The Cup as Portkey Question

[Trina]

No: HPFGUIDX 14038

Or, By George I've Got It!

Having recently done a GoF re-read, the last terrifying and emotional 
chapters have been on my mind a lot.  This morning, while briefly 
considering the What Might Have Been if Cedric had been the only one 
to grasp the cup--a thoroughly frightning idea which is a post of its 
own, I returned to the Eternal Question--

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.