Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

        I am re-reading the book, Harry Poter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K.Rowling.  In this book Harry is faced with a series of challenges known to the wizarding world as the Tri-Wizard Tornaments.  Competing in these tournaments makes him the youngest wizard ever to take part in these competitions.  There are three in total, and in the third one you have to find a goblet in a gigantic maze.         I think that the tournaments are very acurate in saying that life has challenges, and to get what you want, you have to get through them.  Not that it will be easy because, of course, it won't be.  These challenges are very literal in saying that things will be tough.  I'm wondering if Rowling wanted it to be that way though.
        One reason that she might have wanted it to be literal is to show that things stand in the way of what we want.  And that we don't get handed anything in life, we have to work for it.  This is an important message for her to show because I feel like many kids that read these books are a little younger, or at least when they read it for the first time.  If they don't learn that you have to work for things earlier on in life, then it might be harder for them to learn it later.
        J.K.Rowling might not have ment for that message to be literal.  Making it literal was sort of like handing you the message of the story.  It was easy to figure out, to easy.  I feel like it you had to think to figure out the message, then it would enhance the point of it.  It took me less then a minute to think of the message, if you want us to think, then make us.
        If I ever write a book , a real book, I know that I'm going to try to get kids to think.  After all, most good books make you think.  This book is an exceptoin.