EW: Remembering ‘Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire’

Gob­let accel­er­ated the evo­lu­tion that began in Aza­k­a­ban from adorable-moppet kid­die inter­ac­tion into hor­monal teenaged drama. Daniel Rad­cliffe told EW his char­ac­ter “is going through that puberty crap. You know: the first crush. Of course, when it’s your first crush, it’s not just a crush — you looove her.” The “her” in ques­tion was Cho Chang (Katie Leung), Raven­claw fifth-year and brain­crush for a gen­er­a­tion of shy high school lit geeks (or any­ways, for this shy high school lit geek). In Gob­let, though, Cho’s quite a bit more inter­ested in a glam­our boy ath­lete with the glam­our boy name Cedric Dig­gory, played by a hand­some glam­our boy named Robert Pat­tin­son who you might have heard of a few mil­lion times in the last cou­ple years.

But Gob­let was an evo­lu­tion in another way, too. The movie begins in a rather jaunty tone that has more in com­mon with the Chris Colum­bus films than with Azk­a­ban. By the end, though, it’s gone to a far darker place than Cuaron’s movie. ForGob­let ends (SPOILER ALERT!) with the ter­ri­fy­ing abrupt death of Dig­gory, and before the audi­ence has even quite recov­ered, Volde­mort is reborn.

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