The Cup as Portkey Question

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 24960

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Trina" <lj2d30 at g...> wrote:
> > 
> Why make the Cup a portkey when Harry's toothbrush would work just 
as 
> well?
> 
> Like the Grinch, we have all puzzled on this till our puzzlers were 
> sore, but today an answer hit me with the force of a well-placed 
> Impedimenta charm.  It was so simple. The answer lie in the portkey 
> itself.
> 
> Picture it Little Hangleton, June.  Voldy and Wormtail await the 
bane 
> of their existences--young Harry Potter.  Once he arrives, 
> disoriented and properly frightened, he is tied to Daddy Riddle's 
> tombstone, and forced to provide Voldy with a blood sample.  Voldy 
> reincorporates into the Big Bad of yesteryear, at which point he 
> calls in his Death Eaters, chastises them for a bit, and then 
> disposes of Harry, after an invigorating game of cat and mouse.
> 
> (With me so far?  Okay. Because here's where it gets good.)
> 
> At this point Voldy and his lowly minions *Touch The Portkey And 
> Return To Hogwarts* to begin the new Reign of Terror. *This* is why 
> the portkey was rigged to return to Hogwarts.
> 
> They arrive outside of the maze, with Harry's lifeless body (after 
> all a good gloat is needed) and begin decimating the future 
wizarding 
> population.  They're merely students (and not just Hogwarts 
students 
> either, but Beauxbatons and Durmstrang as well), easy prey.  Also 
in 
> the arena is Karakoff the coward, Snape the spy, Bagman, the MoM 
> Fudge, Dumbledore, and, of course, Crouch as Moody.  Crouch didn't 
> just "forget" to take his Polyjuice Potion.  It wasn't needed.  He 
> could begin hurling hexes as Moody (in all the chaos who could tell 
> for which side he was playing?) and after the potion wore off, he 
> could fight clearly as himself, alongside his Dark Lord.  
> 
> After the battle, Voldemort would be in absolute power and all 
would 
> be right in his world.
> 
> It was so brilliant. It was so simple.  It should have worked.
> 
> Fortunately for us, Harry had an ace up his sleeve, or rather, a 
> pheonix feather in his wand and managed to foil Voldy's plan once 
> again.
> 
> Respectfully submitted for your approval...
> 
> Trina
> Now 86% obssessed.