Things to ask Jo.

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 4560

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Aberforths_Goat" 
<Aberforths_Goat at Y...> wrote:
> 
> Besides that, there's only one thing I simply have to know if I'm 
going to
> keep out of the psycho ward: *Why did Moody pull the whole goblet 
stunt just
> to get Harry to a portkey?*  Our questions about the number of 
students at
> Hogwarts are difficult, too--but the portkey problem is a central 
plot
> issue. The question has been bouncing around since July the 8th, 
and it
> really needs an answer. Pretty please? With icing and whizzing 
fizbees on
> top??

The most recently reasonable explanation I have heard was that it 
wasn't only a portkey to take harry away - it was also a portkey to 
bring Voldemort onto Hogwarts' grounds - and that's why  by touching 
it, Harry was able to return to just outside the maze - the cup was 
always a portkey - it was configured by the triwizard organizers to 
transport the first person to touch it to the front of the maze - and 
crouch knew it - what he did was add in an extra stop - the graveyard 
- do the first touch would send the toucher to the graveyard, and hte 
second touch would send the toucher back to the front of the maze. 
If everything had gone according to this plan, Harry would've been 
transported to the grave, used for Voldemort's rebirth, then killed, 
then Voldemort would've used the portkey to get back to Hogwarts, and 
go all serial killer-ish there, since you can't apparate onto 
hogwarts grounds, and presumptively, the other defenses that the 
school has against attacks by evil psychopaths would've been 
breachable by a portkey configured from inside the school grounds.