Dumbledore - Cats - Portkey - Cloak Flint

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote: > 
> Cindy wrote:
> 
> > So I'm thinking that Bertha Jorkins tells 
> Crouch/Voldemort/Wormtail that the Cup is a portkey that transports 
> the winner to the entrance of the maze, specially permitted by 
> Dumbledore just for the Tournament.  They realize that their only 
> chance of transporting Harry to Voldemort for rebirthing is to use 
> the only portkey that will work:  the Cup.  A toothbrush won't 
> work.  Then, as others have stated, it is Moody's job to change the 
> settings on the Cup to go to Voldemort instead. 
> 
> I like this theory best of all the ones I've heard, but it's 
> undermined by Crouch's confession:
> 
> Then Dumbledore said "And tonight . . ."
> "I offered to carry the Triwizard Cup into the maze before dinner," 
> whispered Barty Crouch.  "Turned it into a Portkey."  (very end of 
> ch 35)
> 
It could be that the answer to why Crouch/Moody didn't transport 
Harry to Voldemort at some earlier time is that making something into 
a Portkey, or learning how to make anything into a Portkey, is not 
the easiest magic to master (or the information might be closely 
guarded).  Many spells are difficult for fully trained witches and 
wizards; we have already learned that many adult witches and wizards 
cannot conjure a Patronus.  We have seen Basil from the Department of 
Magical Transportation collecting old Portkeys from the people 
arriving at the World Cup, as though this were very important (latent 
transportation magic in the items?).  

It could be that the creation and use of Portkeys is quite closely 
regulated by this department of the ministry.  If it weren't, why 
couldn't any witch or wizard who couldn't Apparate simply make a 
Portkey to take themselves wherever they wanted to go?  Mr. Weasley 
also needed special permission to put the fireplace on Privet Drive 
on the floo network temporarily.  Magical transportation is clearly 
not something to be trifled with.  A test and licensing is required 
to Apparate.  

It may very well have taken Crouch/Moody all year to work out how to 
make a Portkey out of the Tournament Cup that would take the winner 
to the graveyard where Voldemort and Wormtail would be waiting.  
Doing it in this manner would also make it difficult to lay blame on 
Crouch/Moody (except that someone might remember that he was the one 
who placed it in the maze).

At least, that's the best job I can do of attempting to rationalize 
this otherwise mysterious plot point without contradicting canon...

--Barb

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