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Barty Crouch
Harry's godfather. Until a year before the start of the novel, Sirius was imprisoned in Azkaban for a crime he didn't commit. Because Harry wasn't able to provide evidence of Sirius's innocence, Sirius is on the run and out of the country until news from home becomes concerning enough to make Sirius feel compelled to return. Because Harry has never had a caring adult like Sirius in his life before, he struggles to remember that he can call on Sirius for help when he needs it. For his part, Sirius takes his responsibility as Harry's godfather seriously and even hides out around Hogsmeade starting in the months before the third task. Because Sirius is an unregistered Animagus and can turn into a dog, he fools Hogsmeade residents into thinking he's a stray. The way that Sirius interprets Rita Skeeter's articles suggests that Sirius has strong critical thinking skills. Though he recognizes that Skeeter loves to stir up trouble, he also understands that there's often a nugget of truth hidden in articles that are mostly nonsense and fiction. While he doesn't openly support S.P.E.W., he does point out that it says a lot about a person's character if they treat individuals who are relatively powerless poorly when Hermione tells him about Mr. Crouch firing his house-elf Winky. Harry learns that Sirius has been communicating with Dumbledore for most of the year and it seems as though the two adults do work together to help and protect Harry. After the third task, Dumbledore asks Sirius to reveal himself to Mrs. Weasley and to Snape so that they can begin to work together to fight Voldemort. Snape and Sirius knew each other and were enemies at school, but because both men are loyal to Dumbledore, they put aside their differences enough to shake hands.
Sirius Black Quotes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Sirius Black or refer to Sirius Black . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Nineteen
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"--and reading between the lines of that Skeeter woman's article last month, Moody was attacked the night before he started at Hogwarts. Yes, I know she says it was another false alarm," Sirius said hastily, seeing Harry about to speak, "but I don't think so, somehow. I think someone tried to stop him from getting to Hogwarts. I think someone knew their job would be a lot more difficult with him around. And no one's going to look into it too closely; Mad-Eye's heard intruders a bit too often."
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Chapter Twenty-Seven
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"Yes," said Hermione in a heated voice, "he sacked her, just because she hadn't stayed in her tent and let herself get trampled--"
"Hermione, will you give it a rest with the elf!" said Ron.
Sirius shook his head and said, "She's got the measure of Crouch better than you have, Ron. If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
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"Crouch let his son off? I thought you had the measure of him, Hermione! Anything that threatened to tarnish his reputation had to go; he had dedicated his whole life to becoming Minister of Magic. You saw him dismiss a devoted house-elf because she associated him with the Dark Mark again--doesn't that tell you what he's like? Crouch's fatherly affection stretched just far enough to give his son a trial, and by all accounts, it wasn't much more than an excuse for Crouch to show how much he hated the boy...then he sent him straight to Azkaban."
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Sirius Black Quotes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire quotes below are all either spoken by Sirius Black or refer to Sirius Black . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Nineteen
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"--and reading between the lines of that Skeeter woman's article last month, Moody was attacked the night before he started at Hogwarts. Yes, I know she says it was another false alarm," Sirius said hastily, seeing Harry about to speak, "but I don't think so, somehow. I think someone tried to stop him from getting to Hogwarts. I think someone knew their job would be a lot more difficult with him around. And no one's going to look into it too closely; Mad-Eye's heard intruders a bit too often."
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Chapter Twenty-Seven
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"Yes," said Hermione in a heated voice, "he sacked her, just because she hadn't stayed in her tent and let herself get trampled--"
"Hermione, will you give it a rest with the elf!" said Ron.
Sirius shook his head and said, "She's got the measure of Crouch better than you have, Ron. If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
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"Crouch let his son off? I thought you had the measure of him, Hermione! Anything that threatened to tarnish his reputation had to go; he had dedicated his whole life to becoming Minister of Magic. You saw him dismiss a devoted house-elf because she associated him with the Dark Mark again--doesn't that tell you what he's like? Crouch's fatherly affection stretched just far enough to give his son a trial, and by all accounts, it wasn't much more than an excuse for Crouch to show how much he hated the boy...then he sent him straight to Azkaban."
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