Paperback
Portuguese language
Published Dec. 20, 2001 by Rocco.
The fourth book in the Harry Potter franchise sees Harry returning for his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione . There is an upcoming tournament between the three major schools of magic, with one participant selected from each school by the Goblet of Fire. When Harry's name is drawn, even though he is not eligible and is a fourth player, he must compete in the dangerous contest.
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The fourth book in the Harry Potter franchise sees Harry returning for his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione . There is an upcoming tournament between the three major schools of magic, with one participant selected from each school by the Goblet of Fire. When Harry's name is drawn, even though he is not eligible and is a fourth player, he must compete in the dangerous contest.
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3rd time listening... still so great!
Have decided to re-read the entire series. Will not change the original star ratings, but will include my updated star ratings in the wall o' text.
4 (???) stars. Maybe 3? 3.5?
So much Harry, not enough Ron and Hermione. And I feel like the challenges should be harder, or more numerous, or something. And SOOOO much telling, not showing -- the scenes in the graveyard and Moody's office are filled with amazing and interesting info, presented in the dullest way possible. But I love how grownup all the kids begin to feel here, such that they begin to discover some of the complexities in the adults around them, and how dark it turns toward the end. Definitely not the best of the series but I loved it anyway... Thus the rating dilemma.
Have decided to re-read the entire series. Will not change the original star ratings, but will include my updated star ratings in the wall o' text.
4 (???) stars. Maybe 3? 3.5?
So much Harry, not enough Ron and Hermione. And I feel like the challenges should be harder, or more numerous, or something. And SOOOO much telling, not showing -- the scenes in the graveyard and Moody's office are filled with amazing and interesting info, presented in the dullest way possible. But I love how grownup all the kids begin to feel here, such that they begin to discover some of the complexities in the adults around them, and how dark it turns toward the end. Definitely not the best of the series but I loved it anyway... Thus the rating dilemma.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling (2000)
Definitely my favorite Harry Potter book. Love the Quidditch.
Definitely my favorite Harry Potter book. Love the Quidditch.
Perfect book to be read during school days.
But I must admit that of the Harry Potter series the first four are the best.
Four books in, and I'm finally into territory I hadn't read before--though not entirely new story yet, since I'm farther ahead with the movies than I am with the books. Still, though, it was good to get the entire, full-length book version of the Goblet of Fire story. The biggest fun I had with this entire thing was the raising of the stakes with the return of Voldemort, and the expansion of what the reader gets to know about the world past what goes on at Hogwarts. The opening chapter being entirely outside Harry's point of view was a refreshing switch. Also, points to Dumbledore for finally doing a bit of badassery on camera, and showing something of why he has such a rep of being Most Awesome Wizard Around.
Favorite side details: the leprechauns at the Quidditch World Cup forming giant messages like HA HA in the air. Hagrid β¦
Four books in, and I'm finally into territory I hadn't read before--though not entirely new story yet, since I'm farther ahead with the movies than I am with the books. Still, though, it was good to get the entire, full-length book version of the Goblet of Fire story. The biggest fun I had with this entire thing was the raising of the stakes with the return of Voldemort, and the expansion of what the reader gets to know about the world past what goes on at Hogwarts. The opening chapter being entirely outside Harry's point of view was a refreshing switch. Also, points to Dumbledore for finally doing a bit of badassery on camera, and showing something of why he has such a rep of being Most Awesome Wizard Around.
Favorite side details: the leprechauns at the Quidditch World Cup forming giant messages like HA HA in the air. Hagrid and Madame Maxime, whose love is apparently very, ah, large. ;) Seeing the older Weasley brothers, Bill and Charlie, on camera--and oh look, finally, somebody in this cast I might actually find kind of hot, since Bill and Charlie both sound rather cool. Hermione's little moment of glory at the Yuletide dance, which has rather more impact in the book than it does on film. And ah yes, the joy of seeing Malfoy being turned into a ferret.
('Cause I still ain't feeling the Malfoy love, or for that matter, the Snape love. Though I will grant that it's also cool to finally see some more reason why Snape is interesting. I don't find him the slightest bit swoonable, but I definitely find him interesting. Malfoy, on the other hand, remains an annoying little twatwaffle. Comparing the two, I find my desire to see some sign of Slytherin characters with actual morals increasing. It gets kind of tiresome for all the Slytherins to be twatwaffles all of the time, after all.)
Also, not to be repetitive or anything, but GAH, the ellipses! Rowling only seems to whip them out in Big Important Plot Point Moments, but this time around, it was particularly painful to read. Especially in the big Voldemort Explains His Devious Plan Chapter, where we got ellipses all over the place in his dialogue and in the narrative. For me, the ultimate effect of this was that Voldemort's dialogue read like either a) he kept wandering off his train of thought, or b) he was doing a very bad William Shatner impersonation. Neither of these possibilities added to his overall intimidation factor, I'm tellin' ya.
So, long story (and this was quite the long story) short, on the one hand I have very cool expansion of what the reader knows balanced against what should have been a way more intimidating Villain Reveal sequence than it actually was. I'm giving this installment three stars.
Le quatriΓ¨me tome de la cΓ©lΓ©brissime saga Harry Potter, qu'on ne prΓ©sente plus. C'est peut-Γͺtre ce tome qui fait basculer dΓ©finitivement le ton de la saga vers quelque chose de plus sombre, peut-Γͺtre plus adulte aussi.
Le quatriΓ¨me tome de la cΓ©lΓ©brissime saga Harry Potter, qu'on ne prΓ©sente plus. C'est peut-Γͺtre ce tome qui fait basculer dΓ©finitivement le ton de la saga vers quelque chose de plus sombre, peut-Γͺtre plus adulte aussi.
