Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling [0]
Illustrations by Mary GrandPre copyright © 2000 Warner Bros.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available
Library of Congress catalog card number: 00-131084
ISBN 0-439-13959-7
Sequel to: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character,
amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.
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First American edition, July 2000
Contents
ONE - The Riddle House
TWO - The Scar
THREE - The Invitation
FOUR - Back to the Burrow
FIVE - Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
SIX - The Portkey
SEVEN - Bagman and Crouch
EIGHT - The Quidditch World Cup
NINE - The Dark Mark
TEN - Mayhem at the Ministry
ELEVEN - Aboard the Hogwarts Express
TWELVE - The Triwizard Tournament
THIRTEEN - Mad-Eye Moody
FOURTEEN - The Unforgivable Curses
FIFTEEN - Beauxbatons and Durmstrang
SIXTEEN - The Goblet of Fire
SEVENTEEN - The Four Champions
EIGHTEEN - The Weighing of the Wands
NINETEEN - The Hungarian Horntail
TWENTY - The First Task
TWENTY-ONE - The House-Elf Liberation Front
TWENTY-TWO - The Unexpected Task
TWENTY-THREE - The Yule Ball
TWENTY-FOUR - Rita Skeeter's Scoop
TWENTY-FIVE - The Egg and the Eye
TWENTY-SIX - The Second Task
TWENTY-SEVEN - Padfoot Returns
TWENTY-EIGHT - The Madness of Mr. Crouch
TWENTY-NINE - The Dream
THIRTY - The Pensieve
THIRTY-ONE - The Third Task
THIRTY-TWO - Flesh, Blood and Bone
THIRTY-THREE - The Death Eaters
THIRTY-FOUR - Priori Incantatem
THIRTY-FIVE - Veritaserum
THIRTY-SIX - The Parting of the Ways
THIRTY-SEVEN - The Beginning
The Riddle House
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. It stood on a hill overlooking the village, some of its windows boarded, tiles missing from its roof, and ivy spreading unchecked over its face. Once a fine-looking manor, and easily the largest and grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict, and unoccupied.
The Little Hangletons all agreed that the old house was “creepy.” Half a century ago, something strange and horrible had happened there, something that the older inhabitants of the village still liked to discuss when topics for gossip were scarce. The story had been picked over so many times, and had been embroidered in so many places, that nobody was quite sure what the truth was anymore. Every version of the tale, however, started in the same place: Fifty years before, at daybreak on a fine summer’s morning, when the Riddle House had still been well kept and impressive, a maid had entered the drawing room to find all three Riddles dead.
The maid had run screaming down the hill into the village and roused as many people as she could.
“Lying there with their eyes wide open! Cold as ice! Still in their dinner things!”
The police were summoned, and the whole of Little Hangleton had seethed with shocked curiosity and ill-disguised excitement. Nobody wasted their breath pretending to feel very sad about the Riddles, for they had been