Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter Series #4)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter Series #4)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter Series #4)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter Series #4)

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Overview

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth book in the series. Harry returns to Hogwarts with nightmares about Voldemort looming in his head. This year, there is an exciting event at Hogwarts, but will it be more dangerous than fun? Between the weird dreams Harry's been having, his scar hurting, and rumors of the Dark Lord's return, Harry's godfather Sirius Black grows increasingly concerned as he tries to ensure Harry's safety. Will Harry's nightmares come true? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is an exciting story you won't want to put down with surprises you wouldn't expect.

Read by Jim Dale

Running time:  20 hrs., 30 mins. 17 CDs.

Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for his fourth year of magical adventures in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.  This year Harry turns 14 and becomes interested in girls — one in particular.  And with Dark Magic comes danger, as someone close to Harry dies.  You'll have to listen to learn more!  The audio is available on July 8th.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807282595
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication date: 07/08/2000
Series: Harry Potter
Edition description: Unabridged
Pages: 17
Sales rank: 64,777
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 6.60(h) x 2.50(d)
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

About The Author
J.K. Rowling was a struggling single mother when she wrote the beginning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, on scraps of paper at a local cafe. But her efforts soon paid off, as she received an unprecedented award from the Scottish Arts Council enabling her to finish the book. Since then, the debut novel has become an international phenomenon, garnering rave reviews and major awards, including the British Book Awards Chidren's Book of the Year and the Smarties Prize. Ms. Rowling lives in Edinburgh with her daughter.

Performer Bio: The New York Times hailed Jim Dale as "The Toast of Broadway" in his title role in the musical Barnum. He has a long list of credits on the stage and in film and was nominated for an Oscar for writing the lyrics for Georgy Girl.

Hometown:

Perthshire, Scotland

Date of Birth:

July 31, 1965

Place of Birth:

Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, England

Education:

Exeter University

Read an Excerpt


1. The Riddle House

The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it "the Riddle House," even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there. It stood on a hill overlooking the village, some of its windows boarded, tiles missing from its roof, and ivy spreading unchecked over its face. Once a fine-looking manor, and easily the largest and grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict, and unoccupied.

The Little Hangletons all agreed that the old house was "creepy." Half a century ago, something strange and horrible had happened there, something that the older inhabitants of the village still liked to discuss when topics for gossip were scarce. The story had been picked over so many times, and had been embroidered in so many places, that nobody was quite sure what the truth was anymore. Every version of the tale, however, started in the same place: Fifty years before, at daybreak on a fine summer's morning, when theRiddle House had still been well kept and impressive, a maid had entered the drawing room to find all three Riddles dead.

The maid had run screaming down the hill into the village and roused as many people as she could.

"Lying there with their eyes wide open! Cold as ice! Still in their dinner things!"

The police were summoned, and the whole of Little Hangleton had seethed with shocked curiosity and ill-disguised excitement. Nobody wasted their breath pretending to feel very sad about the Riddles, for they had been most unpopular. Elderly Mr. and Mrs. Riddle had been rich, snobbish, and rude, and their grown-up son, Tom, had been, if anything, worse. All the villagers cared about was the identity oftheir murderer for plainly, three apparently healthy people did not all drop dead of natural causes on the same night.

The Hanged Man, the village pub, did a roaring trade that night; the whole village seemed to have turned out to discuss the murders. They were rewarded for leaving their firesides when the Riddles' cook arrived dramatically in their midst and announced to the suddenly silent pub that a man called Frank Bryce had just been arrested.

"Frank!" cried several people. "Never!"

Frank Bryce was the Riddles' gardener. He lived alone in a rundown cottage on the grounds of the Riddle House. Frank had come back from the war with a very stiff leg and a great dislike of crowds and loud noises, and had been working for the Riddles ever since.

There was a rush to buy the cook drinks and hear more details.

"Always thought he was odd," she told the eagerly listening villagers, after her fourth sherry. "Unfriendly, like. I'm sure if I've offered him a cuppa once, I've offered it a hundred times. Never wanted to mix, he didn't."

"Ah, now," said a woman at the bar, "he had a hard war, Frank. He likes the quiet life. That's no reason to -"

"Who else had a key to the back door, then?" barked the cook. "There's been a spare key hanging in the gardener's cottage far back as I can remember! Nobody forced the door last night! No broken windows! All Frank had to do was creep up to the big house while we was all sleeping . . . ."

The villagers exchanged dark looks.

"I always thought he had a nasty look about him, right enough," grunted a man at the bar.

"War turned him funny, if you ask me," said the landlord.

"Told you I wouldn't like to get on the wrong side of Frank, didn't I, Dot?" said an excited woman in the corner.

"Horrible temper," said Dot, nodding fervently. "I remember, when he was a kid. . ."

By the following morning, hardly anyone in Little Hangleton doubted that Frank Bryce had killed the Riddles.

But over in the neighboring town of Great Hangleton, in the dark and dingy police station, Frank was stubbornly repeating, again and again, that he was innocent, and that the only person he had seen near the house on the day of the Riddles' deaths had been a teenage boy, a stranger, dark-haired and pale. Nobody else in the village had seen any such boy, and the police were quite sure that Frank had invented him.

Then, just when things were looking very serious for Frank, the report on the Riddles' bodies came back and changed everything.

The police had never read an odder report. A team of doctors had examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had been poisoned, stabbed, shot, strangled, suffocated, or (as far as they could tell) harmed at all. In fact (the report continued, in a tone of unmistakable bewilderment), the Riddles all appeared to be in perfect health - apart from the fact that they were all dead. The doctors did note (as though determined to find something wrong with the bodies) that each of the Riddles had a look of terror upon his or her face - but as the frustrated police said, whoever heard of three people being frightened to death?

As there was no proof that the Riddles had been murdered at all, the police were forced to let Frank go. The Riddles were buried in the Little Hangleton churchyard, and their graves remained objects of curiosity for a while. To everyone's surprise, and amid a cloud of suspicion, Frank Bryce returned to his cottage on the grounds of the Riddle House.

"'S far as I'm concerned, he killed them, and I don't care what the police say," said Dot in the Hanged Man. "And if he had any decency, he'd leave here, knowing as how we knows he did it."

But Frank did not leave. He stayed to tend the garden for the next family who lived in the Riddle House, and then the next for neither family stayed long. Perhaps it was partly because of Frank that the new owners said there was a nasty feeling about the place, which, in the absence of inhabitants, started to fall into disrepair...

Table of Contents


1. The Riddle House ... 1
2. The Scar ... 16
3. The Invitation ... 26
4. Back to the Burrow ... 39
5. Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes ... 51
6. The Portkey ... 65
7. Bagman and Crouch ... 75
8. The Quidditch World Cup ... 95
9. The Dark Mark ... 117
10. Mayhem at the Ministry ... 145
11. Aboard the Hogwarts Express ... 158
12. The Triwizard Tournament ... 171
13. Mad-Eye Moody ... 193
14. The Unforgivable Curses ... 209
15. Beauxbatons and Durmstrang ... 228
16. The Goblet of Fire ... 248
17. The Four Champions ... 272
18. The Weighing of the Wands ... 288
19. The Hungarian Horntail ... 313
20. The First Task ... 337
21. The House-Elf Liberation Front 363
22. The Unexpected Task ... 385
23. The Yule Ball ... 403
24. Rita Skeeter's Scoop ... 433
25. The Egg and the Eye 458
26. The Second Task ... 479
27. Padfoot Returns ... 509
28. The Madness of Mr. Crouch ... 535
29. The Dream ... 564
30. The Pensieve ... 581
31. The Third Task ... 605
32. Flesh, Blood, and Bone ... 636
33. The Death Eaters ... 644
34. Priori Incantatem ... 659
35. Veritaserum ... 670
36. The Parting of the Ways ... 692
37. The Beginning ... 716

What People are Saying About This

Valdimir Zelevinsky

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireis the pivotal central book in the series; it is by far the longest (at 734 pages, it's roughly double the size of any of the first three), by far the most ambitious--and fortunately, by far the best as well. It is also clearly the darkest, especially in the dazzling climax and it consequences. Ultimately, through, the book's strongest asset is satisfying that irresistible curiosity of discovering what is behind the next corner. For almost all of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the readers are totally spellbound--entirely at the mercy of an expert storyteller.
The Tech - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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