capricious nerd / nerd teacher [books] reviewed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #4)
Some other inconsequential events.
3 stars
I have one consistent comment about these books, especially as an educator: Who the fuck is running these schools and allowing contests that you can't back out of to exist?
This is also one of the more frustrating books for me in terms of the amount of time that is spent on things that often feel irrelevant. I'm supposed to feel something for Cedric, and I never do; there's nothing there for me other than some weird lesson about how being a nice person who wants to share in winning an event leads to the death of another.
And I know there's supposed to be more to it, but that aspect of this book has never sat well with me (along with the fact that it's just... an immediate death with nothing, which I get is useful because it shows that Voldemort doesn't care about anything or anyone).
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I have one consistent comment about these books, especially as an educator: Who the fuck is running these schools and allowing contests that you can't back out of to exist?
This is also one of the more frustrating books for me in terms of the amount of time that is spent on things that often feel irrelevant. I'm supposed to feel something for Cedric, and I never do; there's nothing there for me other than some weird lesson about how being a nice person who wants to share in winning an event leads to the death of another.
And I know there's supposed to be more to it, but that aspect of this book has never sat well with me (along with the fact that it's just... an immediate death with nothing, which I get is useful because it shows that Voldemort doesn't care about anything or anyone).
There are so many instances of "How the hell did no one notice that this was a thing that was happened?" when it comes to Barty Crouch Jr/Moody (along with one of my most hated things ever in a novel: vaguely referencing a person who never existed ever for them to play a major part in a thing to later never exist again at all in any form) or "Why are all of these children, like almost every single of them, so incredibly unable to believe that a person could be setup when they can accept all the magical things around them?"
