[HPforGrownups] Re: TriWizard Cup as Portkey

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 47276



Chuck wrote:
> 
> Ancient thread, new poster.
> 
> This struck me as simply bad writing.  There was no reason for Harry
> to even be in the Tournament.  To get him to touch the Cup?  That's
> it?  And the whole, very specific setup at the beginning about how
> time specific portkeys are.  Strikes me that after 650 pages, JKR
> just plain forgot.
> 
> And it was an easy knot to wriggle out of.  All that needed tobe
> explained was that the spell to bring back Voldy needed the blood of
> a wizard of some sort of experience level.  Voldy had a deadline
> (sorry for the pun) that he had to return within a certain timeframe
> or he would never be able to.  Since Harry didn't take OWLs yet, the
> Tournament would serve to boost his abilities.
> 
> The cup as portkey could easily have been handled by having the
> tournament end in the maze followed by a prescheduled awards
> ceremony, at which the cup was to be awarded.  Harry wins.  Party.
> Ceremony.  Cup handed to Harry.  He holds it over his head.  Poof!
> 
> Tangles resovled.
> 
> I think it's just poor writing.
> 
> Chuck
>

Are you sure ALL portkeys are time specific or that in the case of the
world cup, they were only set for at a certain time to keep groups from
arriving at exactly the same time with messy results?  Might be that
there are different types of portkeys that are not time specific at all
and people reading the books only assumed it was.  It doesn't actually
state that ALL portkeys are set up the same way..  Just because Arther
states the portkeys used for the Quiddich Cup are "objects that are used
to transport wizards from one spot to another at a prearranged time"
doesn't mean there are NOT other kinds of portkeys or that you can't set
one that doesn't have a time set in it. We ARE talking about magic here,
so the darn portkey could do anything its maker set it up to do, if you
think about it.  What if someone set one up so that it didn't teleport
the person, but when triggered, transformed them instead? (Don't let
Fred and George get that idea!)  Seems that magic is in fact pretty
flexible or anything new would be imposible to make, such as canery
creams and ton tongue toffy..

I think its just poor assumption on the part of some readers to think
that magic is so tightly limited that you can't leave a timer off a
portkey.

Jazmyn