Wizarding Worldz
The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire film removed an important Fred and George Best Moments, but for good reason.
The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire omitted a number of significant plot points from the source material, one of which was an important scene that took place between Harry and the Weasley twins, Fred and George.
The movie never devotes a significant amount of time to examining Harry’s personal relationships with people other than the Golden Trio. Therefore, the only role that was ever assigned to the twins was that of Ron’s hilarious older brothers, who played a very minor role in the story’s overarching plot.
This was not the case in the book Goblet of Fire, however, as Fred and George were at the center of their own mystery that involved an important but absent character named Ludo Bagman. This led to their most significant moment with Harry as a result.
Although Bagman is not seen in any of the Harry Potter films, he was considered to be a primary suspect in the investigation to determine who wrote Harry’s name in the Goblet of Fire book. Harry was aware that Fred and George were connected to him in some way due to their involvement in the Triwizard Tournament, as he was a Ministry official.
He had overheard the twins discussing the possibility of blackmailing Ludo Bagman, and they were frequently seen sneaking around while looking distressed. He had also overheard them discussing the possibility of blackmailing Ludo Bagman.
After Voldemort’s return, Harry learns that the Weasley twins had wagered their entire lives worth of savings against Ludo at the Quidditch World Cup, but that Ludo had never paid them back for the bet they had placed. Because he owed mountains of gold to more people than just Fred and George, he ended up fleeing and was never seen or heard from again after his disappearance.
RELATED => Why Ron Weasley Is Afraid Of Spiders?
Harry’s Big Fred & George Moment Was Cut By Goblet Of Fire
After Fred and George Weasley admitted that they had misplaced all of their money and, along with it, their hopes of opening a joke shop, Harry Potter made the executive decision to give Fred and George the entire one thousand galleons that he had won in the Triwizard Tournament.
It was a touching moment, the likes of which were extremely uncommon to see with the eternal jokers, and it served to further connect Harry with the Weasley family. Harry Potter knew that his life and the lives of everyone else in the Wizarding World would change with the return of Voldemort in Goblet of Fire. The kind of laughs that the Weasley twins could offer with their shop was exactly what everyone needed at that time.
Naturally, the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire omitted both the conflict that Fred and George had with Ludo Bagman as well as the resolution that involved Harry giving them his winnings.
Instead, the role of Bagman was eliminated entirely, along with that of other characters such as Charlie Weasley, and the Weasley twins continued to go about their school year being the comedic versions of themselves that they are known for, offering students samples of the products they were developing.
Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes would suddenly appear as a fully functioning shop in Diagon Alley two years later in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but there is no explanation as to how the twins could have afforded it at the time of its appearance.
Why Is The Triwizard Winnings Scene Cut From Goblet Of Fire?
Goblet of Fire concluded with a scene that featured Harry, Ron, and Hermione all coming to terms with the fact that everything in their lives was about to change together as opposed to the moment that was supposed to take place between Harry and the Weasley twins.
The scene brought together the sadness of Cedric’s death at Voldemort’s hands and the steadfast companionship of the Golden Trio. [Cedric] was the third member of the Golden Trio.
Unfortunately, the comedic role that Fred and George played in the Harry Potter films would not have been appropriate for this setting, and it would only have served to detract from the new course that the films were taking now that the Dark Lord posed a more real threat.
In addition, the Fred and George subplot wouldn’t have made sense without the full events of the Quidditch World Cup and the presence of Ludo Bagman, both of which the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie simply didn’t have time for because the movie’s primary focus was on Mad-Eye Moody’s sinister plot.
In the end, the explanation of how the twins opened Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes was not the most essential component to include in the movie. Rather, it was one of the less important elements.
Instead, they chose to concentrate solely on the positive effect that Fred and George, along with their well-loved joke shop, had on the people of the Wizarding World and the fans in general.