For Hermione, meeting the house-elf Winky at the World Cup introduces her to some of the less savory parts of the Wizarding world, while Harry is shocked to see that the Wizarding world actually includes the whole world, not just Hogwarts and the UK. The World Cup exposes the protagonists to a global community of wizards, as well as the wider history of the Wizarding world, which shows the trio what exactly they'll become a part of as they mature and come of age. Harry, Ron, and Hermione's experiences at the Quidditch World Cup illustrate just how young and sheltered all three are in terms of knowing about their world-even though Ron was raised in it. Taken together, all of this suggests that a natural and essential part of coming of age is discovering one's wider community exploring that community's history and the ways in which history influences the present and finally, beginning to think about how one fits into that community. Harry and his friends attend the Quidditch World Cup, participate in the Triwizard Tournament (a competition between three European schools of magic), and Harry himself finally sees the Dark Lord Voldemort return to his body-all things that establish Harry as a young adult in the Wizarding world. While much of this shift has to do with how Harry and his friends mature personally, even more of it has to do with learning about the wider Wizarding world.
As the midway point of the Harry Potter series, Goblet of Fire sees Harry on the cusp of coming of age: while he's described as a boy in the early chapters of the novel, by the end of his fourth year at Hogwarts, Harry finally transitions from a boy to a man.
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