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점점 흥미를 더해만 가는 해리 포터 시리즈 4번째권. 750쪽이 넘는 방대한 분량의 4편은 우리나라에서는 4개의 책으로 나뉘어 출간되었다. 총 7편으로 예정된 해리 포터 시리즈 중 딱 중간에 놓인 4편은 주인공들의 본격적인 성장기를 다루기 시작한다. 이제껏 시리즈 책들 중에서 문학적으로 가장 완성도 높다는 평도 듣고 있다.

4편에서 해리 포터를 박진감넘치는 모험으로 끌고 들어가는 것은 '불의 잔'. 불의 잔은 호그와트 마법사 학교의 대표로 해리를 선택한다. 처음으로 등장하는 다른 마법사 명문학교 보바통, 덤스트랭의 대표들과 해리는 최고의 마법사를 가리는 시합에 돌입한다.

인어들에게 사로잡힌 인질을 구출하고 스핑크스와 지혜의 대결을 벌이면서 시합을 성공적으로 해낸 해리는 마침내 우승컵을 거머쥐게 되는데... 우승컵에 손을 대는 순간 해리는 갑자기 이상한 곳으로 빨려 들어간다!

우승컵에 마법을 걸어둔 사람은 누굴까? 그건 다름아닌 볼드모트. 이제 새로 육신을 얻어 재생하고자 하는 볼드모트와 그에 맞서 싸우려 하는 해리의 대결이 펼쳐진다. 볼드모트의 과거도 처음으로 밝혀진다.

작가인 조앤 롤링은 "제4권은 전편들보다 두 배 가까운 분량이고, 가장 쓰기 힘들었던 작품이었다. 더구나 책의 내용에 대해 독자들의 요구 사항이 많아서 고민했다"고 말했다. 하지만 4권은 벌써 '완벽한 복선과 긴장감, 주인공들의 심리묘사'가 전편들에 결코 뒤지지 않는다는 평을 들으며 세계 어린이들을 사로잡았다.

375 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

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J.K. Rowling

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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.

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La P.E.D.D.O y la última prueba fueron mis partes favoritas, la muerte de Cedric no fue tan triste como esperaba, aún así me gustó bastante.
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October 9, 2009
Quite possibly the best in the series in my humble opinion. Harry comes into his own in this, and he begins to realize that the stakes have been raised in the fight against evil.
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Reread book 4, in english, but the system won't let me choose the english version again, so I went with this one. Still a great series, even after all these years.
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