Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

, #4

Paperback, 734 pages

English language

Published Sept. 10, 2002 by Scholastic.

ISBN:
978-0-439-13960-1
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OCLC Number:
50279560

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4 stars (22 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 hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. But unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards.

And in his case, different can be deadly. --back cover

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5 stars

Though I remain unshakable in my conviction that the third is my favourite of the series, I really enjoyed Goblet of Fire the first time around and it still hits hard today.

I remember very well the thrill of walking out of the library with the rather bulky box of tapes in my hand, marvelling at the fact that the tapes were in a double layer inside the box because there were 14 of them, which is a nine hour increase on the last book and made me all the more desperate to actually go and listen to it. I also recall very vividly being polite and sociable, sat on the sofa explaining the appeal of the series to my grandfather over a cup of tea before I was to vanish for almost a whole day of audio. He remained convinced that the "thing" on the cover was more of …