暑假的一天夜里，哈利波特突然被恶梦惊醒，额上的伤痕在刺痛。他做了一个怪异的梦，那梦使他担忧起来……不久在魁地奇世界杯上，恐怖的事发生了，消失了十三年的邪恶巫师的恐怖标记在空中出现……

霍格沃茨迎来了巫师界的盛世：“三强争霸赛”。邪恶巫师用魔法使不够年龄的哈利成为三强争霸赛的第四位选手。在好友赫敏，罗恩的帮助下，哈利顺利完成三项任务，当哈利与他的同学塞德里克一起捧起高脚杯迎接胜利时，噩梦才刚刚开始，奖杯是一把门钥匙，把哈利带到了一座墓地。塞德里克被食死徒杀死，波特的血液令藏在蛇身十三年的邪恶伏地魔复活了。

The paperback edition of the legendary, record-breaking, best-selling fourth Harry Potter novel.

Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. But unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards. And in his case, different can be deadly.