History Nightmarefuel / HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire

* [[FateWorseThanDeath The final fate of Barty Crouch Jr.]] Thanks to Cornelius Fudge being too [[DirtyCoward spineless]] to even feel able to face an already neutralized criminal without backup, he brings a Dementor with him and according to [=McGonagall=], it ''immediately'' swoops down on Crouch Jr. and he suffers the Dementor's Kiss, reducing him to an EmptyShell. Even ''Harry'', who has ''just'' been rescued from being killed by Crouch, feels [[AlasPoorVillain a chill]] when he hears what happened...

** When Nagini speaks in the film adaption, it sounds way too human. [[FridgeBrilliance Thirteen years later, [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald we find out that there may have been a good reason for this.]]

** "It looked as though Wormtail had flipped over a rock and revealed something ugly, slimy, and blind. Only worse, a hundred times worse. [...] A crouched human child, only Harry had never seen anything that looked less like a child. It was hairless and scaly-looking, a dark, raw, reddish black. Its arms and legs were thin and feeble and its face--no child alive had ever had a face like that--flat and snakelike, with gleaming red eyes."

** When Nagini speaks in the film adaption, it sounds way too human. [[FridgeBrilliance Thirteen years and several films later,]] [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald we find out that there may have been a good reason for this.]]

* The fact that Harry knows many of the Death Eaters present at the Graveyard, four of them are the fathers of his classmates(and in the case of three of them, bullies) whilst another is an executioner. Harry also learns that one of his OWN TEACHERS was a Death Eater, it really brings you a sense of paranoia that must have been present during the first war, where many of Voldemort’s followers remained anonymous and weren’t caught.

** And, last but not least, ''[[OneHitKill Avada Kedavra]]'' AKA the Killing Curse. Lily and James sacrificed themselves to this to protect a baby Harry, and Harry sees it hit Cedric and later Dumbledore with his own eyes. The utter horror of the Killing Curse is just too mind-boggling to think, especially for Muggles. Imagine: It is a spell that is cast specifically to ''kill''. It's like shooting point-blank with a pistol, except that pistol kills because the bullet it shoots wreaks havoc on the body, which depending on which region of the body it hits and how fast it's going, may not always [[OnlyAFleshWound end with fatality]] (though as the word says: "When you shoot, you shoot to kill"). The primary characteristic of the Killing Curse (and why it is so handy to Dark Wizards) is that ''it leaves no biological damage''. Once you are hit by the green flash (which you will hear coming as a gush of wind), you just drop dead, your internal organs being as the same before, except that they immediately stop functioning. Not even wizards know why exactly it happens; imagine having to explain it to Muggles who have absolutely no idea why their neighbors suddenly have their life-force ripped from them as if the beings above stripped them of their right to live.

** And, last but not least, ''[[OneHitKill Avada Kedavra]]'' AKA the Killing Curse. Lily and James sacrificed themselves to this to protect a baby Harry, and Harry sees it hit Cedric and later Dumbledore with his own eyes. The utter horror of the Killing Curse is just too mind-boggling to think, especially for Muggles. Imagine: It is a spell that is cast specifically to ''kill''. It's like shooting with a pistol, except that pistol kills because it inflicts messy biological damages, which may not always [[OnlyAFleshWound happen with fatality]] (though as the word says: "When you shoot, you shoot to kill"). The primary characteristic of the Killing Curse (and why it is so handy to Dark Wizards) is that ''it leaves no biological damage''. Once you are hit by the green flash (which you will hear coming as a gush of wind), you just drop dead, your internal organs being as the same before, except that they immediately stop functioning. Not even wizards know why exactly it happens; imagine having to explain it to Muggles who have absolutely no idea why their neighbors suddenly have their life-force ripped from them as if the beings above stripped them of their right to live.

* [[FateWorseThanDeath The final fate of Barty Crouch Jr.]] Thanks to Cornelius Fudge being too [[DirtyCoward spineless]] to even feel able to face an already neutralized criminal without backup, he brings a Dementor with him and according to [=McGonagall=], it ''immediately'' swoops down on Crouch Jr. and he suffers the Dementor's Kiss, reducing him to an EmptyShell. Even ''Harry'', who has ''just'' been rescued from being killed by Crouch, feels [[AlasPoorVillain a chill]] when he hears what happened...

** When Nagini speaks in the film adaption, it sounds [[UncannyValley way too human]]. [[FridgeBrilliance Thirteen years and several films later,]] [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald we find out that there may have been a good reason for this.]]

** The scene where "Moody" tortures the spider is one of the most disturbing scenes in the series when put into context. Crouch Jr. was convicted as one of the Death Eaters who tortured Neville's parents into insanity, and now he is performing the same thing on a spider in front of their son Neville just to torment him, under the guise of being a concerned teacher preparing the class for life, causing him to stare at the scene in horror with wide open eyes and his knuckles white from gripping the desk. Hermione even begs for the "Moody" to stop torturing it, which leads into... [[spoiler: ''[[OneHitKill AVADA]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath KEDAVRA!]]'']]. It's creepy and disturbing enough as it is, but is it possible to come to this scene with context without having nightmares?

** And then there's Crouch Sr.'s response. "You are no son of mine! IHaveNoSon!"

** When Nagini speaks in the film adaption, it sounds [[UncannyValley way too human]].[[FridgeBrilliance Thirteen years and several films later,]] [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald we find out that there may have been a good reason for this.]]

* [[FateWorseThanDeath The final fate of Barty Crouch Jr.]] Thanks to Cornelius Fudge being too [[DirtyCoward spineless]] to even feel able to face an already neutralized criminal without backup, he brings a Dementor with him and according to McGonagall, it ''immediately'' swoops down on Crouch Jr. and he suffers the Dementor's Kiss, reducing him to an EmptyShell. Even ''Harry'', who has ''just'' been rescued from being killed by Crouch, feels [[AlasPoorVillain a chill]] when he hears what happened...

** Along with the reminder that the right potion is enough to allow the user to impersonate any human and that could be anyone, not only a group of schoolchildren who wish to play heroes but also murderous cultists working as undercover agents. Hell, Crouch Jr.'s sheer uncanny ability to impersonate a trusted authority figure for months on end, and to play on Harry's desire for a parental figure, is also chilling.

* [[FateWorseThanDeath The final fate of Barty Crouch Jr.]] Thanks to Cornelius Fudge ignoring Dumbledore's orders, he brings a dementor with him and without any hesitation, he sets it upon Crouch Jr. and he suffers the Dementor's Kiss, reducing him to an EmptyShell.

** Along with the reminder that the right potion is enough to allow the user to impersonate any human and that could be anyone, not only a group of schoolchildren who wish to play heroes but also murderous cultists working as undercover agents.

* [[FateWorseThanDeath The final fate of Barty Crouch Jr.]. Thanks to Cornelius Fudge ignoring Dumbledore's orders, he brings a dementor with him and without any hesitation, he sets it upon Crouch Jr. and he suffers the Dementor's Kiss, reducing him to an EmptyShell.

* [[FateWorseThanDeath The final fate of Barty Crouch Jr.]] is one that ''no one'' deserves, no matter how awful they are. Thanks to Cornelius Fudge ignoring Dumbledore's orders, he brings a dementor with him and without any hesitation, he sets it upon Crouch Jr. and he suffers the Dementor's Kiss, reducing him to an EmptyShell.

* Voldemort's return. It's not just the fact that he's done something incredibly dark to return. And not just the fact he killed a seventeen-year-old boy whom he saw as spare weight. It's because of what this MEANS. ''Avada Kedavra'' doesn't have just ONE survivor. It has TWO. One of which is THE MOST evil and vile wizard of the past century, a monster who started a war because he wanted to rule over everything. Seeing it in the film and reading it in the book doesn't change ANYTHING about what it means. And imagine Harry seeing him not in another person's body, not as a child, but what was most likely him as he looked at the height of his power, the same monster that killed his parents.

** And then his corpse is transformed into a bone and buried so it can never be found. And all this was done by his own ''son''.

** They magically levitate the family of Muggles and rotate the wife such that [[PantyShot her underwear is exposed]. It just gets worse when the Trio runs into Malfoy, who smugly informs the Muggle-born Hermione that they're targeting Muggles. From that point on, it was impossible to ignore [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the real-world subtext of this series]].

* The film version of Harry returning to the stadium with Cedric's body is both this and a TearJerker; everyone initially believes that this means Harry and Cedric were victorious and starts celebrating, the crowd cheering, Professor Flitwick starting the band and everything. Then Fleur gets a better look at the state the two are in and ''screams'' the minute she realizes what really happened...* Fake!Moody reverting into Crouch Jr. and clawing at his own eye... because another eye is trying to grow in the place of the magical eye Moody had to replace his lost one. And FridgeHorror sets in that at one time, he had to go through the reverse process: turning a perfectly-functional eye into an empty socket.

** The scene where "Moody" tortures the spider is one of the most disturbing scenes in the series when put into context. Crouch Jr. was convicted as one of the Death Eaters who tortured Neville's parents into insanity, and now he is performing the same thing on a spider in front of their son Neville just to torment him, under the guise of being a concerned teacher preparing the class for life. Hermione even begs for the "Moody" to stop torturing it, which leads into... [[spoiler: ''[[OneHitKill AVADA]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath KEDAVRA!]]'']]

** They magically levitate the family of Muggles, and rotate the wife such that [[PantyShot her underwear is exposed]. It just gets worse when the Trio runs into Malfoy, who smugly informs the Muggle-born Hermione that they're targeting Muggles. From that point on, it was impossible to ignore [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the real-world subtext of this series]].

*** Oh, and it gets worse. These particular Death Eaters likely aren't strangers to Malfoy. The fathers of his two lackeys were probably there. Hell, ''his own dad'' was there, as Voldemort later says that Lucius' antics at the World Cup were entertaining.

** And, last but not least, ''[[OneHitKill Avada Kedavra]]'' AKA the Killing Curse. Lily and James sacrificed themselves to this to protect a baby Harry, and Harry sees it hit Cedric and later Dumbledore with his own eyes. The utter horror of the Killing Curse is just too mind-boggling to think, especially for Muggles. Imagine: It is a spell that is cast specifically to ''kill''. It's like shooting with a pistol, except that pistol kills because it inflicts messy biological damages, which may not always [[OnlyAFleshWound happen with fatality]] (though as the word says: "When you shoot, you shoot to kill"). The primary characteristic of the Killing Curse (and why it is so handy to Dark Wizards) is that ''it leaves no biological damage''. Once you are hit by the green flash (which you will hear coming as a gush of wind), you just drop dead, your internal organs being as the same before, except that they immediately stop functioning. Not even wizards know why exactly it happens; imagine having to explain it to Muggles who have absolutely no idea why their neighbors suddenly have their life-force ripped from them, as if the beings above stripped them of their right to live.

*** The only time the effects of the curse are described in detail is in the opening of ''Goblet of Fire'', when Voldemort's human family are described as having looks of abject terror on their faces, as if they had been frightened to death.

** "It looked as though Wormtail had flipped over a rock and revealed something ugly, slimy, and blind. Only worse, a hundred times worse. [...] A crouched human child, only Harry had never seen anything that looked less like a child. It was hairless and scaly looking, a dark, raw, reddish black. Its arms and legs were thin and feeble and its face--no child alive had ever had a face like that--flat and snakelike, with gleaming red eyes."

* Voldemort's resurrection scene is much more nightmarish in the film than in the book. The Riddle gravestone is a statue of a skeletal Angel of Death which Wormtail [[AnimateInanimateObject animates]] to trap Harry with its scythe, rather than tying the boy to a plain gravestone. Instead of just a bit of dust, a femur bone is levitated from Tom Riddle Sr.'s grave and ignites as it falls into the potion, and a few drops of Harry's blood is dripped off the knife with which Wormtail cut him and not more collected into a vial.
** The film version is probably Creator/RalphFiennes' best performance as Voldemort. He speaks calmly and gently, even when talking about how he's going to kill Harry to prove his strength. Even his request to not wear contacts works, because seeing his natural blue eyes makes you remember he {{was once a man}}, but not anymore...
*** Worth considering: Voldemort had no body at the beginning of the novel. By the time he arrives in the Little Hangleton graveyard, he has acquired the one described above from ''[[NothingIsScarier somewhere]]''. Voldemort and Wormtail made what has since been referred to as the [[https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Rudimentary_body_potion potion]] [[EyeOfNewt made with unicorn blood and venom from his devoted Nagini]], but the books' editor put her foot down at Rowling's plans to reveal the full process in [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary material]], because it was apparently ''too'' disturbing. Voldemort's body was incredibly feeble and required the potion regularly to sustain himself and the result was still [[HumanoidAbomination a deformed, monstrous excuse for a human body]].

** They magically levitate the family of Muggles, and rotate the wife such that her underwear is exposed. It just gets worse when the Trio runs into Malfoy, who smugly informs the Muggle-born Hermione that they're targeting Muggles. From that point on, it was impossible to ignore [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the real-world subtext of this series]].

** They magically levitate the family of Muggles, and rotate the wife such that [[PantyShot her underwear is exposed]]. It just gets worse when the Trio runs into Malfoy, who smugly informs the Muggle-born Hermione that they're targeting Muggles. From that point on, it was impossible to ignore [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the real-world subtext of this series]].

** And, last but not least, ''[[OneHitKill Avada Kedavra]]'' AKA the Killing Curse. [[AdultFear Lily and James sacrificed themselves to this to protect a baby Harry]], and Harry sees it hit Cedric and later Dumbledore with his own eyes. The utter horror of the Killing Curse is just too mind-boggling to think, especially for Muggles. Imagine: It is a spell that is cast specifically to ''kill''. It's like shooting with a pistol, except that pistol kills because it inflicts messy biological damages, which may not always [[OnlyAFleshWound happen with fatality]] (though as the word says: "When you shoot, you shoot to kill"). The primary characteristic of the Killing Curse (and why it is so handy to Dark Wizards) is that ''it leaves no biological damage''. Once you are hit by the green flash (which you will hear coming as a gush of wind), you just drop dead, your internal organs being as the same before, except that they immediately stop functioning. Not even wizards know why exactly it happens; imagine having to explain it to Muggles who have absolutely no idea why their neighbors suddenly have their life-force ripped from them, as if the beings above stripped them of their right to live.