Harry Potter Fire

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I’m reading the 4th Harry Potter book, the goblet of fire. In the beginning Harry’s at the Dursley’s and he has a dream that there’s an old man that attends to a garden. He’s asleep, but he wakes up and goes in the other room, and is killed by Lord Voldemort. Harry wakes up and his scar is hurting. He goes down for breakfast and the Dursley’s get a letter from the Weasley’s asking if Harry could go to the Quidditch World Cup. The post card had 40 post stamps on it, the Dursleys said yes. The Wesley’s tried to use floo powder to get there, Mr. Weasley had to use a spell to blast open the fireplace because the Dursleys blocked the fireplace. Fred and George gave Dudley a trick candy, called ton-tongue-toffee, Dudley’s tongue grew 4ft long. Mr. …show more content…
The Quidditch match started, it was Bulgaria V.S Ireland, Ireland won by ten points. After the game they all went to sleep, when they woke up Death-eaters were attacking. Barty Crouch’s house-elf was found with Harry’s wand, the elf’s name was winky, and she was later fired. When they got to the school it was announced that there would be no house cup or quidditch cup taking place this year at Hogwarts, because the Triwizard tournament would be taking place at Hogwarts this year. In the Triwizard tournament there are three schools that participate in the Tournament, Beaxbatons, Durmstrage, and Hogwarts. There is one champion from each school, and they have to take place in dangerous challenges. The three champions were: Fleur Decalour, Viktor Krum, Cedric Diggory, but the goblet spit out one more name and that name was Harry Potter. The Goblet of Fire was the thing that chose the competitors. Ron became jealous and un-friended Harry. The first task of the tournament was: Dragons, they had to collect the golden egg (which was a clue for the next task) Harry got the egg but was

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