Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire discussion

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

Harry Potter is a wizard in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His parents were killed by a wizard named Voldemort. He is entered in a dangerous tournament, and he wins. His friend is killed by Voldemort; he has a duel with Voldemort but is saved.

The conflict in the story is with Voldemort because he killed Harry’s parents and wants to kill Harry. He had his servant, Crouch, disguise himself and get a job at Hogwarts so that he could enter Harry’s name in the tournament and help him get to the end. Crouch also turned the trophy into a transporting device so that when Harry touched it, it would transport him to Voldemort. Voldemort’s other servant, Wormtail, performed a spell that would give Voldemort back a lot of his power and allow him to duel with Harry. But since their wands were made from the feathers of the same phoenix, Harry was able to overpower Voldemort when their wands connected, and get transported back to Hogwarts before Voldemort could reach him.
The setting in the story is Hogwarts. Hogwarts is the wizarding school that Harry attends. Him and his friends live there during the school year.

This setting is good for this story because it provides a place for the wizards and witches to practice magic without Muggles, non-wizard people, noticing or seeing. The setting is also good because Harry and his friends all live there during the school year, so they can interact with each other a lot throughout the book. His teachers also live at the school, so Crouch could get a job there and be around Harry to keep an eye on him and help him to get to Voldemort in the end.

I really liked this book. I thought that it was a really good book. It liked that the mystery in it of Harry and his friends trying to figure who put Harry’s name in the tournament, and I thought the author did a really good job at revealing it in the end. I was not expecting the ending. I liked how Harry was my age in this book, so it was easy to relate to him. The book used good description. I was able to picture everything that the author described. The author also did a good job at keeping the book entertaining. There weren’t really any boring parts in this book, even at the first when he isn’t at Hogwarts yet.