Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire

This has to be my favourite book of all time. It is written with extreme care by probably the most famous author who ever lived-J.K.Rowling. A novel full of adventure, romance and secrets- it is a book you can relate to!

What is this story about? Well, we enter Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where we start off at the Quidditch World Cup Final, where Ireland and Bulgaria fight it out to win the cup. I won't spoil who wins, but all I will say is that it has a very unexpected outcome. Anyway, things are completely normal until a group of Death Eaters start to attack the campsite. All the Weasleys, Harry and Hermione come out alive, so no problems there. That's not the only unexpected event to happen in that book. Later in the book, we discover that the Triwizard Tournament- a legendary event that three schools take part in (Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang)- will be held at Hogwarts. So on Halloween night, we find out who the three champions are: Viktor Krum (Durmstrang); Fleur Delacour (Beauxbatons) and finally Cedric Diggory (Hogwarts). However, Harry gets a horrifying shock when he discovers that he has been entered into the tournament. There is one question- by who? Harry has to face three tasks that will test his courage, bravery and his choices. After the Last Task, Harry and Cedric are both in sight of the Cup, when suddenly, the Cup teleports them to a graveyard. Harry witnesses a horrific tragedy, and then he faces his worst enemy for the first time, not knowing how much danger the world is, or he is anyway...


We meet many different characters in our fourth year. First of all is Amos Diggory, Cedric's father who is very protective against his son, and very bold and proud. He may be a cheerful character, but he sure can be full of himself most of the time. Next we meet Ludovic Bagman (Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports and ex-Beater of the Wimbourne Wasps), and Bartemius Crouch Sr. (Head of the Department of Magical Communication). They have very contrasted personalities- Ludo is a very energetic, happy and excited man who never wants to see the negatives of anything, whereas Barty Crouch is a bossy, neat, important man who abides by the rules all the time. At the beginning we meet Bill and Charlie Weasley, Ron Weasley's older brothers. Bill is a cool, rebellious man who works as a curse breaker in Gringotts in Egypt, and Charlie, a man who loves dangerous beasts-especially dragons- and works in Romania against dragons. Next we have Professor Alastor 'Mad-eye' Moody, delusional ex-auror (dark-wizard catcher) who teaches the dark arts at Hogwarts. The thing is though, it is not actually Moody who is teaching Harry and his friends, but an evil death-eater on Voldemort's side...


 My favourite character in this book has to be Hermione, because this is the year where things get tough on her, especially with the Yule Ball on her shoulders. Who she goes with infuriates Ron badly- could their friendship survive this? Meanwhile, things at the beginning of the year weren't going well for Harry or Ron. As Harry gets into the tournament, Ron feels shunted to the side and kept in the dark, leading him into not being friends with Harry for two whole months up until the end of the first task, where he finally apologises for ignoring Harry. This of course causes a lot of stress for Hermione who tries to resolve things with both of them, only not succeeding well. She is more on Harry's side, yet she feels guilty for not being with Ron. Rowling does this to show us that even Hermione, who does her homework easily and is a know-it-all, can find things difficult as the years go by. I don't like Rita Skeeter at all, as she is a nasty attention-seeking woman who ruins other people's lives by finding out dark secrets and putting them all over the Daily Prophet, which either gets them attention that they don't want, or make them so unpopular that no one wants to go near them. She does this with Mr Weasley, Harry, Hermione, and Hagrid.


I think that this book is excellent for children aged 10, to adults, as it has got bits of humour, a few tragedies and one or two fall outs. I love this book, as it is very cleverly worked out and it doesn't give out too much info. Do I recommend it? Of course I do!


Rating: 10/10!