A Portkey Question ....

M. Barnett fyregirl at cfl.rr.com
Sat Jul 28 20:48:18 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 23138

Susanna wrote: (would have been nice if the Blast- Ended Skrewt had 
arrived first, wouldn't it?)

Susanna (who thinks that Fawkes would make an ideal
pet for Ms. M. Barnett)

And I'm writing:  First off, thanks, I'd like a cool pet like 
Fawkes ... all I have rightn ow is a silly cat who has a nasty habvit 
of leaving hairballs EVERY BLOODY WHERE!!!  <sigh>  But I digress ...

Ok, I think I'm ok with the sometimes you have to have a timer on a 
portkey so loads of people don't land on each other theory (damn it, 
I was hoping to have my own flint, but I guess that was asking too 
much <grin>), but what would Voldie, well Wormtail, since he was the 
only one with a usable body at the time, have done if the big spider 
that was the last thing Harry and Cedric had to deal with 
accidentally touched the cup with one of those big, long nasty ugly , 
ok I'm freaking myself outhere, I'm a severe arachnaphobe, and got 
transported to the graveyard.

I know Moody/Crouch, Jr. was patrolling the outside of the maze, he 
says so himself, but was he there watching when Harry and Cedric both 
touched the cup.  If so, why didn't he perform some kind of 
Jinx/curse/spell that froze Cedric the instant he was supposed to 
touch the cup and thereby having only Harry touching the cup, which 
is what he wanted inthe first place?

Was Little Barty slacking on his work for the Dark Lord or did all 
this happen too quickly?  When I read it, it seemed like it was 
taking forever ... I was anxious to see what the chapter 
titles, "Flesh and Bone" and the ensuing, were all about.

More questions ... are there more answers? :)

Michelle :)







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