Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Chapter Fifteen:
Beauxbatons and Durmstrang

Synopsis by William Silvester
Notes and links by Michele L. Worley

US hardcover edition: pages 228 - 247
UK paperback edition: pages 251 - 272
Timeframe: Friday 6 September - Friday 30 October, 1994 [Y14]

In which Harry sends an owl to Sirius telling him everything is fine. In DADA, Moody puts the Imperius Curse on everyone and only Harry can resist it, school work piles up, Hogwarts spruces up for the visitors, Hermione continues her elf rights campaign, a message via Hedwig announces that Sirius is back in the country, and the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students arrive by flying carriage and submerged ship respectively.

Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:

This chapter introduces the students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, as well as the heads of the two schools.

Early next morning...

...Harry woke with a plan fully formed in his mind, as though his sleeping brain had been working on it all night.

He then climbed out of the portrait hole, up through the silent castle (held up only briefly by Peeves, who tried to overturn a large vase on him halfway along the fourth-floor corridor)...

...finally arriving at the Owlery, which was situated at the top of West Tower.

The Owlery was a circular stone room, rather cold and draughty, because none of the windows had glass in them.

Hundreds upon hundreds of owls of every breed imaginable were nestled here on perches that rose right up to the top of the tower...

• barn
• Scops (Pigwidgeon)
• snowy (Hedwig)
• tawny

Characters introduced in this chapter:

• Karkaroff, Igor

• Maxime, Madame

• (unnamed) the other Beauxbatons students (eleven?)

• (unnamed) the other Durmstrang students (eleven?)

• (unnamed) Slytherin fifth-year

Characters returning in this chapter:

• Brown, Lavender

• Creevey, Dennis

• Crouch, Bartemius (junior) (as Moody, "Mad-Eye")

• Finnigan, Seamus

• Granger, Hermione

• Hagrid, Rubeus

• Hedwig

• Jordan, Lee

• Krum, Viktor

• Macmillan, Ernie

• Malfoy, Draco

• McGonagall, Minerva

• Patil, Parvati

• Peeves

• Potter, Harry

• Thomas, Dean

• Weasley, Fred

• Weasley, George

• Weasley, Ron

Characters mentioned in this chapter:

• Bagman, Ludo (not named)

• Binns, Professor

• Black, Sirius

• Crabbe, Vincent

• Diggory, Cedric

• Filch, Argus

• Flitwick, Professor

• Goyle, Gregory

• Lockhart, Gilderoy

• Pigwidgeon

• Snape, Severus

• (unnamed) two first-year girls, frightened into hysterics by Filch

Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:

• Gryffindor Tower, boys' dormitory

• Great Hall, the

• West Tower, Owlery

Settings and locations mentioned in this chapter:

• Azkaban

• Hogwarts kitchens

• London

Exceptional character moments:

• none yet

Spells:

• Apparition (mentioned)

• Imperius Curse

• Summoning Charm (mentioned)

• Switching Spell

• Transfiguring a raccoon

Links and Resources:

• Bestiary, the

  • Abraxans

  • cockatrice

  • Dementors

  • house-elves

  • owls

  • skrewts, blast-ended

• essays

  • Mapping the Harry Potter Timeline

  • The Nature of Magic

• items and devices, magical

  • armour

  • books

    • Hogwarts, A History

  • pictures with moving subjects

• Hogwarts houses

• Ordinary Wizarding Levels (O.W.L.s)

• Triwizard Tournament

• transportation (Apparition, flying horse-drawn carriage, Portkey, ship)

Memorable lines:

• "Talk about paranoid..." Ron glanced nervously over his shoulder to check that Moody was definitely out of earshot, and went on, "No wonder they were glad to get shot of him at the Ministry, did you hear him telling Seamus what he did to that witch who shouted "boo" behind him on April Fools' Day?"

Strictly British:

• draughty (U.K. edition only)

• first-year

• git

• hedgehog

• nick

• you lot

• prefect

• get shot of (U.K. edition only)

Timelines/Calendar:

The action of this chapter begins the morning after the first DADA lesson of term, and ends before supper on the night that the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students arrive (which is given in the chapter).