portkey conundrum

[coriolan at worldnet.att.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 6342

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> 
wrote:

> 
> I've wondered this too, and I came up with a theory:
> We know that Hogwarts is enchanted to disallow transport by
> apparation or floo powder, so creating portkeys is probably
> impossible too.  However, a special dispensation was made for the
> Triwizard Cup because they wanted a quick way to get the winner out
> of the maze.  Crouch couldn't make a portkey from scratch, but he
> could "reprogram" the Cup-portkey to take Harry to V instead of
> to outside the maze.  

This makes sense to me - and also bear in mind that, like all 
revolutionaries, Voldy wants to mock and degrade the legitimate 
sources of authority: snatching Harry when he was alone and 
defenseless, like a thief in the night, would seem a cowardly and 
despicable act: seizing him at the very moment when Harry had 
triumphed in the third task of the venerable Triwizards Tournament 
would serve to make a hollow mockery of the Tournament, and would 
also re-establish Voldy as a destructive and demonic force who could 
fleer the "Permanent Things" of the Wizarding World at will.

We know from Chap. 1 of GoF that any anti-Voldy wizard would have 
sufficed to restore Voldy to a corporeal format: Voldy, as alert as 
any spin doctor to the symbolic implications of his actions, insists 
that he will accept Harry Potter and Harry Potter only as the 
sacrificial lamb.

      -CMC