New Harry Potter Book Title Announced (June 28, 2000).New Harry Potter Book Becoming a Publishing Phenomenon (July 3, 2000).Harry Potter Frenzy Begins in England and Continues Across Atlantic (July 7, 2000).Harry Potter Magic Halts Bedtime for Youngsters (July 9, 2000).Tacked-on prologue hinting at the whereabouts of evil Lord Voldemort, who is the Darth Vader of this enterprise and is so wicked that others fearfully refer to him as "You-Know-Who." Displaying her only real Achilles' heel, Ms. It is not immediately clear that "Goblet of Fire" is a step forward for the series, since it gets off to a shaky opening. Of what should have been wonderfully obvious: what makes the Potter books so popular is the radically simple fact that they're so good. Vibrant, tremendously assured installment that gives shape and direction to the whole undertaking and still somehow preserves the material's enchanting innocence. As the midpoint in a projected seven-book series, "Goblet of Fire" is exactly the big, clever, Talk about supernatural tricks: she has turned this odds-defying new book into everything it promised to be. Rowling, a kindred spirit to both Lewis Carroll and the pre-Jar Jar Binks George Lucas, turns out to be a fantasist who lives inside a thrillingly fertile imagination, mines it ingeniously and plays entirely by her Hit the Happy Meals, and the stakes get this high.īut Ms. We know what happens to talent when the tie-ins Goose of publishing, in the dicey position of having to outdo herself with a sequel written under huge commercial pressure at twice the length of any of her previous books.
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Instead, the current wave of Harrymania brings the Potter series to a fever pitch better associated with movie hype, major sports events and hot new Christmas toys. The frenzy that has greeted the fourth book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," would seem to go beyond any reasonable response to fiction, no matter how genuinely delightful that fiction happens
Still, not even she could have predicted this. Rowling's gifts of prophecy have proved nearly as amazing as all the magicalįeats she ascribes to Harry and company. Powers of wizardry, not of his ability to land on magazine covers and lure children to bookstores at the witching hour. Rowling announced with spooky accuracy in the opening chapter of her first novel, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." No doubt she meant this as a reflection of Harry's awesome "There will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know He funny thing about Harry Potter is that he was famous from the start. BOOKS OF THE TIMES At Last, the Wizard Gets Back to School By JANET MASLIN
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