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A review by entirelybonkerz
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
5.0
The best book in this entire series.
I have to admit, until this book, I was still trying to wrap my head around the phenomenon that was Harry Potter. Is this a good series? Oh yes absolutely, but is it: I am going to name my dog Sirius, my child Harry, going to get a tattoo of 56 different HP quotes, write an entire page of the book on a wall inside my house good?
This book was the turning point for me. This book developed and cemented my love for Harry. A main character that, until now, I had no emotional attachment to. Their personalities flourished under JK Rowling's otherworldly ability to write about teenage angst and embarrassment.
For the entirety of this book, I was a teen again. I remembered every awkward stage I ever had. I remembered what it felt like to wish you were noticed, while thinking you'd rather die than do be the center of attention. I remembered the ultimate bliss, chaos and disaster that it was to grow up. 
Harry, Ron and Hermione are officially little grown people in my eyes. And I not only grew to love them as friends, but respect them as mini adults, which made me extremely emotional. I have always wanted to be a mother, and reading this series for the first time as an adult made me think: Wow, is this what I am going to feel when I see my children turn into teenagers? Confused, but proud?
I don't even think I need to get into how fantastic the world building in this book is, how imaginative and utterly insane these characters are. How many layers and levels there are to them. I remember mentioning this on my review for Azkaban, we could spend literal hours debating every single character and we would never reach an agreement.
(*cough* snape *cough* - he's not that bad if you're read this as an adult, you guys are just too attached to the hatred you had for him as a child to let go. you just missed a lot of things about his duality and his capability for love and courage because you were 7 and you had no ability to read between the lines)
As for the writing itself, this was the most action packed, exciting, hilarious book in the series so far. It is better than Azkaban for sure, and I barely noticed how long it was.
So yeah, Goblet of Fire is why I can now confidently say:
> You want to spend one thousand dollars on a Harry Potter inspired Christmas tree? I mean, why wouldn't you?
You just bought a 850 dollar Hogwarts Lego set? Understandable.
Do you have the sorting hat tattooed on your forehead? I mean, we all get silly sometimes.
Do you own more Harry Potter merch pieces than you own underwear? Of course you do.
So here I am, anointing Goblet of Fire the PEAK of the Harry Potter series.
