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Nitpicking Harry Potter (aka re-reading it as an adult)
Goblet of Fire: the plotholes, the discrepancies, and the inevitable, irreversible signs of growing up.
How do you keep reading a chapter when you know how painful the end is going to be?
How do you not cry at the jokes a character makes when you know that by the time you’re done with the book, he will be dead, discarded in a second, as if a particularly irritating pest?
How do you cheer and whoop with the crowd when you watch a task being performed in front of them, and not feel your eyes fill with tears as your heart is clutched by the icy fist of the knowledge that the outcome isn’t going to be as cheery or festive as they hope? Rather, it would be something that would change their reality and turn their world upside down, only if they have courage enough to believe the truth.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the turning point in the series. It is the book where JK Rowling stops being a children’s writer and turns into a YA author. This book is where the darkness, the severity of the threat looming over Harry’s world starts to make its presence felt. There is no more fun and games, no more times when getting expelled was the worst the children could fear.
