Goblet of FIre
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth book in the series, and Harry’s 4th year at Hogwarts. Upon arriving at Hogwarts, he learns about the legendary challenge taking place this year, called the Triwizard Tournament, in which Hogwarts will be competing with 2 other schools called Durmstrang and Beauxbatons. You must be at least 17 to enter, but like Harry needs another challenge at the moment though, right?
When the time soon comes that the Triwizard champions should be revealed by means of the Goblet of Fire, a fourth name afterwards comes out: Harry Potter. According to the rules, Harry is now committed to compete, although he has no clue how his name even got into the Goblet in the first place. Ron is not happy though, and he immediately becomes jealous and bitter towards Harry. Obviously, this is not helpful given Harry’s position, but nevertheless he continues and heads on to the First Task. He wins first place, and retrieves the next clue in the form of a golden egg, and Ron soon afterwards comes to realize that Harry was not responsible for what was happening, and they make up, and become friends again.
With the Yule Ball soon approaching, Harry (failing to win Cho) and Ron (failing to even ask Hermione) struggle to find dates, but soon pull it off with the Patil twins. When the Yule Ball finally comes, they are shocked to find that Hermione went with Viktor Krum, the Durmstrang champion, and Ron was even a little mad. They end up making it through the night, with a little hint for Harry from Cedric, the other Hogwarts champion, about figuring out the clue for the next task. So, Harry heads up to the Prefects Bathroom, on Cedric’s advice of course, and with help from Moaning Myrtle, he eventually figures out that he must go into the Black Lake and retrieve something important.
One problem: how in the world is he going to hold his breath for an hour? Having still not figured it out by the morning of the task, Dobby the house elf gave Harry Gillyweed, helping him breathe underwater, and tells him that the thing he must retrieve is Ron. Despite finishing second to last, he is awarded 2nd place in his determination to get all of the victims, resulting with 2 himself. And now, the Third and final task lies ahead.
When the night finally gets there, Harry and the other champions find that the task is a maze, and the one who reaches the center first claims the Triwizard Cup, and wins the Triwizard Tournament, 1,000 galleons, and eternal glory. After finally overcoming the many obstacles, roadblocks and riddles, and saves Cedric, the two of them decide to draw for the win. But, the cup was a portkey. Before Cedric could even recognize where they were, and ignored Harry’s intense demands to get back to the cup, they hear a high and weak voice: Kill the Spare. And with a green flash, Cedric was dead.
They were in Godric’s Hollow, at Tom Riddle’s grave. In the graveyard also, were Peter Petigrew, Voldemort’s servant, and a very tiny, weak, almost bodiless Voldemort. The purpose of the night was to give Voldemort his body back. One step at a time, Petigrew mixed the vital ingredients into a boiling cauldron, which now had Voldemort in it. One of which, was Harry’s blood. The effect sank in, and Voldemort, had returned.
Voldemort uses Petigrew’s dark mark to call in his army of followers: Death Eaters. He forces Harry into a duel, in which he plans to kill him. He shoots Avada Kedavra, the killing curse, and Harry, almost hopelessly, using every bit of strength he has, shoots Expelliaramus, a backfiring spell.
But at that moment something quite amazing happened. Priori Incantatem. In Harry and Voldemort’s case, their wands have like cores, causing their spells to collide together into one beam. Voldemort’s wand shot out not only ghosts of spells he had recently done, but ghosts of the people he had killed in chronological order, beginning with the most recent, Cedric. Next came an old muggle man, and elderly lady, and then his mom and dad. The victims circle around the two of them, giving encouragements to Harry. He finally let the connection break and headed straight for Cedric’s body, summoned the cup, heard Voldemort’s scream of rage and in an instant he was lying on the ground back at Hogwarts, with the whole entire school staring at him.
Harry and his professors find out shortly after his arriving back, that his Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Mad-Eye Moody, was in fact not Moody, but it was Voldemort’s death eater Barty Crouch Jr. This is how Harry’s name was put into the Goblet of Fire, and how the Triwizard Cup was turned into a portkey to the graveyard.
Painfully, Harry must reencounter the whole night to Dumbledore and his godfather, Sirius. He told about how Cedric was killed, Voldemort coming back to life, how he summoned his Death Eaters, the shocking wand connection, and when his mother and father reappeared, until it became too unbearable to talk any longer.
The events that have gone on recently become a huge turning point in not only Harry’s life particularly, but for entire Wizarding World…and not to mention, the series. “Everything will change now.”