Resumo de Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

Introduction

The biggest, the heaviest, the largest Harry Potter book is here. (In
fact, Order of Pheonix has been long out, but I am pretending that it
is still to be released to keep up the fun part.)

Goblet Of Fire
Harry Potter is heading for his fourth year at Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. So whatz in store? The story takes a deviation
from the routine and starts off in a rather spooky little Riddle House
rather than the Dursley household as in the other three books of the
series. And to boot, there is murder and future murder plot in the very
first chapter. Who said this is kid stuff? The story then moves on to
the usual Dursley's bashing and Harry scar(y) story.

Then Harry accepts a Weasley invitation which accelerates the
story. Harry is in for a surprise, A Quidditch World Cup!! So the World Cup looms large and so does Viktor Krumm - the
bulgarian seeker, a superstar at a young age. If there is a World Cup,
there are bound to be crowds from all countries, and thus for the first
time we see witches and wizards from outside England swarming down for
the World Cup. The description of the final between Ireland and
Bulgaria is breath taking and would have done any sports journalist
proud.

A Dark Sign suddenly emerges at the closure of
the World Cup leaving everyone in panic. Has the Dark Lord returned? Is
he going to return? The wizarding world goes into the world of rumours.
But Life must go on...

So Dumbledore tries to conduct state of affairs at Hogwarts with
some precaution, but trying to avoid any mass changes so as to not
create further panic. So the traditional Tri-Wizard Tournament is
announced. Students from three Wizarding Schools participate in a set
of breathtaking, hard, troublesome and sometimes fatal competitions.
Each competition has a pointing system. The School whose Student scores
the maximum point wins the tournament. Harry wants to win this
tournament especially now that he has started having a crush on Cho!!
But Mr. Harry has a problem, only students in the final year can
participate and Harry is still another 3 years younger. What to do,
what to do?

So the final day of selecting one candidate from each school comes.
Thes selection process is very unique with a Goblet of Fire containing
the names of prospective students and the Goblet selects a student from
each school... So the candidates are Viktor Krum for Drumstrang School
(Hermione is specifically happy on this one to raise a few eye brows),
Fleur Delacour of Beauxbatons School and Cedric Diggory of the
Hogwarts.... and Harry Potter!! Did I tell that only last years can
participate??

So let the competitions begin... soon the competition ends we have
two losers, two winners and a dead competitor... Who all won? Who died?
You would kill me if I let you on this one though I would give you a
hint... Hint: There are at least three more Harry Potter books on the
way.

Anyhow the book does not end there, we have some further evidence
on Dark Lords return and an factionalism is beginning to set in amongst
the witches... It is no longer the good side vs. the bad side.. There
is more than that at stake now... Check out this fantastic book for all
the answers.

Analysis of the book
With the prisoner of Azkaban itself the Harry Potter series starts
to shed its tag of a Children's book and tries to grow into a series
meant for all age groups. The Goblet of Fire finally takes it out the
tag totally. I consider it more of an adult novel or maybe mature
novel whatever be the correct terminology to be used.

In this novel we see certain emotions coming over the characters
for the first time. Harry and Hermione are showing more attraction to
the opposite sex and of course it is not towards each other as some of
us had thought after the first three books. Ron's character is for the
first time showing shades of jealousy and stayingn the shadows of
Harry for close to yrs now. I am typically intrigued by Ron's
character and would following closely how it shapes - a laid back boy
always compared with brothers' glory. To add to that now constantly in
the center of all action, but only in the shadow of Harry.

Similarly, Hermione's character seems to be growing stronger day by
day, though it was nice to see some romance enter the realms of study
at long last. The other characters are also evolving with each page
throughout this book. JK Rowling has done one heck of job with her
characterizations.

So if you look at the from a critics perspective, it is a very
neatly written book, that is simple at times and complex at times,
starts to evolve some emotions amongst the characters, is fast paced
and has lots of actions, drama and magic around it.

The Verdict

After reading the review, the verdict might not be much of suspense. A high five for the great effort by JK Rowling.

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