Chapter Discussion: Nineteen, Goblet of Fire: The Hungarian Horntail

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Chapter Discussion: Chapter Nineteen, Goblet of Fire: The Hungarian Horntail.
Harry was looking forward to talking with Sirius. He was very nervous about the
first task and Ron was still not talking to him. Hermione tried to keep his
spirits up. Rita Skeeter's piece in the Prophet was a huge embarrassment for
Harry. He was featured over anyone else and she had put words in his mouth that
he had never said. Most of the students were supporting Cedric.

Hagrid asked Harry to come down to his cabin, when he and Hermione met up with
him and Moody in Hogsmeade. At midnight, he met Hagrid (Harry was wearing his
cloak) and Hagrid brought Madame Maxime and Harry around the edge of the
Forbidden Forest out of sight of the castle. Harry was shocked to see four huge
fire-breathing dragons and Charlie Weasley with a crew of wizards wrangling
them. He gathered that the champions had to get by the dragons for the first
task. On the way back to the castle, he saw Karkaroff sneaking toward the dragon
pens.

When he saw Sirius in the fireplace, Harry blurted out that dragons were the
first task. Sirius warned Harry about Karkaroff, who had been a Death Eater in
the first war, and about the Durmstrang champion. He thought someone really had
attacked Moody to keep him from getting to Hogwarts and he listed other strange
things including the disappearance of Bertha Jokins. He warned Harry someone
was trying to use the tournament to attack him. Their conversation was
interrupted by the appearance of Ron in his pajamas. The two boys had an angry
exchange of words and Harry went to bed.

Questions:

1. Do you think that the tasks (as represented by the use of dragons) were
too dangerous? Wasn't it possible someone would be killed - as had happened
before?

2. Why do wizards capture and keep dragons?

3. Did you think Sirius was right about Karakoff? If so, why did the
authorities at Hogwarts welcome him?

4. Did Karakoff go to Hogwarts? If not, why is he the only foreign-born
Death Eater we know about?

5. Did you think Hagrid's attraction to Madame Maxine was amusing?

6. Was it Hagrid's idea to "cheat" by showing Harry and Madame Maxime the
dragons or did Moody or DD advise him to do it?

7. Do you admire Hermione for sticking by Harry?


Are there any other questions you can think of about this chapter?

nikkalmati


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