of winning the second task by trying to rescue everyone because he took it so seriously that he didn't realize they weren't really in danger. As Ron points out, everyone in charge has been going to great lengths to ensure that no one dies during this iteration of the tournament, so it was obvious they wouldn't just leave the hostages underwater if the champions didn't get there in time.