why the portkey was Re: Can House Elves See Through Invisibility Coaks?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Lucy Austin" <lucy at l...> wrote:

> Lucy, who still has got a satisfactory answer for why Harry had 
to win the Tournament instead of Moody turning any old thing into 
a Portkey during the year.

   The same reason Voldemort couldn't use any old wizard to 
re-birth himself.  It wouldn't satisfy his need for a  public victory 
over his old nemesis.Harry is already the most famous wizard of 
his generation, and by winning the Tri-wizard cup he will be 
established as the most powerful. Voldemort is playing a double 
game: he needs to show  his followers  that Harry is weaker than 
he is, but he wants the rest of the wizarding world to be sure that 
the late Harry Potter was very strong indeed.   
   
I do think Voldemort knew what the portkey would do and 
planned to use it to attack Hogwarts. The shade of James knew 
about the portkey which argues to me that Voldemort must have 
revealed it, although we aren't told how James and Lily managed 
to communicate or how they got knowledge of the situation.
    
Hogwarts has always been *safe*.  If Voldemort and a few of 
his followers had appeared on the grounds and attacked, the 
effect would have been devastating even if nine tenths of the 
students escaped unharmed. 

    I like the time travel idea. My own theory was that 
Crouch/Moody had decoyed the more powerful of the judges into 
the maze to look for Fleur and Krumm. He then used the 
confundus curse on Bagman and Fudge, who  told the crowd 
that Cedric and Harry were on their way out and would be 
appearing at any time.
Pippin