Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter

by J. K. Rowling

Paperback, 734 pages

English language

Published Sept. 11, 2002 by Scholastic.

ISBN:: 978-0-439-13960-1
OCLC Number:: 50279560

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Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. But unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards.

And in his case, different can be deadly. --back cover

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LemmiSchmoeker reviewed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #4)

The last book that relies on an overarching plot

4 stars

After the very eerie ending of the third book, this one is quite light-hearted for the most part. What's new is that people are now being killed as part of the plotline, and much of Voldemort's reign of terror is revealed.

The plot is well-constructed (as would be expected), but Rowling's knack of introducing a new basic form of magic in every book and then overusing it as a plot device becomes slightly annoying here. Still, this is the last book that relies on an overarching plot, and should be enjoyed as such.