Dumbledore - Cats - Portkey - Cloak Flint

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 24970

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)
> 
> 

Ah, but there's one more shred (and it is a tiny shred) of evidence 
to support the theory:

When Moody gets his marching orders from Voldemort (a few pages 
before the end of Ch 35), it goes like this:

Voldemort tells Crouch/Moody to guide Harry through the Tournament, 
to "ensure that he reached the Triwizard Cup.  Turn the cup into a 
Portkey, which would take the first person to touch it to my 
master."  One interpretation of this is that, even though the Cup was 
a Portkey already, the key is that Crouch/Moody is to change the 
destination.  I also think that this makes sense given that we can 
hardly expect the winner of the Tournament to negotiate the many 
obstacles to find their way out of the maze, so it must have been a 
Portkey all along.

Cindy
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"He is so Creepy!"  Pavarti whispered as Moody clunked away.  "I 
don't think that eye should be allowed!"  GoF, Ch. 23.