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Title
Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Year published
2000, Edinburgh
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Number of pages
475 pages
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About the author
J.K. Rowling
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Genre
Fantasy; Coming-of-age; young
detective fiction
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Point of view
Third person, following Harry
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Tone
The tone is matter-of-fact, and the
author's fondness for the heroes is clear.
Ø Themes
Crusade against enslavement;
Community connectedness; Entering adolescence.
Ø Motifs
Fallen facades
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Setting (time)
Present-day
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Setting (place)
United Kingdom, primarily at
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
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Key Elements of Plot
Ø major conflict
Harry attempts to
remain alive through the Triwizard Tournament, and to discover who submitted
his name to the Goblet of Fire.
Ø Rising action
Tension rises
with each of the Triwizard tasks that Harry is expected to do.
Ø Climax
On the
evening of the final task, Harry and Cedric wind through the maze, reach the
trophy, and ultimately are transported to a graveyard where Voldemort awaits
them.
Ø Falling action
Once Harry has
escaped Voldemort he is transported back to Hogwarts, and various characters
explain the mysteries present in the rising action of the story.
2. Synopsis
Harry, Ron and Hermione enter their
fourth year at Hogwarts. After having a strange dream of the Dark Lord and his
Death Eaters, Harry Potter awakes at the Weasleys' house where they shortly
depart for the 422nd Quidditch World Cup. After the match, the camp is attacked
by Death Eaters. The three later arrive at Hogwarts, where they find that the
magical school will be hosting a legendary event called the Triwizard
Tournament, in which one wizard each from two rival schools and Hogwarts will
compete in three dangerous tasks. When the schools of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang,
the rival schools, arrive, the rules are announced. Meanwhile, Alastor
"Mad Eye" Moody arrives at Hogwarts at the request of Dumbledore to
be the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. Moody is a very eccentric
man, noted for his paranoia and his wildly roaming "mad eye". People
over seventeen who are interested must insert their name into the Goblet of
Fire, and those chosen will be the Champions of their respective school. Three
champions' names come out of the Goblet of Fire, Cedric Diggory from Hogwarts,
Viktor Krum from Durmstrang and Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons, and then the
goblet unexpectedly produces a fourth, Harry Potter, although he is an
under-age fourth year who never entered. Although Harry insists that he did not
enter his name, his selection prompts a certain amount of jealousy and
suspicion on part of his fellow students - including Ron, who believes that
Harry is attempting to make himself the centre of attention again. This causes
a brief period of resentment and estrangement between the two friends
(including Ron swearing, telling Harry to piss off!), which is soon healed,
however. Dumbledore tells Alastor to keep an eye on Harry, without him knowing
it.
The Tournament begins with the first
event, in which the four champions must each battle a dragon to retrieve a
golden egg. Upon using the Accio spell to summon his broom, he flies out of the
arena. The dragon breaks free of its chain and chases Harry through the
Hogwarts grounds, where it runs into a stone bridge and falls dead. Harry gets
the egg, which, when opened, will reveal a clue about the second task. When
Harry opens it, though, only a horrible screeching is heard. They are soon
informed of the Yule Ball, a Christmas ball held during the Triwizard
Tournament. Ron and Harry find it hard to get dates to the ball, but finally
get the Patil twins to join them, while Hermione goes with Viktor Krum,
stunning everyone with her suddenly beautiful appearance at the ball. Ron is so
jealously enraged at seeing Hermione with Krum (formerly his idol) that he
attacks her and accuses her of "fraternizing with the enemy". The
ensuing argument leaves Hermione in tears (in the film version only).
Cedric Diggory, the other Hogwarts
champion, informs Harry to submerge the egg in water and open it. There he will
hear the clue. Harry does as told in the prefects' enormous collective bath.
The clue mentions that merpeople have taken something of Harry's and that they
must retrieve it from the Black Lake. Just as the three are trying to find a way
to breathe underwater, Ron and Hermione are called to McGonagall's office.
Neville tells Harry about gillyweed, which, if eaten, can let you grow webbed
hands and feet and gills. During the second task, Harry follows a mermaid to
where they have chained Ron, Hermione, Cho Chang, and Fleur's sister. Cho Chang
is retrieved by Cedric, Victor, the Durmstrang champion, takes Hermione. Harry
takes both Ron and Fleur's sister, since she did not show up.
Finally, the third task arrives. A huge
maze has been set up, in the center of which is the Triwizard Cup. The first to
touch the cup wins the task. Dumbledore allows Harry and Cedric to be led into
the woods first, because they both received first and second place in the
previous task. Both Cedric and Harry grab the cup at the same time. The cup,
which is actually a portkey, sends the two to a graveyard, where Wormtail
appears with a form of Voldemort. Upon command, Wormtail kills Cedric and binds
Harry to a tombstone. Wormtail performs a spell over a burning cauldron and
drops Voldemort into it. A fully revived Voldemort emerges from it and summons
the Death Eaters with the Dark Mark. After explaining to them how he lost his
powers to Harry, he duels Harry Potter, in which their spells join in a chain.
Harry breaks the chain and gets Cedric's body. After grabbing the cup again, he
is transported back to the school where everyone learns that the Dark Lord is
back and has killed Cedric. Mad-Eye Moody takes Harry to his office in order to
help Harry calm down. Moody suddenly starts to change his appearance when he
learns that he has run out of Polyjuice Potion. Moody tells Harry that it was
he who told Hagrid to lead Harry into the woods and tell him about dragons.
Moody also reveals that it was he who told Cedric to open the egg underwater
and that he gave Neville the book that led him straight to discovering
gillyweed in it. Harry realizes that Moody put his name in the Goblet of Fire
and that he bewitched Krum. As Moody is about to kill Harry, Dumbledore, Snape,
and McGonagall burst in the room and save Harry. Dumbledore makes Moody admit
that he is an imposter and that the real Moody is locked in a chest. The
imposter rapidly changes from appearing like Moody to his own appearance, Barty
Crouch Jr, a Death Eater working for Voldemort. The tournament ends and the
other schools depart.
3. Characters
in novel
1. Harry
Potter - The hero and protagonist, Harry is a
twelve-year-old boy with messy hair and glasses who became famous within the
wizard community by surviving the curse of a powerful wizard. Harry frequently
finds himself entangled in dangerous adventures but he always lives to tell the
tale. Harry's character represents good intentions, innocence, and the fantasies
of childhood.
2. Ron
Weasley - Ron is tall, red-haired, and from a
respected but poor family. Ron is one of Harry's two best friends at Hogwarts.
He is loyal to Harry, and belligerent to their enemy, Malfoy. Ron uses
experience and a process of trial-and-error to solve most mysteries. Ron's
character is often overshadowed by Harry's, but Ron always manages to succeed.
3. Hermione
Granger - Hermione is always the top student in
her class. She is clever and well-read. Most spells come easily to her and remain
in her encyclopedic mind. In this story especially, she throws her heart into
fighting for causes, and she proves to be exceptionally loyal to Harry.
4. Cedric
Diggory - The handsome, brave, and fair Hufflepuff Triwizard champion;
dies at the hands of Lord Voldemort.
5. Bartemius
Crouch - The stiff and rule-abiding Head of the Department for
International Magical Cooperation; Percy Weasley's boss.
6. Bartemius
Crouch, Jr. - Mr. Crouch's son, a convicted Death
Eater who was allowed to remain outside of prison so long as he wore an
Invisibility cloak and stayed in his father's house, guarded carefully by
Winky. He escapes the confines of his father's house, returns to Voldemort, and
comes to Hogwarts disguised as Moody.
7. Albus
Dumbledore - Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, is a wise, powerful,
elderly man with a long silver beard, and he is one of the most impressive
characters Harry has ever met. He has a calm, secretive demeanor and is
extremely intuitive, tolerant, and trustworthy, and he is the only wizard
Voldemort has ever feared.
8. Mad-Eye
Moody - A grizzled, eccentric, skilled retired Auror (dark-wizard
catcher) who comes to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. He is
deeply wary of anyone who could be a Dark wizard, and he drinks only from his
hip flask. He takes a liking to Harry and subtly helps him with his tasks. In
the end, he is really young Barty Crouch, disguised as Moody.
9. Madame
Maxime - The enormous and elegant headmistress of Beauxbatons, and the
object of Hagrid's affection.
10. Rita Skeeter -
A nosey, middle-aged reporter who buzzes around, absorbing gossip to use in her
reputation-ruining articles; Rita is an unregistered animagus beetle.
11. Sirius Black -
Harry's loyal and loving godfather, and an unregistered animagus who can change
himself into a large black dog, Padfoot, at will. He is widely thought to be
responsible for thirteen deaths that, in reality, Peter Pettigrew caused, and
since his name is not yet clear, he must remain in hiding. He fulfills his
godfatherly duties in this book, looking carefully after Harry.
12. Viktor Krum -
Krum is the eighteen-year-old Bulgarian Quidditch Seeker, a boy-wonder who
attends Durmstrang and is chosen as their Triwizard champion. He is quiet and
sullen, but he develops quite a crush on Hermione, and he turns out to be a
nice, competent individual.
13. Moaning
Myrtle - A glum Hogwarts ghost who has somewhat of a crush on Harry.
14. Fleur
Delacour - The Triwizard champion for Beauxbatons, Fleur is a beautiful,
silvery haired, part-Veela girl, who is a bit patronizing and snobby, but in
the end grows moderately fond of Harry and Ron.
15. Voldemort -
Once a student named Tom Riddle who attended Hogwarts fifty years before Harry,
Voldemort became the most powerful dark wizard ever. When Harry was a baby,
Voldemort killed Harry's parents and tried to kill Harry, only to have his
curse backfire and render him powerless. He is an embodiment of pure evil.
Through the help of Wormtail and a mysterious supporter at Hogwarts, Voldemort
manages to rise again at the end of this story.
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