Portkeys & Poison immune Harry

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., GulPlum <hpfgu at p...> wrote:
>Julie: 
>The second being that as it was, he did not warn anyone not to touch 
the 
> >Triwizard Cup.
> 
GulPlum:
> I'm not sure what you mean. There was no reason to warn anyone as 
> presumably the Cup was in safe keeping somewhere anyway (it could 
even have been on display during the tournament, but protected by 
some kind of anti-proximity charm); Crouch-Moody was given the job of 
transporting it to the maze and as he says he "turned" it into a 
Portkey, It's therefore plausible that the Portkey properties 
wouldn't kick in until after the beginning of the Third Task.

sniped a bit ;o)

Me (Julie):

I actually was referring to when Harry was on the ground returned to 
the stadium and Dumbledore was trying to get him to respond . . . 
Harry says Voldemort is back, but doesn't say "don't touch the cup, 
it's a portkey to Voldemort".

Julie:
> >So if they knew they were so far away, and they knew the cup was a
> >portkey, why didn't they just grab it and go back to the game?  
They >had plenty of time.  Instead they stood there watching Wormtail 
carry >Voldemort over.
> 
GulPlum:
> We don't know whether Cedric was conversant with Portkeys and their 
> operation, but we know that Harry wasn't. As far as he knew, they 
are strictly one-way mechanisms, and it's only when the "shadows" 
told him otherwise that he knew he could do so.

snipped a bit again :o)

Me (Julie):

I guess I was thinking that Cedric would have known about them from 
growing up in a wizarding family, and that Harry would have assumed 
it would take him back as they had at the QWC.


Julie:
> >poisons and everything else had happened to this arm?  Or maybe it
> >was because he knew that something he had done worked?
> 
GulPlum:
> Hmmm... have you been reading alt.fan.harry-potter? :-) There was a 
recent discussion about the possibility that Harry might be immune to 
poisons, with inconclusive results. My own view is that I doubt this 
is intended on JKR's part.


Me (Julie):
Interesting theory!  No, I didn't know about alt.fan.harry-potter.  
Does anyone else have a take on this?