[HPforGrownups] The Cup as Portkey Question

[Diana Wisniewski]

No: HPFGUIDX 14042

Trina, That is absolutely brilliant!! We should all have had an Impedimenta
charm! I need one to get through my class each day and my own kids each
evening :) .
Diana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trina" <lj2d30 at gateway.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 8:34 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] The Cup as Portkey Question


> 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.
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