History TearJerker / HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire

** During his eulogy, the camera pans over the faces of the students, most of whom are upset or outright weeping. Hermione's eyes and nose are swollen from crying, Harry looks about two seconds away from having yet another breakdown, and even [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness the Weasley twins]] are subdued and melancholy for once. In another shot, one of the Phellps twins is very visibly crying.

** During his eulogy, the camera pans over the faces of the students, most of whom are upset or outright weeping. Hermione's eyes and nose are swollen from crying, Harry looks about two seconds away from having yet another breakdown, and even [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness the Weasley twins]] are subdued and melancholy for once. In another shot, George is very visibly crying.

-->''Today, we acknowledge... a really terrible loss. Cedric Diggory was, as you all know... exceptionally hardworking... infinitely fair-minded... and most importantly, a fierce, fierce friend. Now I think therefore you have the right to know exactly how he died. You see... Cedric Diggory was '''murdered''' by Lord Voldemort! The Ministry of Magic does not wish me to tell you this. But not to do so, I think, would be an insult to his memory. Now the pain we all at this dreadful loss reminds me... and reminds us... that while we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one. In light of recent events, the bonds of friendship we made this year will more important than ever. Remember that, and Cedric Diggory would not have died in vain. You remember that, and we'll celebrate a boy who was... kind and honest and brave and true, right to the very end.''

* Harry mentions that it's Voldemort and the Death Eaters' fault for destroying families: mentally shattering Neville's parents; implying that they hurt one of Hannah Abbott's parents; killing Moaning Myrtle; ruining the Crouch family; killing most of the Tonks family; forcing the Malfoy family to be separated; and killing Harry's parents, godparent, and James's friends.

* Rita Skeeter causing drama with her articles. Apart from the tripe on the first article on Harry, we see a few scenes where other characters are affected by the articles too. The first of them, which was released in January 4h, reveals that Hagrid is half-giant and includes Draco Malfoy's idiotic declarations that Crabbe was bitten by a Flobberworm (which doesn't even have teeth and is harmless and boring), with hate mail letters from parents full of prejudices, and later on, he reveals the content of a couple of those letters, which show istigation to commit suicide (that he should jump in a lake, and knowing how big and heavy Hagrid is, it would drag him on the bottom and drown him to death) or declaring that someone should just kill him already. This upset Hagrid so much that he shut himself in his hut and stopped coming to meals or teaching for over a week and wanted to resign, only for Dumbledore to refuse his resignation. Then, just two months later, on March 5th, Skeeter writes yet another article in which she makes it seem like Hermione is the bad girl and writing nonsense about a love that she created by toying with Harry and Viktor Krum's hearts, resulting in Howlers and hate mail from Witch Weekly readers with insults, threats of curses and even a letter that spattered undiluited bubotuber pus, leaving her with boils on her hands, and even Mrs Weasley ended up believing it. The hate mail Hagrid got was even worse. Lastly, towards the end of the year, Harry faints during a Divination lesson and has a vision involving Voldemort, and Rita's article makes Harry seem like he's mentally disturbed and a liar, with Cornelius Fudge's denialism towards Voldemort's return in late June only making it even worse. This one had dire consequences over the course of the months, and few people believed Harry when he had to explain what happened and how Cedric was killed. At least Hermione made her pay for it.

* Rita Skeeter causing drama with her articles. Apart from the tripe on the first article on Harry, we see a few scenes where other characters are affected by the articles too. The first of them, which was released in January 4h, reveals that Hagrid is half-giant and includes Draco Malfoy's idiotic declarations that Crabbe was bitten by a Flobberworm (which doesn't even have teeth and is harmless and boring), with hate mail letters from parents full of prejudices, and later on, he reveals the content of a couple of those letters, which show istigation to commit suicide (that he should jump in a lake, and knowing how big and heavy Hagrid is, it would drag him on the bottom and drown him to death) or declaring that someone should just kill him already. This upset Hagrid so much that he shut himself in his hut and stopped coming to meals or teaching for over a week and wanted to resign, only for Dumbledore to refuse his resignation. Then, just two months later, on March 5th, Skeeter writes yet another article in which she makes it seem like Hermione is the bad girl and writing nonsense about a love that she created by toying with Harry and Viktor Krum's hearts, resulting in Howlers and hate mail from Witch Weekly readers with insults, threats of curses and even a letter that spattered undiluited bubotuber pus, leaving her with boils on her hands, and even Mrs Weasley ended up believing it. The hate mail Hagrid got was even worse. Lastly, towards the end of the year, Harry faints during a Divination lesson and has a vision involving Voldemort, and Rita's article makes Harry seem like he's mentally disturbed and a liar, with Cornelius Fudge's denialism towards Voldemort's return in late June only making it even worse. This one had dire consequences over the course of the months, and few people believed Harry when he had to explain what happened and how Cedric was killed. At least Hermione made her pay.

* Cedric's death is tragic, not just because he's been such a NiceGuy and a WorthyOpponent, but because it's senseless. Voldemort isn't even having Wormtail kill him out of malice; just convenience.

* Moody was locked, {{bound and gagged}}, inside his own trunk for ''ten months''. For someone generally so gruff, he's a very sympathetic, almost woobie-ish character by the end of the book.

[[folder:From the Book]]

* Sirius having to leave Harry again in the aptly-titled chapter "The Parting of The Ways". Afterwards Harry, who was finally starting to feel a bit better, becomes depressed again.

** This is awful on so many levels, because while Harry doesn't constantly angst over not having parents, the degree to which that void is felt in his life really comes through in times of crisis. In fact, he's grown so used to ''not'' having adults in his life that being genuinely cared about feels sort of foreign to him.

-->'''Dumbledore:''' If the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.
** Just ... Cho, full-stop. Imagine being all of fifteen-years-old and seeing your boyfriend cold and dead on the ground. Despite the fact that their relationship wasn't given much focus, both in the films and the books, it's clear that they cared for each other very much, to the point that she was the person that Cedric would miss most for the Second Task.

** Making it even more tragic is that when Crouch Sr. appears in his insane state and thinks he's talking with co-workers. He brags about Barty obtaining twelve O.W.L.S., demonstrating that he was still proud of his adolescent son's accomplishments even if he didn't spend so much time with him. One wonders how Barty might've turned out had he heard these words when he was younger or knew about how often his father discussed him at the office.

-->''And now another head was emerging from the tip of Voldemort's wand... and Harry knew when he saw it who it would be... knew, because the woman was the one he'd thought of more than any other tonight...''
** In the first printings, it's actually James coming out of the wand. The version with Lily is arguably more sad however.[[note]]The original version of the text was James first, then Lily; however, it was pointed out that as the victims are appearing in reverse order, it should be vice-versa, and later printings were changed to fix this.[[/note]]

** Very, most likely. Considering his talent and numerous achievements, Viktor was probably the target of so many people's ire and jealousy. Either that, or they were so star-struck by his fame that they often failed to see him as a real person, which isn't so different from Harry's own social situation coming to Hogwarts for the first time, actually...
** Another entry for Fridge Sadness: Viktor confronts Harry about the Skeeter rumors. Harry quickly assures him they are garbage and that he and Hermione are JustFriends. Then he and Viktor start to compliment each other's flying before Crouch. Sr. interrupts them. It's sad to think that this is the closest to friendship Viktor and Harry get, due to them spending the rest of their time training for the Third Task, and then the year ends all too soon.

* Ron and Harry fighting. We're used to seeing Ron and Hermione fighting, yes, but we've never really seen him fight with Harry. It's especially sad because, as the Fridge page points out, Ron actually tried at least a couple of times to mend bridges, but it's not very obvious because the books are unfortunately limited to bring focused on Harry.

* Poor Hermione's teeth are magically overgrown after being accidently hit by Malfoy's spell during a fight between him and Harry. When Snape cones to deal with the situation, he says aloud that he "sees no difference" with Hermione's teeth, leaving the poor girl in tears and also it results in Snape getting yelled at and being called insulting names by Harry and Ron.
* Winky's ordeal is heartbreaking. She was the Crouch family's loyal house-elf who not only served them faithfully, but sincerely loved her masters. She did everything for them. She took care of Barty Jr. after he was smuggled out of Azkaban, even persuading his father to give him small rewards for good behavior and allowing him to watch the Quidditch World Cup. How is she repaid for her love and loyalty? Barty Crouch Sr. coldly fires her the moment that his son escapes and dismisses her the second he decides that she's no longer useful to him. Barty Jr. then takes advantage of her maternal love for him so he can escape his father's hold and run back to his master, Lord Voldemort. He didn't believe that she (or anyone else) truly loved him, and believed she was only doing what she was bound to do as the family house-elf. Even after being banished from the Crouch household, Winky blames herself for her failing and continues to pine for her master, who doesn't love her, never did, and never appreciated everything she did for him. She gave all of them so much love and devotion, and it was repaid with nothing but cruelty and rejection. One truly can't blame her for falling into alcoholism afterwards.
* Sadness in hindsight: one of Percy's last major scene in the series until the Battle of Hogwarts is when he drags Ron out of the water after the Second Task, [[BigBrotherInstinct clearly terrified for him]]. A handful of months later, he's estranged from his family, Ron included.

[[folder:From the Film]]

*** Neville's reaction to Crouch!Moody using the Cruciatus Curse. Upon watching the scene for the first time, its extremely obvious that seeing the spell in action affects him for some reason, and it's to the point that Hermione [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness literally]] ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness screams]]'' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness at Moody to stop]]. (Also, if you look in the background, you can see Seamus cringing and Hannah visibly gulping back tears.) Note that ''no one knows why'' it makes Neville especially uncomfortable yet, but Neville's reaction is just ''that'' disturbing. We find out later, of course. No doubt Neville was imagining his parents in place of that screaming spider, just moments before the curse caused them to lose their minds permanently. And we later also find out that the person we ''think'' is demonstrating this for "educational" purposes was one of the people responsible, and subjected Neville to what amounts to its own brand of psychological torture, just to come off as friendly and caring minutes later so he could start the process of manipulating Neville for his ends. Barty Crouch Jr. was something of a TragicVillain in the books. In the movies, he's just a [[AxCrazy full-blown bastard]] and subsequent watches of this scene really drive it home.

* The scene where Harry asks Cho the ball and she gently turns him down, seeking genuinely sad at having to. The music really helps. Afterwards, Harry is shown sadly sitting in the common room, almost looking like he's been crying. For a scene that was fairly comedic in the book, the movie does a pretty good job making it emotional here.