Review of GOF

 

Right, well, first off, the movie starts off with that Frank dude making tea. At first I thought I was in the wrong movie theater! LOL So then after that, he sees a light and goes up to the Riddle house, which is HUGE. I mean, honestly, it’s bigger than the White House. And possibly Hogwarts. So anyway, he goes in, overhears stuff, and Voldie says to kill him. Freakishly enough, there is a weird man next to Voldemort and Wormtail, and we later find out it’s Barty Crouch Jr. What the heck he was doing there I have no idea. Probably plotting or something…

Just as Harry, in his nightmare, hears Voldie saying that he needs Harry’s blood, he wakes up, sweating. Hermione is hanging directly over him in the Weasley house, telling him to wake up. She has a weird candle to wake him up, as if that will actually help. LOL Ron grudgingly opens his eyes, and he hurriedly pulls his bed sheets up because he doesn’t want Hermione to stare at his tank top or something, I’m not sure. Perhaps he has a fungus? Just kidding, just kidding.



They all walk to the portkey, seeing the Diggorys (Cedric, upon seeing them, promptly jumps off from a tree. Lovely). Ginny is in the camera a lot with Hermione, but she has no lines. Sort of like how Fleur and Krum will be. But we aren’t there yet. After they all gather around the boot, they are swirled around to the campsite, all landing on their backs and stomachs except Mr. Weasley and the Diggorys.



They go to the top of the stadium, after being ridiculed by the Malfoys. Fudge announces the teams (the Irish have some leprechaun in the sky doing a sort of jig, while Bulgaria has some…. Uh… I don’t remember… Wasn’t Veelas at any rate, like in the book). They show Harry and the gang screaming with happiness and excitement, and I just want to point out the fact that Hermione keeps on looking at Harry to see if he is enjoying the performance or not J Or perhaps Emma didn’t think the camera was on her. Haha


After the excitement for four seconds, it is implied that Ireland wins, and all are partying in the tent. The twins and Ron are doing something silly when someone makes the comment that Ireland fans are partying very very very loudly. This isn’t true, as Mr. Weasley is soon to say, and all run out of the tent. There is tons of havoc, and the group is separated from Harry, who is knocked out. Nice.



Harry finally awakens to see a completely abandoned campsite, with smoke everywhere and everything burnt to a crisp. However, it isn’t all the way abandoned. He sees a man make the Dark Mark appear, but however his friends are now calling his name (FINALLY trying to find him) and the man disappears. The trio are all together worrying about the Dark Mark when all these wizards come down and fire their wands at them. They all dodge it by throwing themselves on the ground. Mr. Weasley then sorts it all out.

The scene cuts to the train scene, which has no real importance. We just see that Ron is very very very very very poor, and that Harry really really really really likes Cho.

It cuts to where the two schools arrive at Hogwarts. The Beaxbatons girls are all moaning and having these birds fly from themselves or something. Ron makes a comment about their “perfect butts” so to speak. Hermione and Ginny are both angry (don’t say that there’s tension between Hermione and Ron there, because Ginny was equally as mad at Ron. So there!)
 


The Durmstrang people do cool fire tricks and acrobatic moves. Everyone loves Krum, of course. Dumbledore talks about the Tri-Wizard Tournament, and how dangerous it is. That part is pretty much the same as the book. Filtch comes in, wildly running while limping. Then Moody comes in, much to the fright of several people. DD tells everyone how to enter. The younger-than-17-year-olds are all mad, of course. Especially Fred and George, which is why they do that Aging potion. Hermione scolds them, saying it won’t work. They laugh at her and, with a big crowd of people watching, drink the potion and step successfully over the age line. They put their papers in the GoF gleefully, but then suddenly it throws them back and they land hard on the floor, sprouting a gray beard and facial hair. They start wrestling each other (Fight! Fight! calls the students oddly enough. Don’t they have anything better to do? haha) when the Durmstrang boys enter. Krum puts in his name, and in doing so, looks right at Hermione, who is quietly reading. She smiles back.
 


After this, DD reads the names of the Champions. Everyone cheers except for when Harry’s name is called. DD has the weird way of saying his name, sort of like a monotonous robot on repeat. He says it like three times before Hermione finally pushes Harry to go. Literally, pushes him. Someone yells out “Cheater!” Poor Harry. L
 


So then, Rita Skeeter shows up and is taking pictures and taking interviews. She “starts with the youngest” and is using her Quick Quills pen and takes notes with them. She keeps on saying that Harry is twelve years old, much to the anger of Harry. Oh yeah, she had pulled him into a broom closet to interview him. For one moment I thought that she was thinking of something ELSE, but thankfully that wasn’t the case.

Later, Ron is still mad at Harry. Blah blah blah. It’s pretty much the same as the books. Outside somewhere, Ron tells Hermione to tell Harry something, which she tries to do. She says something along the lines of “Ron told me to tell you that Seamus said that Lavender said that Parvati said that Neville said that Hagrid wants to meet you.” She has no idea what she is saying, and Harry is like “Whaaattt?” and she goes back to Ron (who is three feet away) and he whispers it again, and she tries to repeat it, and then says, “Oooh don’t make me say that again,” in a poor Hermione! voice. Harry tells her something to say to Ron, and she gets mad at Harry and says, “I’m not an owl!” So then she and Ron and Ginny all leave Harry. Yes, Ginny had come, but yet again had no lines. And don’t say that Hermione had some free-from-Harry-alone-time-with-Ron because Ginny was there, too. Yup.
 


Afterwards, Hagrid shows Harry the dragons, and he is freaked out. He sees Hagrid and Maxine positively flirting with each other, and even I am grossed out. Yuckers.

Harry is back in the common room at midnight or 1 am or something and is talking with Sirius about the task ahead. Ron, however, creeps in, and Harry hurriedly says “Bye” to Sirius before he knows who is coming. Ron thinks that Harry is talking to himself, practicing for an interview. That makes Harry mad, so then Ron gets mad, etc. Harry later tells Cedric the task ahead, and Moody tells Harry about how to defeat the dragon.

The Champions are all pacing in the tent when Harry hears a “Psst!” He goes over, and Hermione asks “Is that you, Harry?” And they talk, and Hermione suddenly opens the tent and throws herself on him, nearly knocking him over. Right as she does this, Skeeter takes a picture of them and they slowly break apart. Krum is mad at Skeeter for being in the tent, and she leaves, very proud of herself. DD comes in and is talking with the Champions when he sees Hermione and asks what she is doing there. Well, actually, she is holding Harry’s arm/hand, and seems a tiny embarrassed and leaves, glancing once more at Harry. Yes, indeed, this is definitely the H/Hr part of the movie. Ooooh I forgot to mention that Moody had that spider lesson and Neville was freaked out and Hermione helped him. Freakishly enough the movie maker made it seem as if they liked each other. Weird acting from both of them, in my opinion.

<-- Reading the article out loud

So anyway, the task goes on and Harry finally goes. He gets the egg after a bit of flying around the school after the mad dragon broke from its chain and chased him onto the rooftop. Why the heck the chain wasn’t stronger I don’t know. Probably Snape’s idea...  haha

It had appeared that Harry wasn’t coming back, but when he did, Hermione was the first to yell “HARRYYYYYY!!!!!!” But not in that way from the trailer, where she looks freaked out, but a super happy “HARRRYYYYY!!” Actually, I don’t even remember where she screams that other one… Oh well.

Afterwards, everyone is celebrating in the Common Room. Ron finally forgives him, blah blah blah.

Now McGonagall tells them all about the Yule Ball some time later. She dances with Ron for a bit, yada yada yada. Krum, in passing, keeps on giving Hermione these smiles/stares. The kids are working on a journal or something somewhere where Snape is teaching when Ron mentions the Ball and asking out girls. He says that Hermione will go by herself when she gets angry and says that someone already asked her. She storms over to Snape (who had, before, repeatedly bashed Ron and Harry’s heads together, and what not.) and gives him her journal, and stomps out. As she passes them, she says angrily, “And I said yes!” Poor Harry looks dejected, and Ron looks mad. Not sure if that was a H/Hr moment or a R/Hr moment… lol



The Yule Ball comes after Harry unsuccessfully asks out Cho (who FINALLY has a line!) and Ron unsuccessfully asks out Fleur. After Ron asked out Fleur is probably the only R/Hr moment in the movie, thankfully. Harry and Ron meet up with their dance partners (who looks very much alike, but don’t look like twins). Hermione comes down, spots Harry (who is positively gaping), and is about to talk when Krum comes and takes her hand. She does manage to wave at him a little, and gleefully-happy-little-girly- yet- dignifiedly goes with Krum.
 

 


Parvati is extremely happy to be Harry’s partner, and they are all dancing on the dance floor, Ron angrily looking at the Champions dance. Harry is awful at dancing, I must say. Cho and Cedric were good, Fleur and Roger were lovely, and Hermione and Krum were by far the best (of course). When all the people dance, we see Neville gracefully dancing with Ginny! Hahaha. They look sooooo cute together!
 

 


As Krum goes down to get drinks for him and his date, Hermione sits by Harry and Ron. Ron accuses her of “fraternizing with the enemy” and she gets really angry and says “You ruin everything!” (yeah, just like how a 4 year old would say). She casts a quick look at Harry (and starts to say something to him, but decides not to) and runs off to the staircase, where she is crying her eyes out. After being disappointed with their partners, the Patil twins leave Ron and Harry. (Or did this happen before the Hermione scene? I don’t think so….). Ron then goes to Hermione and yells at her, and she is crying even more, and Harry comes in and Hermione orders the two to go to bed. I didn’t get it, either. Hmm… She runs off yet again. Pobre Hermione :(



Harry, under the direction of Cedric (and after that ferret scene with Malfoy and Moody), takes a bath with that egg. A sleazy mermaid stained window piece is flipping her hair, and Myrtle suddenly comes in. She is cozying up to poor Harry, who is naked after all, and is trying to cover himself up with bubbles. She tells him to open the egg underwater, and he does, and he hears the mermaid’s song.
 


We then cut to the part where Hermione, Harry, and Ron are all trying to figure out ways to breathe underwater. Ron is fast asleep, and Harry almost is. Hermione is the only one, it seems, who wants to keep Harry alive! Lol Moody comes in and takes Hermione and Ron away, and Harry is all alone. But then Neville comes and it’s Neville to the rescue! He tells Harry about the gillyweed, and that’s that.



The next day, Neville walks Harry down to the water, and the whole school is there. Harry wonders where his friends are, but forgets about it as Moody stuffs the gillyweed down Harry’s throat and pushes him in the water. Harry is having trouble for a minute and Neville says horrified, “I killed Harry Potter!” But Harry leaps out of the water and Neville is filled with relief.

Fleur is attacked and has to quit. Harry sees his “Most treasured thing” but doesn’t know if he needs to rescue Hermione or Ron. Krum suddenly comes and takes Hermione, and Cedric comes in and rescues Cho. Harry starts to free Ron when he senses that Fleur isn’t coming, so he rescues her, too. He pushes the two to the top when his hour is up and his gillyweed effect is off just when he is attacked by some creatures. I even read the books and I didn’t know how he could survive as he was sinking into the deep water, slowly dying. But he does, and he shoots himself out of the water and into the stands, where Fleur kisses him and Ron on the cheek, and Hermione kisses him on the head. I thought that the kissy moment would be cute, and it was. Awwww   Oooh yeah, the bodies in the water were definitely manikins.  Hahaha!

 

Later, Barty Crouch is dead, and Harry goes into DD’s pensieve. Nothing major happens, honestly. Snape later stops Harry and questions him about the missing potion ingredients, etc. but other than that nothing too much happens. At one point (I think right before the second task and right before Cedric tips Harry off), Harry and Hermione are talking. She talks about her “physical” relationship with Krum, to which Harry gets all weirded out, but she assures him it’s not that, but the fact that they don’t talk. She said that he wasn’t “loquacious”, was the phrase, I believe. That’s very funny, as Harry and Hermione talk all the time! If Hermione was unhappy that she and Krum don’t talk, she’s sort of trying to hint to Harry to ask her out, right? I mean, THEY talk a whole bunch together, and she wants Harry to realize that. But he doesn’t. So instead she says, “I’m scared for you.” There, the safe card.
 

 


Okay, so the 3rd task happens. Fleur is attacked by Krum (who is being controlled by someone else) and is pulled into the hedges. Harry sees this and send sparks over her. Krum then tries to attack Cedric, but Harry helps Cedric and they run towards the cup. Suddenly, the bushes catch Cedric, and he says, “Help, Harry!” For a second, Harry didn’t help, but finally he did. They both run to the cup, and Cedric says to take it. Harry, however, says for them both to take it, to which they do. The cup is a portkey, and they are transported to the Graveyard of Voldie (and the same place as in the beginning of the movie).

After Cedric is suddenly killed by Wormtail and falls dead to the ground (that is some seriously good acting!), Harry is trapped on a statue on top of Voldie’s dad’s bones. Voldie is resurrected by Wormtail, and he calls the Death Eaters. Only like 6 of them even show, which is strange. We see Lucious (looking extremely hott, I must say) and some of the other ones. Voldie releases Harry and duels with him. The wands connect, and the shadows of Harry’s parents and Cedric appear. The shadows block Harry from Voldie’s view and Cedric tells Harry to take his body back to Hogwarts to his dad. Harry casts “Accio!” on the portkey and grabs the body and is quickly transported to Hogwarts, much to the rage of Voldemort.

<-- Fighting Voldie



When Harry comes back, everyone is cheering, not realizing that Cedric is dead. Fleur is definitely the first to notice, even though she is in the middle of the crowded stands. Cedric’s dad comes and starts crying and the whole audience in the theater is upset.

Moody comes in and grabs Harry and takes him to his office. He is very suspicious to us audience members as he questions Harry. As he is about to kill Harry, DD comes in with the group of wizards and disarms him and slips Veritaserum into him. He tells all, and is sent to Azkaban.

After a sad funeral in the Great Hall, the two schools leave the following week or so. Everyone is happy to have met the other school-wizards and witches, and so Cedric’s death wasn’t in “vain”, as DD had said. The wizarding schools finally learned to be together  However, Ron didn’t get Krum’s autograph, even though in the book he did. Oh well.

The screen blacks out as the boat and the horse carriage from the two schools leave Hogwarts...

<-- that's before the 3rd task :)

 

Okay, the movie was awesome!  But here are some misleading things...

These promo pictures aren't from any scenes in the movie!

 

 

None of theses scenes were even CLOSE to getting into the movie... Hmm...