[HPforGrownups] Re: "Get The Golden Egg" Plot Hole!

[Jake Storm]

No: HPFGUIDX 37956

I have always assumed that the spell that is used to enchant an object into 
being a portkey was very flexible and full of options. Thus, portkeys set up 
for the Quidditch World Cup were set to be activated on touch, at a 
particular time, and then shut down, to be reactivated only on command. The 
Triwizard Cup, on the other hand, was enchanted by Barty Jr. to travel at 
first touch to the graveyard, and then, on second touch, to travel back to 
Hogwarts, specifically to the grassy area in front of the maze (so that LV 
and crew could port back there, surprise everone, and cause great mayhem).

J


>From: Martin Hooper <ch001d4564 at blueyonder.co.uk>
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: "Get The Golden Egg"  Plot Hole!
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:23:48 +0100
>
>At 12:07 17/04/02, Anglinsbees wrote:
> >Ah- but he <did> summon it into his hand in the cemetary- in order
> >to portkey back with Cedrics body.  My problem with this scene is
> >that in this instnce, the portkey seems to work differently than the
> >way portkeys did previously.  If a portkey takes you back whre it
> >came from the second time you touch it, it would create all sorts of
> >handling problems at the World cup- and they handled the used
> >portkeys vary casually, tossing them in a box.
>
>Just a thought but maybe they did - meybe they were activated so that it
>sent you back on a time-delay spell...  After the World Cup it would have
>automatically turned itself back on set to the place it came from.
>
>Hope that makes sense... ;)
>
>
>Martin J Hooper
>http://www.martinjh.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
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