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[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 80785

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "angelberri56" 
<pokeypokey at c...> wrote:
> There's that one thread that has been pondered numerous 
> times... why didn't Crouch/Moody just turn Harry's pillow or 
> something into a portkey, why did he go through all that trouble 
to 
> get Harry through the Tournament  just so he could touch the 
> Cup?
> 

Because Hogwarts is protected by a variety of wards and spells and 
by some of the greatest wizards in the world. The creation of a 
portkey would be noticed and tracked by the Headmasters just as the 
creation of a portkey in Privet Drive in OOTP would be noticed by 
the ministry. However the Triwizard Cup was always intended to be a 
portkey out of the maze so all Crouch had to do was alter the 
destination of the portkey without having to blow his cover as 
Voldemort's spy under Dumbledore's nose.