I'd forgotten that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a really messed-up, horrible book. I've always thought of it as the bridge between the 'light' and the 'dark' Harry Potter books, leaning towards the light side, but there's an awful lot of darkness in here. Watching Crouch sentence his son to Azkaban in the Pensieve flashback is distressing enough, and then you find out what happened to Neville's parents, and then there's the ending.
And... all right, I feel strange talking about this outside a spoiler cut, even if the book's been out for fifteen years, so my notes on the ending are below:
( Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. )
When Moody is bringing the horribly traumatised Harry back to the castle after the events in the graveyard, he's described as 'half pulling, half carrying him' and later as 'helping him walk'. I'm startled and oddly sad to realise that the image of this scene I've carried since childhood was incorrect; I always thought that Moody was actually carrying Harry in his arms, like a child (with Harry mostly curled up into himself on account of aforementioned horrible trauma).
Back when I signed up for Pottermore, I was a little frustrated that I was Sorted into Hufflepuff when I'd always thought of myself as a Ravenclaw. I wondered whether perhaps it was because the Sorting quiz only pulled seven questions from a larger pool, so, when a quiz popped up elsewhere online with the entire pool of official Sorting questions, I tried that out.
The full quiz basically said 'you are the biggest Hufflepuff we've ever seen'.
I've come to realise that the Sorting Hat was absolutely right. I've always been a capable student rather than a brilliant one. If I can call myself intelligent, it's not inherent; it's something I've tried to work towards. And I do value the pursuit of knowledge, but I value kindness and fair play more. I think being in Hufflepuff would bring out the best in me.
There aren't many prominent Hufflepuffs in the Harry Potter series, but I think I can be proud of being in the same house as Cedric Diggory. And Makoto Naegi, who is not technically a Harry Potter character but is absolutely, unquestionably in Hufflepuff. He might as well be the Hufflepuff mascot. I will fight anyone who tries to say otherwise.
Newt Scamander was a Hufflepuff as well, wasn't he? I keep forgetting we're getting a trilogy of films about him! It's going to be so strange to have new Harry Potter canon.
I was going to say 'it's a shame that none of the book characters are going to show up, as the films are set seventy years earlier', but then I remembered that we could absolutely see Dumbledore in his late thirties. I'm up for this.
And... all right, I feel strange talking about this outside a spoiler cut, even if the book's been out for fifteen years, so my notes on the ending are below:
( Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. )
When Moody is bringing the horribly traumatised Harry back to the castle after the events in the graveyard, he's described as 'half pulling, half carrying him' and later as 'helping him walk'. I'm startled and oddly sad to realise that the image of this scene I've carried since childhood was incorrect; I always thought that Moody was actually carrying Harry in his arms, like a child (with Harry mostly curled up into himself on account of aforementioned horrible trauma).
Back when I signed up for Pottermore, I was a little frustrated that I was Sorted into Hufflepuff when I'd always thought of myself as a Ravenclaw. I wondered whether perhaps it was because the Sorting quiz only pulled seven questions from a larger pool, so, when a quiz popped up elsewhere online with the entire pool of official Sorting questions, I tried that out.
The full quiz basically said 'you are the biggest Hufflepuff we've ever seen'.
I've come to realise that the Sorting Hat was absolutely right. I've always been a capable student rather than a brilliant one. If I can call myself intelligent, it's not inherent; it's something I've tried to work towards. And I do value the pursuit of knowledge, but I value kindness and fair play more. I think being in Hufflepuff would bring out the best in me.
There aren't many prominent Hufflepuffs in the Harry Potter series, but I think I can be proud of being in the same house as Cedric Diggory. And Makoto Naegi, who is not technically a Harry Potter character but is absolutely, unquestionably in Hufflepuff. He might as well be the Hufflepuff mascot. I will fight anyone who tries to say otherwise.
Newt Scamander was a Hufflepuff as well, wasn't he? I keep forgetting we're getting a trilogy of films about him! It's going to be so strange to have new Harry Potter canon.
I was going to say 'it's a shame that none of the book characters are going to show up, as the films are set seventy years earlier', but then I remembered that we could absolutely see Dumbledore in his late thirties. I'm up for this.
