[HPforGrownups] Plot holes filled?

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 16743

Very neat solution!  I never really liked the Triwizard Tournament that much 
- in itself I mean.  Perhaps the excitement for the audience of the third 
task consisted of trying to make sense of odd thumps, snarls and cries of 
"Stupefy!":)  Not much one can do about the second task, I agree.  Perhaps 
the giant squid, which certainly must have been otherwise occupied, put on a 
juggling display while they were waiting.

On a more serious note, can anyone explain why the portkey works both ways?  
The one they used to get to the Quidditch World Cup didn't seem to, as the 
wizard who tossed it on to the pile of used portkeys was not hurled to 
various parts of the country.


>From: eggplant107 at hotmail.com
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Plot holes filled?
>Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 16:07:46 -0000
>
>It seems to me that Goblet Of Fire has a plot hole, why did Voldemort
>need Harry to win the Tri Wizard Tournament? Why couldn't Moody turn
>a door knob or one of Harry's books into a port key? Surely in the
>course of a year he could get Harry to touch something. Rowling
>should have had Voldemort say something like this to his death eaters
>in the graveyard.
>
>"There is a powerful spell preventing port keys from working at
>Hogwarts but during the Tri Wizard Tournament people would be
>arriving from all over the world so I knew the spell would have to be
>temporarily removed, if not in the castle itself at least on the
>grounds. It also amused me to have Harry Potter whisked away to his
>doom at the very instant he thinks he's going to attain his greatest
>triumph. And I did it right under Dumbledore's nose with the entire
>world watching, people can now see with their own eyes which one of
>us is more powerful."
>
>Now I just need to just figure out why anybody would want to watch
>the second and third tasks. Staring at a hedge and the unruffled
>surface of a lake lacks a certain visual appeal.
>
>

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