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* [[8.8]]: Karkaroff gives Harry's performance in the first task a 4/10, in contrast to the 8's and 9's from the more impartial judges ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Bagman's definitely-partial 10]]). Naturally this provokes outrage from Ron, but Harry doesn't mind too much; he's too happy that {{spoiler|Ron is speaking to him again.}}
* [[Academy of Evil]]: Durmstrang, though the school itself is more of a [[Dark Is Not Evil]] place.
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]:
** While Mr. Weasley yells at the twins for baiting Dudley with Ton-Tongue Toffees, he hesitates to tell Mrs. Weasley about what happened. It's implied that he doesn't think the prank merits the earful that Fred and George eventually receive from their mother.
** The Veelas accidentally affect the referee mid-game. He flies down to flex in front of them. Bagman, amused by the Veelas' audacity, asks for someone to snap the referee out of it. A med wizard does, and the unamused referee orders the ladies off the field.
** On the last day of summer, Molly catches Fred and George working on some parchment. She asks if they're creating another joke shop form. During the World Cup panic, she had freaked out thinking the twins had been killed after she yelled at them. Fred asks her how she'd feel if the twins died in a Hogwarts express train-wreck and the last thing she said was an unfounded accusation. She, Percy, and the others laugh at this.
** At one point, Hermione mispronounces a Wronski Feint as "Wonky Feint". Harry corrects her through clenched teeth, trying not to laugh.
** Fred and George demonstrate Canary Creams, a sweet that causes the person who eats it to sprout feathers. Neville is their first victim, and he laughs good-naturedly after the spell wears off. It helps that the magic is harmless.
* [[Agony Beam]]: This book introduces the Cruciatus Curse.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Harry is hated because his fellow students think he sneaked his way into the Triwizard Tournament. Fortunately, when they see him flying for his life during the First Task, they mellow towards him.
* [[Amazon Admirer]]: Hagrid's sweet crush on Madame Maxime at first is because they're both {{spoiler|half-giant}}, and she understands what it means to be an outsider. As he recounts in Book five, she impressed him with some fast spellwork to save them both from {{spoiler|hostile giants. The reason why their relationship didn't continue is she didn't think his rescuing his brother Grawp was a good idea, but Hagrid understood it was dangerous to transport a full giant and let her go}}.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: A minor case: at the beginning of the book, Harry, in writing a letter to Sirius, makes a remark about Dudley and his [[PlayStation]]... in the summer of 1994. The console did not get released in Europe until September the following year.
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* [[Diet Episode]]: The Dursley portion of the book involves Dudley being put on a diet.
* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Barty Crouch Junior}}, particularly in the movie adaptation.
* [[Dungeon Bypass]]: During the third task, Harry blasts a shortcut through the hedge maze when he hears one of the others being tortured. It takes a curse plus a bit of fighting to get through, so he doesn't bother repeating the attempt.
* [[Due to the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Cedric}} asks Harry to retrieve his corpse, and Harry does.
* [[Dub-Induced Plot Hole]]: A small one. When Hermione mentioned that the 1792 Triwizard Tournament was cancelled because of a cockatrice breaking free and injuring the judges, the Dutch edition translates cockatrice as basilisk. But this is impossible, since breeding basilisks is illegal since medieval times. And they certainly don't want to use one of the most deadly creatures ever in a school tournament. Its gaze alone would have killed the entire audience.
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* [[Kaizo Trap]]: The [[Giant Spider]] at the very end of the third task, meant to blindside champions who were focused on the Triwizard Cup ahead.
* [[Kangaroo Court]]: The trials in the [[Pensieve Flashback]] are stacked against the defendants. Sirius says he didn't even get that much.
** However, Ludo Bagman managed to get off, largely because he was a popular Quidditch player, making him [[Convicted by Public Opinion|acquitted by public
** We also find out later that {{spoiler|the Lestranges and Barty Crouch Jr. ''did'' deserve to be tossed in jail}}.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Snape in the exchange of spells outside the Potions dungeon. After Hermione is hit with a spell that enlarges her already noticeable buck teeth to a cartoonish size (and Goyle's nose having done the same). Snape tells Goyle to go to the hospital wing, and then turns his attention to Hermione when Ron points out that she's been hit with a spell too. Snape says "I see no difference." Hermione ''runs off crying.''
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* [[Motive Misidentification]]: Throughout the story, everyone thinks that someone put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire in an attempt to get him killed while making it look like an accident. In the end it is revealed that {{spoiler|his name was entered in the hope that he would ''win'', touch the Triwizard Cup, and restore Voldemort to life.}}
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Crouch can't seem to remember that Percy's last name is "Weasley" and not "Weatherby". Fred and George have a lot of fun with this.
* [[Nice to the Waiter]]:
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** Hermione attempts this with the House Elves of Hogwarts. She means well, but it doesn't go over too well.
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Harry, when going to the Triwizard cup in the third task, is forced to make a decision of whether to save Cedric Diggory from something in the maze, or to go for the cup. He ultimately decides to save Diggory, and they take the cup together. {{spoiler|Let's just say that Harry really should have left Cedric Diggory behind, [[Killed Off for Real|for Cedric's]] [[Sacrificial Lion|own good]].}}
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** We learn about mid-way through the book that Voldemort has a spy at Hogwarts. A little while later, Harry finds out that Snape was accused of being a Death Eater after Voldemort's fall. Is Snape Voldemort's eyes and ears in the school? {{spoiler|No. But he ''was'' a Death Eater.}}
* [[The Reveal]]: "It was I who did that."
* [[Riddle for the Ages]]: The main cast doesn't know if {{spoiler|Barty Crouch Jr.}} was truly responsible for {{spoiler|helping the Lestranges torture Neville's parents to permanent insanity, or if he was even a Death Eater. Sirius says that he isn't certain, since {{spoiler|Crouch Jr. could have easily been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the kid was awfully young for being a potentially Death Eater, no older than nineteen. When Harry asks Dumbledore about it, the Headmaster says that Frank and Alice's testimony was shaky and Neville was only a baby, so he's not certain either. Crouch Jr. proclaimed his innocence at the trial, much like other Death Eaters who avoided jail time, Voldemort calls Crouch Jr. "my most faithful servant" and Crouch Jr. calls the Dark Lord "my master". He could have easily been converted with the Lestranges' influence and the Dementors' powers to induce despair, and being under the Imperius curse for a decade didn't help with his sanity. Crouch Jr. claims that he comforted Neville as Moody to manipulate him.}} We don't get any answers one way or the other.
* [[Riddling Sphinx]]: Harry encounters a sphinx in the hedge maze and has to answer a riddle in order to pass by it safely.
* [[Right for the Wrong Reasons]]:
* [[Right for the Wrong Reasons]]: The jury that acquitted {{spoiler|Ludo Bagman}}. Also, Frank assumes that Voldemort and Wormtail are spies and criminals based on the language they use. While the language isn’t unusual for a Wizard for use (Quidditch is a popular Wizard sport, for instance), they are indeed dangerous criminals.▼
** The jury that acquitted {{spoiler|Ludo Bagman of being a Death Eater, giving him a chance to explain that Augustus Rookwood suckered him into a bad deal and used him as a pawn}}. It says something that Mad-Eye Moody, known for his paranoia, acknowledged that {{spoiler|Bagman is not evil, just stupid. It was one of the few times that Moody presumed innocence and Crouch presumed guilt when normally both would be on the same side.}}
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* [[Rule of Three]]: The Triwizard Tournament is a competition between three wizards {{spoiler|though this is later subverted when Harry is chosen as an unprecedented ''fourth'' contestant}}, with three rounds.
** Also there are three Unforgivable Curses.
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* [[Spy Speak]]: A [[Subverted Trope]]: a Muggle believes that terms such as "Quidditch", "Muggles" and "Ministry of Magic" are codenames used by gangsters or spies, but these are just normal wizarding words.
* [[Strawman Political]]: Averted or even subverted. Hermione, after seeing a house-elf get fired for the crime of being terrified, decides that house-elves are "uneducated and brainwashed" slaves and need to be liberated. But when she meets other house-elves, they're quite satisfied with their way of life, claiming that [[Good Feels Good|virtue is its own reward]]. There's a lot more details on all sides, but the point is that what ''could'' have been some sort of equal rights crusade gets pretty well deflated; if anything, ''Hermione'' ends up looking the fool due to her heavy-handed tactics, which the house-elves find amusing or even insulting. (Later books have Dumbledore pointing out that Hermione generally has the right idea, and Hermione [[Character Development|gaining a better understanding of house-elf psychology]].)
* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: Invoked; Harry goes [[Oh Crap]] when realizing the Second Task involves going underwater for an hour, after Myrtle tells him how to activate the egg's singing. The Dursleys never game him swimming lessons, in hopes that he would drown one day, and at best he can manage the prefects' bath which allows him to stand on the floor. There is also a logical problem: no human can last underwater for an hour. Myrtle breaks into sobs when Harry asks her how he's going to breathe during the Second Task, and the library is ''too'' big for Harry to find the spell that he needs, even with McGonagall giving him permission slips for the Restricted Section. Dobby has to bail him out with some gillyweed filched from Snape's office, and it lasts for the full hour. Fortunately when it does wear off, Harry is close enough to the surface with Ron and Gabrielle to avoid this trope.
* [[Talk About That Thing]]: Used by Hermione as an excuse to get her, Harry, and Ron out of the room before Mrs. Weasley blows up at Fred and George.
* [[Tantrum Throwing]]: Upon discovering that Fred and George have engorged Dudley's tongue, Uncle Vernon begins throwing things at the Weasleys and Harry, who flee the house via Floo Powder.
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