Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Post 2

      The book I am reading for my book report is 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' by J.K. Rowling. You would know this if you read my previous blog post. Anyway, I read 456 pages out of 734 (sorry I haven't read much this week), and so far this book is a... what do you call it... I don't know, so I will say this book is a can't-put-it-down book. It is so good that I kept on reading it.

I changed the picture because it might be not so interesting if I kept on using the same picture. Picture source: phoneky.com 

      The setting this story (or book) is mostly takes place in the Wizarding World, where Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where Harry and his two friends, Ron and Hermione attended. The Wizarding World is a world where wizards, witches, or creatures or things which are related to magic are. So no Muggles (the people who are not witches or wizards or anything related to magic (ordinary people (you would know if you read my previous blog post))) would be allowed or would be able to go in there. So the protagonists (Harry, Hermione, and Ron) weren't in a specific place throughout the story, because they go here and there and some other places other than Hogwarts, where they mostly were.

      So, now I will say the specific places where the protagonists or one of the protagonists were. First, the story began in Privet Drive, Little Whining, Surrey, in the Muggle world (ordinary non-magical or unmagical world), in England. Privet Drive was described as a boring, dull, neat, tidy, and quiet neighborhood. It is described in the first book in the Harry Potter series that Privet Drive would be the last place anything extraordinary would happen, which was foreshadowing that a lot of extraordinary things would happen there and to Harry. 

      "A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen." Page 17, in the book 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'.

      The Dursleys, Harry's maternal relatives (Aunt Petunia, Harry's maternal aunt, was Harry's mother, Lily's little sister) lived in Privet Drive Four, one of the houses in Privet Drive. Harry lived with them because he was brought to them when he was a baby, because he was orphaned then. Even though the Dursleys were completely horrible, mean, arrogant, and boring and all that, Harry was brought to them because they were his only relatives, and also because in a very ordinary family like the Dursleys, Harry won't likely be able to be found by the Dark Wizards who were hunting him because Harry made Lord Voldemort fall, and was predicted that he would kill or make fall Lord Voldemort. Anyway, Harry doesn't like the Dursleys, neither them, and the Dursleys would be very mean to Harry.

      Since Harry was a wizard, the Dursleys sent him to King's Cross Station each end of the Summer holidays, where Harry would enter into Platform Nine and Three Quarters by running into a column. That is one way of entering the Wizarding World. There would be the Hogwarts Express which was the train which brought the Hogwarts students to Hogwarts. But this year the Weasleys (Ron's family) took him to King's Cross Station, because he was with them over the Summer holidays. The Weasleys invited Harry because there was a Quidditch (a magical sport or game played on magical flying broomsticks) World Cup going on in the Wizarding World. Then they later take him to the Quidditch World Cup, where a gigantic stadium is. The stadium is described in the book that it was golden and was so big that it would easily fit a few cathedrals in. 

      "Though Harry could see only a fraction of the immense gold walls surrounding the field, he could tell that ten cathedrals would fit comfortably inside it." Page 95, in the book 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', the current book I am reading now.

      So the second location or setting of the story and the protagonists were the Weasley's house, the Burrow, and the third is the the place where the Quidditch World Cup took place, and the stadium.

      The rest of the setting is pretty much Hogwarts, so I will describe Hogwarts. Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is a big "the finest school of witchcraft and wizardry", as described by Hagrid, a half-giant man, who was friends with Harry, Hermione, and Ron.

      So that was most of the settings in this story or as far as I read.

Bibliography:

Harry Potter Wiki: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (book)