Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

By Cyndi Chin and Stephanie Chin

From issue 3 winter 2006

This past November, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was released in theaters. The movie is an adventure, thriller, fantasy and mystery movie. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) has done it again. His role as the main character is admired by thousands of people, including these two reporters. In the movie, there is a big tournament called the Triwizard Tournament. The four competitors are Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson), Fleur Delacour (Clemence Poesy), Viktor Krum (Stanislav Ianevski) and of course, Harry Potter. The Triwizard Tournament is only for people seventeen or older. So why did Harry get chosen? To answer that question, someone mysteriously put his name in the cup for a dangerous reason. Even if Harry is not 17, he passes all of the challenges with help from the suspicious Mad Eye Moody (Brendan Gleeson) who is the new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher and Cedric Diggory, who becomes Harry’s friend throughout the movie.

Harry did well in the other movies but even better in the fourth movie. You can see that Harry is becoming more intense and powerful. The goblet of fire is much more exciting and dark because we see Voldermort (Ralph Fiennes) face to face. The fourth movie, as people say, is the start of the battle between Harry and Voldermort.

“I think Voldermort is not going to win because Voldermort is powerful but Harry is more powerful,” said Ashley Negron, a student of the Science and Technology Academy.

Harry is powerful, but can he really beat the monster that killed his parents? Of course, we have the old characters back. Rupert Grint (Ron) did a great job, as usual. Harry and Ron have an argument in the movie about the tournament but, of course, nothing can break their friendship.

“My favorite character is Ron because he is funny,” said Ashley Negron.

Kyle Culver, a student of the Law and Government Academy, likes Harry Potter best because “he faced the Dark Lord and he had to battle the dragon.”Students also had different opinions on which scene was their favorite. Ashley said, “My favorite part is when they went under water to save their friends.”