Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4)

by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)

4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 · rating details · 912,491 ratings · 13,689 reviews

The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and there are spells to be learnt, potions to be brewed and Divination lessons (sigh) to be attended. Harry is expecting these: however, other quite unexpected events are already on the march...

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Published July 8th 2000 by Arthur A. Levine Books (first published 2000)

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Sep 01, 2011 Stephen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: award-nominee-hugo, award-winner-hugo, award-nominee-bram-stoker, award-nominee-locus, multiple-award-nominee, comfort-food, ya, 2000-2005, potteresque, fantasy

This was the beginning of my addiction to POTter. I had previously experimented with and enjoyed POTter on 3 different occasions, but could easily have walked away and never touched the stuff again. Then, under some pressure from some POTterHEAD peers of mine, I tried the newest blend called the Goblet...and everything changed. As the warm, easy, potato chip prose crossed my blood-brain barrier, euphoria ensued. My inner child was smitten.

I...was...hooked and I...was...happy.

Ignore the so-call...more

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Feb 25, 2012 Mariel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: flobberworms give bad bite

Recommended to Mariel by: Aragog never killed no one never

I'm a Harry Potter fan. A rather hardcore one, back in the day. The Harry fans at the big meetup of 2007 (last book) ditched me for not being cool enough. Shows what they know.

I don't know if anyone on goodreads followed the intense Harry Potter fanbase core in the good old days. I wasn't on goodreads until after the last book came out. Goblet of Fire was the last Harry Potter book before all of the bitching naysayers. It was never as much fun after that, either to discuss theories or pick apart...more I'm a Harry Potter fan. A rather hardcore one, back in the day. The Harry fans at the big meetup of 2007 (last book) ditched me for not being cool enough. Shows what they know.

I don't know if anyone on goodreads followed the intense Harry Potter fanbase core in the good old days. I wasn't on goodreads until after the last book came out. Goblet of Fire was the last Harry Potter book before all of the bitching naysayers. It was never as much fun after that, either to discuss theories or pick apart clues. It was also the book that started the "I hate Ron!" club (the Draco Malfoy is a conflicted hero idea started around the Chamber of Secrets film. Hey, I could be a Harry Potter scholar). It was pretty much like looking up any movie on the imdb or a tv show on Television Without Pity. No one hates something more than an obsessive fan, right? Fanfic writers who actually preferred their interpretations more than the original source (crazy!). The fanbase could be deterimental to nuturing ones own "ohmigod I'm going to die without the next book" that I so desperately needed. Harry Potter was my "something to look forward to". I haven't found anything else to take its place. I've not tried to hang around the fringes of a big fan base again, either. (My random goodreads tastes probably don't count. I have no idea what the big thing is. I liked The Hunger Games for the cozy district twelve parts and didn't give a rationed fig for love triangles or political outcome. I'm a loner bookworm freak!) Almost as bad were all of the people who felt some pressing need to inform me that they were too cool to even try to read Harry Potter, as if it made one bit of difference to me. [I suspect that I was expected to backtrack. You know, the way a person will immediately downplay how much they liked or disliked something based on what someone else says about it.] I was going to read it with or without them. They were not beating me by being too cool for school (especially if that school is Hogwarts!). Why were they too cool for Harry after Goblet of Fire? The fans, I mean.

I don't remember an awful lot about plot points (I'm older now and my memory wasn't that good to begin with). There is some overlap between books, for sure. I do remember savoring the details and not because it would help me figure out was going to happen. I WANTED surprises. Harry disliking Ron for the bit of skin showing between his ankles and his pajama ends? That would totally have swayed me to be unwilling to hear an apology and nurse the annoyance another few days. I loved it when the whole school hated Harry (which is about all of the time). I loved how he didn't study and had to work up to the last minute nerve for everything. Those kinds of details made it for me. I remember the wait between the books and being excited to find out what Neville was up to over the summer (long live Neville Longbottom!). But no, the base was miffed 'cause they didn't get another Sirius Black who owned the motorbike that Hagrid used to escort Harry to Privet Drive appearing in Prisoner of Azkaban. If that's what you wanted the appeal of Harry Potter would be dead in the water with the giant squid after the last book. That's not me!

Oh yeah, so it was a huge turning point in the series. Voldemort rises again, the romance shit (Rowling's one big flaw, in my mind). They got longer and less tightly edited (we fans were greedy for closer release dates. They had no one but themselves to blame!). Maybe some details got piled on (I can't remember which book had the useless James Potter quidditch info. Half-blood?).

I think it was the Ron thing, anyway. D'oh. It has to be that. Maybe it was like season three of Buffy when Buffy goes to L.A. in the first episode and they still cut back to Sunnydale to show how the Scooby gang are faring without her. The new factors of the war is out there situation was like cutting into the Scooby dynamic. It's painful to go your own way and be all alone. It was like reaching the end half way through. Harry has to grow up, he has to defeat Lord Voldything and leave Hogwarts. And that's a sad feeling 'cause it means that I also have to leave Hogwarts. The bitching had to be about change. It still worked, it just worked in a different way. Change isn't popular.

There are faults in the series but I loved what I loved so much that I didn't care. I just want to be in Hogwarts. I could tease about what I didn't like and still loved what I loved. How to be a Harry Potter fan in the style of Mariel 101. I'm sure I'll be rewarded with my Hogwarts letter any day now.

D'oh! Of course! S.P.E.W. I remember now. (Society for Promotion of Elvish Welfare for the non-nerds. Oh wait, those people will not be reading this.) All the dumbfucks argued that the house elves wanted to be enslaved and that the point of the series was that Hermione was representing America rushing in to save oppressed civilizations when they shouldn't have been involved. (Dudes, they were probably the ones they needed saving from.) Uggggggh. So children should have always slaved away in factories because that was their only wages? Because they saw the film Newsies and Christian Bale looked like he was having a lot of fun? Killing Mudbloods is bad ("Sure, I don't want to kill kids but wars in the middle east are still a great idea!") but reading about equality for all is less interesting if it changes the bottom line? I probably started resenting the fanbase a whole lot right around that time. Rowling could have made the point less hammer-head like (via Hermione). The films succeeded in that quite well. But still! It is like being in the wizarding world itself to have read that kind of crap. Bigots everywhere. Poor Dobby! Sobs. (Winky was fucking annoying, though.)

I also didn't mention the "Harry is a Death Eater" people. I wonder where they are right now. Probably in a dark corner of the internet somewhere, writing about the "truth" of the Harry Potter series. Grrrrrrrrrrrr. Harry is all that is good and pure in this world!

P.s. I always skipped Quidditch scenes. The Triwizard scenes were kinda Quidditch-y to me. For that reason Goblet is my least favorite of the series. And I hated reading about Ron not liking Harry. But still! I remember when I got Goblet of Fire. I had to go to work and stop reading it. I didn't think about anything else but what was going to happen next in this book. Every other day was I numb with wanting to be anywhere else. That day I was happy to be in my own head. Goblet of Fire is a great book by my own definition because of that.(less)

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Sep 04, 2007 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Now THAT'S a book! The groove that J.K. Rowling starts to find in HP 3 is fully realized in 4. Partly it's that the kids (and therefore the readers) are getting older so she can delve into more adult, complex themes and situations, and partly it's that I think she's really finding her voice. We finally got our very own HP's, I am happy to report, and it's so funny to look at them all side by side b/c of the HUGE leap in size between 3 and 4. Then they get a little tricky b/c while 4 and 5 look t...more Now THAT'S a book! The groove that J.K. Rowling starts to find in HP 3 is fully realized in 4. Partly it's that the kids (and therefore the readers) are getting older so she can delve into more adult, complex themes and situations, and partly it's that I think she's really finding her voice. We finally got our very own HP's, I am happy to report, and it's so funny to look at them all side by side b/c of the HUGE leap in size between 3 and 4. Then they get a little tricky b/c while 4 and 5 look to be about the same length, the font in Order of the Phoenix is much smaller, hence a longer book. I just started that one and it honestly feels longer already. More of a book book and less of a fun afternoon's diversion. But I like these books as they get both darker and longer.

But to focus on Goblet of Fire specifically for a moment...again, not that I think I can bring anything new to the table in discussing these books. Nevertheless, I'll throw a few ideas out there just for your reading pleasure. One thing that struck me, as I mentioned before, was the increasing maturity and complexity of situations and themes. Clearly having someone die is a huge deal and I found that whole series of events really moving this time around. I may have last time as well, but I don't remember. In a way, though, some of the more complex issues feel jarring next to the goofy concepts she originally created. Calling non-magical people "Muggles," for instance. It's just a stupid word and yes, it sounds funny and makes kids laugh, but sometimes it's hard to take all these people seriously. "Mud-bloods" on the other hand is vicious and definitely drives the point home. I just wonder if she was to do it over again if some of those terms or ideas would change a bit. Yes, we'd all like to revisit what we did/wrote when we were less sure of ourselves and our voices and ideas, but of course we can't and neither can she. And what do I know? She claims she always knew what would happen to Harry, so maybe for her "Muggle" is the ideal word.

Since, as usual, I find it impossible to discuss the books without referencing the films, let me just say that although I hated Dobby in the movie (2?) and was glad to see him mostly cut from subsequent screen incarnations, I really loved him in this one. The dialogue is actually quite funny and Hermione's whole S.P.E.W. thing just cracks me up. Yes, I know a lot of people hate it and find it annoying and whatever, but I love it. Of course she would have a cause like that. That's who she is! And poor Winky. They're weird creatures (and OH how I love Kreacher in the next one!) and I can't decide whether I am with Hermione or everyone else on their "plight." Either way, I like that they exist; they provide a bit of moral ambiguity in a world that is mostly cleanly divided between good and evil. You might wonder about people, but for the most part they end up squarely one or the other. Other than Snape - another great piece of moral ambiguity whose complexity grows from book to book.

I also continue to marvel at Rowling's ability to write about the teenage mind. Ron and Harry's fight is spot on, as are Hermione's various reactions to it. And oh these poor boys having to ask the girls to the feast. I wish I had known when I was in middle school how truly hard it was for boys to talk to girls like that. Although I probably wouldn't have cared, being the good self-involved teenger that I was.

I still want to go to Hogwarts.(less)

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Apr 10, 2013 Synesthesia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

So I reread this book once again and decided that I still love it.
I adore this book. It's probably one of my favourite in the series.
It's funny in parts, full of action and when it gets to the climax.
The climax of the book is enough to blow folks' head off.
Yes, it's a long heavy book, but I don't care. I like that about it.

More later.

Read this again last month 8/2011

This is the book that makes you realize it's ON. Don't let the happy cover fool you, for these covers are way too ridiculously happ...more

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Nov 04, 2011 Saniya(Will Herondale is mine) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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God, I loved this book. But there were some cons which couldn't be ignored.

First of all, the movie sucked badly. No wonder I never understood the movie even though I watched it many times.
As I tried to watch the movie while reading this book, my face expressions were seriously like, "What the eff?"
The movie didn't show The Quidditch world cup for instance! It was like, one of the most awaited and amazing part of the book. And so many things were really confusing and could be only understood by...more

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Jul 17, 2012 Elisa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: kids-fiction, fantasy-paranormal, seven-greatest-books-ever, 2013-rereads, own-it

I'm not sure if I should review this right now or not. I'm nearly done with Order of the Phoenix, so my thoughts might possibly come out a bit blurred between both books, but I'm just going to to give it my best shot anyway, and I may or may not decide to post in the end. (Hint: If you're reading this, I decided to post.)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Who else remembers seeing this monster for the first time? I believe I was in the 8th grade when it made its debut. Now, I was not quite old...more

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Mar 25, 2009 Liza Martin rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

So after suffering through the first three books of this series, I vowed never to carry on and finish it. That is, until I was at a party and two of my friends gave the Harry Potter saga such a ringing endorsement that I was convinced I was missing out. I picked up the fourth book and was determined to read it, to reconsider my stance on the series.

I quickly got through 200 pages, but it was then that I came to the same crisis I always do when reading a Harry Potter book: Do I really want to go...more

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Sep 07, 2011 Mohammed Al-Garawi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book, in my opinion, is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best one of the first four books. I loved how the author established the environment in the first book, and I absolutely enjoyed how she established the characters of the story in the second and third books.

But this one is just different, this one showed me the brilliance of Rowling. I absolutely loved how she utilized everything she established previously, and at the same time introduced many new characters, and in the process, crea...more

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Jan 08, 2011 chucklesthescot rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: youngadult, fiction, 5-star-reads

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Harry begins year 4 with the fear that Voldemort may be gathering strength after the Death Eaters cause panic at the World Cup.New peril arrives when his name is mysteriously put into the Goblet of Fire and he is selected to take on more experienced students for the Triwizard Cup.Harry has to deal with bad dreams,mad dragons,love pangs for Cho and a few underwater monsters.The whole school thinks he has cheated his way into the competition and Harry is hurt when Ron refuses to believe him.

Ah poo...more

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Oct 22, 2007 Carmen Maloy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Everyone

What stands out in book 4:

* Hermione's disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling's fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them.
* Viktor Krum's crush on Hermione--and Ron's objection to it.
* Malfoy's "Potter...more What stands out in book 4:

* Hermione's disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling's fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them.
* Viktor Krum's crush on Hermione--and Ron's objection to it.
* Malfoy's "Potter Stinks" badge.
* Hermione's creation of S.P.E.W., the intolerant bigotry of the Death Eaters, and the danger of the Triwizard Tournament. Add in the changing dynamics between girls and boys at Hogwarts, and suddenly Rowling's fourth book has a weight and seriousness not as present in early books in the series. Candy and tickle spells are left behind as the students tackle darker, more serious issues and take on larger responsibilities, including the knowledge of illegal curses.
* We encounter death in this book the likes we haven't seen before (R.I.P. Cedric Diggory)
* We get a glimpse of the friendship and absolute loyalty that is shown to Harry by Ron and Hermione (after Ron throws his little hissy fit of course and comes to his senses)

Amazon Review
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight--and any number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges. Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one night a vision harrowing enough to make his lightning-bolt-shaped scar burn has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black. Happily, the prospect of attending the season's premier sporting event, the Quidditch World Cup, is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars--the Death Eaters--are out for murder.
Readers, we will cast a giant invisibility cloak over any more plot and reveal only that You-Know-Who is very much after Harry and that this year there will be no Quidditch matches between Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Instead, Hogwarts will vie with two other magicians' schools, the stylish Beauxbatons and the icy Durmstrang, in a Triwizard Tournament. Those chosen to compete will undergo three supreme tests. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders?

Long before her fourth installment appeared, Rowling warned that it would be darker, and it's true that every exhilaration is equaled by a moment that has us fearing for Harry's life, the book's emotions running as deep as its dangers. Along the way, though, she conjures up such new characters as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, a Dark Wizard catcher who may or may not be getting paranoid in his old age, and Rita Skeeter, who beetles around Hogwarts in search of stories. (This Daily Prophet scoop artist has a Quick-Quotes Quill that turns even the most innocent assertion into tabloid innuendo.) And at her bedazzling close, Rowling leaves several plot strands open, awaiting book 5. This fan is ready to wager that the author herself is part veela--her pen her wand, her commitment to her world complete.
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Jan 24, 2013 Ben rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is Harry's 4th year at Hogwarts, but he doesn't know what it is in store for him. There is an International competition against the three wizard schools, three champions will be chosen from each school to do three tasks and to represent themselves and their school. Many have died in the past, but this time the Ministry of Magic has made sure that no one will die, that is kinda hard of the dark lord has returned to power.. Someone had entered Harry's name so he became the 4th champion of the...more

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Aug 09, 2012 Victoria rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is soo epic, mind-blowing, and just so awesome in every way possible! It's true like everyone said, "The series keeps getting and better and better as the series progresses." There are lot of magic, spell-casting, humor, and lots of unexpected plot twists that I've never anticipated, but there it was! The MC (Harry) that we all grow to love has grown a bit more mature than in the last books. He's more smarter, cunning, and is now capable of making wise decisio...more

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Mar 17, 2013 Emily Crowe rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-or-middle-reader

Finished a re-listening to this audio book. I think this was the last of Rowling's books that was truly well-edited (with the exception of the gaffe at the end during the Priori Incantatem scene); after this book her ego got out of control, unfortunately, and she produced far more chaff that wasn't edited out. GoF is both well-plotted and well-told and is the real turning point of the series.

If you haven't had the pleasure of listening to Jim Dale read these books, please do yourself a favor an...more

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Cyd We were having a conversation the other day about how the joy kind of went out of it after this book. I think her original premise that each book was...more
Mar 30, 2012 06:39am

Emily Crowe Interesting points, Cyd. I can't say that I entirely agree with you, but I'd love to continue this discussion in person some time. There's a lot that'...more
Mar 30, 2012 08:26am

Laurie I agree hat the series went downhill after this installment, the apex of the HP books for me. Yet, as Cyd might note, it was the first of the books to...more
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Oct 10, 2007 Nadia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Sep 28, 2011 Shannon (Giraffe Days) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, ya, favourite, re-read, 2011

This review contains spoilers.

This is one I've only read once, when it first came out, and I've only seen the movie once too, so there was lots of "new" details for me on this re-read. This isn't the copy I originally bought back in 2000 (it was first released in paperback; book 5 was the first hardcover edition on release); I had to put that one in the recycling bin and buy a new copy (and I was shocked at how expensive it was: at $32, it's much more than the other children's/YA hardcovers) bec...more

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Muse Here My daughter just finished reading this book last night. We saw all the movies in a row right after the last one hit the screen. We spread them out ove...more
Sep 29, 2011 06:08pm

Shannon (Giraffe Days) Muse wrote: "My daughter just finished reading this book last night. We saw all the movies in a row right after the last one hit the screen. We spread...more
Sep 30, 2011 08:11am

Muse Here I read Twilight to all 3 of my daughters and then we saw that movie when it came out. They were so funny, they did compare the book and the movie. My...more
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Aug 16, 2007 Keely rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, contemporary-fiction, novel, reviewed, contemporary-fantasy, uk-and-ireland

I am beginning to regret reviewing these all in a row, as I feel I need repeat myself. Then again, the theme and structure of the books is repetitious, so perhaps there is little else I can add.

By this point, Rowling has caught her stride, and begun that inescapable page-climb for which she became--especially in the young-adult genre--especially infamous. This book is, more than anything, an expansion of the world and of events. She puts off Quidditch at the school--perhaps out of a fear that Ha...more I am beginning to regret reviewing these all in a row, as I feel I need repeat myself. Then again, the theme and structure of the books is repetitious, so perhaps there is little else I can add.

By this point, Rowling has caught her stride, and begun that inescapable page-climb for which she became--especially in the young-adult genre--especially infamous. This book is, more than anything, an expansion of the world and of events. She puts off Quidditch at the school--perhaps out of a fear that Harry's Gryffindors playing every year would grow dull. Instead, we have the Tri-Wizard Tournament and the World Quidditch Cup (to tide us over). Many critiques of Rowling's world-building--previously grumblings--can begin in earnest here, as she expands the world of wizards from a small cadre into a full-blown, worldwide community of secret-keeping.

Not only are there the questions of Why all the secrecy, but now How, as well. The plot leaps around as is its wont, aided by a magical urging here or a convenient villain there, and the promised 'dead character' is, of course, one almost entirely given importance solely in this text. This certainly isn't the most underwhelming that her promise of future deaths will become, but it is a foreshadowing.

The characters and conflicts are exciting as ever, and as she finally developed the pacing in the last book to prevent us losing ourself in a plot which twists and turns not so much like a maze, but like a meandering goat trail, we can at least now feel the wind in our hair as we gallop along it.

I really wish that the various psychological and foreshadowed elements would resolve themselves, but one often as not finds that the climax comes with a sense of "oh, are we here already?" rather than "I've been waiting for this".

Rowling seems to do better when things are darker and more hopeless (or perhaps those are the only moments when she cannot draw into the waistcoats of her child's lit contemporaries for inspiration), and this book continues the trend that began with a darker change in tone in 'Prisoner of Azkaban' and culminating in the next offering.

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Apr 20, 2013 Namratha Kumar rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 releases on July 15’ 2011. And with it, ends one of the grandest obsessions of our times.
No, I’m not mocking it. Far from it. I am an unabashed member of the Potter Brigade. I have read the entire series more times than I can count. I have caught the movies when they hit the theatres (and cribbed about the disparities in plot). I have scoured through exquisite FanArt and imaginative FanFiction. I have followed the wise homilies of the great Dumbled...more

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Apr 29, 2013 Anne Nikoline rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone, really

Recommended to Anne Nikoline by: my father

Shelves: fantasy, favorite-books, supernatural-features, read-in-2011, young-adult, adult-ilterature, read-in-2010, read-before-2010, own-a-copy, read-in-2012, read-in-2013, audiobook

There are a few things I will always be sure of: 1) tea is excellent, 2) the sky is as blue as the grass is green, and 3) Harry Potter will always be the books I can reread without ever getting tired or bored by the story. J.K. Rowling gets me all round when it comes to emotions, and I do not think I have ever experienced a books series that has ever done this to me. Let me explain.

It is so magnificent that you can have read a series of books a dozen of times, and yet there will always be parts...more

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Aug 10, 2012 Jeffrey Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Outstanding series. Though the movies followed the story line very closely there is just so much more in the book that has filled in a few gaps for me as well as showing me some tangents that were just left out of the movie. Even if you've seen the movies these books are definitely worth a read! So set down that channel remote, put on some good music and crack a book open or launch your Kindle/Nook/Pdf application. You'll be glad you took the time to read the written word.

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Feb 12, 2011 kristin rated it 5 of 5 stars

This one answered a large percentage of the questions I bombarded The O'Malley with after watching HP7. It's been satisfying.

Here's some general stuff (that is, not specific to this installment):
Someone mentioned that Hagrid's indiscretion is recklessly dangerous or something. . . it kind of is, but I don't think he's as dangerous as Dumbledore. Here's why:
Big D* has about a bajillion opportunities to tell Harry everything he needs to know, and withholding information results in a whole lot more...more

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Oct 18, 2007 Desi Anita rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, harrypotter, terjemahan, indonesian

Cerita buku yg ke-4 ini, Desi agak2 lupa. Walau udah di fresh-in sih sama film-nya. He..he.. maklum aja, soalnya dr buku hp 1-4, Desi minjem sih he..he..

Tapi ada sih yg Desi inget dr buku ini, dan bikin sebel abees yaitu Harry-nya naksir Choi.. ihhhh sebel. Soalnya Desi termasuk orang yg lebih suka klau Harry jadinya sama Hermione. Hikss.. hiks.. he..he.. segitunya

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Feb 03, 2013 Aaron Kurtz rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was a great book, as many already know. I just finished reading it for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it. The book had a number of good messages to portray. Throughout the book Harry is struggling against his fame (both for has historic past as well as his historic present). Through the help of loyal friends - and not a little bit of luck - Harry is able to overcome the adversity facing him during his fourth year at Hogwarts. Rowling puts her own magical twist on the classic messages...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Isabelle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: my-top-60, addicted-to-ya-challenge, my-library-books-i-own, no-1-s-in-my-book

You always find out one new detail you missed the first time when you re-read it

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Dec 23, 2012 Salymar rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorite, 2012-read

AWESOME! Just fudging awesome. Now this is what you call a book! (same with my other favorites). Hehe.

I felt like I was completely carried inside the book, exactly in Harry's position (and in the realm of Hogwarts) forced with the life he never even asked for. That is life for Harry Potter; adventurous, difficult, troublesome and dangerous. However, somewhere in the deep and dark unseen spaces are the shadows of people who truly look out for him and his precious life.

I have decided, upon reflect...more AWESOME! Just fudging awesome. Now this is what you call a book! (same with my other favorites). Hehe.

I felt like I was completely carried inside the book, exactly in Harry's position (and in the realm of Hogwarts) forced with the life he never even asked for. That is life for Harry Potter; adventurous, difficult, troublesome and dangerous. However, somewhere in the deep and dark unseen spaces are the shadows of people who truly look out for him and his precious life.

I have decided, upon reflecting, that I have never been this blown away in my life (better than what I felt in my 2012 Favorite Book, Divergent series). This is the best Harry Potter series so far.

Eventhough the book has 700pages, the plot can simply be justified shortly by trying to connect some of the usual school events to the event happened in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Well, in a normal (muggles-way) school there's this activity called 'inter-school tournament' or UAAP where three (3) or more school compete with each other in terms of sports and academic activities. And I think, whoever wins the competition will receive the 'Best School Award'. :p Anyway, in the world of HP, they call it (in a most general way) the ancient tournament (Triwizard Tournament) between Hogwarts and two other European wizarding schools. It was held on that certain year in Hogwarts but only a Seventh Year or students aging seventeen and above will only be allowed and chosen from each school to compete. Dumbfoundedly, students and professors were dramatically awry to hear that Harry Potter who has more than three years to qualify in the dangerous and challenging tournament is somehow chosen to compete after his name is mysteriously nominated.
(I personally call that one a diplomatic plot, somehow short and polite but vague. XD)

Still and all, I noted some of the overt and unobtrusive things a person will learn and think about upon reading this book:

Trust as a best ingredient for a long-lasting friendship- It shows, obviously between our trio heroes mainly in Harry and Ron. However, jealousy had withstand their way partly in the middle of the story but they've solved it unknowingly.

Diversion- I actually compared Hogwart's divisions (Gryffindor (brave) , Ravenclaw (Intelligent), Slytherin (Power Hungry) and Hufflepuff (Honest and Hard-workers) to Veronica Roth's Abnegation, Erudite, Amity, Candor and Dauntless. I admire how both author (Roth and Rowling) have created the idea that only behaviors and attitudes can divide the world. I just found it rather cool. ;)

Neville Longbotton- I purposely reserve this spot for him. I cried when I learned what happened to his parents. How and what would you feel when you have living parents but they don't reckon remembering you? Imagine yourself in that scenario because that's exactly what Neville has gone through ever since he's just a kid. No one have ever thought that beneath his funny face lies a child haunted by the tragic things that has happened to him and his family. From this day forward. I will seriously be against BULLYING!

(to be continued)(less)

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Oct 28, 2012 Andrew rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fantasy, mystery, young-adult, 2012

I like this book as much as the previous ones. But I don't think I'd be giving this a perfect merit.

In my opinion, this book would have had been better if J.K. Rowling had excluded the preparation for the world cup. It had been so boring that there had been a point where I have thought of quitting the book.
The ending, however, had been intense and dramatic that it made me stay up and finish it until two o'clock in the morning.

My theories about the disappearance of Crouch had been UTTERLY IMPREC...more

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Apr 04, 2012 Karlee added it · review of another edition

Have you ever questioned something that seemed unnatural to you? If so you will love Harry’s very exciting Fourth year at Hogwarts. In the beginning he and the Weasly’s all go to the Quidditch World Cup.

“People from all over, loads of foreigners. Weirdos, you know? There’s a bloke walking around in a kilt and a poncho. But they all seem to know each other, like a big party.” Said, Mr. Roberts explaining to Arthur Weasly.

With a frightful start, after seeing the dark mark, Harry's fourth year ge...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Patrick rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: year-reads-december, year-reads-march

Voldemort was being nursed back to health by his supporter who plots to kill Harry.Harry gets invited to go with Ron's family to the Quidditch World Cup.After Ireland wins, Death Eaters revealed their presence and torture Muggles. They are then scared away by the Dark Mark. The next day, Mad-Eye Moody gets attacked and Harry, Hermione, Ron and his siblings return to Hogwarts. They find out Moody will be their new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.They also find out that the Triwizard Tournam...more

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Apr 04, 2012 Nikki rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, fiction, own, magic, young-adult, 2012

*sigh* The charm has worn off and the all too common hype monster has been wrong again! I found the first few books of the series charming but they were not reinventing the wheel by any means. By book four Rowling isn't even reinventing her OWN wheel. Book 4 was tedious and far too lengthy (where the hell was the editor?). I just cannot come to care for any of the characters, especially Mr. Special (aka HP), and shouldn't I care by book 4?

Some aspects of these books are just entirely too repetit...more *sigh* The charm has worn off and the all too common hype monster has been wrong again! I found the first few books of the series charming but they were not reinventing the wheel by any means. By book four Rowling isn't even reinventing her OWN wheel. Book 4 was tedious and far too lengthy (where the hell was the editor?). I just cannot come to care for any of the characters, especially Mr. Special (aka HP), and shouldn't I care by book 4?

Some aspects of these books are just entirely too repetitive. You have the beginning with HP's evil family, his fat cousin yadda yadda. Then you get to go to Hogwarts and there is a first year ceremony yadda yadda. Hagrid has some crazy creature, the school needs a new dark arts teacher, Malfoy is mean to poor little HP. In the end HP is the victor and he ends up going home to, you guessed it, the mean family. Blech. Wouldn't it be nice if maybe, I don't know, a book took place in the summer or something?? Such confining plot points Rowling!

The Quidditch tournament was the feature of the first 130+ pages (seriously?) and it was mind-numbingly boring. Okay Rowling you invented a tedious, screwed up sport and now you want to bore us to tears with it. I don't want to READ a freakin play-by-play of any sport, especially not a made up one! Hockey is my absolute favorite sport but you will not catch me reading play-by-play of it! No! And the Quidditch is so freakin corrupt too, WTF is that saying to the kids reading the books?? And then after the tournament is over we get to go to Hogwarts, *oh joy*.

The "plot", if you wish to call it that, in this one was rather weak. And the length of the novel did nothing to help. This one could have easily been as long as the previous three without anything of import being taken out. Such as the "romantic" drama and the dance in the book, really? Totally unnecessary. The "evil" guy in this one could have done such a simple thing to accomplish his goal and instead we had to sit through 700+ pages to get to the end. Oye. (view spoiler)

And the worst part of this book and a fault of the others? Harry Potter. My god he is dull. Why does he have to be the center of attention? Hermione is by far a more interesting character since she actually,*gasp*, has some depth. What the hell does HP have? A scar? Weird friends? A crazy family history? Sure these facts may be interesting but HE is NOT. Another issue with HP is the fact that you know in the end that no matter what happens HP will be fine. You never truly fear for him and therefore are never convinced of what is happening. It leaves you feeling annoyed rather than anything positive because you cannot help but think "Who or What is going to save poor little Harry now?" Sure in other series you KNOW the character will survive because there are x number of books published/planned, but in the good ones you don't quite know how the character is going to actually come out in the end....*gasp* they might actually be altered in some way! NOOOO Oh and who the hell didn't know that Harry would be in the wizard tournament? Age restriction? Pfft! Not for precious HP, the personality-less wonder! Someone please tell me HP dies in the end? Oh forget it, I know that would never happen.

I am so tired of HP and Hogwarts and the predictability that I don't know if I will even finish the series at this point. I've been told that the story real takes off in book 4 and gets darker. To that I say HA!
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Dec 14, 2012 Melissa Darnold rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, authors-p-z-series, genre-adventure, genre-sci-fi-fantasy

12/14/12: Okay, so this is my favorite book out of the series. I can't explain why I love it the way I do nor what makes it more special than the rest. This was the first book I'd ever read that had extended five-hundred pages. There's so so much in this book that JKR makes special, which makes it hard to forget. Winky, and the Quidditch World Cup. Ron's jealousy over Hermione going to the Ball with Krum, and the return of Dobby. Padfoot, and "Mad-Eye", and Dumbledore, and the wonderful, wonderf...more 12/14/12: Okay, so this is my favorite book out of the series. I can't explain why I love it the way I do nor what makes it more special than the rest. This was the first book I'd ever read that had extended five-hundred pages. There's so so much in this book that JKR makes special, which makes it hard to forget. Winky, and the Quidditch World Cup. Ron's jealousy over Hermione going to the Ball with Krum, and the return of Dobby. Padfoot, and "Mad-Eye", and Dumbledore, and the wonderful, wonderful adventures.

The Triwizard tasks have always been one of my favorite things about The Goblet of Fire. My favorite part of the Tournament, I think, is the sphinx. The entire chapter that focuses on the third task I really enjoy, though. It's like the world zeros in on just Harry and all other things fall away. I love that J.K. Rowling has the ability to do this to me, even after all of these years of me rereading the books and watching the films again. I also love the rise of Voldemort. Okay, I mean, clearly I'm not all, "Death Eaters, yay" about it, but the absence of humanity in He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named has always been very interesting to me; especially in The Half-Blood Prince. The "graveyard scene" in this book, however, still gives me chills every single time I bloody read it.

I think what I love the most about this book is that we're really allowed to see clearly what JKR was trying to do with these books. We're shown the battle between good and evil (for example, Priori Incantatum). Down to the very little things, such as Crouch's love for his wife, and Harry's inability to let those around him come to possible harm (Gabrielle, for instance). There are just so many things in The Goblet of Fire that makes me feel like I'm reading it for the first time once more.

What stood out the clearest to me this time around, was the moment when Dumbledore asked Snape if "he was ready"; to do what they had talked about. GOD. I just love Snape. I love that the journey that I took with him was probably the most personal and rereading the series, these moments now stand out in startlingly clear ways. It's not easy to convince myself that they're just characters in a book because for me, so many of them are thought of as friends for me--I walked with them through everything. Snape just feels the most personal of all the relationships I'd forged in reading this series.

Okay, so yeah. More things I love about this series. There you go. Just...for the love of Merlin, if you haven't read the books, just do it. Your life will be changed.(less)

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Oct 23, 2011 Micheline rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: everyone

Shelves: favorites, multiple-reads, hero-worship, magic-witches-wizards, classics, vampires-werewolves, fantasy, young-adult

Book Four in the Harry Potter series, is the middle book of the series and in many ways it is very unique from other previous offerings from JKR. With it's first chapter, it sets the tone for a darker feel by far than books 1 through 3. If Rowling ever decides to write an adult book, she could be suuuuuper scary if she wanted to. Chapter 1- The Riddle House still creeps me out, after multiple readings. It's the way Jo builds the suspense with the chapter. It's not like you can't guess where it's...more Book Four in the Harry Potter series, is the middle book of the series and in many ways it is very unique from other previous offerings from JKR. With it's first chapter, it sets the tone for a darker feel by far than books 1 through 3. If Rowling ever decides to write an adult book, she could be suuuuuper scary if she wanted to. Chapter 1- The Riddle House still creeps me out, after multiple readings. It's the way Jo builds the suspense with the chapter. It's not like you can't guess where it's going...even just with the chapter's title. Even still, there's a mounting unease as the chapter progresses, the way you'd feel if you'd been dreading something for months only to slowly watch it unfold before your eyes. Bleh!

This will be Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts and he is now 14; not a little boy anymore, Goblet of Fire (or GoF) starts off with a more confident Harry as he manages to get his uncle to agree to let him attend the Quidditch World Cup. Once there, Harry Ron & Hermione; and everyone else in attendance, will witness bizarre and unsettling events that set the tone for many events to come. Upon returning to Hogwarts, it becomes apparent how different this book will be. This year, Hogwarts will host and participate in the Triwizard Tournament. An epic tournament that pits 3 champions, from 3 Wizarding schools against each other for 3 extremely difficult, dangerous (and sometimes deadly) tasks. I loved reading about the different tasks, and getting to know students from different schools than Hogwarts; it really changes up the usual dynamics of a year in the life of Harry Potter.

GoF is like a huge puzzle with it's pieces all jumbled up....once you start to figure out one section of the picture, you still have a HUGE mess of other stuff to figure out. Upon my first few readings of the series, GoF was never one of my favorites of the series. Now I realize probably because the movie version is almost a completely different story and I let that version cloud my judgement Not only that but Dumbledore's portrayal in this particular movie is so drastically different from the real Dumbledore. I'm thinking specifically of the moment when Harry fully appreciates why people have always said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort ever feared.(view spoiler)

GoF is absolutely brilliant in it's originality, plot and mystery.(view spoiler) The final chapters are well worth the wait (the book is huge compared to it's predecessors) and will leave every single reader ready to jump into book 5 as soon as the read the final word.(less)

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About J.K. Rowling

Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling,her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initia...more Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling,her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.

Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.

Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.

Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.(less)

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