Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I finished my quest to read all the Hugo winners last year. However, there were six books I had read before my quest which did not have reviews, since I read them before I was writing reviews. "Goblet of Fire" is the last of these. It was the reason for my reread of the whole Harry Potter series. When I discovered that Goblet won the Hugo, I couldn't remember enough of it to understand why it won. Granted, the HP phenomenon was already at a frenzy, and "Prisoner of Azkaban" had been nominated the year before. But I think what pushed this book into the winner's column was that it completed the transition to a darker tone begun in "Prisoner", while revealing an emotional depth that reverberated with more readers than ever before.

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