Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (original title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ) is the fourth volume in the Harry Potter book series by Joanne K. Rowling .
The English edition was published on July 8, 2000 in Great Britain and the USA. The initial circulation was 3.8 million in the US and 1 million in the UK. The German edition appeared on October 14, 2000 with an initial circulation of one million copies. 530,000 copies were sold within the first two days of sales. As for all other German-language Harry Potter volumes, Klaus Fritz wrote the translation and Sabine Wilharm designed the cover.
According to the 2009 edition of the Guinness Book of Records, over 66 million copies have been sold worldwide since the book was published. In 2005 it was used by Mike Newell filmed .
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During his school holidays, which, as usual, he spends with the Dursleys , Harry has a very strange and vivid dream, in which Lord Voldemort in gruesome baby form, whose giant snake Nagini and Peter Pettigrew ( Wormtail ) play the leading role. In the dream, Voldemort murders the gardener of the property, Frank Bryce , who has secretly overheard the conversation between Voldemort and Pettigrew. Harry wakes up with a painful scar, although so far it has only hurt when Lord Voldemort is around. He immediately sends his owl Hedwig to his godfather Sirius Black to inform him.
Shortly before the end of the summer vacation, Harry and the Weasley family and Hermione Granger attend the Quidditch World Cup final , which is taking place in Great Britain for the first time in many years. Arthur Weasley gets the tickets through the head of the magical sports department of the Ministry of Magic, Ludo Bagman . The appearance of the dark mark, a sign that the Death Eaters conjure up as followers of Voldemort in the sky after their murders, and the threatening appearance of a group of hooded Death Eaters who destroy the visitors' campground after the game, triggers a full-blown panic among those present . This is the first time the Death Eaters have appeared in public since the disappearance of Voldemort.
Back at Hogwarts, students meet the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher , Alastor Moody , known as the Mad Eye because of his false eye that can see through walls and bodies. He used to be a successful Auror, is considered an absolute opponent of Voldemort and comes to Hogwarts at Dumbledore's request. In his first lesson, Mad-Eye explains the three so-called “Unforgivable Curses” to the students , including the “Avada Kedavra” curse that kills the victim and for which there is no counter-curse. He also says that the only person who has survived this curse so far is Harry Potter. So Harry learns how Voldemort killed his parents back then.
This year the Triwizard Tournament takes place at Hogwarts. Three schools participate in it: the Bulgarian Durmstrang, the French Beauxbatons and the British Hogwarts. For the occasion, some foreign students are guests at Hogwarts throughout the school year. Any student over the age of 17 can apply to participate by throwing a slip of paper with their name and school into the goblet of fire. In addition to Viktor Krum for Durmstrang and Fleur Delacour for Beauxbatons, the Goblet of Fire selects Cedric Diggory from the House of Hufflepuff as champion for Hogwarts - and Harry as an unexpected fourth champion. This causes a stir, because Harry is actually too young at 14 to participate in the tournament and has not thrown his name in the goblet of fire, which nobody wants to believe him, not even his best friend Ron. Despite Hermione's best efforts, the argument between Ron and Harry is only resolved by the two after Harry has passed the first exam of the tournament, in which the participants steal a golden egg from a dragon, which gives important clues for solving the second task.
The second task of the champions is to rescue a person they have loved in the lake at Hogwarts. But they have to stay under water for an hour. At the last moment Harry receives crucial help from Dobby , who overheard a conversation between Mad-Eye Moody and Professor McGonagall. Harry manages to breathe underwater for an hour using the diantus herb. He not only saves Ron, but also Gabrielle, the little sister of Fleur Delacour. Although he was the last to complete his task and exceeded the allotted time, he received 45 points out of a possible 50, as the referees found his act to be very honorable. Together with Cedric Diggory he is first place.
Bartemius Crouch from the Ministry of Magic, one of the tournament referees, disappears from the scene during the school year. Percy Weasley, who has recently been his assistant, says his boss is not feeling well and takes over his correspondence. In the last week of May, the champions are asked to the Quidditch field, which is now a maze, and Ludo Bagman explains the third task to them. On the way back to the castle, Krum, who Hermione got closer to during the school year, confronts Harry about his relationship with Hermione near the Forbidden Forest. They meet Bartemius Crouch, who stumbled out of the woods, very confused, and asked Dumbledore to speak. Harry complies with his pleading, but when he returns with Dumbledore, all he finds is the passed out Krum, who should take care of Crouch. There is no trace of Crouch himself.
The goal of the last task is to be the first to reach the Triwizard Cup , which is placed in the middle of the labyrinth. Harry and Cedric reach the trophy together. They decide to touch it together so that both of them emerge as winners of the tournament. However, the trophy turns out to be a portkey and leads them straight to a dark graveyard in Little Hangleton . There they meet Wormtail, who on the orders of Lord Voldemort immediately kills Cedric in front of Harry.
Harry then witnesses the resurrection of Lord Voldemort: he is born again using a magic potion brewed by Wormtail. One of the “ingredients” is the blood drawn from Harry forcibly. Voldemort rises in his former size from the cauldron and gathers his remaining Death Eaters around him. He tortures and humiliates Harry. But when he wants to kill him in an unequal duel, Harry and Voldemort's wands are connected by a curse reversal spell, the Priori Incantatem . The last curses of the dark magician are literally spat out from the staff. The shadows of Voldemort's last victims, including Harry's parents James and Lily, appear and allow Harry to escape. In doing so, he takes the corpse of Cedric, as he has asked him, and uses the summoning spell to summon the tournament trophy. The trophy brings them back to the school grounds.
Under a pretext, Professor Moody accompanies Harry to the castle, where he tries what Voldemort failed: to kill Harry. Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape follow Moody, as they suspect his behavior, and save Harry. Professor Dumbledore gives Moody the Veritaserum , a truth potion , to interrogate him. It turns out that it's not Alastor Moody at all, but Barty Crouch junior, the son of Bartemius Crouch who escaped from Azkaban. The students had never met the real Alastor Moody. Bartemius Crouch himself had sent his son to Azkaban as a magician judge because he was picked up in the presence of Death Eaters, but vehemently denied that he was one of them. To fulfill his beloved wife's last wish, Bartemius helped his son escape from Azkaban, but then kept him under control using magic. At the final of the Quidditch World Cup, Crouch junior slipped from his father's watchful eye and conjured up the dark mark in the sky. Voldemort then had Pettigrew take him to the Crouches, got Crouch Sr. to write letters to Percy Weasley and gave Crouch junior new orders to bring Harry Potter under his control.
Barty Crouch junior had therefore captured Moody and assumed his form with the polyjuice potion, taught the students, smuggled Harry's name into the goblet of fire, incapacitated Krum at the edge of the Forbidden Forest and killed his father, transformed and buried in the forest. He also helped Harry during the third task by keeping an eye out for dangers and turning them off so that Harry could be the first to reach the trophy that would lead him to Voldemort. When Barty Crouch junior is later brought before the Minister of Magic Fudge , the Dementor, who was actually brought with him as a bodyguard, pounces on him and steals his soul from Crouch.
Harry tells Dumbledore and his godfather Sirius Black what happened to him and Cedric after they won the Triwizard Cup. Then Dumbledore takes him to the hospital wing, where the Weasley family awaits him. They don't storm him with questions at Dumbledore's behest, for which Harry is very grateful.
In the hospital wing, Harry later overhears a discussion between Dumbledore and the Minister of Magic when he is awakened by the same. Fudge doesn't want to believe that Voldemort was resurrected. When he notices Harry, Fudge hands him the prize money (1000 galleons) and leaves the hospital wing. The headmaster immediately takes action to oppose Voldemort. Harry has a chat with Cedric Diggory's parents about the circumstances of his death shortly thereafter. You do not blame him and are relieved that he should not have suffered. Instead of the celebration, which usually honors the winner of the house cup, there is a memorial service in honor of Cedric, during which Dumbledore informs the students about the events in the cemetery.
Since Harry doesn't want to keep his prize money from the Triwizard Tournament to himself, he tries to give it away. The Diggorys refuse. Fred and George Weasley, however, have been planning to open a joke shop for a long time, but unfortunately they lack the financial means to do so. Harry convinces the two of them to take the money.
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English editions
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Bloomsbury Publishing , London 2000, ISBN 0-7475-4624-X . (Hardback edition)
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2000, ISBN 0-74755442-0 (paperback edition)
German editions
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Carlsen Verlag , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-551-55193-6 . (Hardcover) (for 11 weeks in 2000 and 2001 at number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list )
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-551-55253-3 . (Hardcover for adults)
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-551-35404-4 . (Paperback)
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-551-55744-5 . (New hardback edition for the 20th anniversary of the German editions)
Audio books
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The HörVerlag , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-89584-704-6 . (Audiobook read by Rufus Beck )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guinness World Records 2009. Published by Bibliographisches Institut-Verlag, August 22, 2008. 280 pages. ISBN 978-3-411-14079-4