It's also the book when Harry really begins to become an adult, with adult responsibilities (and a love life!). It's exactly halfway between the first and last Harry Potter books, which means it has to leave enough loose ends for future books while satisfying longtime fans who have followed along this far. What's more, in terms of the plot of the whole series, Goblet of Fire is absolutely key. Imagine the disappointment of the world if it had been a flop? (Which it definitely was not.) By the time Goblet of Fire was published in July 2000, Rowling's first three Harry Potter novels had already sold 35 million copies ( source). The stakes are particularly high with the fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. But the truth of it is a little less glamour and a little more sweat: Rowling had to work her butt off for hours every day for years to plan the overall shape of Harry's world. It's exciting to think of Rowling snatching up napkins (or tea bags) and scribbling down the inspiration for Harry Potter (in part because it makes us think we might get so lucky one day). I used to save them." The real story, like most of what appears in the press, there is an element of truth and there is an element of huge exaggeration. I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the first novel on napkins?" I really wanted to say, "No, on teabags.
Rowling remains totally willing to poke fun at her popular image as an up-from-nothing star. We all like a good rags-to-riches story, and J(oanne) K(athleen) Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter series, gives us a great one: now one of the (if not the) richest woman in England thanks to her publishing success, she got the idea for Harry Potter while she was living on welfare as a single mother in the Scottish city of Edinburgh ( source). Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Introduction