Book #20: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Mar 30, 2019 13:37



I've been re-reading this in the evenings over the last few months.

This is the point when the Harry Potter books get really long; I bought this one at the same time as I got the previous two titles, and felt really daunted by the length, about twice that of Prisoner of Azkaban. I wasn't too surprised when a lot of the book's content was cut out in the film, some regrettably like most of the scenes in which Sirius Black appeared, although they did also omit a somewhat forgettable subplot involving Hermione campaigning for house elf rights.

I really enjoyed reading this again; I was picking up on more hints regarding the storyline involving Snape, and I loved how this book felt completely different in tone from the previous stories, just in that it did not deal with an obvious threat to Hogwarts. I think it's also the only book in the series to feature dragons.

Aside from the opening chapter and the pensieve sequence, this book feels lighter in tone to the previous book, but then you reach the climactic scenes and the storyline becomes incredibly dark, including a character death. Reading through the book probably more slowly than I did before made me appreciate it a bit more than when I originally read it.

kidlit, fantasy, dragons, young adult, j.k. rowling, teen lit, harry potter, magic, dark fantasy

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