Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Chapter Notes

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 

Chapter 6: The Portkey

• I wonder why Mrs Weasley is the only one who didn’t attend the Quidditch World Cup. Does she simply not care about Quidditch? Did she seize the opportunity to have the house to herself for once? Either way, we only ever see Mrs Weasley at domestic places, and she is always limited to be a mom character (or maybe that is because Harry sees her like that), which then makes that scene in Deathly Hallows so iconic.

• So we learn that any object can be transformed into a Portkey, but that they only work at a prearranged time. But how specific is that time timespan? Only a second? A minute? Ten minutes? How did Barty Crouch jun. made sure Harry would arrive in the right time to touch the portkey that would bring him to Voldemort? And even with a specific timespan it is still possible Muggles accidently use Portkeys, and given they were over 200 all over Britain it is fair to assume that some of them have been found before by Muggles who then touched them at the right (or rather wrong) time.

• “Hermione came over the crest of the hill last, clutching a stitch in her side.” – That is me. I am Hermione.

• “‘Ced’s talked about you, of course,’ said Amos Diggory. ‘Told us all about playing against you last year … I said to him, I said – Ced, that’ll be something to tell your grandchildren, that will … you beat Harry Potter!’” – Mrs Rowling wrote that line, very intentionally, knowing very well that Cedric would never have grandchildren. RUDE.