[HPforGrownups] Re: Plot holes filled?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 16844

Morag Traynor wrote:

> Even if V wasn't ready till then (agreed, highly probable, assuming he
> wanted to kill Harry personally and not just have Wormtail do it),
> Moody needn't have gone to the trouble of entering Harry in the
> Tounament.  He need only have waited and then used any ordinary
> object.

It's been postulated in the past that there was a purpose to using the
whole "Harry in the tournament" mechanism, above and beyond getting
Voldemort re-bodied. That was just part of the plan.

Think about it. At the Triwizard tournament, in the audience gathered
for the last task, you have
(1) the heads of the three most prominent wizarding schools in that part
of the world;
(2) the top officials of the Ministry of Magic;
(3) the children of probably the entire wizarding population of the UK;
and
(4) the children of several wizarding families from France and wherever
Durmstrang is.

All gathered there for a day of excitement. There's a good chance that
lots of them, saving those serving as referees, didn't even have their
wands with them. You could not make a more perfect setting for Voldemort
to burst in upon.

He has his enemies arrayed in force, unprepared and unready. He has the
element of surprise, in spades--he's not even in their thoughts, he's
*dead,* the shock of him being alive at all would probably paralyze most
of them for the time he needs to make his move. He would have his
DeathEaters at his side, so he could expect to be able to do maximum
damage. He could take the children of families who oppose him, and
ensure their nonparticipation and/or capitulation.

I believe, therefore, that the whole plan was something along these
lines:
(a) get Harry through the tournament as a winner
(b) get Harry to the graveyard for Voldemort's reanimation
(c) use the portkey to return to the grounds of Hogwarts
(d) make major offensive action against the gathered, unsuspecting might
of the free world.
(e) sit back and mop up.

It broke down at (b).

Using any other object at any other time would have gotten Harry to the
graveyard, but it would not have left the door open to the brilliant
tacitcal stroke of taking advantage of the unique crowd at the
Tournament. Any other object could also have portkeyed Voldemort into
Hogwarts, an advantage since he can't apparate into there, and he could
have roamed the halls and taken a few teachers unawares, but he wouldn't
have had the ministry officials, the other headmasters, or the children
as potential victims/hostages.

--Amanda


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