After days of waiting, thousands of fans finally got the opportunity to see the stars of the film , Emma Watson , Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe walk the red carpet together for one last time.
Author of the seven part series, JK Rowling , was also in attendance at the event which took over Trafalgar Square and screened at Leicester Square. The final film is due to be released next Friday, 15th July.
But how do the books and films compare? Any fan will tell you the books get larger and the films get longer but how do they compare in the sales charts and box offices of the UK? All eyes are on the final instalment to see if it will beat all previous films.
We have gathered data from Nielsen Bookscan , the world's largest book tracking service, as they collect total transaction data directly from the tills and dispatch systems of all major book retailers and have published the full list previously to show the top bestselling books of all time.
The book series as written by JK Rowling also shows that the Philosopher's Stone, although the shortest at pages, is the most popular with a volume of 3,, sales during Percy Weasley , who was promoted to Crouch's assistant, says Crouch is ill.
After the entire room has their meal, the Weird Sisters start their performance for the dance. Neither Harry nor Ron have any interest in dancing though Harry does participate in the opening dance and their dates, the Patil sisters , soon abandon them, Ron also gets into an embarrassing argument with Hermione; he claims that Viktor Krum is the enemy and that going to the ball with him is treason.
Harry and Ron then decide to go for a walk on the grounds to get away from the ruckus. They encounter Karkaroff having a worried discussion with Snape, and Hagrid and Maxime enjoying a tender moment.
The moment is ruined when Hagrid insinuates Maxime is a Half-giant , like him. Ron naturally has to inform Harry about how serious this information is, given the nasty reputation giants have in the wizarding world. Shortly after the ball, Cedric gives Harry a hint about the egg: have a bath with it.
He gives Harry the password to enter the Prefects' bathroom , and thanks him for warning him about the dragons. Ron and Hermione decide to put last night's argument behind them. Hermione isn't too surprised when she learns that Hagrid is a half-giant, as she suspected this all along.
Meanwhile, Harry is reluctant to take Cedric's advice due to his jealousy about Cho. Draco Malfoy shows Harry that Rita Skeeter had published a nasty story about Hagrid and his giant heritage which also used a quote from Draco ; this has apparently driven Hagrid into hiding. This raises some questions between the trio, as nobody else heard Hagrid talking privately with Madam Maxime that night and Rita is supposed to be banned from Hogwarts.
Several weeks pass and during another Hogsmeade visit , while hoping to find Hagrid at the Three Broomsticks Inn , the trio instead finds Ludo Bagman meeting with some goblins. During a private conversation with Mr Bagman, Harry learns that Barty Crouch has stopped coming to work and is sending Percy instructions by owl. Also, after a search, they still haven't found Bertha Jorkins. Bagman then again offers his help for the tournament, which Harry immediately declines.
Fred and George's sudden appearance forces Mr Bagman to leave. Hermione then questions why Mr Bagman is trying to help Harry cheat, along with why he was meeting with goblins. Rita Skeeter, who also encountered Bagman and the goblins, then shows up to investigate. Harry and Hermione start an argument with her about her article on Hagrid. The trio go to Hagrid's cabin and, along with Dumbledore, try to persuade him to return. They point out that not everyone has abandoned Hagrid, and that everyone has secrets in their pasts.
After Dumbledore leaves, Hagrid remembers his late father telling him never to be ashamed of what he is and gets over his depression. He gives his support to Harry in the Tournament, believing that if Harry wins, he could show everyone they do not have to be ashamed of what they are. This is enough to convince Harry to put aside his pride and take Cedric's advice. Harry sneaks into the Prefect's bathroom at night so he could have all the time he will need to figure out the clue, taking only the golden egg, his Invisibility Cloak , and the Marauder's Map with him.
Harry initially has trouble figuring out how to open the egg properly, but with a little help from Moaning Myrtle , who had been spying on him, Harry opens the egg under water. This time, Harry hears voices singing and can understand them when he puts his head underwater. Harry realises that he must save something he cares about from merpeople who live in the depths of the Black Lake.
When he falls through a trick stair and traps his leg, he accidentally drops the egg and map, attracting the attention of Filch. Filch finds the egg, and Snape soon arrives and demands Filch's help in catching someone who broke into his office.
Moody then shows up, angering Snape by suggesting Snape had something to hide in his office. Snape points out that Moody searched his office after his arrival at Hogwarts.
Moody then saves Harry from detection by claiming that the Marauder's Map is his own after an invisible Harry warns him not to give it to Snape. However, Snape suspects Harry's involvement because he recognises the Marauder's Map before Moody confiscates the egg from Filch and forces the pair away. Moody then asks to borrow the map, and after learning what Harry was up to that night, says that Harry might consider becoming an Auror for a career.
Harry explains what happened the previous night to Ron and Hermione. Harry also sends a school owl to Sirius to update him on what happened. Over the coming weeks, even with help from Hermione and Ron as well as the library's resources including getting McGonagall's permission for the Restricted Section , Harry struggles to think of a way to breathe underwater for an hour. Two days before the second task is to start, Sirius's response comes in. Sirius wants to know when their next trip to Hogsmeade is.
On the last night before the task, the trio are continuing their research in the school library when Fred and George appear to inform them that Professor McGonagall has summoned Ron and Hermione. Harry later sneaks back into the library after hours with his Invisibility Cloak, but can't find anything else.
The next morning, with a little help from Dobby, Harry discovers gillyweed , a plant that, when eaten, gives him fish-like qualities such as gills and fins. He quickly makes his way to the lake just as the task is about to start and finds that, once again, Percy is taking Mr Crouch's place.
While swimming through the lake and fighting off a swarm of Grindylows , Moaning Myrtle points Harry in the right direction and Harry discovers a town of Merpeople , where Ron the thing Harry would miss the most is being held, along with Hermione for Krum , Cho for Cedric , and Fleur's sister. Harry frees Ron, but refuses to leave the others, despite the insistence of the Merpeople. Cedric and Krum appear and rescue their loved ones, but Fleur never arrives.
With little other choice, Harry drags her sister to the surface as well, narrowly avoiding drowning as the gillyweed wears off. Although he was wrong to think the other hostages would be left to die they would have simply returned to the surface unharmed , his bravery and valour earn him extra points from the judges, who state that he showed great "moral fibre. Ludo Bagman then reveals the third and final task is on 24 June and the champions will learn more about it a month beforehand. In March , Sirius' reply states that the trio are to meet up with him during their next Hogsmeade trip and asks them to bring food.
Pansy, who is quoted in the article, suggested Hermione was making illegal Love Potions. Hermione realises that Skeeter must have eavesdropped on her and Krum's conversation on the shores of the lake, and begins wondering how Rita is getting her information. After Snape gets a hold of the article, he reads it aloud, creating further laughter from the Slytherins.
He then breaks the trio up and sends them to different tables. Snape also confronts Harry over the recent theft of boomslang skin and gillyweed from his office, who has no idea what he's talking about.
He threatens Harry with Veritaserum , a potion that will cause Harry to tell the truth when consumed. Karkaroff then shows up to talk to Snape and sticks around until after class. Snape blows him off, but not before Harry, who purposely stayed behind, noticed that Karkaroff had tried to show Snape something on his arm.
Sirius meets Harry, Ron, and Hermione secretly in Hogsmeade and directs them to a mountain cave where Buckbeak and some old Daily Prophet articles are waiting Sirius had been stealing discarded newspapers to keep up on current events.
They first discuss Winky and what happened at the World Cup. Sirius suggests that whoever stole Harry's wand must have done so while they were watching the game in the Top Box, and is suspicious that Barty Crouch was looking around for something before he sacked Winky.
He then finds it odd that not only did Crouch not show up during the game, but also that he is suddenly indisposed. Sirius explains that Crouch was the one who sent him to Azkaban without a trial, as Crouch used to be the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and was once poised to become the next Minister for Magic. During Voldemort's previous reign, Crouch took extreme measures against the Death Eaters, including allowing the Aurors to use the Unforgivable Curses against them.
While this greatly boosted Crouch's popularity and ensured that Crouch would become the next Minister, Crouch's son had been caught with a group of Death Eaters just after Voldemort's downfall. The Death Eaters in question were trying to find Voldemort and help him get his strength back. The youth was given a show trial by his father before being locked up in Azkaban ; he died a year later.
Shortly after Barty Crouch Jnr died, Crouch's wife died as well. Crouch's popularity dropped heavily after that, as people suspected that Crouch was a bad father. Ron brings up Crouch's appearance in Snape's office.
Sirius states that doesn't make sense, since Crouch would have kept an eye on Snape as a tournament judge. When Ron and Hermione bicker about whether Snape can be trusted, Sirius partly agrees with Ron, as it is questionable why Dumbledore would trust Snape. Snape was interested in the Dark Arts as a child and hung out with some Slytherin students that became Death Eaters, though he also knows Snape is smart enough to not get caught by the Ministry.
Harry then remembers Karkaroff's sudden appearance in their class, though Sirius can't figure out what that was about. Sirius then brings all the questions of these mysterious circumstances together, including why Moody was also searching Snape's office. He asks Ron to send a letter to Percy to find out if there is any news about Crouch. Before they leave, Sirius reminds them not to wander outside Hogwarts at all for safety reasons.
On the way back, the trio conclude that the scandal involving his son is the reason Crouch overreacted to seeing Winky being accused of conjuring the Dark Mark. Ron voices how he and Percy are similar. Hermione states Percy would never do what his boss did, but Ron is unconvinced. After sending Hedwig with the letter to Percy, the trio heads to the kitchen to give Dobby the socks Harry bought for him.
They find that Winky has become intoxicated from consuming a large amount of butterbeer which works like alcohol on house-elves. It doesn't help when Harry mentions that Mr Crouch has disappeared. Hate mail soon starts popping up for Hermione in regards to Rita Skeeter's article.
She has to go to the Hospital Wing due to a curse and doesn't turn up until a Care of Magical Creatures lesson, where Hagrid is having them use Nifflers to find gold coins which is actually Leprechaun gold he buried. Hagrid encourages Hermione to ignore the hate mail, citing the hate mail he received after Skeeter released the article about him. Hermione decides to discover how Skeeter has been getting her information when she is already banned from school grounds.
His irradiated response doesn't help. On the night of 24 May , Harry and the other champions are called to the Quidditch pitch by Ludo Bagman and informed that a magical maze will be grown there and filled with magical obstacles.
Their job is to head to the centre of the maze and touch the Triwizard Cup. Harry assures Krum that he and Hermione are just friends. Moments later, a rather crazy-looking Barty Crouch emerges from the forest asking for Dumbledore. He mentions that Voldemort is getting stronger and that he himself was responsible for something bad.
He also mentions his son, as well as Bertha Jorkins, who is now dead. Harry goes to retrieve Dumbledore, but when he returns, they find that Krum has been stunned and Crouch has disappeared.
Karkaroff accuses Mr Crouch's apparent attack on his student as a secret conspiracy by Dumbledore. Hagrid angrily demands that he apologise but Dumbledore restrains him. Dumbledore has Hagrid take Harry back to Gryffindor Tower to rest. He hints in his message not to contact Sirius until the next morning. On the way back, Hagrid scolds Harry for being out alone with Viktor Krum.
The trio debate last night's events the following morning. Harry thinks the strange things Mr Crouch said were important, especially if Voldemort is getting stronger. The group go to the owlery to send a letter to Sirius Black , and overhear Fred and George, who are talking about blackmailing someone that they've tried to reason with. Ron asks whom they are blackmailing, but they make it look like they are joking.
After they leave, Ron points out that it is obvious Fred and George are serious about starting a Joke Shop. They are close to graduating, with only one full year left, and they have to make enough money on their own to start one. Hermione suggests telling Percy, but Ron refuses, both because of what Sirius said about Barty Crouch Snr and Percy's similarities to him.
Later, they meet up with Moody. Moody reveals that he couldn't find him. He also tells them that there's nothing they can do about Couch and that the Ministry is investigating the matter, and urges Harry to instead prepare for the final task.
Sirius's response arrives the following day: he scolds Harry for being out with Krum alone and late at night and says he is lucky he wasn't attacked, since it is clear to him that someone did not want Barty Crouch to reach Dumbledore, and he was probably feet away from them in the dark. He instructs Harry to stay safe and practise defensive spells for the Third Task, and demands that Harry give him his word that he won't go out of bounds again, especially not after hours.
At Hermione's urging, he sends an owl back doing so. Not long later, during Divination , Harry passes out and has a vision. He sees Voldemort being informed of someone's death and torturing Wormtail for failing to prevent that person from escaping. Harry awakens with his scar hurting badly and pretends he has to go to the hospital wing. Harry actually goes to see Dumbledore. After spending time trying to get the password to Dumbledore's office right, Harry overhears an argument between Dumbledore, Moody, and Cornelius Fudge regarding the Barty Crouch situation.
Fudge refuses to believe the words that Crouch said about Bertha Jorkins being dead, and while debating what happened to Crouch, Fudge suggests that Madame Maxime is the likely culprit given her half-giant physiology.
Dumbledore accuses Fudge of acting on personal prejudice, which Fudge ignores due to Dumbledore's friendship with Hagrid. Moody interrupts the debate to explain that Harry Potter has arrived. Dumbledore, Fudge, and Moody leave to examine the school grounds, and Harry is alone in Dumbledore's office. While looking around, notices Dumbledore's Pensieve , a device that stores memories. Through curiosity, Harry peers in and ends up looking into three of Dumbledore's memories.
The first is the trial of Igor Karkaroff, in which he renounces his support of the Death Eaters and gives the names of existing Death Eaters, including Snape.
Dumbledore in the memory states that Snape is a spy against Voldemort and is no longer a threat. The second memory shows the trial of Ludo Bagman , who was accused of passing information to Voldemort, even though he wasn't aware the person he gave the information to was a Death Eater; his popularity quickly clears him.
Crouch sentences them all to a lifetime in Azkaban. By then Dumbledore from the present arrives and brings Harry back. After Dumbledore explains what happened and shows Harry another of his memories regarding a teenage Bertha Jorkins during her Hogwarts years, Harry explains what happened in Divination. Dumbledore finds Harry's scar pains to be an odd concept and brings up that this is the second time it has hurt, the first being during the summer. This shows Harry that Dumbledore has been talking to Sirius Black, and Dumbledore reveals that it was his idea for Black to hide in the cave outside Hogsmeade.
Dumbledore suspects that the reason why Harry's scar hurts is due to the connection that Voldemort's failed curse had created with him. He believes the scar would only hurt when Voldemort were close or was feeling a strong emotion.
Dumbledore also explains to Harry that, unlike the Ministry, he believes that the disappearances of Bertha Jorkins, Barty Crouch, and a Muggle by the name of Frank Bryce may be connected to Voldemort. Dumbledore also explains that Frank and Alice Longbottom are Neville's parents and they went insane due to the Lestranges' attack and that this is the reason why Neville was brought up by his grandmother and why he has such an aversion to the Cruciatus Curse.
Dumbledore doesn't know if Crouch Jnr was involved, but he personally requests that Harry does not disclose this information to anyone, saying that Neville himself will share it when he is ready.
Harry passes on the information he learned from the Pensieve to Ron and Hermione, excluding the details about Neville's parents. That same night, Harry's hatred of Voldemort reaches a new height because of what he learned from the Pensieve. As the task approaches, Ron and Hermione find time when they are not studying for their final exams to help Harry.
Even McGonagall helps by allowing him to practise in her empty classroom during lunchtime. During one practice session, Ron notices Malfoy outside the castle sitting by a tree and doing something odd. Harry and Hermione also see him before they return to practice. Sirius sends Harry messages by owl each day, reminding Harry to focus on what is ahead.
On the day of the third task, Rita Skeeter releases an article claiming Harry is demented and dangerous. She uses a quote from Draco Malfoy in the article. This raises some questions between the trio, since the article mentions Harry's scar hurting during Divination. The class takes place in the North Tower and Skeeter is not allowed inside Hogwarts, so she shouldn't have had that information.
Hermione finally figures out how Skeeter may be getting her information and leaves to put her theory to the test. McGonagall tells the champions that their families have come to watch them complete.
Harry doesn't want to meet them, expecting the Dursleys, but instead finds Molly and Bill Weasley. While they give Harry a tour of their knowledge of Hogwarts, Mrs Weasley gets into an argument with Amos Diggory regarding Harry's popularity in the tournament, before Mrs Diggory asks him to stop. They then mention to Harry that Percy will not be coming this time. After the Barty Crouch incident, which is being kept secret, Percy was hauled in for questioning regarding that the instructions he was receiving, which may not have actually been sent by Barty Crouch.
Instead, Cornelius Fudge will be serving as the fifth Triwizard judge in his place. After the rest of the Weasley children and Hermione show up, Harry tells Mrs Weasley that everything Skeeter wrote on Hermione was a lie.
After dinner, Mr Bagman takes the champions to the maze and Harry and Cedric, who are tied for first place, are sent in first. Harry successfully navigates the maze with the aid of the Four-Point Spell. Along the way, he hears Fleur scream. Harry rescues Cedric, who has been attacked by a cursed Krum; Harry manages to stun Krum and sends out a signal for Krum to be rescued before he and Cedric move on. Harry manages to pass a sphinx and, as he approaches the Cup, is attacked by an Acromantula.
Aided by Cedric, he defeats it, though one of Harry's legs is injured in the process. After taking the monster out, they decide to grab the Cup simultaneously.
Unbeknownst to them, the Cup is actually a Portkey that transports them to an old cemetery in the village of Little Hangleton. Just as Harry and Cedric are trying to figure out what happened, a stranger appears and Harry's scar begins hurting again.
A second voice orders the stranger to kill Cedric, which he does, leaving Harry frozen with shock and horror. Harry is then dragged to a large marble tombstone with the name Tom Riddle engraved upon it. The stranger then tightly bound Harry tightly with thick black cords from arm, wrists, legs, neck to ankle to it and has him gagged.
Unable to escape, Harry recognises the stranger as Peter Pettigrew due to the missing finger on his right hand. He also notes that Pettigrew is carrying what appears to be a deformed infant. Pettigrew takes some of Harry's blood, bone dust from Tom Riddle Snr's grave, and puts them in a cauldron. He then cuts off his own right hand, at the orders of the strange creature, and places it in a cauldron.
The creature is revealed to be none other than Lord Voldemort himself, and the potion made by Pettigrew returns him his powers stronger than before.
Voldemort forces Wormtail to take out his bleeding arm to activate the Dark Mark and summon the Death Eaters. While in wait, Voldemort tells Harry that after his father abandoned him and his mother upon finding out that his mother was a witch, Voldemort's mother died giving birth to him and he was raised in a Muggle orphanage. He later sought revenge by murdering his father. After his Death Eaters arrive, Voldemort spends time criticising them for failing to seek him out during these last thirteen years, even though they knew that he had found a way to escape mortal death.
He believes they feared a power greater than his, like that of Albus Dumbledore, which is why they slipped back into normal wizarding society and claimed they were never loyal to Voldemort.
Voldemort then rewards Wormtail for aiding with his rebirth by creating a new silver hand for him. Voldemort identifies more Death Eaters, including Lucius Malfoy , and announces his plans for rebuilding his army and punish the Death Eaters that have deserted him.
Voldemort answers Lucius's question about how he had returned by explaining the protection spell that Lily Potter provided Harry when she died. That is what originally caused his downfall and provided Harry with protection from him, but now that they share the same blood, Voldemort is free to touch Harry.
Voldemort then reveals that he fled deep into an Albanian forest, barely alive and without a proper body, surviving by possessing animals until Quirinus Quirrell showed up and let Voldemort share his body. Following his failure to obtain the Philosopher's Stone , Voldemort returned to Albania with little hope of getting a corporeal body again. After fleeing the country following the events of Harry's third year, Wormtail learned of Voldemort's continued existence from other rats.
Wormtail went to seek Voldemort, and during his journey, he ran into Bertha Jorkins. He delivered her to Voldemort and, through torturing her, Voldemort found out about the Triwizard Tournament.
He also discovered that a faithful Death Eater servant was still alive after breaking a memory charm that had been placed on Jorkins. With Wormtail's help, Voldemort was able to regain a body of his own and some of his powers and return to Britain. There, he plotted Harry's abduction and kidnapping, knowing that Harry's blood would remove his own mother's protection.
Voldemort reveals that this servant who is at Hogwarts has ensured that Harry would win the tournament and be brought to the graveyard. Voldemort then frees the injured and weakened Harry and orders him to face him in a duel, wishing to prove who among the two is stronger in front of his minions now that there is no one around to protect Harry. Voldemort challenges Harry to a duel.
Though Harry gives in the first time, the second time he manages to shake the curse off, much to the astonishment of the Death Eaters present. When the duel begins, something miraculous happens. Voldemort and Harry's wands are "brothers", due to the fact that their wand's cores are both feathers from the same Phoenix.
As the wands spells meet in the air and interlock, a Priori Incantatem effect occurs. This causes the spirit echoes of Voldemort's victims, including Harry's parents, to spill out from his wand. The echoes momentarily protect Harry, allowing him to grab the portkey and escape to Hogwarts with Cedric's body. When he arrives back at the school, many of the students begin to scream when they see Cedric's body.
During the confusion, where an exhausted Harry tries to tell Dumbledore what happened, Harry is ushered away by Moody while Dumbledore and Fudge are busy with Cedric's parents. Moody takes Harry to his office, where Harry sits in shock and Moody gives him a potion to bring him around. As Moody probes Harry for information, Harry says he believes that Karkaroff is the faithful servant that Voldemort mentioned. Moody reveals that when the Dark Mark was activated, Karkaroff fled Hogwarts, since he had betrayed the Death Eaters and could never go back to them.
After Moody reveals he knows that Harry was taken to the graveyard and that he is angry that Voldemort did not try to torture the Death Eaters that had abandoned him, he tells Harry that he was responsible for putting Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire under a different school. He purposely tipped off Hagrid about the dragons so Hagrid could show Harry and gave Harry a hint for beating the first task.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it.
Certainly the first story I ever wrote down when I was five or six was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels.
Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books. She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department.
Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of. Search review text. Don't mind me, just crying my eyes out. Rowling is a writing goddess and I can't believe how much foresight and planning went into this series.
She already hints at the horcruxes and many other things in this book that don't show up until much later. Definitely one of my favorites in the series but I say that about all of them! Sasha Alsberg. Author 6 books 68k followers. Probably my favorite so far, just wow oh my gosh I feel empowered and sad at the same time sad because One of my favorites in the series. The ending always gets to me and breaks my heart.
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