June 30 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Here is a film with a scene that happens today - June 30. I hope you enjoy the movie and watch it tonight. 

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

Harry Potter,  Hermione Granger, and the Weasleys along with Cedric Diggory and his father travel via a magical portkey to the Quidditch World Cup. The post match celebrations are marred when Voldemort’s followers, the Death Eaters, appear and set fire to the spectator’s campsite. At Hogwarts visitors arrive from Beauxbatons Academy and Durmstrang Institute to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, a magical contest where one student from each school is picked to participate. “Mad Eye” Moody, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher introduces the students to the three unforgivable curses. The Goblet of Fire, a powerful magical artifact selects the three champions who will participate in the Triwizard Tournament: Viktor Krum from  Durmstrang, Fleur Delacour from  Beauxbatons and Cedric Diggory from Hogwarts. Unexpectedly the Goblet also spits out the name of Harry Potter. As the Goblet of Fire has created an unbreakable magical contract Harry cannot withdraw, even though he is technically too young to be a champion. Ron becomes jealous of Harry over his participation. Throughout the movie, Rita Skeeter, a tabloid journalist, writes untrue stories about the champions. Harry learns from Hagrid that the first challenge involves dragons. Harry is able to use his flying skills to defeat the dragon and retrieve the egg that contains a clue to the second challenge. Harry and Ron reconcile. Harry and Ron take the Patil Twins to the Yule Ball, while Viktor Krum escorts Hermione. Harry opens the egg underwater and learns that is where the next challenge is to occur. Neville Longbottom tells Harry that gillyweed will enable him to breath underwater for an hour.  Krum rescues Hermione, while Harry rescues Ron and Fleur Delacour’s younger sister after Fleur has to drop out of the contest. In Dumbledore’s office, using the pensieve, Harry sees through Dumbledore’s memories that Igor Karkaroff, the headmaster of Durmstrang was once a Death Eater. Harry also learns that Barty Crouch, the ministry official who is supervising the tournament sent his own son, who was a Death Eater and helped tortured Neville Longbottom’s parents into insanity to Azkaban prison, where he died.  Snape accuses Harry of stealing polyjuice potion ingredients from him. The third task is to penetrate a magical maze to reach the Triwizard Cup. Krum and Fleur are soon overcome, while Cedric and Harry grab the Triwizard Cup at the same time.  The cup is actually a portkey that transports them to a graveyard. Cedric is killed by Peter Pettigrew. A magical ritual creates a physical body for Voldemort using a bone from his father’s tomb and some of Harry’s blood.  Voldemort summons the Death Eaters and they watch him duel Harry. Voldemort’s wand emits the spirits of those who were recently killed with it including Cedric and Harry’s parents. The spirits enable Harry to use the portkey to return with Cedric’s  body to Hogwarts.  Everyone is shocked at this turn of events. “Mad Eye” Moody leads a shaken Harry back to the school, but in time McGonnagal, Snape and Dumbledore arrive and  discover that Barty Crouch, Jr., who did not die in Azkaban, but was smuggled out by his father, has been using polyjuice potion to impersonate Moody. The real Moody was locked in a magical trunk. On June 30, 1995 [2:17:28 to 2:19:24] Dumbledore tells the school at the leaving feast how Cedric died. The Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students return home.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic Inc., New York, 2000) pages 720-723. Dumbledore makes these remarks at the leaving feast. (page 720). We learned in  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban at page 430 that the leaving feast occurs the day before the students go home, which is on July 1.

Producer - David Heyman

Director - Mike Newell

Awards – The film was nominated for the Best Art Direction Oscar at the 78^th Academy

                 Awards.

Screenplay - Steve Kloves

Runtime – 2 hours 37 minutes

Released – November 18, 2005

Starring –

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter

Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, Harry's best friend

Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, Harry's other best friend

Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid, the half-giant Care of Magical Creatures teacher

Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort, Harry's archnemesis and leader of the Death Eaters

Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore, the Hogwarts headmaster.

Brendan Gleeson as Alastor Moody, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher

David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr, a Death Eater

Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy, the father of Draco Malfoy and a senior Death Eater

Robert Pattinson as Cedric Diggory, Triwizard champion

Stanislav Ianevski as Victor Krum, Triwizard champion

Clémence Poésy as Fleur Delacour, Triwizard champion

Gary Oldman as Sirius Black, Harry Potter's godfather

Miranda Richardson as Rita Skeeter, a journalist for ''The Daily Prophet''

Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, the Potions master and Head of Slytherin

Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall, the Transfiguration teacher

Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew, a servant of Voldemort who betrayed Harry 's parents

Frances de la Tour as Olympe Maxime, the Headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy

Watch a trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire