The death of the Hogwarts student causes nary a lift of the reader’s eyebrow the complicated explanation for Voldemort’s infiltration of Hogwarts is fairly preposterous and impossible to work out from the clues given. Rowling’s emphasis here is much less on school life (not a single inter-house Quidditch match!) and much more on the wider wizard world and, simultaneously, on Harry’s more narrow, personal world, as he has his first fight with Ron and asks a girl to his first dance.īut on the whole the emotional impact is disappointingly slight. Rowling explores her major theme of good versus evil and her minor themes of the value of loyalty and moral courage and the evils of yellow journalism, oppression, and bigotry. Year Four at Hogwarts finds Harry enjoined as the surprising fourth contestant in the Triwizard Tournament - “a friendly competition between the three largest European schools of wizardry” - during which he bests a dragon, rescues Ron from merpeople, and finds his way through a maze that, unbeknownst to Dumbledore and the powers of good, leads to the dark wizard Voldemort and to the death of one of the other contestants. The fourth book in the Harry Potter phenomenon is one that some will find wide-ranging, compellingly written, and absorbing while others, long and rambling.
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