

After two rounds of hair-raising challenges in the tournament, dueling a dragon and swimming among them, Harry and Cedric join forces in the final round to find the Triwizard cup in a massive bewitched labyrinth.

Enter the dashing Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson pre- Twilight), Hogwarts’ favorite for the competition-and Harry, who’s suspiciously selected by the spitfire goblet. Dumbledore announces a tournament between Hogwarts and two other wizarding schools, inviting students to submit their names into the Goblet of Fire, which selects one student from each school to compete. The New York Times wrote the first installment had a “dreary, literal-minded competence,” but that diehards didn’t seem to care: It was “like seeing ‘Beatlemania’ staged in the Hollywood Bowl, where the cheers and screams will drown out whatever’s unfolding onstage.” Watch the real magic of the 2001 Chris Columbus flick when the baby-faced Harry searches for the immortality-granting Sorcerer’s Stone and comes face to face with the Dark Lord for the second time.įilm four marked the first non-PG rating for the franchise and, aside from plenty of adolescent crushing a la Hermione and Ron, “He Who Must Not Be Named” gets violent. But for every fan who flanks the “Boy Who Lived,” there’s a former Death Eater or student who’d like to see him succumb to Voldemort, among them potions professor Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) and icy blond classmate Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton). He also finds allies in headmaster Albus Dumbledore (Richard Harris) and half-man-half-giant Rubeus Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane).

The “Chosen One” embarks on his first year at Hogwarts, where he becomes fast friends with the gawky, ginger-haired Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and the school’s own Einstein in hair style and intellect, Hermione Granger (Emma Watson).
