Um. Wow. Yeah. That was freaking FANTASTIC!!!! Probably my favorite so far, just wow oh my gosh......WHAT EVEN!! I feel empowered and sad at the same time (sad because...you know). 5/5 stars of course!

Well holy shit wasn't that a fucking roller-coaster.
This one was the best one yet -I cannot believe I never read these books before now.
The TriWizarad tournament between the 3 competing schools - it was amazing and so inventive.
The growth of all the characters - amazing
The development and description of Lord Voldemort - amazing
I'm gonna need to go lie down now and get my hands on the next book immediately now bye

I'm trying to remember how I felt at the start of this but I can't!
I remember that I was a bit bored and then I liked some things and then I was wondering about other things and we reached the end and it felt like I'm reading another book.

I'm not complaining at all, I feel like this was one of those books that tried to have more than one plot and did it well to an extent. Personally I was so confused with the Hermione and house elves thing, I didn't know if it was a serious thing or not, I still have absolutely no idea how to feel about that.
I also don't know how to feel about the games, cuz they were entertaining enough, but games for entertainment's sake alone and no real risk was never my thing.

The end was so packed that for a second I thought this wasn't the same book! I liked it and I know what happens, it was really fun and even a bit shocking to see a twist after twist at the end like that.

The book as a whole was really good, I didn't like the very angsty teen moments, I hated that these kids grew up and now they all want to date and stuff but I also liked that some things were challenged like the friendship Harry and Ron have, also side characters like Neville and what happened to his parents.

It's not what I expected in some ways and it is in others, I definitely still prefer Chamber of Secrets of all the books but this was good.

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Buddy read with Snape's wife

في سوريا والعراق ظهر قادة الدولة الإسلامية "داعش" يغزون مدنهما يخرجون من ليس منهم,من ليس "إسلاميا" مثلهم من بيوتهم ومدنهم… يقتلون وينحرون رأس من يقف أمامهم, من يختلف عنهم في الدين أو المذهب وحتي الرأي أحيانا..من ليس مثلهم لا يحق له العيش في الدول التي يفتحونها أو ينتووا فتحها

وعلي مقربة منهم ,مكانيا, في فلسطين هناك الصهاينة ,يتغلغلون بأراضيها يخرجون من ليس منهم, من ليس يهوديا صهيونيا من بيوتهم واراضيهم..يقتلون ويقصفون بيوت من يقف أمامهم ,من ليس صهيونيا أو يهوديا هو أقل منهم شئنا...هم الساميون أسما وصفا والباقي مجرد حقارة لا يحق لهم العيش في الأراضي التي يحتلوها

وعلي مقربة منهم,زمنيا, بأقل من قرنا من الزمان كان الفوهرر الالماني هتلر النازي يحاول بيد اليهود كلهم...فهو يراهم بشرا دمهم أقل أهمية من دماءه النازية الطاهرة...ويريد القضاء علي وجودهم في أوروبا كلها يقصف بيوتهم ومدنهم...ليفرض سيطرة الدماء النازية بأوروبا

وفي أرض أخري أبعد شيئا ما, وزمنا يعود حوالي 3 قرون الي الوراء...كان الرجل الأبيض يقتل الرجل الأحمر, يخرجه من بيوته واراضيه لأنه أقل منه...لأنه لا يعرف رب الرجل الأبيض وبالتالي لا يحق له العيش..في القارة التي اكتشفها الرجل الأبيض ...الرجل الأبيض الذي سيستعين لاحقا بالرجل الأسود لمساعدة في بناء قارة كاملة ولكنه ايضا يحتقره ويسئ معاملته, فالملونون ليسوا بنقاء الرجل الأبيض..فلا يحق لهم العيش

ونعود للأراضي المقدسة مرة أخري,وبضع قرون أخري للوراء..حيث الحملة الصليبية تقتل أي مخالف لهم في الدين والعقيدة لتطهر الأراضي المقدسة من "الدنس"...فهؤلاء الكفار من المسلمين واليهود لا مكان لهم بها, يجب تطهير القدس منهم

الأمر قد يأخذ مننا قرون لحكي كل هذا...ولكن لننهي هذا الحديث بأقدم قصة موثقة ..في مصر الفرعونية حيث الفرعون يري هو وسحرته والفراعنة القدماء أنقي دماءا من بني إسرائيل ويعاملهم كالعبيد ليس لهم حق الحرية..إما عبيدا له او ليرحلوا عن البلاد,او يقتلوا

ولكن ما دخل كل هذا بهاري بوتر؟ وبالأخص هذا الجزء؟

حسنا لمعرفة الأجابة واكثر بمقال هذه كانت مقدمته، هو
أخترنا لك 8 - الولد الذي واجهه العنصرية
وهي أستكمال للمقال الأول
أخترنا لك 7 - الولد الذي قام بأنقلاب في تاريخ الأدب
أتمني أن يحوز علي أعجابكم أن شاء الله

محمد العربي
في 25 نوفمبر 2014

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I seriously have no idea why I still review these books when I have nothing new to say. I mean... J.K. Rowling is perfect. This series is perfect. And I dream day & night of going to Hogwarts. So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to show you how I felt about this book:

When I started the book:







During the book:







At the end:











Umm.. Mam Rowling..





All in all





Sorry for the lame review, readers. I just really don't know what to say..

It seems that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire really takes this series in a darker and more scarier direction. I loved all of the complicated plots in regards to characters in this book. It was so well done and Rowling does not miss a step.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is still one of my favorites in the series. The Triwizard Tournament and the Quidditch World Cup really gave this book action and FUN to even out the dark and sad moments at the end of the book.

And once again, the audiobooks of this series is FANTASTIC!!

This book was so much darker and sadder than I remembered - the crazy thing is, Goblet of Fire was always my least favorite as a kid because between the Qudditch World Cup and the Twiwizard Tournament, I just associated it with being the "sports one". But this book has SO MUCH GOING ON and it made me feel way more feels than I remembered, and it all really hit me in ways I hadnt expected.

I'm so glad Harry has Molly Weasley, and Hagrid, and so many other wonderful people in his life. I couldn't believe how real the argument between Dumbledore and Cornelius Fudge felt at the end, when Fudge refused to believe Voldemort was back. I had forgotten so many details about Winky's part in the book, and Rita Skeeter, and the overall delightfulness of Hermione's weird relationship with Victor.

I enjoyed this reread immensely. Favorite book so far of my adult reread of Harry Potter.

This was the book that broke me from the HP series. My bride insists they got better, but she also married me, so her taste is... suspect.

I loved Prisoner of Azkaban. Great struggle, clever time-travel story (very hard to do) and our first real glimpses of the dark places where this series would head. I liked that shift, I really did. So what broke me?

Firstly, the plot holes. Well, more accurately, one plot hole, but it was a frackin' doozy. You know the opening scene in Star Wars where the camera is beneath the belly of the Star Destroyer and the shot just goes on and on for about ten frackin' minutes and you can practically hear George Lucas yelling "That's right, Star Destroyers are REALLY BIG, bitches!"? Well, this was a Star Destroyer sized plot hole.

Rowling goes to some length spelling out that portkeys can be anything. A cup. A book. A fluffy bunny. She also establishes that you can't teleport in and out of Hogwarts, because it's warded. Fair enough. BUT, Harry and his chums have often left the grounds of HG's, to go and drink 'butterbeer' or buy living chocolate frogs or snog in alleyways or whatever. The precedent has been set that they can and do leave the school grounds. FFS, Harry lived outside of Hogwarts for YEARS (and yeah Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's [or whatever] place was magicked so folks couldn't find him, but how did he get back and forth to it, eh? A TRAIN.)

SO, you are an evil overlord trying to take over the world. You need Harry's blood to get your body back. You have an agent WITHIN Hogwarts, despite all these magical defenses, disguised as a teacher that Harry implicitly trusts.

Do you:

a) Set in place an elaborate ruse, framed around this enormous tri-wizard tournament, which (presumably) is under scrutiny by the most powerful wizards in the world and the ministry of magic, in which you manipulate events so that Harry not only enters the tournament (despite rules that expressly say that he's not old enough) but wins it, touches the tri-wizard cup, which, despite all these defenses and wizard-y scrutiny and security, you've managed to turn into a frackin' portkey (yes, you're that good) so that he gets teleported away from the tourney grounds into your evil clutches and hey, you bleed that bitch.

b) Have your agent (who Harry implicitly trusts) say "hey Potter, what's say we head down to the pub for a mug of butterbeer and I'll tell you some stuff about your dad/mum/long lost twin?" use all your evil-wizardyness to change a mug of butterbeer into a portkey, and save everyone around 400 pages of this book.

Sorry, but I didn't buy it. I've read many fan arguments explaining why the tri-wizard tournament and everything around it wasn't window-dressing on an overly complicated plan, the fruits of which could have very easily been borne by a far less convoluted and complex Evil Scheme(tm) which, granted, probably wouldn't have made a very interesting book, but YOUR WAREZ, I AM NOT BUYING THEM.

But second, and more importantly, it was in GoF that I realized that Harry was going to win. That he was just awesome, and no matter what rules were set in place (you're too young to enter the tournament/you're ten years old, why on earth would we put you in the CLUTCH position on our Quidditch team/you wear glasses, the ladiez don't dig dudes in glasses) he would triumph. Rowling LOVED Harry. She loved all the Harry gang. Too much. And it became painfully obvious that these kids were going to win, without a single fatality/crippling sacrifice/crushing loss. That in the end, Voldemort would be beaten, and Harry would marry Ginny, and Ron would marry Hermione and everyone would live happily ever after and make lots of adorable wizard babies.

This was the book Harry ceased being a character and became a caricature. A SUPERHERO. Superheros bore me. I want torment. I want LOSS. I want my heroes to pay a TANGIBLE and TERRIBLE price for their victories. And no, killing tertiary characters doesn't count. Digory? The Weasley twin? Even Dumbledore (yeah I know he dies, I got spoiled) is disposable.

I need to believe my heroes could fail. I know they probably won't. I know the good guys will eventually win. But I need to be afraid for them. I need to be scanning the faces of the MAIN characters and wondering "which one of you will be dead/emotionally crippled/hideously disfigured before the final act is over?" And I never believed for a second that Rowling would harm a hair on their heady-head-heads.

And, turns out, she didn't. :P

(shrugs)

4.5 stars

I really don't think I need to tell y'all that I loved this because I've been raving about this series since the moment I started it back in January but for the sake of clarity - I love this.

I believe everyone (even people that have no attachment to it at all) has a Harry Potter story under their belt. Whether it be the story of their first time reading it or the time they convinced everyone in their family to dress up as the Weasley's or when their Potterhead teacher made them play Quidditch in gym class, everyone has some kind of HP story they whip out at dinner parties - this is mine.

Back in my early teens, after a childhood of ignoring the wizarding craze under the guise of my idiot-self being too sophisticated for magic (yes, 8-year-old Grace was an asshole - that isn't the story) I was a camp counsellor. But I wasn't a counsellor at any ordinary camp, oh no, I was a counsellor at a theatre camp. Each year we would put on a different musical and the year I was 15 it was decided we would do a child-friendly, dumbed down version of the Goblet of Fire, complete with all your favourite musical numbers stolen straight from A Very Potter Musical.

I played James Potter, helped countless kids memorize their lines, choreography and ten musical numbers and yet the only plot points I picked up of the entire musical was the Yule Ball and Cedric Diggory's death.

The whole time I was reading this book - 5 years later - all I could think about was that musical and what I knew was coming because of it. I was worried the entire novel and utterly heartbroken once it actually happened - 5 years of build up to finally understanding what was happening in this book and I'd say It was 100% satisfying.

This book is masterful; it is the book where everything changes and you feel it with every flip of the page. It maintained the classic spirit of books 1-3 while perfectly balancing the added stakes and darkness. Also, like every other installment the way everything that is revealed at the end answers all your questions and puts all the more new ones straight back into your head was just as satisfying as it was the first three books and it was perfection. I want to curse 8-year-old Grace for being an idiot and 15-year-old Grace for not paying attention at work because, boy oh boy, do I wish I read this series sooner.

“‘Did you put your name into the Goblet of Fire, Harry?’ he asked n  calmlyn.”




Just so we’re clear on the matter.

My long time favourite.





And the long mistreatment of Fleur in this series just begun.

The reread of this series is never going to get boring. The nostalgia will forever remain.

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n  “He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs Weasley held him to her. His mother’s face, his father’s voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground, all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.”n


* My heart broke for Harry several times. The childhood traumas he’s suffered are too much, too unfair.
* Dumbledore will always remain the baddest son of a bitch. The end of these books remain pure gold because of him.
* Cornelius Fudge represents Trump nicely in this book.
* Am I the only one that still doesn’t hate Snape? My guy has been living a double life his whole life. Still a dick, but you know, a redeemable one.
* Hermoine figuring out Rita Skeeter’s secret was a proud moment.
* I love that Harry gave the Weasley Twins his winnings!
* I also adore the moment when Mrs. Weasley and the family came to support Harry during the last tournament.
And Sirius, ya’ll.