The summer holidays are dragging on & Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry & there are spells to be learnt & (unluckily) Potions & Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry can't know that the atmosphere is darkening around him & his worst enemy is preparing a fate that it seems will be inescapable.. . With characteristic wit fast-paced humour & marvellous emotional depth J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master story-teller.