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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, published on 8 July 2000. The book attracted additional attention because of a pre-publication warning from J. K. Rowling that one of the characters would be murdered in the book.[citation needed] 3 million copies of the book were sold over the first weekend in the US alone.[2]
Until the official title's announcement on 27 June 2000, the fourth book was called by its working title, Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament.[4] J. K. Rowling expressed her indecision about the title in an Entertainment Weekly interview. I changed my mind twice on what [the title] was. The working title had got outl — Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament. Then I changed Doomspell to Triwizard Tournament. Then I was teetering between Goblet of Fire and Triwizard Tournament. In the end, I preferred Goblet of Fire because it's got that kind of cup of destiny feel about it, which is the theme of the book. [5]
Goblet of Fire was the first book in the Harry Potter series to be released in the United States on the same date as the United Kingdom, on 8 July 2000, strategically on a Saturday so children did not have to worry about school conflicting with buying the book. The three previous books had been released in the United Kingdom several months before the U.S. edition. It had a combined first-printing of over five million copies.[9] The pressure in editing caused a mistake which shows Harry's father emerging first from Voldemort's wand; however, as confirmed in Prisoner of Azkaban, James died first, so then Harry's mother ought to have come out first.[10] This was corrected in later editions.[11]
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire won several awards, including the 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novel.[19] It won the 2002 Indian Paintbrush Award, the third after Philosopher's Stone and Prisoner of Azkaban.[20] The novel also won an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award for one of the best books, who claimed it was more intense than the first three books .[21]