![]() ![]() Voldemort grants him the silver hand: magic that will bring lots of danger in the future, both to others and to Wormtail himself (GoF 649). Voldemort Crucios him and refuses when Avery begs for forgiveness (GoF 648).Īnd the forward potion corresponds to Wormtail. The Death Eater associated with the backward potion is Avery: He is the one who is punished in the graveyard for his past sins. The third killer is Lucius Malfoy, what with his being the Death Eater general at the Department of Mysteries and the whole Chamber of Secrets business. (Once again, I want to give an enormous thank you to Kendall Smiley for her analysis over at the Harry Potter Lexicon.) But earlier in that battle, Crabbe begins casting a Killing Curse at Hermione (he gets as far as “Avada –”), proving himself to be one of the killers (OotP 789). The second killer is Crabbe, Sr., who gets a baby head in the Department of Mysteries. In the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Macnair is the one choking Harry to get the prophecy, before Neville jabs him in the eye (OotP 802). There are three “killers, waiting hidden in line” (SS 285) – never have those words been more appropriate than describing the Death Eaters! First up is Macnair, whose chosen profession is killing beasts for the Ministry of Magic. Nott is injured at the beginning of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and is never brought up again. As discussed in my series of essays about Death Eaters, Goyle, Sr., is MIA for the remainder of the series he’s never named after this scene. The two nettle wines are Nott and Goyle, Sr., in that neither of them does any damage for the rest of the series. There are seven Death Eaters present in the circle whom Voldemort addresses by name, as detailed in “Death Eaters – Part 2: Voldemort’s Resurrection.” ![]() Please visit that essay for a detailed analysis. Cedric claims, “He crept up behind me,” and Harry’s spell “hit Krum in the back” (GoF 627, emphasis mine), so we can say Krum corresponds to the backward potion.Īs detailed in “The Seven Battles,” the seven in this chapter is the seven ingredients crucial to Voldemort’s resurrection: water, Nagini’s venom, unicorn blood, Babymort, Wormtail’s flesh, Harry’s blood, and Tom Riddle, Sr.’s bone. That leaves the backward potion to be the Imperiused Krum. Much as the forward potion in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone moves Harry toward a dangerous encounter with Voldemort, so too does Cedric move Harry toward a dangerous encounter with Voldemort. When Harry’s leg is broken and he’s fallen short of getting the Cup, Cedric literally moves him forward… toward danger. The forward potion is Cedric – he technically counts as an obstacle for Harry, as a rival champion. The sphinx is lethal if her riddle is answered incorrectly… or if she were not Confunded by Barty Crouch, Jr. Of the three, only the Acromantula actually harms Harry, but all of them have the potential to. The three poisons are three deadly creatures Harry encounters (or narrowly avoids) in the maze: the Blast-Ended Skrewt, the sphinx, and the Acromantula. These are the two nettle wines – the obstacles so innocuous that Crouch, Jr., leaves them in the maze instead of blasting them out of Harry’s way. Two of them don’t really pose a threat to Harry: the boggart transformed into a Dementor and the golden mist. When Harry is in the maze, he encounters seven obstacles that stand between him and the Triwizard Cup. And they more or less fall into the 3-2-1-1 pattern of the potions riddle. So I went through the climax of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with a fine-tooth comb and found seven sevens! In addition to the aforementioned seven spells, there’s one set of seven for each chapter. ![]() That piqued my interest: Where there are two sevens, there are likely to be more. In a more recent essay, “The Yew Wand,” I came upon another set of seven: the seven spells Voldemort casts that night. Among those sets of seven is the seven ingredients Voldemort uses to return to his body. Years ago in this column, I wrote “The Seven Battles,” where I pointed out how so many things in the series fall into the pattern of the seven potions: three poisons, two nettle wines, one potion taking you forward toward danger, and one taking you backward toward safety. ![]()
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