Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

Voldemort uses the Dark Mark on Wormtail’s arm to summon the Death Eaters, who appear in the graveyard. Voldemort demands to know why they “never [came] to the aid of their master, to whom they swore eternal loyalty” (261). Lucius Malfoy is among the Death Eaters, and Voldemort shames him for wearing the Death Eater robes at the Quidditch World Cup but running at the sight of the Dark Mark. Voldemort states that his most faithful servant is at Hogwarts, and he is responsible for bringing Harry to them. Voldemort shifts his attention to Harry and tells his followers about how this child brought about his downfall. The last time Harry and Voldemort came face-to-face in Harry’s first year at Hogwarts, Voldemort couldn’t lay a finger on him. However, since Voldemort stole some of Harry’s blood to revive himself, he can touch Harry, and he demonstrates. Harry feels the worst pain coming from his scar that he has ever experienced. Voldemort explains how after he attempted to kill Harry backfired, he wandered as a disembodied presence, completely powerless until Wormtail returned to him a year ago. Slowly, they found a way to get Voldemort into his weak, childlike body, and they planned his rebirth. They kidnapped Bertha Jorkins, extracted information about the Triwizard Tournament from her, and then killed her. Voldemort announces that Harry Potter only escaped him before because of luck, not because he is stronger, and to demonstrate his strength, he will “prove [his] power by killing him, here and now, in front of [them], when there is no Dumbledore to help him, and no mother to die for him” (266).

Harry is untied and given his wand. Voldemort forces him to duel, and he uses the Cruciatus and Imperius Curse against Harry. At first, Harry tries to run and hide behind a tombstone, but he realizes that doesn’t want to die hiding or allow Voldemort to toy with him. Instead, he wants to face Voldemort like a man, and if he dies, he wants to “die upright like his father” (267). He faces Voldemort, and Harry uses the Disarming Spell at the same time that Voldemort uses Avada Kedavra. Their wands form a strange connection, and Voldemort’s wand regurgitates out the spells it cast most recently. The ghostly shadow of Cedric Diggory, Brank Bryce, Bertha Jorkins, and Harry’s mother and father come out of the wand. Harry is protected by the connection, and Harry’s father instructs him to run to the Portkey as soon as the connection is broken. Cedric asks Harry to bring his body back to his parents, and Harry agrees. Harry breaks the connection, and as he races to the Cup and Cedric’s body, the ghostly figures of Voldemort’s victims “[shield] Harry from [Voldemort’s] gaze” (270). Harry grabs Cedric and summons the cup, transporting them both back to Hogwarts.

Panic breaks out at the sight of Cedric’s body. Harry tries to tell Dumbledore that Voldemort has returned, but in the chaos, Moody pulls Harry away and demands to know what happened. Harry is in shock, but he tells Moody everything in his office. Moody tells Harry that he put Harry’s name in the Goblet of Fire. Moody also cast the Dark Mark into the sky, and he scoffs at “those treacherous cowards” who “cavort[ed] in masks at the Quidditch World Cup but fled at the sight of the Dark Mark” (273). Moody has been helping Harry through the tournament all along, paving the way for Harry to reach the Triwizard Cup first. He used the Imperius Curse on Krum in the maze, and just as Moody is about to attack Harry, Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall burst in and stun him.

Dumbledore explains that this is not the real Moody but an imposter who has been pretending to be Moody all school year. They find Polyjuice Potion in Moody’s flask, and the real Moody is unconscious in a trunk. The imposter is the son of Barty Crouch, and with Snape’s Veritaserum, he tells the tale of how he escaped from Azkaban with the help of his mother and father. Crouch’s son was in the Top Box with Harry and the Weasleys during the World Cup, hidden under an Invisibility Cloak, and he stole Harry’s wand there. Sometime later, “[his] master came for [him]” (277) with a special mission. They kidnapped Moody, and Wormtail was responsible for keeping Mr. Crouch under the Imperius Curse. Harry saw the name “Barty Crouch” in Snape’s office because Crouch and his son share the same name. Mr. Crouch escaped, and Crouch’s son killed his father and buried him on the Hogwarts grounds.

Harry is brought to Dumbledore’s office, where Sirius is waiting. Harry is in shock, but he tells Dumbledore and Sirius about everything that happened in the graveyard. Voldemort stole his blood so that he could have the same protection that Harry had from his mother’s sacrifice, and now Voldemort can touch Harry without feeling pain. When Harry mentions what happened with their wands connecting, Dumbledore explains that Harry and Voldemort’s wands cannot properly duel one another because they are brothers. Dumbledore takes Harry to the hospital wing, and Sirius comes in his dog form. Ron, Hermione, Mrs. Weasley, and Bill are there. Cornelius Fudge brings a dementor into the school to question Crouch’s son, but it swoops down on the man and sucks out his soul. Fudge refuses to believe that Voldemort has returned, even when Harry tries to tell him what he saw because he thinks Dumbledore and Harry are “determined to start a panic” (285) over something that cannot be proven. Fudge implies that Harry is untrustworthy, but when Snape shows him the Dark Mark tattooed on his arm, Fudge still refuses to acknowledge the truth, and he gives Harry his Triwizard Tournament winnings and leaves in a fury. Dumbledore says they must spread the word of what has happened, and “all those that [they] can persuade of the truth must be notified” (287). Mrs. Weasley comforts Harry as he falls asleep, and as the shock wears off, Harry is overwhelmed by grief and guilt about Cedric’s death.

Harry meets with Cedric’s parents, who are devastated but thankful to Harry for bringing Cedric’s body back. Harry tries to give them the gold, but they refuse. Hagrid assures Harry that he “did as much as [his] father would’ve done” (290), and whatever is coming will come in time. At the end-of-year feast, a memorial is held for Cedric, and as Harry looks at the staff table, he wonders yet again how Dumbledore can trust Snape now that Voldemort has returned to power. Dumbledore decides to tell the assembled students that “Cedric Diggory was murdered by Lord Voldemort” (291). Although the students’ parents and the Ministry of Magic would disapprove of Dumbledore saying this, they deserve the truth. Dumbledore emphasizes how important it will be to maintain the bonds they have formed with their friends at Hogwarts and their foreign guests. Above all, he reminds them to remember Cedric and what they are up against.

 Fleur and Krum say their goodbyes, and on the Hogwarts Express back to London, Hermione reveals that Rita Skeeter is an illegal Animagus who can transform into a beetle to listen in on discussions. Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle enter the train car and warn Harry that he’s picked a losing side, but Fred and George appear and jinx Malfoy and his gang. Fred and George tell Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Ludo Bagman paid them with leprechaun gold at the World Cup, so it vanished, and they never collected their winnings. Harry gives Fred and George his Triwizard Cup winnings and tells them to use it to start their joke shop. He heads home with the Dursleys and tries to find some peace.