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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Summary
The fourth book begins as Frank Bryce, the Riddle manor’s elderly caretaker, sees lights inside the abandoned house. Investigating, he overhears Lord Voldemort and Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail) plotting Harry Potter’s death. Frank is discovered and killed; at that same moment, Harry awakes with his scar hurting and having seen the murder in his dream.
Soon after, Harry departs for the Quidditch World Cup with Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, the Weasley family and Amos and Cedric Diggory. Following the match, Death Eaters, Lord Voldemort’s servants, storm the camp, creating panic and mayhem. The Trio flee into the forest where they see the Dark Mark, Lord Voldemort’s sign, shot into the night sky. Barty Crouch, the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, arrives and accuses the Trio of conjuring it, but upon investigating, Crouch’s house elf, Winky, is found clutching Harry’s stolen wand. Crouch is furious and fires Winky.
Harry’s fourth year at Hogwarts soon commences. During the Welcoming Feast, Professor Dumbledore announces that the Triwizard Tournament will be held at Hogwarts. The centuries old inter-school competition was discontinued because it became too dangerous, but has been recently revived. The tournament has three difficult tasks, one held during each school term.
The Goblet of Fire will choose one student from each competing school. Because the tournament is so dangerous, students must be at least 17-years old to enter. Cedric Diggory is chosen as the Hogwarts’ champion, Fleur Delacour is selected for Beauxbatons Academy and Durmstrang Institute is represented by Viktor Krum. The Goblet unexpectedly selects a fourth champion—Harry Potter—even though Harry never entered his name and is underage.
Harry is guided through the tournament by Professor Alastor Moody, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and a former Auror. In the first task, the champions must retrieve a golden egg from a dragon. With advice from Hagrid, Moody, and Hermione, Harry uses his broom to fly past the dragon and capture the egg, earning high marks. The second task requires retrieving something (or someone) important to them that is hidden in Hogwart’s lake. Dobby, the Malfoys former house-elf, gives Harry gillyweed so he can breathe underwater. He rescues Ron, earning him second place.
For the third task, the champions must navigate a large maze filled with dangerous obstacles. Shortly before the event, Harry and Viktor Krum are startled when a disheveled Mr. Crouch emerges from the forest, mumbling incoherently and demanding to see Dumbledore. Harry runs for help, but when he returns with Dumbledore, they find Krum unconscious and Crouch missing.
While waiting in Dumbledore’s office, Harry peers inside a pensieve containing the professor’s memories. In one memory, Harry sees a wizarding trial in which Barty Crouch, Jr., a Death Eater, is sentenced to Azkaban by his father, Crouch Sr. Harry also hears testimony that Severus Snape was once a Death Eater.
During the third task, Harry and Diggory successfully navigate the maze. Because they helped each other, they agree to grab the Cup simultaneously. Unknown to them, it is actually a portkey that transports them to an old cemetery. Awaiting is Peter Pettigrew, who is carrying what appears to be a deformed infant. The hideous creature orders Pettigrew to kill Diggory. Harry is then bound to a tombstone, and Pettigrew uses Harry’s blood, a bone from Voldemort’s long-dead father, and his own severed hand in a bizarre ritual that restores Lord Voldemort to his full body and power. Voldemort now carries Harry’s blood within him and is no longer affected by the magic that has protected the boy since infancy.
Voldemort reveals that his servant at Hogwarts ensured Harry would win the tournament and be brought to the graveyard. After summoning his Death Eaters, Voldemort challenges Harry to a duel. Unknown to Voldemort, his and Harry’s wands are “brothers”, each containing the same magical core (a tail feather from the same phoenix: Dumbledore’s phoenix, Fawkes). As the wands’ streams interlock, a Priori Incantatem effect occurs, causing the spirit echoes of Voldemort’s victims, including Cedric Diggory and James and Lily Potter, to spill out from his wand. The echoes momentarily protect Harry, allowing him to grab the portkey and escape to Hogwarts with Diggory’s body.
After Voldemort’s plan fails, Moody attempts to kill Harry, but he is saved by Dumbledore, Snape and McGonagall. Moody is exposed as Barty Crouch, Jr. who escaped Azkaban and used a Polyjuice Potion to impersonate the real Alastor Moody, who is trapped in a magical trunk in his office. Crouch Jr. murdered his father and entered Harry’s name into the Goblet of Fire, covertly ensuring that Harry completed each difficult task. Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge arrives at Hogwarts accompanied by a Dementor. Fudge refutes Dumbledore’s claim that Voldemort has returned and before Crouch can repeat his confession, the Dementor sucks out his soul.
Dumbledore quickly revives the Order of the Phoenix. At Cedric’s memorial, Dumbledore, against the Ministry’s orders, tells students the truth about Cedric’s death and that Voldemort has returned stating “It would be an insult to his memory”.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – the Movie
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows