The Triwizard Portkey

[judyserenity]

No: HPFGUIDX 40414

Elkins says:
> ... I still prefer 
> the idea that the plan was originally to *use* the Portkey's 
> secondary destination, either to descend on Hogwarts or simply to 
> send Harry's corpse back as a nice little message for the wizarding 
> world.  The former is Bangier, to be sure, but I find the latter far 
> more likely.  
> Even if we assume Stupid!Voldemort, rather than Pip's Scheming!
> Voldemort, I still don't think that he'd make such an amazingly
> disastrous error as to attempt a strike on the Triwizard audience
> when there is no way to Disapparate from Hogwarts grounds.....
> Although you know, maybe Voldemort had just forgotten about that 
> aspect of Hogwarts?  Heaven knows that everybody else does. 
> "You can't Disapparate from Hogwarts?  Oops.  I forgot!"

I'm not sure how the portkey'd Triwizard Cup would have been used to 
transport Harry's dead body back to Hogwarts.  We never see portkeys 
transporting inanimate objects; it appears they only work when a live 
(magical?) human touches them.  So, I think someone would have had to 
*bring* Harry's body back, as Harry did with Cedric's body.  And that 
would be quite risky for whatever Death Eater did it.

As for the second theory, that Voldemort planned to use the Triwizard 
Cup portket to launch an attack at Hogwarts, perhaps the Cup now 
serves as a back-and-forth transport between the graveyard and 
Hogwarts. The Cup was initially in a different location (the maze), 
before being activated.  But, once activated, perhaps each touch would 
switch it between the graveyard and Hogwarts. So, the DEs could have 
planned to use it to attack Hogwarts, and then used it a second time 
to escape.

However, I tend to think Voldemort just hadn't considered that the Cup 
could be used again after it brought Harry to the graveyard, and never 
planned to use the Cup to transport anyone or anything back to 
Hogwarts. "The Cup still works as a portkey to Hogwarts?  Oops, I 
forgot!" 


-- Judy, who is feeling stupid lately, and likes to think of Voldemort 
as being even stupider