Harry Potter #10

I am reading the book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K.Rowling.

I predict Harry will go back and try and find his wand. He lost his wand when he was running away from the masked vandals at the Quiddich World Cup. I think that because Harry has only one wand that is right for him and it is the one that is a twin with Voldemort's wand. I was wrong. Harry did not go back for his wand. Someone else used it to make the dark mark, Voldemort's mark. The house elf, Winkey, found Harry's wand on the ground and was accused of using it to make the dark mark by her master, Mr. Crouch. Mr. Crouch works for the Ministry of Magic at a very high level.

While I was reading I had a question. Can house elves do magic? I inferred that they could do magic because Winkey a house elf made the dark mark. The dark mark is Voldemort's mark. The mark looks like a big green skull that floats in the air for 5 to 10 seconds.

I also had a word I did not know and could not pronounce. The word was "impeded". At first I read it as "impended" but there was no "n" in the word. The sentence was, "But when they reached the edge of the wood, there progress was impeded. A large crowd of frightened looking witches and wizards were congregated there...". I think the word impeded means stopped because there progress was impeded by people standing in their way so they had to stop.

To summarize, at the Quiddich World Cup,Harry, Hermione and the Waesley's went back to their camp (tent) after the match. In the middle of the night masked vandals people were attacking people. Everyone at the World Cup got scared and tried to run and hide. In the chaos, Harry, Hermione and Ron got separated from the rest of the Weasley's and Harry lost his wand. After giving up trying to find the Weasley's, they sat down and then the dark mark appeared.