Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Chapter Notes

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 

Chapter 7: Bagman and Crouch

• All the security around the World Cup was there to make sure that Mr Roberts and his family and the other site managers wouldn’t suspect they were surrounded by wizards… which is an awful lot of effort considering. Wouldn’t it have been easier to send the Muggles away for a couple of days instead?

• Mr Roberts already needed ten memory charms a day before the world Cup started, and we know that his memory was heavily modified after the assault on him and his family. We learned earlier that Bertha Jorkins had aftereffects from the memory charm used on her, so one can only imagine how all of this will affect Mr Roberts. And given the horrifying things that happened to him, I think subconsciously he knows something has happened to him, but he is lacking the memory to confront his trauma. I don’t think that the constant violation of his mind can be very healthy.

• “Halfway up the field stood an extravagant confection of striped silk like a miniature palace, with several live peacocks tethered at the entrance.” – Probably the Malfoy’s tent.

• “It was only just dawning on Harry how many witches and wizards there must be in the world; he had never really thought much about those in other countries.” – I think Harry’s world had been really limited to Privet Drive for the first 11 years of his life, and simply going to Hogwarts had expended it in a way he wouldn’t have imagined. Compared to Hermione, who is used to spend her holidays abroad with her parents, and who also did inform herself about other wizarding schools, because obviously there is more than one.

• I generally like that GoF expands the wizarding world, first trough the World Cup, later through the Triwizard Tournament, making the world bigger and more complex, and showing us that other countries have developed different wizarding cultures.