Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Chapter Nineteen:
The Hungarian Horntail

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

US hardcover edition: pages 313 - 336
UK paperback edition: pages 344 - 369
Timeframe: Saturday, 14 November - Sunday, 22 November 1994 [Y14]

In which an article by Rita Skeeter fuels the taunts of the students against Harry and Hermione. Hermione tries and fails to reunite Harry and Ron. Harry hides under his Invisibility Cloak to accompany Hermione to Hogsmeade, but Moody sees him anyway. Hagrid asks to meet Harry at midnight, when he reveals the dragons of the First Task. Back in the common room, Sirius issues some warnings through the fire.

Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:

The chapter title is a little "previous", since it calls our attention particularly to the Horntail among the dragons of the first task before Harry draws the Horntail by lot.

The prospect of talking face to face with Sirius was all that sustained Harry over the next fortnight

The article had appeared ten days ago

On the Saturday before the first task

or Hagrid had managed to buy another giant three-headed dog off a stranger in a pub.

"Bong-sewer," said Hagrid

He was in Azkaban with me

Moody caught Karkaroff, put him into Azkaban in the first place.

You need about half-a-dozen wizards at a time to overcome a dragon -

Characters introduced in this chapter:

• (names unknown) about 29 dragon keepers other than Charlie Weasley (six or seven for each of the four dragons)

Characters returning in this chapter:

• Abbott, Hannah

• Black, Sirius

• Chang, Cho

• Fat Lady, the

• Granger, Hermione

• Hagrid, Rubeus

• Jordan, Lee

• Karkaroff, Igor

• Macmillan, Ernie

• Maxime, Olympe

• Parkinson, Pansy

• Potter, Harry

• Weasley, Charlie

• Weasley, Fred

• Weasley, George

• Weasley, Ron

• (surname unknown) Bozo

• (surname unknown) Rosmerta

Characters mentioned in this chapter:

• Creevey, Colin

• Creevey, Dennis

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

• Diggory, Amos

• Diggory, Cedric

• Fang

• Delacour, Fleur (as the Beauxbatons champion, Madame Maxime's champion)

• Jorkins, Bertha

• Krum, Viktor (as the Durmstrang champion)

• Longbottom, Neville

• Moody, Alastor "Mad-Eye"

• Potter, Lily Evans (in Skeeter's article)

• Potter, James (in Skeeter's article, by Sirius)

• Riddle, Tom Marvolo (as Voldemort)

• Skeeter, Rita

• Weasley, Molly

Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:

• common room, Gryffindor Tower, Hogwarts School

• Hagrid's hut

• Honeydukes Sweetshop, Hogsmeade

• the Three Broomsticks, Hogsmeade

Settings and locations mentioned in this chapter:

• Albania

• Azkaban

• Forbidden Forest

• kitchens, Hogwarts

• (name unknown) a wizarding house broken into by Sirius

Exceptional character moments:

• Bertha Jorkins, who according to Sirius was "very nosy, but no brains, none at all".

• Molly Weasley, who according to Charlie unquestioningly accepted Rita's account of Harry's supposed fits of crying over his parents, even though she herself knows Harry far better than Rita does. We're being shown that Molly has an unfortunate tendency to trust what she reads in the paper even when she knows that the writer is untrustworthy. This will be relevant later on when Hermione is the target of one of Rita's attacks.

Spells:

• Mors Mordre (as the Dark Mark)

• Stunner

• Summoning Charm

Links and Resources:

• Aurors

• Bestiary, the

  • dragons (Chinese Fireball, Common Welsh Green, Hungarian Horntail, Swedish Short-Snout)

  • hags

  • horses, winged (Abraxans)

• Death Eaters

• essay: The Number Twelve

• items and devices

  • Cloak, Invisibility

  • Dungbombs

  • Goblet of Fire, the

• Sleeping Draught

Memorable lines:

• Harry was finding it difficult to think about the future at all, he felt as if his whole life had been leading up to, and would finish with, the first task...

• Quite apart from liking to get Quidditch terms correct, it caused him another pang to imagine Ron's expression if he could have heard Hermione talking about Wonky Faints.

• It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Strictly British:

• common room

• cupboard

• pub

• sweetshop

• wonky

Timelines/Calendar:

Since the chapter begins after the preceding chapter, which ended on the night of Friday the thirteenth, it begins on Saturday, 14 November 1994 [Y14]. Sirius' note places the end of the chapter sometime after one o'clock in the morning on Sunday, 22 November.