offbeat - and must have been discussed to the pulp before too..

[scamjunk22]

No: HPFGUIDX 144835

Sorry people, if I am asking something that has already been discussed 
to the hilt before... but this was such a nagging doubt that I had to 
post....

We see in GoF that the portkey and the Apparating are used with the 
same purpose ... to transport to some other place. Then, how is it that 
PortKeys work inside the Hogwarts grounds!  Isn't it possible then, 
that Draco need not have spent an entire year repairing the Vanishing 
cabinet... instead they could have just conjured a portkey and come 
there!  We have seen a DE conjuring the portkey to go out of and 
come back into Hogwarts before (GoF)... and from the Ministry to 
Hogwarts in OotP... so why wasn't it thought of?

regards,
scam.