n  "Dark times lie ahead of us, and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right."n

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is by far the best book in the series that I’ve read so far.

Considering how absolutely fucking horrible the middle part is, that should say something about how much I actually enjoyed the ending.

Most of the book is pointless filler material with silly teenagers being silly teenagers. I was ready to hand out one star and really wanted to just put the book down. But then, after a lot of unnecessary suffering, something happened.

Alone in Dumbledore’s office, Harry found a curious device that led to one of the best scenes in the series so far.

A few chapters later, Harry touched a trophy, that led to another of the best scenes in the series so far.

From that point on, the book was gold.

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)

FAVORITE OF THE SERIES.

Best one so far!

n  "Remember, if the time should come
when you have to make a choice
between what is right and what is easy,
remember what happened to the boy
who was good, was kind, and brave,
because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.

Remember Cedric Diggory."n

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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..

Another year down at Hogwarts which I enjoyed. This was the book that allowed us, readers, to witness Harry’s transformation from a child to a teenage young man.

Just like everyone else who has ever read one of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books, I am hooked. After reading four books in the series, I can say with confidence that there are no weak spots, no plotting errors, and no words out of place in these remarkable books.

n  You might like to check out more similar books here.n

I feel like I've been stabbed. Right in the feels. There are tear stains all over the last 60 pages.

Jesus, I need to take a nap for a year after that.

I often forget a lot of things but this is the one time that I love myself for easily forgetting things because now I get to reread it for the third time but almost as if I was reading it for the first time ❤️

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n  Second Time Read Reviewn

To be honest, it was pretty hard for me to decide how many stars I would give to the book. On one hand, I liked the book, but I didn't love it, but on the other hand I felt like I couldn't give it less that 5 stars because I wouldn't be the kind of woman I am today without this series. This series changed me and when I look back at the old version of me, I feel I don't really recognize that girl anymore. So yeah it was pretty complicated for me to rate this book.

I think the reason why I didn't love it because I knew what would happen, so the shock was not there anymore. But then I loved the second and third book. hmmm, It's pretty confusing when I think about it. basically, I liked this book but I didn't love it.

n  Cedric Diggory's deathn

I cried you know when he refused to take the Triwizard Cup and he told Harry to take it. He was just so good and noble and when Harry told him to take the cup together, I was grinning while crying at the same time because I was so proud of Harry's decision. BUT I STILL CANNOT ACCEPT HIS DEATH. He didn't deserve that kind of death. I really hate Voldemort and Wormtail. They deserve a painful death and may them rot in hell for all the evilness they have done. Honestly, I still can't believe that there are death eaters who actually support Voldemort. Like what the fuck? Voldemort is evil and so freaking bad.

n  Snape Being Mean To Hermionen

I do not hate Snape but there were moments where he just left me gaping with disbelief on my face because he acted pretty mean and annoyed me. For example is the moment where Harry and Malfoy were fighting and they tried to hex or curse each other, but Malfoy's spell caught Hermione and Hermione's front teeth became longer. Like very long until they passed her collar but then when Snape saw them, he said

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Snape looked coldly at Hermione, then said, 'I see no difference.'

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I was shocked when I read that part because what did Hermione do to deserve that kind of response? that was just so mean. I felt sorry for Hermione right away in that scene. I wanted to say to her that "it's okay, the teeth can be fixed and Snape was just being bitter."

n  The Morning Before The Third Taskn

I really love the Weasley family with no exception. Percy is my least favorite though. This book is indeed a reread for me but I did not remember at all about this scene where Harry was told to meet his family before the final task and I totally did not know who would come because the Dursleys couldn't possibly come, so who's this family? and then when I realized that it was Mrs Weasley and Bill, my eyes suddenly became teary. It was so clear that Mrs Weasley, Molly, cared and loved Harry. Harry is so lucky to have the Weasley family. They're such a nice family and come to think of it, how can Malfoy mock Ron's family? to me it's so absurd. The Weasley family is a great and I adore this family.

Thank you for reading and liking this review! I really appreciate it and I hope you all have an amazing weekend. ❤❤



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5 STARS

n  " Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust, Differences of habit and languages are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. "n

n  My Opinionn

OMG!! This book! lot of things happened and I'm still in shocked.


okay let's begin with Cedric Diggory.

n  My Most Saddest Scenen

Cedric was a nice guy and he was really sweet and I liked him. I was so shocked when he died because I thought he would be alive until the last book and he died so fast that I just sat on my bed and I was like " What did just happen? " I still can't believe he died in such a young age and it was all because of Voldemort.
Oh! and I was so proud of Harry too! he's so kind that he suggested Cedric to hold the cup with him, So there would be two winners not only Harry or Cedric and I was so confused who I wanted to get the cup first, I liked Cedric but I also liked Harry. So I was very happy when Harry suggested that but that happiness vanished as fast as it came. The cup was a portkey and the cup transported them to Voldemort and Cedric died so fast that I didn't even cry. I was just so shocked.

because what would Harry say to his parents?! and I was so worried what about if they blamed Harry for this ?!? but thankfully that didn't happen. Cedric's parents were very sad but they didn't blame Harry. They even thanked him for returning Cedric's body to them.

n  My Favotite Scenesn

I think there is something change between Hermione and Ron.
Ron was so mad when Hermione went to the ball with Viktor. He said it was because Viktor was from Drumstrang and he said Hermione was fraternizing with the enemy. But I still don't believe this at all. Before Hermione went to the ball with Viktor, Ron liked Viktor so much that he even wanted to get his autograph and I think he acted like that because he was jealous. hahaha. it was so funny and sweet to see Ron got jealous and there's also this scene :

'Known what?' said Ron quickly. 'You haven't been mixing up Love Potions, have you?'
'Don't be stupid,' Hermione snapped, starting to pound up her beetles again. ' No, it's just ... how did she know Viktor asked me to visit him over the summer?'
Hermione blushed scarlet as she said this and determinedly avoided Ron's eyes.
'What?' said Ron, dropping his pestle with a loud clunk.
'He asked me right after he'd pulled me out of the lake,' Hermione muttered. 'After he'd got rid of his shark's head. Madam Pomfrey gave us both blankets and then he sort of pulled me away from the judges so they wouldn't hear, and he said, if I wasn't doing anything over the summer, would I like to -'
'And what did you say?' said Ron, who had picked up his pestle and was grinding it on the desk, a good six inches from his bowl, because he was looking at Hermione.
'and he did say he'd never felt the same way about anyone else,'
Hermione went on, going so red now that Harry could almost feel the heat coming from her, 'but how could Rita Skeeter have heard him? She wasn't there ... or was she? Maybe she has got an invisibility Cloak, maybe she sneaked into the grounds to watch the second task ...'
'And what did you say?' Ron repeated, pounding his pestle down so hard it dented the desk.
'Well, I was too busy seeing whether you and Harry were OK to -'

but before she could finish that sentence Snape came. Ugh. why did he have to come when she hadn't finish it!?!?
but that scene was sweet and funny wasn't it?! AHH MY HEART!!


n  The Plot Twistn

The plot twist in this book was better than the plot twist in first book, second book and third book.
I swear I didn't expect that at all! I thought the bad guy was Ludo Bagman because he acted so strange. He asked Harry whether he wanted his help or not and so I thought he was the bad guy. then there was a scene where Moody was the bad guy but he wasn't Moody. he was the imposter of Moody and the real Moody was imprisoned in his own trunk and this imposter was Barty Crouch's son.

Thank you for reading and liking this review, guys! hope you all have a great weekend! ❤❤❤

Goblet is hand's down my son's favorite Harry Potter novel. From the Quiddich World Cup to the rebirth of Voldemort, it is nonstop action (with quite a bit of comedy thanks to Ron and others.) Our favorite characters feature prominently (and none are killed off...yet) such as, her Gandalf Dumbledore and Sirius Black. I found it entertaining and really enjoyed all the inventive ideas around magic that Rowling comes up with. I kept saying to myself, "why didn't I think of that?"

The character development is interesting too as Harry is clearly heading into adolescence and having issues with girls. The Yuletide dance scene was absolutely the best part of the book, I thought. And, for the francophones reading this review, the French translation misses entirely the sly humorous French and Eastern European accents that Rowling uses for the Beauxbatons girls and the Durmstrang boys which were hilarious! That being said, I was a little disappointed with the Fleur Delacourt character from Beauxbatons. As the only girl among the four champions, she totally sucked at all three challenges. Not a very encouraging model for French girls or girls in general. I mean, I know Harry always has to win, but perhaps it would have been a wee bit better and even more suspenseful if Fleur had placed a bit higher.

A note about the movie: it was FRUSTRATING! The movie skipped easily half of the book or more - no quidditch at all :( - and I don't know how folks could have followed the action without having read the book because to my eyes, there were a lot of nonsequitors (like the poor editing of the death eater scene following the Quidditch World Cup.) I definitely would recommend reading the book if you only saw the movie. Far better!

Ummm.... it's Harry Potter? I'm incapable of a decent review or anything new to say. My rambling thoughts as I finish this:

- Sooo much about Voldemort's planning makes more sense now. Movie's skipped a lot.

-Speaking of Dobby is my favorite and I'll forever be mad he was written out of the movie

- Barry Crouch Jr is still attractive, but I think it's only because David Tennant played him in the movie...

-I'm still not over Cedric. So sweet. So kind.

Death had always been a major theme of these books, but Goblet of Fire was really the turning point of the whole series. Not only did Voldemort return, but we found out that the Wizarding World is much larger, and  Cedric is killed.

The characters become more real yet are still stuck in flux between child and adult, which is apropos seeing as how this book is literally in the middle of the series.

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

This is easily the best opening scene of the series by far. I love that it opens in a dream, explaining to us everything we will later understand as the book continues. Prologue who explain the plot of the book so vaguely that nothing makes sense until you close it have got to be the most exciting books.

I've read this book in particular several times. It's my favorite to fall asleep to because every chapter is exciting, and entertaining, and full of so much information. I feel like after you read this series a couple of times, you don't need to read it all together anymore simply because each book has a life of its own. And this book is all about Harry finally realizing that even though he lost his family all those years ago, even though he hasn't had one since, he does have one now with the Weasley's.

Every time that Molly shows up for Harry is one more reason she's the best mother ever written into a book. Every time she makes him feel loved, every time she includes him in with her family, every time she loves him unconditionally. I just don't think I've ever read a better developed mother in my life. For me, in this book, she's the star of the show.

This is also the first book where we get to see the corruption of the ministry and how poorly they act as a government in regards to misinformation and the holding back of fear. If they had done anything to inform people about what truly happened to Cedric, what truly happened to Harry... maybe half of the next book could have been avoided. I love this book for its complexity, its entertainment, and its link from the first half of the series to the second.

It's a turning point between childhood and having to grow up overnight. It's devastating and beautiful and every feeling between.

And it doesn't hurt to mention that I love the final scene, when Harry gives his winnings to Fred and George for their joke shop because people are going to need some laughs. It's so soft, so special to me, and just the perfect way to show that Harry will always think of everyone else. It's what makes him such a good hero.