The Only One He Ever Feared

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 92485

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<american_sweetie_xoxo at y...> wrote:
> So we all know that one cannot disapparate or apparate inside 
> Hogwarts or the Ministry. Well I was a little confused at the battle 
> between Voldemort and Dumbledore.....It says in the book 
> that "Voldemort was standing on the plinth in the middle of the pool 
> where so recently the five statues had stood." Then it goes on to 
> say " Then he was gone." Ok what happen there? This is the same pool 
> where Harry himself took the portkey back to Hogwarts as instructed 
> by Dumbledore. Did Voldemort take the portkey? It seems to me that 
> only Fudge and Dumbledore knew of that porkey's location so how would 
> the V-man know where it was? Because to me it sounded like all the 
> statues had to be removed from that pool before that portkey could be 
> used and that the statues came to life to help Dumbledore by so 
> doing making the portkey readily available. I know V-man has quite a
few 
> informants within the Ministry but this was something I wasn't sure 
> of..if he disapparated or if he used to portkey to escape.....and 
> one last question .....why didn't Voldemort just use one of the 3 
> unforgiveable curses on Dumbledore? Is he protected from this curse?

Annemehr:
Good questions!  It's not really spelled out, but I think we can make
some pretty good guesses.  Here are mine:

***Entry into the ministry: In ch. 7, when Arthur took Harry into the
MoM via the telephone box/elevator, they arrived in the hall that had
the golden statues in it.  In the same hall, Harry also saw this:

"The walls on each side were paneled in shiny dark wood and had many
gilded fireplaces set into them.  Every few seconds a witch or wizard
would emerge from one of the left-hand fireplaces with a soft
/whoosh;/ on the right-hand side, short queues of wizards were forming
before each fireplace, waiting to depart."

Also:
"Glittering jets of water were flying from the ends of the two wands,
the point of the centaur's arrow the tip of the goblin's hat and each
of the house-elf's ears, so that the tinkling hiss of falling water
was added to the pops and cracks of Apparators and the clatter of
footsteps as hundreds of witches and wizards [...] strode toward a set
of golden gates at the far end of the hall."

The set of golden gates leads to the elevators going to the rest of
the MoM.  So apparently everyone *does* Floo, apparate, or take the
visitors elevator into this one hall in order to enter the MoM, which
makes sense for security reasons. I realise you've already said this,
but, hey, I have my book, so why not give the canon reference?  :-)

***The battle between LV and DD:  When Voldemort disappeared from the
plinth (from inside the fountain's water in which DD had trapped him),
I assumed he had indeed apparated to somewhere out of sight.  Exactly
where he went, I'm not sure -- somewhere he could safely leave his
body? -- because just a few seconds later he was possessing Harry.  He
did *not* use a portkey, however, because Dumbleodore hadn't created
it yet.

It is only after Voldemort and Bellatrix are gone, and Dumbledore has
promised Fudge to give him a half hour's worth of explanation, that he
*creates* the portkey to send Harry back to Hogwarts:

"[Dumbledore] walked away from the pool to the place where the golden
wizard's head lay on the floor.  He pointed his wand at it and
muttered, /'Portus.'/  The head glowed blue and trembled noisily
against the wooden floor for a few seconds, then became still once more.
"'Now see here, Dumbledore!' said Fudge, as Dumbledore picked up the
head and walked back to Harry carrying it.  'You haven't got
authorizaton for that Portkey![...]'"

So while Voldemort was still around, there wasn't any Portkey yet. 
It's not the location that's the portkey, it was the broken statue
head itself that Dumbledore turned into a portkey when he wanted to
send Harry back to Hogwarts quickly.  Dumbledore himself Flooed back
to his office, but I suppose Harry couldn't have Flooed into the
headmaster's office, so DD had to create a portkey for him to get there.

***The unforgivables:  Voldemort did try to AK Dumbledore several
times.  There were several jets of green light he fired at him. 
Fawkes swallowed one of them and burst into flame and became a little
chick again.  Dumbledore was just too quick to be cursed like that.

Hope that helps!  :-)

Annemehr
who tried to get a question on the chat about trying to portkey and
Floo in and out of Hogwarts...