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- While the Wizarding world is entirely fictional, Rowling draws on a number of historical events and practices to build and expand Harry's world. The rise of Voldemort and his Death Eaters (and in particular, their insistence on promoting a world made up of pure-blooded wizards only) mimics that of the Nazis in Germany in the early 20th century.
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"Book Four's a very very VERY important book. Something very important happens in Book Four. But also, it's literally a central book. It's almost the heart of the series, and it's pivotal."
— J. K. Rowling
"Harry Potter is in his fourth year at Hogwarts. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the Quidditch World Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to find out about the mysterious event to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened...
Chapter 1: The Riddle House
"I will allow you to perform an essential task for me, one that many of my followers would give their right hands to perform..." — Voldemort to Wormtail In August of 1943, an absurd tragedy occurred inside the Riddle House, and nobody was able to find out how it happened. When the Riddles' maid went to work that day, she discovered all three Riddles dead in the drawing room, "still in their dinner things". The police found no evidence of murder or suicide, claiming to be in perfect health except for the fact that they were dead. They arrested the Riddles' gardener Frank Bryce for questioning, since the door and windows were not forced open or shattered on the night of their murder, and the Riddles' cook testified that he was the only one with a key to the house. Frank, however, said the only person he saw that night was a mysterious dark-haired boy, and was released due to lack of evidence, but many still believed he committed the murders. Half a century later on the night of 16 August, 1994, an elderly Frank is still working as the groundskeeper at the Riddle house. He sees a fire flickering in one of the rooms and goes over to investigate, thinking it is a couple boys who regularly disturb him. Inside, he overhears the same boy he saw on the night of the Riddles' murder, now grown up as Lord Voldemort (who, still unknown to him, was Tom Riddle Senior's unwanted son), and his servant Peter Pettigrew planning to capture Harry Potter with the aid of a reliable servant. Voldemort, Frank learns, also plans to reward Pettigrew for his help in capturing Bertha Jorkins, a Ministry of Magic employee who Voldemort extracted information from before killing. Frank is then discovered by Voldemort's snake Nagini, who reports his presence to her master via Parseltongue. When Pettigrew beckons him in as a guest, Frank stands up to Voldemort, who is unhappy that Muggles like the elderly gardener would be spying on him. Frank doesn't know what a Muggle is, and despite being offended that Voldemort called him one when it is explained that term means he's not a wizard, he is still determined to inform the police about the intruders' plot but becomes horrified upon seeing Voldemort's weak form. Voldemort then casts the Avada Kedavra curse, ending Frank's life before the book can describe what Voldemort looks like. Simultaneously, about 200 miles away in the Surrey town of Little Whinging, Harry Potter wakes up from a nightmare at the Dursleys' house in Privet Drive.
Chapter 2: The Scar
"A weird thing happened this morning, though. My scar hurt again. Last time that happened it was because Voldemort was at Hogwarts." — Harry writing to Sirius The experience is shown to be a dream that Harry had and he wakes up with his scar hurting. Harry considers writing to his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, as well as the Hogwarts Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, but eventually decides to write a letter to his godfather Sirius Black, an escaped convict. Sirius was actually framed for his crimes by Peter Pettigrew, but, as the entire wizarding world except for Harry, Ron, Hermione, Remus Lupin, and Dumbledore believes him to be guilty, Sirius is in hiding. Harry does not mention the dream, only his scar hurting, and plans to send the letter once his owl, Hedwig, gets back.
Chapter 3: The Invitation
"P.S. I do hope we've put enough stamps on." — Molly Weasley, in the letter to the Dursleys The next day, it is revealed that Aunt Petunia has put the entire family on a diet, which Harry's not following. Suddenly a letter from Molly Weasley addressed to the Dursleys arrives. She asks if Harry can join Hermione and the Weasley family to go to the Quidditch World Cup final between Ireland and Bulgaria. Unfortunately, the letter upsets Vernon Dursley because there are so many stamps on the envelope that the postman actually rang the doorbell to laugh about it. However, one mention of Sirius Black is enough to convince Vernon Dursley to let Harry go. Harry writes back to Ron (after a letter from Ron was delivered by Ron's owl Pigwidgeon) confirming that they can come pick him up. Harry writes an extra sentence or two to Sirius's letter explaining that he will be heading to The Burrow before sending the letter via Hedwig.
English-languageTranslations (cover based on Scholastic's)Translations (alternative covers)Illustrated EditionsHogwarts House Edition•The book presents the second out of five instances in which the opening narrative is not delivered through a point of view close to Harry: The first instance is in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 1 (The Boy Who Lived) which is told from the perspective of Vernon Dursley. The second instance is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 1 (The Riddle House), from the perspective of the Muggle caretaker, Frank Bryce. The third instance is in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 1 (The Other Minister) told from the perspective of the British Minister. The fourth instance is in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 2 (Spinner's End) told from the perspective of Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange. The final instance is in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 1 (The Dark Lord Ascending) told from the perspective of nearly all of the Death Eaters.
•The book presents a greater international aspect to the wizarding community: the Quidditch World Cup; the Triwizard Tournament and two other European wizarding schools, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang; an unnamed wizarding school in Brazil; and an American wizarding institute, are either shown or mentioned.
•The book mentions the name of a real person - Natalie McDonald, a nine-year-old girl from Toronto, Canada, who was dying of leukaemia. She wrote to Rowling asking what was going to happen in the next Harry Potter book as she would not live long enough to read it. The former emailed back, but Natalie had died a day earlier. In tribute, she became a first-year student at Hogwarts named by the Sorting Hat in Gryffindor - the house for the brave at heart - in the fourth book. When Rowling was later in Canada for a promotional tour she visited the McDonald family. With the exception of historical people such as Nicolas Flamel, this is the only Harry Potter book to so honour an individual.
•Dumbledore was said to have a "gleam of triumph" in his eyes when told that Voldemort had restored his body using Harry's blood, at the end of Goblet of Fire (Ch. 36). Rowling has confirmed that this is "still enormously significant". It turned out that this was very significant because when Voldemort used Harry's blood to revive himself he made it so that as long as he lived Harry could not die, as revealed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
•In Hogsmeade, Sirius implied that at a certain point, Snape's attendance at Hogwarts overlapped with Lestrange's. It could have meant Rodolphus or Rabastan Lestrange, Bellatrix's husband and brother-in-law respectively, as Bellatrix would have left school about two years before Snape started.
•In the film version, it was heavily implied by the sheer number of students that everyone from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang made the trip to Hogwarts. However, in the book, it was mentioned that after the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students entered the school and the Hallowe'en feast began, there were only about twenty extra students in the Great Hall. Igor Karkaroff also said in the book (during the argument about letting Harry Potter participate in the Triwizard Tournament) that he would have brought more students to Hogwarts if he had known younger students could enter the Tournament.
The book was also adapted into a film, the fourth Harry Potter film of the series. The movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was released on November 18, 2005. It was directed by Mike Newell and the trio was portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.
Apr 23, 2024 · The 4th book in the Harry Potter series is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In this pivotal installment, Harry unexpectedly finds his name entered into the dangerous Triwizard Tournament, forcing him to compete in a series of perilous challenges.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in a nutshell: A quick overview of the essential plot points, characters, and ideas. 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' is the fourth installment in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. Explore the book here.
Parents need to know that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the first PG-13 movie in the Harry Potter series (all based on the books by J.K. Rowling), and not for nothing. The fourth installment has two deaths (including a really sad one), scary creatures, some romantic yearnings, and edge-of-the-seat….
- Mike Newell
- Cynthia Fuchs
- Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
Mar 30, 2024 · “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” is the fourth installment in the beloved Harry Potter film series, based on the novels by J.K. Rowling. Directed by Mike Newell, the movie was released in 2005.
Spoiler Alert: Important details of the novel are revealed below. After the events of the Quidditch World Cup and Harry’s accidental selection into the Triwizard Tournament, Harry is left with very little support when Ron suspects that Harry must have deliberately put his name in the Goblet of Fire.
