TriWizard Cup as Portkey

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27041

> Cynthia wrote: 
> 
> > I'm still not convinced about the "Voldemort Plans To Storm 
Hogwarts" 
> > theory.  

Heidi wrote:

> 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.

OK. You make some very good points.  But one thing that troubles me 
is that Dumbledore tells us that Voldemort's most dangerous 
supporters are still in Azkaban.  So if Voldemort were to storm 
Hogwarts right after re-birthing, he would be doing it with his "B" 
team.

Based on the little we know, the DEs aren't all that impressive.  
They have dreadful aim with their Stunning Curses, as 30 of them 
couldn't hit Harry.  We know they are not too nimble, as none were 
able to grab Harry or outrun him.  We have Wormtail, whom Voldemort 
holds in such low regard and treat with such contempt that only a man 
with nowhere else to go would stand for it.  We have Avery, who 
doesn't have the good sense to keep a low profile after Voldemort 
advises that he is "disappointed" in the DEs.  We have Crabbe and 
Goyle -- 'nuff said.  The star is Lucius Malfoy, who was tricked by a 
12-year-old boy into freeing Dobby.

Perhaps waiting for reinforcements from Azkaban was a good plan, 
no?  :)

Cindy