[HPforGrownups] Re: TriWizard Cup as Portkey

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 27013

Ah, I finally have time to reply to this:
Cynthia wrote: 

> I'm still not convinced about the "Voldemort Plans To Storm Hogwarts" 
> theory.  I can't think of a worse time for Voldemort and his 30 Death 
> Eaters to mount an offensive.  There are hundreds of wizards at the 
> Third Task, including Dumbledore, presumably a few MoM wizards, 
> Hogwarts Teachers, and "hundreds of students" (many of whom know how 
> to Stun and Disarm, including Durmstrang students versed in the Dark 
> Arts).  The element of surprise will only take you so far.  


Without bringing in too much of an analysis of the recent terrorist attacks,
what happened at the Pentagon and the WTC has only clarified, for me, the
sick manipulation of using one's own Ordinary, Every Day Devices against
those who created it. Moody was right on the field - he could have been
prepped to take some of Dumbledore's people - perhaps even Dumbledore
himself, or Fudge -out as soon as Voldy appeared with Harry's body. And it
was night-time, and there would've been chaos. How many students would be
able to think clearly enough to react? And Voldy didn't really need to
*kill* students - his goals would've been accomplished by a massacre of
about a dozen teachers, Fudge and Dumbledore. People would've panicked,
possibly jumped from the high-in-the-air stands, trampled fellow students -
perhaps some of the children of the Death Eaters would've caught up in the
violence. 

It would've been a horrible and chaotic and destructive night - and all
because VOldemort managed to use Albus Dumbledore's portkey against
Hogwarts.