[HPforGrownups] Programmed Portkeys and Pudgy Neville

[Trond Michelsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 52614

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:22:09PM -0000, erisedstraeh2002 <erisedstraeh2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Another random portkey thought - Arthur Weasley says that Portkeys 
>> are enchanted to work at a pre-arranged time. However, I don't see 
>> why you can't make a portkey that would work as soon as someone 
>> touched it, no matter what time it is, or after a certain time. 
>> They wouldn't necessarily be called something different, as they 
>> would still be portkeys in essence.
> Fake!Moody did just that with the Triwizard Cup, and he used the 
> term "portkey" to describe what he turned the Cup into (GoF, Ch. 
> 35).  So it appears as if some portkeys are designed to work at a pre-
> arranged time and others are designed to work upon being touched.

But what happens to a portkey that has a specific time when that time
comes and nobody's holding it? Does it take off on its own, or will it
wait for the first person to touch it? I think it's the latter, so
there's no need for two different types of portkeys.

-- 
Trond Michelsen