Time-Sensitive Portkeys? (Was: Portkeys and Floo Netw...

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> > Vera said:
> > 
> > "There seem to be different types of Portkeys and I think this is 
critical
> > to the question ... The Portkey that is used to transport the 
party from
> > Stoatshead Hill, however, seems to have been *time* sensitive. 
The party 
> > had
> > to be there by a specific time and it is announced on their 
arrival as the
> > 'seven past five from Stoatshead Hill'."
> 
> > Olivia:
> > I assumed that the portkey itself wasn't time-sensitive but that 
the MoM 
> > had
> > given specific assignments for arrivals.
> 
> Eloise:

> You could be right, although the question I would then ask is how 
the Portkey 
> became activated. If it wasn't time-sensitive, then why didn't it 
whisk away 
> the first person to touch it without waiting for the others? There 
were an 
> awful lot of them and I can't think that they all managed to touch 
it at 
> precisely the same moment. After touching it, they have to wait for 
the 
> departure time before anything happens.
> 
> But I agree that it was carefully co-ordinated. That was essential.
> 
> Eloise
  

Eloise is right. "With difficulty, owing to their bulky backpacks, 
the nine of them crowded around the old boot held out by Amos 
Diggory."  as stated in GoF US ed. Amos is very clearly already 
holding the boot, but he does not get transported until exactly 7 
past the hour, when they all were touching the boot. 
That's from cannon, being that later on, the portkey, which 
transports Harry and Cedric to the graveyard, is activated when they 
first touch it, there must be different types of portkeys as Vera 
first said.

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~the ugly Veela~