Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter 4) by J. K. Rowling

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Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event... read more

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While on summer break, Harry Potter dreams the scene between Frank Bryce, the ex-caretaker at the Riddle family mansion, a deformed Lord Voldemort and his lowly servant, Peter Pettigrew. Bryce is caught and is killed by Voldemort. Later in the summer, Harry, Hermione Granger, and the Weasley... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Cast of Characters

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Harry Potter: an orphan, harry is the main character in the series, he lives with the Dursleys (awful people) and goes to school at hogwarts. his parents were killed by lord voldemort and he has a scar on his forehead and everyone in the wizarding world knows him.
Ron Weasley: Harry Potter's best friend, has a huge family that is seen as the bottom class and live in the "burrow", along with harry, he goes to hogwarts.
Herimone Granger: the last part of the trio of friends in the series. she is the top of the year at hogwarts, and her parents are both muggles. she has a cat named Crrokshanks.
Lord Voldemort: Add a description of this character.
Bartemius Crouch, Jr.
Petunia Dursley: Vernon's sitck of a wife, she is a quiet sour-looking woman.
Colin Creevey: A third-year Gryffindor boy who idolizes Harry Potter
Minerva McGonagall: professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts and Quidditch coach for the Gryffindor House
Lily Potter: late mother of Harry Potter
Ludo Bagman: head of Magical Games and Sports within the Ministry of Magic
Peter Pettigrew
Severus Snape: professor of Potions at Hogwarts (hates harry)
Alastor Moody (Aka Mad Eye Moody)
Madame Olympe Maxime: headmistress of Beauxbatons
Viktor Krum: Triwizard champion of Durmstrang and famous Bulgarian Quidditch Seeker
Rubeus Hagrid: gamekeeper at Hogwarts, also teaches Care of Magical Creatures. He is friends with Harry, Ron , and Hermione
Cho Chang: Harry's crush, but she's going out w/ Cedric Diggory
Seamus Finnigan: Harry Potter's Gryffindor roommate
Dobby: the house elf Harry frees from the Malfoys in his 2nd year. He idolizes Harry and works in the Hogwarts kitchens but only for pay, and he has a weird obsession with socks.
Dean Thomas: Harry Potter's Gryffindor roommate
Charlie Weasley: 2nd oldest of the Weasley children. he works with dragons in Albania.
Neville Longbottom: the incompetent son of the Longbottoms who were tortured until madness when they were both aurors. He lives with his grandmother, and befriends harry.
Molly Weasley: Mother of Ron and his siblings, and cares for harry like a son when he comes to visit. has a short temper.
James Potter: late father of Harry Potter
Ginny Weasley
Crookshanks: Hermione's pet cat
Argus Filch: the caretaker at hogwarts, he is a squib (can't do magic.
Igor Karkaroff: headmaster of Durmstrang Institute
Fred Weasley: one of the mischeivious twins in the weasley family, in their last year, they drop out of hogwarts (while dumbledore isn't headmaster) and open a joke shop
Pigwidgeon: Ron's pet spastic owl
Sirius Black: Harry's godfather who escaped after being wrongly put into Azkaban
Goyle: one of Malfoy's goons.
Cedric Diggory: the Hufflepuff Hogwarts Champions.
Percy Weasley: the snooty 3rd eldest child in the weasley family. works for the minister of magic.
Mr. Roberts: muggle who owns the site where the Weasleys camp during the Quidditch World Cup.
Albus Dumbledore: headmaster at Hogwarts
Parvati Patil: Gryffindor girl who goes to the Yule Ball with Harry Potter
Fleur Delacour: part-Veela Triwizard champion for Beauxbatons
Rita Skeeter
Vernon Dursley: the purple faced rotton uncle of harry.
Frank Bryce: gardener to the Riddle family
Sibyll Trelawney: professor of Divination
Crabbe: the other goon of malfoy.
Amos Diggory: father of Cedric Diggory
Tom Riddle
Bartemius Crouch: head of the Department for International Magical Cooperation
Moaning Myrtle: the ghost of the girl was killed when the chamber of secrets was opened the 1rst time, she haunts the girls' bathrooms
Hedwig: Harry Potter's pet owl
Winky: the former house-elf of Barty Crouch Sr. she is distraught about not being able to be a good elf.
Nearly-Headless Nick: Gryffindor ghost whose head is only held by a thin strip of skin.
Draco Malfoy: son of Lucius Malfoy and is in the Slytherin house, and hates Harry Potter with every fiber of his being.
Cornelius Fudge: Minister of Magic
Remus Lupin: Harry's former Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who is w werewolf.
Arthur Weasley: Molly's husband, and father of the weasley children.
George Weasley: the twin of Fred Weasley.
Fawkes: Dumbledore's pet phoenix
Bill Weasley: the eldest weasley child. works at Gringott's Bank.
Lucius Malfoy: Father of Draco Malfoy, a death-eater.
Peeves: Poltergeist of Hogwarts.
Dudley Dursley: the whale-sized cousin of Harry and son of the Dursleys. In the end, Harry saves him from dementors, and Dudley is grateful.
Bertha Jorkins: the missing ministry worker.
Wormtail: a.k.a Peter Pettigrew.

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Memorable Quotes

“You will have your reward, Wormtail. I will allow you to perform an essential task for me, one that many of my followers would give their right hands to perform...”
Lord Voldemort
“Dudley had done the thing he was threatening to do since age three: He had become wider than he was tall.”
“I want to fix that in my memory forever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...”
Ron
“I don't reckon he'd (Percy) come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his boss. 'According to Mr. Crouch...as I was saying to Mr. Crouch...Mr. Crouch is of the opinion...Mr. Crouch was telling me...' They'll be announcing their engagement any day now.”
Ron
“I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again ... and again ... and again. . .”
“Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.”
Fred

First Sentence

The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it "the Riddle House," even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there.

1. The Riddle House
2. The Scar
3. The Invitation
4. Back to the Burrow
5. Weasley's Wizard Wheezes
6. The Portkey
7. Bagman and Crouch
8.The Quidditch World Cup
9.The Dark Mark
10. Mayhem at the Ministry
11. Aboard the Hogwarts Express
12. The Triwizard Tournament
13. Mad-Eye Moody
14. The Unforgivable Curses
15. Beauxbatons and Durmstrang
16. The Goblet of Fire
17. The Four Champions
18. The Weighing of the Wands
19. The Hungarian Horntail
20. The First Task
21. The House-Elf Liberation Front
22. The Unexpected Task
23. The Yule Ball
24. Rita Skeeter's Scoop
25. The Egg and the Eye
26. The Second Task
27. Padfoot Returns
28. The Madness of Mr. Crouch
29. The Dream
30. The Pensieve
31. The Third Task
32. Flesh, Blood, and Bone
33. The Death Eaters
34. Priori Incantatem
35. Veritaserum
36. The Parting of the Ways
37. The Beginning