Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Chapter 19 Summary

Chapter Nineteen

The Hungarian Horntail

 

Poor Harry is beside himself at Hogwarts once Rita Skeeter actually publishes her article in the Daily Prophet. Skeeter has hardly even mentioned the other thee champions and focuses only on Harry Potter. This, of course, inflames the hatred of Harry from other members of Hogwarts. 

The first Triwizard Tournament task is fast approaching; therefore, suddenly Harry gets an urgent message from Hagrid to meet with him at midnight to see something very important.  Under the guise of Harry’s old invisibility cloak, Harry follows Hagrid and Madam Maxime around the grounds of Hogwarts only to discover a scene that makes him stop dead in his tracks:  huge dragons have been brought to Hogwarts to make up the first Triwizard task. The job of each of the four champions will be, somehow, to retrieve a golden egg that each of the four dragons would be fiercely protecting.

Harry is scared out of his wits when he finally meets Sirius in the fire of the Gryffindor Common Room at the appointed time. Harry is totally confused as to how he could possibly complete this crazy task from the tournament. Sirius also tells Harry some surprising information: Karkaroff, the headmaster of Durmstrang, used to be a Death Eater on Voldemort’s side. Sirius suspects that someone, possibly Karkaroff, is not only in the castle but also wants Harry killed. Unfortunately, Harry has to end his meeting with Sirius far too early because Ron walks into the Gryffindor Common Room. They are still furious at each other. Ron and Harry get into yet another fight ending with Harry smacking Ron in the forehead with one of the horrible “Potter Stinks” buttons.