[HPforGrownups] Re: Crouch / Moody

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 9254

Dave Hardenbrook wrote:

> At 03:34 AM 1/15/01 +0000, Jim Flanagan wrote:
> >If they wanted to get Harry to
> >Voldemort, there were surely much more direct and certain ways to do
> >it than to turn the trophy into a portkey!
>
> We're back to my theory that you can't make portkeys in Hogwarts
> and Crouch could only make the Cup a portkey because it was one
> already, and it was just a matter of "reprogramming" it.
>
> But someone made an interesting point on the HP newsgroup the
> other day: Part of Voldemort's motivation may be to publicly
> embarrass Dumbledore, and what better way to do so that to snatch
> Harry out from under his nose in front of a crowd at the climax of the
> Triwizard Tournament,

Remember, also, that they might have waited until that moment to take
Harry, because then the newly embodied Voldemort could then return via the
Portkey to a made-to-order assembly of his enemies, unaware of his
existence as yet and ready to be taken in a surprise attack. I believe this
was the plan, and this is why Barty Jr. waited and went through the whole
rigamarole with the Tournament, so that his Lord could get a surprise
attack on a group of most, if not all, of the most important of the
opposing side. It would have been even more devastating had Voldemort
brought the Death Eaters with him, which he doubtless would have, to (a)
help and (b) witness his triumph--for with the Ministry of Magic officials
and the Hogwarts administration out of the way, who then could stand before
him?

--Amanda