Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Director:
Mike Newell

Writers (WGA):
Steve Kloves (screenplay)
J.K. Rowling (novel)

Release Date :
USA 12 November 2005 (New York City, New York) (premiere)

Cast :
* Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, the main protagonist. Now entering his fourth year at Hogwarts, Harry is unknowingly entered into the Triwizard Tournament.
* Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, one of Harry's best friends. Although he falls out with Harry at the beginning of the Triwizard tournament, the pair reconcile and remain good friends.
* Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, one of Harry's best friends. Although she loathes her position as an intermediary between Harry and Ron during their period of hostility, she remains supportive of Harry throughout.
* Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort, the main antagonist. The darkest wizard of age, who returns to a human form near the end of the film.
* Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore, the Hogwarts headmaster. He is supportive of Harry throughout the year, although he doesn't suspect Moody until it's almost too late.
* Brendan Gleeson as Alastor Moody, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. The real Moody is not seen until the end of the film.
* Miranda Richardson as Rita Skeeter, an over-inquisitive journalist.
* Robert Pattinson as Cedric Diggory, a very handsome Hogwarts student who is chosen as a Triwizard champion.
* Clémence Poésy as Fleur Delacour, the Triwizard champion from Beauxbatons.
* Stanislav Ianevski as Viktor Krum, the Durmstrang Triwizard champion. He invites Hermione Granger to the Yule Ball.
* Katie Leung as Cho Chang: a girl whom Harry has a crush on, and whom he unsuccessfully tries to invite to the Yule Ball.
* Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, the Potions teacher.
* Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper. He is responsible for showing Harry the dragons before the first task.
* Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall, the Transfiguration teacher, and Harry's Head of house.
* Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy's father and one of Voldemort's followers, who is seen in the graveyard at the film's climax in Death Eater robes for the first time and at the Quidditch World Cup.
* Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort's main servant, who helps in his rebirth.
* David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr, the impostor who impersonates Alastor Moody, to assist in the return of Voldemort.
* Frances de la Tour as Olympe Maxime, a half-giant who is headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic.
* Predrag Bjelac as Igor Karkaroff, the headmaster of Durmstrang.
* Roger Lloyd Pack as Barty Crouch, head of the Department of Magical Co-operation, who is murdered by his son.
* Robert Hardy as Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic.
* Mark Williams as Arthur Weasley, Ron's father. He takes the children to the Quidditch World Cup.
* Jeff Rawle as Amos Diggory, Cedric's father.
* Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy, Harry's school nemesis. Moody's imposter briefly turns him into a ferret.
* Gary Oldman as Sirius Black who appears for a brief expository scene in a fireplace in the Gryffindor common room.
Jarvis Cocker, Phil Selway, Jonny Greenwood, Steve Mackey, Jason Buckle and Steven Claydon cameoed as the members of the Weird Sisters.

Original Sound Track :
1. The Story Continues 1:31
2. Frank Dies 2:12
3. The Quidditch World Cup 1:52
4. The Dark Mark 3:27
5. Foreign Visitors Arrive 1:30
6. The Goblet of Fire 3:23
7. Rita Skeeter 1:42
8. Sirius Fire 2:00
9. Harry Sees Dragons 1:54
10. Golden Egg 6:11
11. Neville's Waltz 2:11
12. Harry In Winter 2:56
13. Potter Waltz 2:19
14. Underwater Secrets 2:28
15. The Black Lake 4:37
16. Hogwart's March 2:46
17. The Maze 4:44
18. Voldemort 9:39
19. Death of Cedric 1:59
20. Another Year Ends 2:21
21. Hogwart's Hymn 2:59
22. "Do The Hippogriff" - Jarvis Cocker 3:39
23. "This Is The Night" - Jarvis Cocker 3:24
24. "Magic Works" - Jarvis Cocker

Plot :
Harry Potter dreams about an event while it takes place. He sees an elderly man investigate a light that is shining in the house he cares for and overhear Lord Voldemort making plans with Peter Pettigrew and another man that Harry does not recognise. The elderly caretaker, Frank Bryce, is caught and killed by Voldemort. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger express concern over Harry's dreams. However, the arrival of the Quidditch World Cup permits Harry Potter a distraction from his nightmares. However, the post-match celebrations are interrupted by violence, as followers of Voldemort known as Death Eaters attack and destroy the spectators' campsites.

At Hogwarts, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore introduces a new teacher, a man known for his powerful magic and his all-seeing glass eye, the auror Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody. Harry, along with his classmates, notices Moody's silver flask from which he partakes from often. Dumbledore also announces that the school will host the Triwizard Tournament, in which one wizard from each of three schools competes in three difficult tasks. The champions are selected by the Goblet of Fire, a magical cup into which the names of candidates are placed. Cedric Diggory is chosen to represent Hogwarts, Quidditch champion Viktor Krum is chosen as representative of Durmstrang Institute, and Fleur Delacour was selected to represent Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. The Goblet unexpectedly announces a fourth champion, Harry Potter. As Harry was underage at the time of his selection, the circumstances led Hogwarts teachers and fellow students alike to regard Potter with suspicion.

In the first task, each of the four champions were instructed to retrieve a golden egg guarded by a dragon. Mad-Eye Moody probes Harry about which talent he should use to overcome the dragon, and the two ultimately decide upon flying. During the competition, Harry summons his broomstick and retrieves the egg, which contained information about the second challenge. As a token of appreciation for previous aid, Cedric Diggory provides him with a clue that prompts him to open the egg underwater. He learns that the second task entails the retrieval of "something precious" to each of the competitors from mermaids in the nearby Black Lake. In last-minute preparation for the task, long time friend Neville Longbottom provides Harry with Gillyweed, which allows him to breathe underwater. Harry is the first to arrive at the location, and finds Ron, Hermione, Cho Chang and Fleur's sister, Gabrielle Delacour, in a state of suspended animation. Finishing last in an attempt to free all four at once, Harry is awarded second place for "moral fiber."

While waiting in his office, Harry's curiosity leads him to look into Dumbledore's pensieve, which allows him to revisit a memory which Dumbledore has placed inside it. He witnesses a trial before the Wizard Court (Wizengamot) in which captured Death Eater Igor Karkaroff, the current headmaster of Dumstrang Institute denounces a number of Death Eaters, including both Snape and Barty Crouch Jr. Whereas Dumbledore vouches for Snape's integrity, Crouch, Sr. is horrified at this revelation and denounces his son, sending him to Azkaban. Dumbledore tells Harry that he is searching his memories for a clue as to why extraordinary events have taken place at Hogwarts since the start of the Triwizard Tournament. While walking the halls, Harry is confronted by Snape, who believes Harry was stealing from his store the ingredients for Polyjuice Potion, by which one person can assume the appearance of another.

In the Triwizard Cup's third and final task, the four competitors are placed inside a large hedge maze, the challenge being to reach the cup first. Viktor Krum, who was afflicted as a puppet by the forbidden Imperius curse at the time, incapacitates Delacour and attempts to do the same to Diggory; Harry stops Cedric Diggory from attacking Krum once Krum had been incapacitated, and the two run for the cup, which has appeared in view of the two. When Cedric trips and is trapped by vines at the maze floor, Harry frees him and the two reach the center of the maze together. They agree to claim a draw, and touch the cup together.

The Triwizard Cup transports the two champions to a graveyard where Voldemort is awaiting a confrontation with Harry. On Voldemort's command, Peter Pettigrew kills Cedric and traps Harry. Pettigrew concocts a potion that rejuvenates Voldemort, who then summons the Death Eaters and bids them witness the duel between their lord and his nemesis. As Harry repels Voldemort's spells, a connection called Priori Incantatem occurs between their wands. Harry's wand forces Voldemort's to disgorge the spirits of the people Voldemort has most recently killed, including Harry's parents and Cedric. Harry is briefly protected by the spirits and escapes with Cedric's body using the cup. Immediately upon his arrival, Harry Potter tells Dumbledore and Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge that Voldemort is back, and is responsible for Diggory's death. Mad-Eye Moody leads Harry back to the castle, where Moody begins to arouse Harry's suspicion with conversation. Upon the arrival of Dumbledore, Snape, and McGonagall, Moody transforms into Barty Crouch, Jr. as the polyjuice potion he had loaded into his flask began to wear off. The real Mad-Eye Moody had been kept prisoner in a trunk.

The school year ends as the representatives from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons depart, after Dumbledore exhorts them to stand together against Voldemort, telling them that "Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between doing what is right, and what is easy."

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