Harry Potter

Harry Potter is the main character in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. When he was only a baby, Voldemort, the most evil wizard in the history of the Wizarding World, came to Harry’s house and murdered them with his extremely powerful magic. However, Harry lived, and the curse rebounded upon Voldemort. Now, Harry is in his fourth year at Hogwarts and is still famous for being known as “The Boy Who Lived” and the one who had “defeated” Voldemort.

In Chapter 12, Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts (Harry’s witchcraft and wizarding school), announces that the Triwizard Tournament will take place at Hogwarts, with two other wizarding schools coming to compete. Even though only seventeen-year-olds are allowed to participate– however, Harry’s name comes out of the Goblet of Fire, where people who wish to become competitors put their names inside and the goblet chooses Halloween the three champions, one from each school, who will then compete in the Triwizard Tournament. Harry didn’t want to compete, however– all of the tasks would be extremely dangerous and he would be so far behind the others in knowledge of magic. His main goal is literally to just survive the tournament and make it to the end. However, as he starts completing the tasks with high marks, he starts thinking about winning the tournament… winning would mean receiving the very large prize of a thousand Galleons (wizarding money)... winning would mean becoming even more famous at Hogwarts and around the world… and winning would also mean impressing Cho, a pretty fifth-year girl whom Harry likes.

However, the Triwizard tournament is not Harry’s only problem. Closer to the beginning of the book, Ron, one of Harry’s best friends, is very jealous that Harry got to compete in the tournament, thinking that Harry submitted his name into the goblet to get more fame and to make everyone like him more. This leads both of them to be furious at one another and breaks their friendship. Harry goes through the internal struggle of not wanting to be friends with Ron anymore because of how angry he made him, but deep down he knows that he needs Ron, he needs a friend to always be there for him, to laugh and have fun with. Finally, after the end of the first task, Ron sees how terrifying it is for Harry and finally believes that he didn’t volunteer for it.

At the very start of the book, Harry has a suspiciously vivid dream about Voldemort making plans to find Harry to regain his power. While only a dream, Harry awakes with his scar hurting very badly, and wonders if the dream was real. This foreshadows scenes later in the book. The problem is not touched upon that much until toward the end, when Harry falls asleep in class and has another dream, resulting in his scar hurting even more when he wakes up. Knowing that the only reason that could happen was because Voldemort was getting closer and closer to reaching him, the problem escalates significantly. Later in the story, when Harry touches the Triwizard Cup and is transported to the graveyard in which Voldemort is waiting, the problem reaches its climax. Harry was then facing Voldemort himself… who was determined to regain his power, and now had Harry right in front of him. The problem still isn’t solved when Harry returns to Hogwarts safely, only to be escorted to Mad-Eye Moody’s office, who reveals himself to be Mr. Crouch’s son and has been stationed at Hogwarts to return Harry to Voldemort should have escaped...

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