Harry Potter Fire

It has been many years since I thought of my favorite childhood book. It was an interesting part of a series of books. It is pretty well known around the world. The book is called, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and was written by Joanne Rowling. She is mostly known by her pen name “J. K. Rowling” and was the author of all the Harry Potter books in the series. While the story in itself is pretty lengthy, I will give a relatively brief summary of the main events in the story. The story continues after “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, which was the third part of the series. The main story of the whole series is basically that of a young boy that enters a 7-year wizard school to learn magic and use these newly acquired skills to attempt to defeat the ultimate evil, in the form of a dark wizard named Voldemort. This book focuses on Harry’s fourth year at the wizard school, called Hogwarts.

For starters, it begins in a similar way as the other books.

Harry is at his uncle and aunt’s house. He soon leaves and goes to his friend’s house. They go to a Quidditch Cup, then head to Hogwarts. At Hogwarts, the headmaster announced that they were hosting a rare event at Hogwarts that year called the Triwizard Tournament. Nobody underage could participate or even try to put their name in the Cup, but somehow, Harry’s name got pulled out of the Cup. Near the end of the book, Harry and his new friend Cedric are at the end of a maze and grab the Triwizard Cup, which was supposed to teleport them back to Hogwarts. Instead it teleported them to a graveyard, where Cedric was murdered and Voldemort was brought back to life, stronger than ever. It is a book that proves to be funny at times, but also a little more gritty than the 3 books that came before

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My response to this book was almost entirely positive. A year or two after, my opinion would’ve changed to an entirely positive response. The reason why I didn’t have an entirely positive response was because I was still young and didn’t know what some of the words meant. I was able to decipher the meaning of some of the words through context clues, but the ones that were tougher needed to be searched up on a dictionary. Besides that, I found this book relatable at some points. Harry’s weird teachers for example. I had very peculiar teachers back when I was in elementary school. I was also reminded of people around me that were growing up. In the story, there are some details of older students that were at the school and their relationships with each other during and after the Yule Ball, which was for the Triwizard Tournament. I personally liked reading this book, along with the others. I especially liked this one because of the change of tone of the story. The story itself fits in with all the other stories in the series.