What readers think of Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire, plus links to write your own review.

i like your books j.k

I hate it.

Hmm... When I wrote my review of Goblet of Fire, I expected the first response to be somewhat more venomous considering Harry's enormous (deservedly so, I think) following. All miscalculations aside, I'd like to thank Davina of BookBrowse.com for pointing out a few inconsistencies that I, myself have noticed. I too wholeheartedly wish that J. K. Rowling "gets her act together" in the next few books but in all honesty, in the case of such oddities as the "Time Travel Problem", the chances of this appear to be quite small. Rowling's world is fun, whimsical and built to take the reader on a flight of pure fancy but I doubt she has taken the time to carefully construct it and now it's probably too late to back-engineer things to make them logically cohesive. All I really hope for is that, if not the world, then the stories themselves regain solidity.

By the way, Davina, in my opinion, the most glaring inconsistency is the question of the wand to cast spells: Do you or don't you need a wand? In book one, Harry does magic in his "pre-wizard" stage without one and Hagrid points this out as proof of Harry's talent but in the rest of the books it is impossible for anyone to do so much as float a feather without a wand. I mean, if it were possible, wouldn't one of the four have done something to disarm Snape at the ending of book three?

I've read all four of the Harry Potter books and overall, they're very, very good. Harry's world is whimsically charming and Rowling's style is as engaging as any author out there, blah, blah, yada, yada... However, doesn't it bother anyone that Goblet of Fire's plot makes absolutely no sense? Since I'm not supposed to give away "crucial plot elements" in this review I can't even begin to explain what was wrong with this book but for those of you who have already read it, I hope you can decipher this: Harry is set up by Someone and has to pass all these various challenges to get him to come into contact with a certain thing that takes him to you know who. Well then, if that's the case, couldn't this Someone come up with an easier way for Harry to come into contact with the certain thing? Why all the hoopla? What purpose did it serve to go through that? Wasn't the entire ordeal completely unnecessary?

The conclusion to the mystery was, in a word, absurd. I hope this doesn't offend anyone but the story was hokey; completely contrived, beyond believability and leaning heavily on one of the cheapest plot devices I've seen in quite a while. Goblet of Fire is simply not worthy of an author as skilled as Rowling.

I really love Harry Potter 'Goblet of Fire. Thank's God he did win the tree wizards game.
My good, Sirius, you've got to be carefull more.
And about the quidditch, ilove it very much.
bravo to J.K. Rowling, she described the quidditch very good

Alvyn
This book, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban was the first book of J.
K. Rowling that I have read. And I like it because it thrills me and I like
books that surprise me. The one thing I don't like about that book is that it
doesn't end like I expected it to end. Anyway, I love that book because it
teaches us trust and worthiness of a friend. To tell you frankly, I was hit
straight by the book when I realized that it meant to be open to everything and
not to look on one side. I was so very sorry for Sirius Black when I found out
that it wasn't him who betrayed Harry's parents. I said to myself, how nice of
Sirius to offer Harry to live with him... that's good, the both of them are
wizards. That will be all, Thank You Very Much Book Browse!!

Rich
I think that this book and the other books of this series are great. I would
recommend these books to anyone.

Amanda D'Aoust
I greatly enjoyed this book more then any other book I have ever read. I am 18 years of age, and still I found J.K Rowling's work to be astonishing The book has many different story lines, there is always something going on so you never have time to get bored of it. This book is definitely a page turner. This is the first of the Harry Potter books that I have read and after reading this one I am definitely going to read the first three and look forward to the release of the fifth.