The book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling is all about Harry finding himself selected to be apart of the Triwizard tournament. The Triwizard Tournament is a magical contest held between the three largest wizarding schools of Europe: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Durmstrang Institute, and Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, each school being represented by one Champion. Selected Champions compete in three tasks - traditionally judged by the Headmasters or Headmistresses of the competing schools - designed to test magical ability, intelligence and courage. Champions compete for the honour and glory of winning the Tournament and for the Triwizard cup and a monetary prize. Harry has to face dragons, mermaids, and magical mazes. The first few chapters of the book were mostly him getting ready and processing the fact that he's in this race for good, but then in the third or fourth chapter Harry has to face his first challenge. He has to battle a dragon to win the golden egg (the golden egg has the clue to the next challenge.) Harry barely defeats the dragon and he now has to figure out what the next challenge is by opening the egg underwater. He then finds that the next challenge is having to save one of the four students that are trapped underwater by creepy looking mer-people. Harry ends up saving two students and wins that challenge. The next challenge that Harry must face is the labyrinth. In side the labyrinth is where the triwizard cup is hidden. Harry and Cedric Diggory both make it to the cup and touch it at the same time. But, as it turns out the cup is a portal to a mysterious graveyard with surrounded by death eaters. Death eaters are slaves to the most evil wizard in the world, Voldemort. That is when Voldemort is awakened by one of his most loyal servants, Wormtail. Voldemort then kills Cedric and faces off with Harry himself. But then Harry, him being in a graveyard finds himself with the help of his dead loved ones. He then takes the portal back to Hogwarts with the dead body of Cedric Diggory and the triwizard cup. In the end, there are two tests that Harry had to face. One, being the Triwizard Tournament and the other being the test of his loyalty to his friends and family.
I would like to hear more about the test of loyalty that he experiences with his friends as he is put to the ultimate test in this series. I remembered the challenge of his friends confronting him about how he was always fortunate to be 'the chosen' one and there was jealousy and competition among his closest friends and peers. Also in this section you could see how the media covered this TriWizard Championship and slanted the facts to sensationalize this event. Overall I like your summary but it needed more indepth analysis that would really get the attention of a reader and motivate them to pick up the book and read it.
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