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'''Professor Lupin:''' Well, I'd consider you a fool if you ''weren't.''|From ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|Harry Potter]].''}}

 

* The entire graveyard scene, really, which was complete with mutilation, dead bodies, torture, and giant snakes. Though ''Order of the Phoenix'' was a much darker book overall, nothing in the book can compare to the graveyard scene in ''Goblet of Fire''.

** And, uh, [[Squick|naked Voldemort in the cauldron]].

* Imagine being in your tweens, reading a series that has never showed anything but clean, abstract violence, and getting to the scene where Rowling in minute detail describes how Wormtail cuts off his own hand and how it looks afterwards.

** In fact, Rowling applied a [[Gory Discretion Shot]] in that scene, as Harry shut his eyes during the mutilation and only heard the sounds of the knife and Wormtail's whimpers. Nevertheless, it's made clear what happens and the reader can easily put together the details in their own mind.

** Arguably, the real reason for her disappearing was more horrifying than what we were initially led to believe: {{spoiler|the Death Eaters had kidnapped Luna Lovegood and held her hostage, and it is implied that the place she was held at tortures its prisoners. They also imply that they are perfectly willing to kill Luna if her father disobeys, such when they ask him to hand over Harry and his friends.}}

* The prologue, when Voldemort murders the Muggle Studies teacher. That's not so bad; what's bad is what he says afterwards.

** Oh, no, no, it ''is'' so bad, because JKR COMPLETELY and cruelly fakes us out for a second, not revealing who the person is suspended above the table, and then having Voldemort say that "she" was a teacher from Hogwarts. It might have been McGonagall, Sprout, Trelawney, or one of the others we know well. And then it was... someone we'd never met before. Still sad, but that was ''mean.''

** And then there's the whole reason he targeted her to begin with: For ''daring'' to suggest that Muggles should be tolerated and peacefully coexisted with. Knowing all the poor woman wanted was peace makes watching her die, while tearfully begging for Snape's help all the more heartrending for the viewer/reader {{spoiler|and Snape}}.