Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

This is the book I read. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire takes place at Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Instead of the normal quidditch season this year, Hogwarts, along with two other schools named Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, are holding something called the Triwizard Tournament. In this tournament, one wizard or witch that is the age of 17 or older can put their name in the goblet of fire to compete, but somehow, Harry, age 14, had his name put in by an unknown person. Harry, along with Cedric Diggory, Viktor Krum, and Fleur Delacour, are competing in three tasks for the ultimate prize of 1000 galleons. Before Harry went to Hogwarts for his fourth year,, though, his friend, Ron Weasley, invited him to go to the quidditch world cup to see the Bulgarian and Irish teams compete. After the tournament, death eaters, old supporters of Lord Voldemort, were terrorizing muggles (humans) who were working the gate. As people were trying to flee from the stadium, and others were trying to save the muggles, someone conjured the dark mark (the sign Voldemort used when he still had power). Anyway, back to the Triwizard Tournament. The first task was on November 24 (my birthday), and none of the contestants knew what was coming until Harry's friend Hagrid, the gatekeeper at Hogwarts, showed him dragons, and Harry told Cedric, who probably told Viktor and Fleur because when the time for the first task came, they were all prepared. The goal was to steal an egg from a dragon, and all of them passed. The second task was on February 24, and the answer was in the egg, but when it was opened, it just squealed loudly. Cedric told Harry to take the egg into the bath with him, and when he did, it played a song about mermaids under water, which was the third task. The goal was to save a hostage from the lake outside of Hogwarts in an hour in any way they could. Harry was studying a way to stay under water on the night before the task, and he fell asleep at his books, but Dobby (a house elf Harry set free) came to the rescue and gave Harry a gillyweed, which would turn him into a human-fish hybrid. Harry and the others went into the lake. Cedric and Viktor got out of the lake in the time period, but Fleur was nowhere to be seen, so Harry fought off the merpeople who wouldn't let Harry take more than one hostage, and took Ron (his hostage) and Fleur's sister (her hostage) up to shore. Sadly, Harry didn't get to the shore in the hour, but he still got points. The third and final task was on June 24, and the contestants had to go through a maze. Harry and Cedric make it to the end, and they decide to grab the trophy together, but when they do, it teleported them to a graveyard where Harry watched Cedric die and Voldemort return to power. Harry had to duel Voldemort, and when they cast their spells, the two spells clashed, creating a link between their wands. Light starting coming out of the wands, and Harry saw his mom, dad, and Cedric. They told him to grab Cedric's body and run on their mark, so he did. He grabbed Cedric's body, got the trophy, and teleported back to Hogwarts. When he got back to Hogwarts, Harry told Dumbledore what had happened. Then, the defense against the dark arts teacher, Alastor Moody, pulled Harry aside and asked him what had happened. Suddenly, Moody told Harry that he was the one who put his name in the Goblet of Fire, and that he was actually Barty Crouch Jr., the son of the Barty Crouch who worked for the ministry of magic. Before this happened, Harry was going to talk to Dumbledore in his office, and saw smoke coming from a cabinet. Being the adventurous boy he was, Harry looked inside the cabinet and found a thing called a pensieve which Harry soon stuck his head into. It took Harry to the past where a bunch of wizards and witches were looking at four people chained to chairs. Apparently, those four people were supporters of Voldemort who used a curse on Nevile's father and drove him insane. The four people were sent to Azkaban, but apparently, Barty's mother used a potion and switched places with him in Azkaban. Barty Jr. was the one who conjoured the dark mark, stole from Professer Snape's secret stash of potion ingredients, and killed his father. Moody (Crouch) took out his wand and pointed it at Harry, but Harry was too quick to the punch, and cast a spell before Crouch and knocked him out. Dumbledore, Snape, and McGonagall had appeared. After Dumbledore told them what to do and they left to do it, he walked over too a chest that had seven locks on it. After opening the first six he opened the seventh, and the real Alastor Moody was there, unconscious. Dumbledore gave Barty a truth potion Snape had brought him, and he told them how he got out of Azkaban, and his story up until then. Dumbledore took Harry up to his office to find that Sirius Black, Harry's godfather, was there, waiting. Harry told them what had happened when him and Cedric touched the Trophy, about Cedric dying and Voldemort returning to power. The next month, before leaving Hogwarts, Harry gave his thousand galleons prize money to Fred and George (Ron's older brothers) to continue on their joke shop. And he left to get through the summer befor his fifth year. This book has 734 pages.

By:

John Mixner