The novel opens as a confused
Muggle overhears
Lord Voldemort and his henchman,
Wormtail (the escapee from book three,
Azkaban) discussing a murder and plotting more deaths (and invoking
Harry Potter’s name); clues suggest that Voldemort and Wormtail’s location will prove highly significant. From here it takes a while (perhaps slightly too long a while) for Harry and his friends to get back to the
Hogwarts school, where Rowling is on surest footing. Headmaster
Dumbledore appalls everyone by declaring that
Quidditch competition has been canceled for the year; then he makes the exciting announcement that the
Triwizard Tournament is to be held after a cessation of many hundred years (it was discontinued, he explains, because the death toll mounted so high). One representative from each of the three largest wizardry schools of
Europe (sinister Durmstrang, luxurious Beauxbatons and Hogwarts) are to be chosen by the Goblet of Fire; because of the mortal dangers, Dumbledore casts a spell that allows only students who are at least 17 to drop their names into the Goblet. Thus no one foresees that the Goblet will announce a fourth candidate: Harry. Who has put his name into the Goblet, and how is his participation in the tournament linked, as it surely must be, to Voldemort’s newest plot? A climax even more spectacular than that of Azkaban will leave you breathless.
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