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

J.K. Rowling,

Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)

4.54 · Rating details · 2,013,748 Ratings · 34,891 Reviews

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 h ...more

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Published September 28th 2002 by Scholastic (first published July 8th 2000)

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Jun 09, 2012 Zoë rated it it was amazing

Don't mind me, just crying my eyes out.

This was WAY better than I remember it being, and I remember it being pretty darn good. J.K. Rowling is a writing goddess and I can't believe how much foresight and planning went into this series. She already hints at the horcruxes and many other things in this book that don't show up until much later. Definitely one of my favorites in the series (but I say that about all of them)!

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Sep 09, 2015 Sasha Alsberg rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

Um. Wow. Yeah. That was freaking FANTASTIC!!!! Probably my favorite so far, just wow oh my gosh......WHAT EVEN!! I feel empowered and sad at the same time (sad because...you know). 5/5 stars of course!

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Feb 22, 2018 Lily C added it · review of another edition

This series has taken a damn TURN!

Watch my video review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEqu8...

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Dec 22, 2014 Hannah rated it it was amazing

Shelves: owned

One of my favorites in the series.

The ending always gets to me and breaks my heart.

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Mar 31, 2013 Hira rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

*To read more reviews by me visit Views & Reviews *

I seriously have no idea why I still review these books when I have nothing new to say. I mean... J.K. Rowling is perfect. This series is perfect. And I dream day & night of going to Hogwarts. So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to show you how I felt about this book:

When I started the book:

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Sorry for the lame review, readers. I just really don't know what to say..

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Aug 25, 2009 Stephen rated it it was amazing

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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Apr 18, 2016 Cait • A Page with a View rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite-worlds, favorites, ya-fantasy

every time I read this I can't stop laughing at how MUCH FORESHADOWING can possibly be crammed into one book... and then I just picture:

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Jun 26, 2010 Raeleen Lemay rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, own, young-adult

Re-Read in December 2014 for Harry Christmas To You

SO I HAVE A FEW NOTES ON THIS ONE:

-at the beginning, Voldemort says to Wormtail, "I will allow you to perform an essential task for me, one that many of my followers would give their right hands to perform..." OMG J.K. ROWLING FORESHADOWS EVERYTHINGGGG

-when the Weasley men come to Privet Drive through the Dursleys' fireplace is just.... priceless. Yet ANOTHER scene that I wish had made it into the movie.

-We get to meet Bill in this book (way e ...more

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Apr 02, 2015 Kai rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, owned, finished-series, 2016, pottershelf

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”

There are so many chapters and characters and details that make this book special. Here are some of my favourites:
1. S.P.E.W.
2. Hermione in every scene ever
3. The house elves and the kitchen scenes (I'm honestly so in love with the kitchens. Every time they tickle the pear in the portrait I get all excited)
4. Durmstrang and Beauxbatons
5. The Yule Ball and the fact that Harry thinks Hermione i ...more

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Jan 02, 2011 Adam Silvera rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, audiobook, 2018-reads

Reread done for #AdamRereadsHP! GOBLET OF FIRE is definitely work and I could've done for a lot of cutting. One of the things I admire most about this series is the way J.K. Rowling can speed through a year in under 300 pages. And GOBLET is twice that length and it didn't always feel justified. I shouldn't complain because more time in this world is MORE TIME IN THIS WORLD, and it's all very realized, but the pacing still felt off. (I really, really could've done without the Quidditch World Cup. ...more

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Apr 22, 2018 Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens, fantasy-all, own

I have no idea why this didn't show as being read but who cares. It's Harry Potter and I can reread and listen to them forever!!

Mel 🖤🐾🐺

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Dec 05, 2016 Kainat 《HUFFLEPUFF & PROUD》 rated it it was amazing

Best one so far!

"Remember, if the time should come
when you have to make a choice
between what is right and what is easy,
remember what happened to the boy
who was good, was kind, and brave,
because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.

Remember Cedric Diggory."

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Feb 26, 2018 Grace (BURTSBOOKS) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites, reviewed

4.5 stars

I really don't think I need to tell y'all that I loved this because I've been raving about this series since the moment I started it back in January but for the sake of clarity - I love this.

I believe everyone (even people that have no attachment to it at all) has a Harry Potter story under their belt. Whether it be the story of their first time reading it or the time they convinced everyone in their family to dress up as the Weasley's or when their Potterhead teacher made them play 4.5 stars

I really don't think I need to tell y'all that I loved this because I've been raving about this series since the moment I started it back in January but for the sake of clarity - I love this.

I believe everyone (even people that have no attachment to it at all) has a Harry Potter story under their belt. Whether it be the story of their first time reading it or the time they convinced everyone in their family to dress up as the Weasley's or when their Potterhead teacher made them play Quidditch in gym class, everyone has some kind of HP story they whip out at dinner parties - this is mine.

Back in my early teens, after a childhood of ignoring the wizarding craze under the guise of my idiot-self being too sophisticated for magic (yes, 8-year-old Grace was an asshole - that isn't the story) I was a camp counsellor. But I wasn't a counsellor at any ordinary camp, oh no, I was a counsellor at a theatre camp. Each year we would put on a different musical and the year I was 15 it was decided we would do a child-friendly, dumbed down version of the Goblet of Fire, complete with all your favourite musical numbers stolen straight from A Very Potter Musical.

I played James Potter, helped countless kids memorize their lines, choreography and ten musical numbers and yet the only plot points I picked up of the entire musical was the Yule Ball and (view spoiler)

The whole time I was reading this book - 5 years later - all I could think about was that musical and what I knew was coming because of it. I was worried the entire novel and utterly heartbroken once it actually happened - 5 years of build up to finally understanding what was happening in this book and I'd say It was 100% satisfying.

This book is masterful; it is the book where everything changes and you feel it with every flip of the page. It maintained the classic spirit of books 1-3 while perfectly balancing the added stakes and darkness. Also, like every other installment the way everything that is revealed at the end answers all your questions and puts all the more new ones straight back into your head was just as satisfying as it was the first three books and it was perfection. I want to curse 8-year-old Grace for being an idiot and 15-year-old Grace for not paying attention at work because, boy oh boy, do I wish I read this series sooner. ...more

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Apr 25, 2014 Bookdragon Sean rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, children-of-all-ages, 5-star-reads

I remember the first time I read this……

I’d just started a real crappy job that I came to hate. I’d dropped out of university after my first year because my degree in psychology was a terrible choice, I seemed to be making more enemies than friends through life, but none of that mattered because I was reading a great series of books. I had something to look forward to every day when I really needed it.

The point is books are escapism and fantasy books particularly so. As I got my shit together, t ...more

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Aug 17, 2013 Riley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

This one is still my favorite!

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Jul 09, 2012 Maureen rated it it was amazing

Reread in December 2017 for #HarryXmasToYou

Forever sad about Winky not being in the movie and Rita Skeeter’s whole story not making it in either, because she’s so awful but JUSTICE IS SERVED

Reread in December 2015 for #HarryXmasToYou

Seriously so many things I forgot because it's so different from book to movie! It's so good still though. I loved Dobby in this book.

Reread in December 2014 for #HarryXmasToYou

Again, so great. Lots of things I forgot! Like Ludo Bagman as a character, the Weasley's c ...more

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Apr 04, 2017 Luca Ambrosino rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

English (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) / Italiano

«The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it “the Riddle House”, even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there»

Maybe this time I was out of line with the bedtime reading to my daughter, not so much for the size of the book, but for its darker content compared to the previous ones. Towards the end of this fourth book in the Harry Potter series, my little girl had difficulty falling asleep. I had to defuse t English (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) / Italiano

«The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it “the Riddle House”, even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there»

The Quidditch World Cup is coming, and Harry, Ron and Hermione have the chance to watch the final round, before the start of the new school year. This time problems start even earlier than the end of the summer vacation, far from the walls of Hogwarts... Many pages, many events, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, the Triwizard Tournament, the tasks to face. There is always something to understand, some mystery to unveil. Great food for our "potterian" curiosity. But be warned, Dumbledore warns us:

«Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity...»

Caution... easy to say!

Vote: 9

«Gli abitanti di Little Hangleton la chiamavano ancora Casa Riddle, anche se erano passati tanti anni da quando i Riddle ci abitavano»

Forse stavolta ho esagerato con la lettura serale per mia figlia. Non tanto per la mole, quanto per il contenuto, più cupo dei precedenti. Verso la fine di questo quarto libro della serie, la mia bambina aveva difficoltà ad addormentarsi. Ho dovuto sdrammatizzare non poco.

La Coppa del Mondo di Quidditch è alle porte, ed Harry, Ron ed Hermione hanno la possibilità di vedere dal vivo la finale, prima dell'inizio del nuovo anno scolastico. Questa volta i problemi si presentano ancor prima della fine delle vacanze estive, lontano dalle mura di Hogwarts... Pagine dense di eventi e di nuove conoscenze, tra cui il nuovo insegnante di Difesa dalle Arti Oscure. E poi il Torneo Tremaghi, e le prove da affrontare. C'è sempre qualcosa da capire, qualche mistero da svelare. Ottimo cibo per la nostra "potteriana" curiosità. Attenzione però, Silente ci avverte:

«La curiosità non è un peccato. Ma dovremmo andarci cauti, con la curiosità...»

Cauti... è una parola!

Voto: 9

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Oct 27, 2012 Mohammed Arabey rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

في سوريا والعراق ظهر قادة الدولة الإسلامية "داعش" يغزون مدنهما يخرجون من ليس منهم,من ليس "إسلاميا" مثلهم من بيوتهم ومدنهم… يقتلون وينحرون رأس من يقف أمامهم, من يختلف عنهم في الدين أو المذهب وحتي الرأي أحيانا..من ليس مثلهم لا يحق له العيش في الدول التي يفتحونها أو ينتووا فتحها

وعلي مقربة منهم ,مكانيا, في فلسطين هناك الصهاينة ,يتغلغلون بأراضيها يخرجون من ليس منهم, من ليس يهوديا صهيونيا من بيوتهم واراضيهم..يقتلون ويقصفون بيوت من يقف أمامهم ,من ليس صهيونيا أو يهوديا هو أقل منهم شئنا...هم الساميون أسم
في سوريا والعراق ظهر قادة الدولة الإسلامية "داعش" يغزون مدنهما يخرجون من ليس منهم,من ليس "إسلاميا" مثلهم من بيوتهم ومدنهم… يقتلون وينحرون رأس من يقف أمامهم, من يختلف عنهم في الدين أو المذهب وحتي الرأي أحيانا..من ليس مثلهم لا يحق له العيش في الدول التي يفتحونها أو ينتووا فتحها

وعلي مقربة منهم ,مكانيا, في فلسطين هناك الصهاينة ,يتغلغلون بأراضيها يخرجون من ليس منهم, من ليس يهوديا صهيونيا من بيوتهم واراضيهم..يقتلون ويقصفون بيوت من يقف أمامهم ,من ليس صهيونيا أو يهوديا هو أقل منهم شئنا...هم الساميون أسما وصفا والباقي مجرد حقارة لا يحق لهم العيش في الأراضي التي يحتلوها

وعلي مقربة منهم,زمنيا, بأقل من قرنا من الزمان كان الفوهرر الالماني هتلر النازي يحاول بيد اليهود كلهم...فهو يراهم بشرا دمهم أقل أهمية من دماءه النازية الطاهرة...ويريد القضاء علي وجودهم في أوروبا كلها يقصف بيوتهم ومدنهم...ليفرض سيطرة الدماء النازية بأوروبا

وفي أرض أخري أبعد شيئا ما, وزمنا يعود حوالي 3 قرون الي الوراء...كان الرجل الأبيض يقتل الرجل الأحمر, يخرجه من بيوته واراضيه لأنه أقل منه...لأنه لا يعرف رب الرجل الأبيض وبالتالي لا يحق له العيش..في القارة التي اكتشفها الرجل الأبيض ...الرجل الأبيض الذي سيستعين لاحقا بالرجل الأسود لمساعدة في بناء قارة كاملة ولكنه ايضا يحتقره ويسئ معاملته, فالملونون ليسوا بنقاء الرجل الأبيض..فلا يحق لهم العيش

ونعود للأراضي المقدسة مرة أخري,وبضع قرون أخري للوراء..حيث الحملة الصليبية تقتل أي مخالف لهم في الدين والعقيدة لتطهر الأراضي المقدسة من "الدنس"...فهؤلاء الكفار من المسلمين واليهود لا مكان لهم بها, يجب تطهير القدس منهم

الأمر قد يأخذ مننا قرون لحكي كل هذا...ولكن لننهي هذا الحديث بأقدم قصة موثقة ..في مصر الفرعونية حيث الفرعون يري هو وسحرته والفراعنة القدماء أنقي دماءا من بني إسرائيل ويعاملهم كالعبيد ليس لهم حق الحرية..إما عبيدا له او ليرحلوا عن البلاد,او يقتلوا

ولكن ما دخل كل هذا بهاري بوتر؟ وبالأخص هذا الجزء؟

حسنا لمعرفة الأجابة واكثر بمقال هذه كانت مقدمته، هو
أخترنا لك 8 - الولد الذي واجهه العنصرية
وهي أستكمال للمقال الأول
أخترنا لك 7 - الولد الذي قام بأنقلاب في تاريخ الأدب
أتمني أن يحوز علي أعجابكم أن شاء الله

محمد العربي
في 25 نوفمبر 2014

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Feb 13, 2016 Aj the Ravenous Reader rated it it was amazing

Recommended to Aj the Ravenous Reader by: Alienor ✘ French Frowner ✘

Shelves: classic, fantasy, lol, love-love-love

Normally, I congratulate myself for finishing a 500 + page novel but after reading 734 pages of this book, my only reaction was “How could it already be over?”The more I read Harry Potter, the harder I fall in love with J.K. Rowling. I couldn’t grasp how she could make this most fantastic series with the most complex and most expertly planned out plot, you could tell she was so sure of the story the moment she started writing the first book. Her attention to detail is more than impressive and th ...more

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Oct 23, 2015 Wendy Darling rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: middle-grade, fantasy, uk, male-pov, audio, boarding-school, read-2015

I'm apparently the crankiest person on earth, because this was my least favorite Potter book yet. (AZKABAN being my favorite!) It's mostly because:

1. There is too much tournamenting for my taste.
2. I hate the house elves. :O
3. The word "quietly" is egregiously overused. It loses its effectiveness because it appears so often.
4. There are moments when Harry and Ron behave like stereotypical stupid boys (I know, I know, they're 14...doesn't mean I can't be annoyed with them.)

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Oct 09, 2017 Kaylin (The Hiatus Queen) rated it really liked it

Shelves: big-intimidating-books, fantasy, favorite-female-characters, memorable-male-characters, young-adult

Ummm.... it's Harry Potter? I'm incapable of a decent review or anything new to say. My rambling thoughts as I finish this:

- Sooo much about Voldemort's planning makes more sense now. Movie's skipped a lot.

-Speaking of Dobby is my favorite and I'll forever be mad he was written out of the movie

- Barry Crouch Jr is still attractive, but I think it's only because David Tennant played him in the movie...

-I'm still not over Cedric. So sweet. So kind. 💔

- Cho is boring and I don't know what Harry see ...more

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Jan 28, 2017 Emily (Books with Emily Fox) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

One of my favorites!

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Apr 01, 2013 Darth J rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: series, witch-wizard, dragons

Death had always been a major theme of these books, but Goblet of Fire was really the turning point of the whole series. Not only did Voldemort return, but we found out that the Wizarding World is much larger, and (view spoiler).

The characters become more real yet are still stuck in flux between child and adult, which is apropos seeing as how this book is literally in the middle of the series.

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Sep 12, 2011 Inge rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: all-time-favourites, magic, main-character-is-cool, villain-rocks-my-socks, laugh-out-loud-funny, dragons, fantasy, faeries-fae-and-elves

Could you be any more perfect?

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Jan 07, 2012 James rated it really liked it

Shelves: 3-multi-book-series, 1-fiction, 2-fic-young-adult, 2-fic-fantasy-and-scifi

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4+ of 5 stars to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the 4th book in the "Harry Potter" young adult fantasy series, written in 2000 by J.K. Rowling. Although this one was close to a 5 for me, I think it's enough to give 1 book in the series a 5-rating, which means this one will stay at a 4. But I still loved and adored the characters, the setting, the story, the themes... all of it! Rather than go into a detailed review, as we've seen too many of them (always fun to read tho!), I Book Review
4+ of 5 stars to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the 4th book in the "Harry Potter" young adult fantasy series, written in 2000 by J.K. Rowling. Although this one was close to a 5 for me, I think it's enough to give 1 book in the series a 5-rating, which means this one will stay at a 4. But I still loved and adored the characters, the setting, the story, the themes... all of it! Rather than go into a detailed review, as we've seen too many of them (always fun to read tho!), I'm just going to chat a little bit about the parts that I enjoyed the most.

1. The selection of the 3 students to participate in the Tri-Wizard Tournament. It's scary to think the schools condone putting the kids at such risk, but then again, I suppose they'd stop it just before anyone died or was hurt irreparably. To imagine the goblet of fire choosing one from each school, and then Harry's name being cast as a fourth one... fantastic idea and approach. I felt the drama. And I loved having him put to the test mid-way thru the series... as he never seemed to be all that good of a student or a wizard!

2. The introduction of new characters in this one is intense. I loved all the folks at the various stages of the competition. To see feelings emerge for one another, to know they were going thru the same unrequited love and anger we all go through as teenagers. Was a good experience -- I thought it was one of the more real aspects of the series.

3. The imagination for all the tournaments and the dance... fantastic. I wanted to be there watching it all happen. I can only imagine how it felt to write those scenes... knowing it would propel the characters forward in a very different path by the end. And to see the drama of how it all turns out.

I am feeling the need to re-read this series again soon...

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Jun 13, 2015 P rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, re-read, favorites-2015

“It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.”

Re-read - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire steps up from the previous ones very well, it's the darkest book I've ever read since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Who knows ? Harry Potter grows up and becomes a boy who has to take the responsibility on his shoulders, he never wants to be selected, he never wants glory and prestige, yet the world turns against him anyway.

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Oct 08, 2016 Christy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2016-audios, 2016-ya-challenge, audio-books-i-own

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was my most anticipated read of the series… It’s my favorite movie (I KNOW I KNOW- the books are SO MUCH BETTER) and it’s where the books really start to get intense. Even though there was a part that brought tears to my eyes, its not as sad as whats yet to come…

I feel like this book is the book of transitioning for Harry, Ron and Hermione. This is the last book of their childhood. If the movies follow the books as well as I hope, shit really starts to get r ...more

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Feb 25, 2016 Brina rated it it was amazing

Shelves: j-k-rowling, rereads

This is at least the 10th time I have read Harry Potter. I feel like I am doing a disservice writing a review of this book. That being said, I usually reread the entire series around this time of year when I am waiting for spring to start. It is like revisiting an old friend and brings a warm feeling to my heart. In my last review, I equated reading Potter to warm apple pie with vanilla ice cream on top, basically the ultimate comfort read.
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Jul 08, 2014 Andie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, young-adult, fantasy-sci-fi

I've read this series more times than I can even remember. But every time it feels like the first time all over again. There's always certain details that I forget between my re-reads and movie watching and it's great to revisit and remember why this is one of my favorites of the series. I loved how much foreshadowing is in it and knowing what's coming, certain parts just break my heart. I decided to do the audio book by Jim Dale for the first time ever. Oh my was it great! Definitely recommend ...more

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Jul 05, 2013 April (Aprilius Maximus) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites, 2014, 2017

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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 ch See also: Robert Galbraith
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. ...more

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