Harry Potter Books
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author	J.K. Rowling
Illustrator	Giles Greenfield (UK), Mary GrandPré (US)
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	Bloomsbury (UK), Scholastic (US), Manjul Publications (India), Nanmeebooks (Thailand)
Release date	July 8, 2000
Number in series	Four
Sales	12.7 Million (US)(as of December 2006)
Dedicated to	"Peter Rowling, in memory of Mr Ridley and to Susan Sladden, who helped Harry out of his cupboard"
Story timeline	1994-1995
Preceded by	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Followed by	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth book in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Published on July 8, 2000, the release of this book was surrounded by more hype than any other book in recent times — outdone only by its successors, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It was fairly large for a children's book -- at 636 and 734 pages (hardback British and American editions respectively). The book attracted a lot of attention owing to a pre-publication warning from J.K. Rowling that one of the characters would be murdered in the book. This started a stream of rumour and speculation as to who the murdered character would be. The publication of Goblet of Fire caused unprecedented heights of Pottermania to be reached internationally.

This novel won a Hugo Award in 2001.

Contents [hide] 1 Prior to release 2 Plot overview 3 Detailed plot 3.1 The Quidditch World Cup 3.2 The Triwizard Tournament 3.3 Little Hangleton's graveyard 3.4 Young Crouch revealed 4 Points of interest 5 Editions 6 Translations 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Prior to release

For a short while, the fourth book was titled Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament by numerous bookstores. J.K. Rowling expressed her indecision about the title in an Entertainment Weekly interview. "I changed my mind twice on what [the title] was. The working title had got out — 'Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament.' Then I changed 'Doomspell' to 'Triwizard Tournament.' Then I was teetering between 'Goblet of Fire' and 'Triwizard Tournament.' In the end, I preferred 'Goblet of Fire' because it's got that kind of 'cup of destiny' feel about it, which is the theme of the book."

[edit] Plot overview

Harry spends his remaining summer holiday with the Weasley family and Hermione Granger before attending the Quidditch World Cup. One night, Harry has a nightmare that Lord Voldemort and Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew are discussing how Voldemort's faithful servant can somehow get to him. Voldemort is informed by his giant snake, Nagini, that Frank Bryce, the muggle caretaker of the Riddle House is standing outside. Voldemort kills Bryce with the Avada Kedavra curse, causing Harry to awaken with his scar throbbing in pain.

Harry, Hermione, the Weasleys, Amos Diggory and his son, Cedric, set off for the Quidditch World Cup. At the top of a hill is a portkey that transports the group to the event. The Weasleys stay in tents that appear small and ordinary from the outside, but upon entering, magically open into large comfortable abodes. At the stadium, they encounter Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge and the Malfoys. That evening there is a loud commotion. Arthur Weasley investigates and orders everyone to leave immediately; Death Eaters are attacking Muggle bystanders. Harry, Ron, and Hermione hide in the woods. The Dark Mark suddenly appears in the night sky, causing more terror and panic. Harry discovers his wand is missing. When it is found, it is implicated in conjuring the Dark Mark, although Harry is deemed innocent (the house elf Winky, found with the wand, is considered guilty).

At Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore introduces retired Auror "Mad-Eye" Moody as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. He also announces that the wizarding world's Triwizard Tournament will be held at the school. One student from each of the three competing school (Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang) will be selected as champions, after placing their names into the legendary Goblet of Fire. As stated by Barty Crouch of the Ministry of Magic, students under age 17 are ineligible to compete. The Goblet selects Cedric Diggory, Fleur Delacour, and Viktor Krum, as the respective champions. Mysteriously, the Goblet chooses Harry Potter as the fourth champion. He is magically bound to compete, even though he realises he has deliberately been put in grave danger. Although Harry did not enter his own name, most students believe that he did (and that he cheated to do so), including Ron Weasley, who apparently is resentful that Harry has yet again secured himself more fame.

Hagrid reveals to Harry and Madame Maxime, Headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy, that the first event involves battling a dragon to retrieve a golden egg. Igor Karkaroff, Headmaster of the Durmstrang Institute also knew, so Harry informed the only unaware contestant, Cedric. Harry jointly wins the first task with Viktor Krum. After seeing how dangerous the first challenge was, Ron realizes Harry did not cheat to enter the Tournement, and they reconcile.

At Christmas, students attend the Yule Ball. As a Triwizard champion, Harry is required to have a partner for the opening dance. He invites pretty Ravenclaw student, Cho Chang, but she is already Cedric Diggory's partner. He instead asks his classmate, Parvati Patil. Ron goes with Parvati's twin, Padma. At the dance, both boys, along with the rest of the school, are stunned to see a beautiful Hermione on Viktor Krum's arm, causing Ron to become jealous. Fleur's partner is Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain, Roger Davies.

The Golden Egg had a riddle that revealed the second task, but Harry couldn't solve it, until Cedric Diggory gave him a clue. In the task, each champion must rescue a friend who has been hidden underwater in the Black Lake by the merpeople. Harry must rescue Ron, Krum must rescue Hermione, and Cedric is to save Cho Chang. When Fleur Delacour is unable to reach her younger sister, Harry also rescues her, earning Fleur's respect, but causing him to finish second. He is now tied for first place with Cedric Diggory.

The final event is a grueling maze, within which the Triwizard Cup is hidden. Whoever retrieves the trophy first is the victor. Harry and Cedric reach the Triwizard Cup together. Because they helped one another, they agree to grab the cup simultaneously. However, the cup is actually a Portkey that transports them to a graveyard. Awaiting are Wormtail and Voldemort. On Voldemort's command, Pettigrew kills Cedric and uses a piece of Tom Riddle's grave Bone of the father, you shall renew your son! Then cuts off his right hand Flesh of the servant, you shall revive your master! and cuts Harry's arm and collects his blood in a phial Blood of the enemy, you shall ressurect your foe! in a macabre ritual to restore Voldemort’s full body. Voldemort summons the Death Eaters before engaging Harry in a deadly duel. Unknown to Voldemort, however, their wands are "brothers"—each core contains a tail feather from the same phoenix, Fawkes— and they don't work properly against each another - the spells cast by Harry and Voldemort nullify and combine and "echoes" of Voldemort's victims spill out, including Cedric and James and Lily Potter. The images momentarily shield Harry as he breaks the Priori Incantatem and escapes through the portkey with Cedric's body.

After Voldemort's plan fails, Moody attempts to kill Harry, but he is saved by Dumbledore, Snape and McGonagall. Moody is stunned, and exposed as a fraud: he is in fact young Barty Crouch, who imprisoned the real Alastor Moody in a magical trunk and used polyjuice potion to impersonate him. Moody was kept alive because his hair was needed as an ingredient for the polyjuice potion. It was Crouch who entered Harry’s name in the goblet and ensured that he reached the Triwizard Cup. Snape administers veritaserum to force Crouch's confession, but before it can be repeated to the authorities, Cornelius Fudge, refusing to believe Voldemort has returned, orders a dementor to suck out his soul.

[edit] Detailed plot

[edit] The Quidditch World Cup

After an unpleasant stay at the Dursleys, during which his sleep is disrupted by a disturbing dream of Lord Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail) killing a muggle and plotting how to get to him, Harry Potter is invited by Ron Weasley to attend the Quidditch World Cup with his family, and then stay at The Burrow for the remainder of the holiday.

Harry, Hermione, and the Weasleys travel to the World Cup using a Portkey, a seemingly ordinary object that has been bespelled to provide magical transportation. Accompanying them are Amos Diggory and his son, Cedric.

After the match is over, and the crowds of wizards are celebrating in their camp site, Death Eaters attack Muggle bystanders, but they flee when the Dark Mark - Voldemort's sign - mysteriously appears in the night sky. The mark is determined by the on-the-spot investigation team to have been cast by Bartemius Crouch's house elf, Winky, using Harry's wand, though it is later revealed that someone else cast the spell.

Crouch is a respected official at the Ministry of Magic, and he immediately fires her. Crouch's cruel treatment of Winky prompts Hermione to campaign for elves' rights.

[edit] The Triwizard Tournament

There are several surprises for Hogwarts students at the start of the new school year. The new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is famous retired Auror Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, an eccentric who manages to simultaneously terrify, awe and amuse the students with his combination of paranoia and astonishing experience fighting the Dark Arts. Also, Headmaster Dumbledore announces that Hogwarts will be hosts to the Triwizard Tournament, a centuries-old interschool competition that had previously ceased because of its increasing danger, but is to be revived with a prize of 1000 galleons to the winner.

Once the students from the rival schools, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrive, it is announced that those hoping to compete must place their name and school into a magical artefact: the Goblet of Fire. Dumbledore explains that the following evening, the cup will select a champion from each of the competing schools. After choosing the famous Quidditch player Viktor Krum for Durmstrang, the eerily beautiful Fleur Delacour of Beauxbatons, and Hufflepuff seventh year Cedric Diggory for Hogwarts, the Goblet unexpectedly also selects Harry - even though he is under the age specified for the tournament and a Hogwarts champion has already been selected.

Harry is deemed magically bound to participate, even though he didn't enter his name. He suspects he is deliberately being put in danger, but many outraged students from the other Houses believe he cheated to enter, as does Ron Weasley, who becomes jealous of the constant attention heaped on Harry. Despite Harry's attempts to avoid both his new unpopularity around the school and the popularity within his own house he feels undeserving of, Rita Skeeter, a revolting and unethical journalist, makes matters much worse for him by writing sensationalised stories about him.

A few days before the task, and with the competitors still unaware of what they will be required to do, Hogwarts gamekeeper Hagrid reveals to Harry and Madame Maxime, the giant, elegant Headmistress of Beauxbatons Academy, that the first task involves battling a dragon and retrieving a golden egg from its nest. Igor Karkaroff, the Durmstrang Headmaster also spies the dragons. Knowing that only Cedric is unaware of the task, and believing this is unfair, Harry informs him about it. Professor Moody not only praises him for tipping off Diggory but also gives him a hint on how to retrieve the egg.

At the first challenge, the champions randomly draw numbered miniature dragons from a silk bag, indicating which species they will face. Harry will be last, having drawn the Hungarian Horntail, the most dangerous dragon. With the aid of his Firebolt, which he has spent hours practicing summoning for this purpose, Harry outmaneuvers the dragon and steals the golden egg. After seeing how terrifying the challenge was, Ron is finally convinced that Harry did not cheat to enter. The golden egg provides the clue to the Second Task, which is scheduled to take place in February.

At Christmas, students attend the Yule Ball. As a champion, Harry is required to attend and participate in the opening dance, but both he and Ron have difficulty finding dates. Harry invites Cho Chang, but she is already going with Cedric Diggory. Harry eventually arranges for himself and Ron to take the beautiful Patil twins, Parvati and Padma.

On the night of the Ball, Hermione arrives as Viktor Krum's date, stunning everyone with both her unexpected attachment and her suddenly beautiful appearance. Seeing Hermione with Krum provokes jealousy in Ron. He and Harry spend the night ignoring their own dates, and Ron glares at Hermione and Krum. When an elated Hermione comes over to talk to Ron and Harry, Ron lashes out, accusing her of "fraternising with the enemy". Shocked and appalled, Hermione storms off to find her date and, after the ball is over, chastises Ron for his behaviour and says to ask her, "before someone else does and not as a last resort!", leaving a stunned Ron behind.

At one point during the evening, Harry and Ron take a break from the Ball to wander outside where they overhear Hagrid talking to Madam Maxime and learn that she and Hagrid are both half-giants. Ron understands why they would want to keep that knowledge suppressed, as giants are not considered "nice" by the wizarding world.

With the second challenge fast approaching, Harry has given little thought to solving the riddle of the egg, but to repay Harry for tipping him off about the dragons, Cedric gives him a hint. Harry eventually solves the riddle and learns he must retrieve something taken by merpeople. Dobby gives Harry gillyweed which allows him to breathe underwater. At the task, each champion must retrieve someone close to them from Hogwarts' lake, where they are being guarded by the merpeople. The hostages are: Ron (for Harry), Hermione (for Viktor), Cho Chang (for Cedric), and Fleur Delacour’s younger sister, Gabrielle. Although Fleur is quickly eliminated from the task, Harry, Cedric and Victor reach the hostages fairly easily. When Harry attempts to rescue both Gabrielle and Ron, the merpeople try to prevent him, but Harry threatens them with his wand. He surfaces with both hostages and is awarded extra points by most of the judges for displaying "moral fiber".

For the final event, the four competitors must navigate a maze filled with dangerous creatures and spells, within which the Tri-Wizard cup is hidden. Harry and Cedric reach the cup together, and because they helped each other, agree to grab the trophy simultaneously, ensuring a Hogwarts win.

[edit] Little Hangleton's graveyard

The trophy is actually a Portkey that transports Harry and Cedric to a graveyard where Peter Pettigrew and Lord Voldemort await. Voldemort orders Wormtail (Pettigrew) to kill Cedric. Harry is then bound to a tombstone, and his blood (as well as part of the grave and Wormtail's right hand) is used as part of a macabre ritual that restores Voldemort to his full physical form and protects him from the magic that has shielded Harry since he was a baby. Voldemort summons the Death Eaters and then forces Harry into a deadly wizard's duel. However, because Harry's and Voldemort's wands are "brothers" that contain the same core - a tail feather from Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes - a freak phenomenon known as Priori Incantatem occurs, in which the wands interlock and create a golden light. Harry uses all his power to force the stream backwards into Voldemort's wand. The ghostly echoes of its past victims - including Cedric, Frank Bryce, Bertha Jorkins, and Harry's parents - spill out. The echoes momentarily protect Harry as he escapes to the portkey which transports him and Cedric's body back to Hogwarts.

[edit] Young Crouch revealed

Harry returns to Hogwarts amid a swirl of confusion and grief caused by his disappearance and Cedric's death. To protect Harry from the intense situation, Professor Moody escorts him back to the castle. In his office, Moody reveals himself to be a Death Eater and tells Harry it was he who entered his name into the Goblet and ensured that he was delivered to Voldemort. As Moody is about to kill Harry, Dumbledore fires a powerful stunning spell through the locked door and bursts in, followed by Severus Snape and Minerva McGonagall. With Snape's Veritaserum, it is revealed that "Moody" is actually Bartemius Crouch Jr. He used polyjuice potion to impersonate the real Alastar Moody, who has been imprisoned in a magical trunk for the entire school year. Before young Crouch can repeat his confession, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge orders his soul to be sucked out via the Dementor's kiss.

The Minister's refusal to believe Voldemort has returned results in Dumbledore's removal from several important posts within the wizard community, and his and Harry Potter's reputations are maliciously maligned in the next book. To combat Voldemort, Dumbledore sends Sirius Black to summon up ‘‘The old crowd’’ (revealed in the next book to be The Order of the Phoenix). Severus Snape, meanwhile, is sent on an unspecified mission by Dumbledore, who apparently trusts him fully.

[edit] Points of interest

This book contains what might be considered only the second instance of narrative not delivered through Harry's point of view - the first chapter, in which the murder of Frank Bryce by Voldemort is described. However, Harry is in fact aware of the events in the chapter to some degree, as they appear to him in a dream. [The first book of the series (Philosopher's Stone) described Uncle Vernon's encounter with various wizards while the sixth book (Half-Blood Prince), published in 2005, contained the next instance of narrative outside Harry's point of view throughout the chapters entitled The Other Minister and Spinner's End].

In this book, Harry's world expands both physically and figuratively. He goes to places he has never been before (the moor where the World Cup is held, the graveyard). In Goblet of Fire, Harry once again displays his characteristic bravery. From his battle with the Hungarian Horntail dragon, to his bold undertakings in the frigid waters of the 2nd task, and to his extraordinary duel with Lord Voldemort in the graveyard, these acts prove the main character’s courage. Harry also meets a vast number of people of various nationalities and all types. He learns some profound lessons about good and evil, and the difficulty in distinguishing between the two. This is particularly exemplified in the fake Moody, but other characters like Bagman, Crouch and Karkaroff are all examples of various degrees of evil, or evil and good mixed in strange and unpredictable ways.

In many ways, this book can be seen as the turning point of Harry's transition into adulthood (which is in fact the topic of this whole series). Harry has certainly left childhood behind – for example, he "discovers" girls in this book. But he also encounters far more unpleasant aspects of adulthood, from unwanted and malicious publicity to the death of a schoolmate.

The magical world takes on an international aspect in this book, with the introduction of the World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, including the two other large European schools of Magic, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. The crisis caused by Voldemort's return in the end also, in a way, helps to bring the world together.

J.K. Rowling promised the Goblet of Fire would be the longest book in the Harry Potter series, but broke this promise when Order of the Phoenix was released. However, Order of the Phoenix has now been said to be the longest Harry Potter book Rowling will write, but this was not confirmed by Rowling.

This book mentions the name of a real person, Natalie McDonald, who was a terminally ill child who wrote to Rowling asking her to divulge the plot of "Goblet of Fire". With the exception of people of ancient times, such as Nicolas Flamel, this is the only book to do so.

Some readers claim that during the final chapter (when the horseless carriages appear) an inconsistency occurs between facts mentioned in previous novels. At this time, Harry has witnessed a death, so he should be able to see the thestrals pulling the carriages. However as J.K. Rowling pointed out later, to see the thestrals means to have seen and accepted death. As Harry has not quite fully accepted the death of his classmate yet, the thestrals remain invisible to him until the following year. The only previous deaths during which Harry was present occurred when he was a baby (his parents) and when he was unconscious (Quirrell); therefore, Cedric's is the only death Harry has fully witnessed and comprehended by the time he returns to Hogwarts for his fifth year.

On page 450, US Edition(Scholastic), Dumbledore states, "If, however, the owners of the wands force the wands to do battle... a very rare effect will take place. One of the wands will force the other to regurgitate spells it has performed - in reverse. The most recent first. . . and then those which preceded it. . . .". It is written many times in the series that James Potter was murdered before Lily. Therefore, logically, Lily, the more recently killed of the two, should emerge from Voldemort's wand before James during the Priori Incantatem scene. However, in the original edition of the book, James Potter comes out first, and says, ["Hold on, your mother is coming and wants to see you."]. Rowling had originally written that Lily emerged from the wand first. However, her American editor, in the rush to edit the book, incorrectly pointed this out as an error, and Rowling "changed it without thinking."^[1] Subsequent editions of the book corrected the mistake, and Rowling's original order (Lily appearing before James) stands as canon.

In a letter written by Harry, he mentions that Dudley has a PlayStation - however, if Harry was born in 1980, then the year here should be 1994, a whole year before PlayStation came out.

[edit] Editions

Bloomsbury (United Kingdom, Australia, Canada etc.)

• ISBN 0-7475-4624-X Hardcover
• ISBN 0-7475-5099-9 Paperback
• ISBN 0-7475-6940-1 Hardcover (adult edition)
• ISBN 0-7475-7073-6 Paperback (adult edition)

Scholastic (United States etc.)

• ISBN 0-439-13959-7 Hardcover
• ISBN 0-439-13960-0 Paperback

US Edition Scholastic	UK Adult Edition Bloomsbury Raincoast	UK Children's Edition Bloomsbury Raincoast	Original UK Adult paperback edition Bloomsbury
French Edition Gallimard	Hindi Edition	Japanese Edition

[edit] Translations

See: Harry Potter in translation

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• wiki of chapter and character summaries for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire extended information
• Fans of Fantasy, One of the largest Fantasy sites on the web with Eragon, Potter, and much much more.
• Book Summary: Goblet of Fire
• Errors & Mistakes: Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Ralph Fiennes interview
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on the Harry Potter Wiki

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