Burning questions

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No: HPFGUIDX 23691

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Mindy" <mindyatime at y...> wrote:
> Why change the Triwizard Cup into a Portkey? Wouldn't it have been 
> easier for Moody to just change something else--a book, for 
example--
> and get Harry to touch it at some point? Why all the elaborate 
> charade with entering Harry into the Triwizard Tournament, helping 
> him to win, etc.? 
> 

  ~ I agree that it would have been easier if Moody/Crouch Jr. had 
changed something else, rather than the Cup, into a Portkey.  It was 
a risky chance for Voldemort to take - Harry might not have won the 
tournament.  Cedric almost did.  But I believe that the thought 
process in making the Cup a portkey was that, if Harry dissapeared 
for a while, it would go unnoticed because people would pass it off 
as Harry getting into a situation in the maze.  By the time people 
would have realized Harry was gone, (if the plan had been 
successfully executed) Harry would have been dead or very well near 
it.  

A question I do have about the Cup however, is: Did Harry ever get to 
keep the Cup? I do not remember it being mentioned.

 - Elizabeth