Digest Number 4283

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No: HPFGUIDX 91744

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Darrell Harris <tigerfan41 at y...>
wrote:
> It is not that I had trouble understanding the way the
portkeys worked at the QWC, it was that there is not
consistency across the board with regard to portkeys.  The TWC portkey
takes them to the graveyard when they touch it not at a specific pre
arranged time. Last time I checked, I am not able to touch an airplane
and leave.

>No where is it stated they always work at prearranged times or
instantly. All we know from cannon is they transport everyone touching
them to a predetermined location. Until I'm told otherwise by the
narrator I'm going to believe the one casting the charm has some
leeway as to the time the portkey will be active.

Now Entropy:

Jumping into this thread late, so I hope I'm not being redundant:

(COS, ch6)"...we use Portkeys. They're objects that are used to
transport wizards from one spot to another *at a prearranged time*..." 

Then, later, " '...must be nearly time,' said Mr. Weasly, pulling out
his watch again...'three...," muttered Mr. Weasley, one eye still on
his watch, "two...one..."

So, portkeys are like trains, buses, planes, etc. Hop onto one and
leave at a prearranged time.

So, why would JKR do all this explanation and demonstration of how a
portkey worked (she named the whole chapter after one!), and then have
the Triwizard Cup transport Harry/Cedric when they *touched* it? I
don't have an answer for this; just being rhetorical.

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