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"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by J.K. Rowling, Chapters 1–5

Wed Aug 26 19:34:22 EDT 2015
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In the fourth book of the Harry Potter series, the Triwizard Tournament brings foreign students — and unexpected dangers — to Hogwarts.

Here are links to our lists for the novel: Chapters 1–5, Chapters 6–10, Chapters 11–18, Chapters 19–27, Chapters 28–37

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derelict
Once a fine-looking manor, and easily the largest and grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict, and unoccupied.
embroider
The story had been picked over so many times, and had been embroidered in so many places, that nobody was quite sure what the truth was anymore.
seethe
The police were summoned, and the whole of Little Hangleton had seethed with shocked curiosity and ill-disguised excitement.
fervent
“Told you I wouldn’t like to get on the wrong side of Frank, didn’t I, Dot?” said an excited woman in the corner.
“Horrible temper,” said Dot, nodding fervently.
bewilderment
In fact (the report continued, in a tone of unmistakable bewilderment), the Riddles all appeared to be in perfect health—apart from the fact that they were all dead.
suppress
Frank was nearing his seventy-seventh birthday now, very deaf, his bad leg stiffer than ever, but could be seen pottering around the flower beds in fine weather, even though the weeds were starting to creep up on him, try as he might to suppress them.
protracted
Another pause, more protracted, and then—
“Without Harry Potter?” breathed the second voice softly.
wearisome
I wonder...perhaps the task of nursing me has become wearisome for you, Wormtail?
incoherent
Wormtail, who had been sputtering incoherently, fell silent at once.
sullen
“I am a faithful servant,” said Wormtail, the merest trace of sullenness in his voice.
mirth
Wormtail muttered something so quietly that Frank could not hear it, but it made the second man laugh—an entirely mirthless laugh, cold as his speech.
undulate
Horrified, transfixed, Frank stared as its undulating body cut a wide, curving track through the thick dust on the floor, coming closer and closer—What was he to do?
travesty
The snake, on the other hand, was curled up on the rotting hearth rug, like some horrible travesty of a pet dog.
disconcerting
It had been enough of a shock for Harry to discover, on his eleventh birthday, that he was a wizard; it had been even more disconcerting to find out that everyone in the hidden Wizarding world knew his name.
affliction
“Your scar hurt? Harry, that’s really serious.... Write to Professor Dumbledore! And I'll go and check Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions.... Maybe there’s something in there about curse scars....”
bemused
And so he tried to imagine his other best friend, Ron Weasley’s, reaction, and in a moment, Ron’s red hair and long-nosed, freckled face seemed to swim before Harry, wearing a bemused expression.
glower
When Aunt Petunia put a quarter of unsweetened grapefruit onto Dudley’s plate with a tremulous “There you are, Diddy darling,” Dudley glowered at her.
boisterous
They also skated over the accusations of bullying in the report—“He’s a boisterous little boy, but he wouldn’t hurt a fly!” Aunt Petunia had said tearfully.
morale
Aunt Petunia seemed to feel that the best way to keep up Dudley’s morale was to make sure that he did, at least, get more to eat than Harry.
oblige
Hedwig had returned from Hermione’s house with a large box stuffed full of sugar-free snacks. (Hermione’s parents were dentists.) Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper, had obliged with a sack full of his own homemade rock cakes.
curt
Harry heard talking at the door, and someone laughing, and Uncle Vernon answering curtly.
livid
He looked livid.
“You,” he barked at Harry.
peruse
Uncle Vernon was perusing the letter again.
imminent
The imminent arrival at their house of an assortment of wizards was making the Dursleys uptight and irritable.
foreboding
Harry felt a slight sense of foreboding.
don
Their children might don Muggle clothing during the holidays, but Mr. and Mrs. Weasley usually wore long robes in varying states of shabbiness.
diminished
Dudley, on the other hand, looked somehow diminished. This was not because the diet was at last taking effect, but due to fright.
diatribe
Her arms were folded, her lips were pursed, and she seemed to be chewing her tongue, as though biting back the furious diatribe she longed to throw at Harry.
compulsive
Aunt Petunia was compulsively straightening cushions.
terse
At half past, he heard Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia conversing in terse mutters in the living room.
eclectic
Eclectic, you say? With a plug? Gracious, I must see that.
sufficient
Unfortunately, Uncle Vernon’s bulk, while sufficient to hide bony Aunt Petunia, was nowhere near enough to conceal Dudley.
indignation
“You aren’t going to see your nephew till next summer,” he said to Uncle Vernon in mild indignation. “Surely you’re going to say good-bye?”
fleeting
His last fleeting glimpse of the living room was of Mr. Weasley blasting a third ornament out of Uncle Vernon’s hand with his wand, Aunt Petunia screaming and lying on top of Dudley, and Dudley’s tongue lolling around like a great slimy python.
undermine
“That sort of behavior seriously undermines wizard-Muggle relations! I spend half my life campaigning against the mistreatment of Muggles, and my own sons—”
earnestly
“No, we gave it to him because he’s a great bullying git,” said George. “Isn’t he, Harry?”
“Yeah, he is, Mr. Weasley,” said Harry earnestly.
peevish
“Very badly,” said Percy peevishly, and he slammed the window shut.
pompous
“I’ve told Mr. Crouch that I’ll have it ready by Tuesday,” Percy was saying pompously.
acquisition
In the middle of the table, Mrs. Weasley was arguing with Bill about his earring, which seemed to be a recent acquisition.
sanctimonious
"Well, I certainly don’t,” said Percy sanctimoniously. “I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days.”

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