extremely uncertain routes

[Johannes Lupin]

No: HPFGUIDX 58557


>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Becky Walkden
><runningbecky2002 at y...> wrote:

>Oh! And don't even ask me what I think about the absurdity of
>Voldemort going through that extremely uncertain route to get
>Harry when he could have had Moody/Crouch use a Portkey at
>any prearranged time of the school year to do the same thing
>with much more certainty.  Even if he had to get Harry away from
>the school first (invite him to Hogsmeade for a butterbear? that
>would have been so much safer and more intelligent.  And I can't
>buy the notion of Voldemort wanting to make a spectacular
>splash.  He wanted want thing.  To use Harry to gain his strength
>back!  Period!

>That's OK.  I STILL love our author!  Huggs Becky

I reply:

I think there is canon evidence to support Voldemort's circuitous
route to Harry in GoF.  First, in SS/PS, the SS is protected by
many enchantments, including LOGIC, as most wizards don't
have an ounce of it.  Obviously it was felt to be an obstacle to
Voldemort.  We don't know if it was Quirrel or Voldemort that
thought their way through that one.  So don't use a Muggle
concept of logic against JKR when it comes to grand and
complicated scenarios.

Secondly, it is acknowledged in GoF that the Flesh, Blood and
Bones incantation/potion(?) is ancient magic.  As certain specific
days and seasonal events were felt to be magically significant in
ancient magic lore, it seems reasonable that it had to be
performed on a specific day, or even at a specific time, or even in
concert with a specific astrological occurence (thus the centaurs
could read it in the heavens).  I don't have the text at hand, but it
would seem the timing of this was toward the end of June, as
Hogwarts Students have a 2 month summer break and always
return to school on September First.  This could correlate with
the start of Summer.  Does anyone else have a reason for the
timing having to be important?

Of course, if a portkey could also trasport thru time as well as
space, then Moody/Crouch Jr could have snatched Harry at
anytime.  I find no canon evidence of this being possible.  We
also have evidence of the Ministry of Magic being influenced by,
and indeed infiltrated by <former> death eaters.  Certainly
influenceing the scheduling of the final event would have been
easy.

JH

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