96 pages 3 hours read

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

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Chapters 13-17

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 13 Summary

The next morning, the students begin their first day of classes. Harry and Ron notice that Hermione has broken her hunger strike, but she spends a lot of time in the library working on a secret project. During Care of Magical Creatures class, Hagrid introduces horrifying creatures called Blast-Ended Skrewts, which the fourth-year students will be caring for this school year. In Divination, Professor Trelawney continues her tradition of making dramatic predictions that rarely come true. However, Harry remembers how Professor Trelawney went into a trance and made an accurate prediction at the end of the last school year: that Voldemort would return to power. Later, Malfoy taunts Ron because Rita Skeeter wrote about his dad in the Daily Prophet. Rita Skeeter criticizes Mr. Weasley for coming to help Mad-Eye Moody and for involving himself and the Ministry in an “undignified and potentially embarrassing scene” (82), and when Malfoy comments on Ron’s mother, Harry insults Malfoy’s mother in response. Malfoy tries to attack Harry when his back is turned, but Mad-Eye Moody transforms Malfoy into a ferret and torments him until Professor McGonagall stops him. Fred and George tell Ron and Harry that Mad-Eye Moody’s Defense Against the Dark Arts class is unlike anything they’ve ever experienced and that Moody “knows what it’s like to be out there [.

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