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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

I have chosen to do my novel review on my one of my favourite books to read for fun: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth book in a series of seven. You have advised us to break up the book into four sections according to chapter number, but I thought I would do a slight variation on this. I have decided to break up the novel into four simple parts – Introduction, Orientation, Plot Development and Conclusion. Since this book is written for a lower age category (although the underlying symbolism and sentence structure is more suited for a teen/adult audience), it is relatively easy to distinguish between these four parts, and they are present in all four books in the series.

INTRODUCTION

This part of the story encompasses the first eight or so chapters. It tells the reader about Harry’s situation – it tells us that Harry is a wizard, living in rural England. This is one of the amazing feats accomplished by the books; Rowling creates for us a universe in which wizards and muggles (non-magical people) are easily rationalized as if one was telling a two-year-old about the simple facts of life. We are told how Harry’s parents were killed by the evil Lord Voldemort when he was an infant, and how he was given to his unfeeling aunt and uncle by the wise wizard Dumbledore to be cared for at a young age.

These are all things that are learnt in the first books, and I must recommend reading them before you can even consider reading The Goblet of Fire. Other things you pick up in this first section are about the magical community in which Harry exists; it is a society much like our own, it is governed by the Ministry of Magic and is completely hidden from the muggles. It explains that most English wizards go to a school called Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, and they all form a happy, Utopian society. Well, almost all of them.

There is a dark side to the Harry Potter series, one that has had the book banned from some of the more ignorant school boards (in my opinion) in our country. That dark side is controlled by the one they call Lord Voldemort,...

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