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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2745623" data-attributes="member: 31094">*cough* No Nose. *cough*What's made clear in the books, but not the films, is that the Ministry of Magic does NOT want everyone to know that Voldemort isn't dead.  The general population of wizards and witches believe he is dead, and there is no fear, freaking out, etc.  When he was alive and rampaging through the wizarding world, he caused a great deal of fear and panic, not to mention killing good witches & wizards every time he sneezed.  He is a figure of much lore, rumor, and many wizards think he was 20 feet tall and made of iron and totally unkillable.  Those who run the Ministry feel that if they release the information that he is still alive to the general public, they'll have mass hysteria.  Harry and his friends and professors know that Voldemort isn't dead, but the Ministry keeps covering their encounters with him and his minions up.  Every time something has happened, those in Harry's circle know about it, but no one else does.  Most of the students at the school have no idea Voldemort was in the back of that one professor's head, or living in the woods eating unicorns, or all of the other things that he's done.  We are in the know because we've watched the films, and so it's easy to assume that everyone else knows, too, but only a select few do.Harry and his cohorts are really working against the Ministry throughout the books.  I think this will be more obvious in OoTP, at least I hope so.I was unhappy about the way this happened in the film.  If I remember correctly, it's Cedric who turns back to help Harry finish the maze, not the other way around.  So I've always considered Cedric to be the real winner, and Harry is only considered the winner because Cedric is dead.  It felt like Harry won in the film just because he was Harry, and because Harry is always supposed to win.  I found it much more tragic in the book that Cedric was the true winner, who was supposed to get the eternal glory.We'll see the effects of him being the Triwizard Champion in the next book.  IIRC, he won 50 gold Galleons, which he gives to Fred & George to start a joke shop.</blockquote>

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