[HPforGrownups] Triwizard Cup (was: Prophecy)

[Mira]

No: HPFGUIDX 132733

--- davenclaw <daveshardell at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If it isn't something like that... then this is one
> of those things 
> that we're just supposed to swallow even if we can't
> make sense of 
> it, like why it had to be the tri-wizard cup that
> was made into a 
> portkey. (I've seen interesting explanations for
> this but nothing 
> explicit in the book gives a reason.)

At my last reread of the GoF, I thought that the
explanation might be that it is impossible for anybody
except DD to set portkeys on the grounds of Hogwarts.
However, the cup was already set as a 'local' portkey,
because once the first champion touched it, I don't
think he (or she) had to transport it back to the
maze, I think the cup itself was supposed to take him
(or her) out instantly. Perhaps this lifted the
interdiction on setting portkeys specifically for the
triwizard cup, which is why Fake Moody could only use
this object and none else to take Harry to the
graveyard. I know that the Fake Moody says somewhere
that he transformed the cup into a portkey, but
perhaps this is only because 'local' portkeys are not
customarily called portkeys, but something else, for
instance 'roomkeys'.

What do you think of this explanation?

Mira

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