Appreciate her on any level other than chum

Rating: 6/10 (26 September 2019)

He years come and go; the seasons rise and fall; and trainee wizards Harry, Ron and Hermione have grown into loping teenagerhood, along with their actors, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. It's a weird experience for all of us getting older with them in real time. And here is their fourth adventure, The Goblet of Fire, in which, the posters promise us, dark and difficult times lie ahead. Could that subdued second adjective be hinting at metaphors for adolescent upheaval? If so, it is an adolescence so far free of acne, anti-authority attitudes and tattoos - except the one painfully imposed upon our young hero by the evil Voldemort. Harry is however feeling the painful stirrings of romance, and Hermione is increasingly exasperated that the two useless, lumbering boys she's hanging around with are failing to understand or appreciate her on any level other than chum.