Dumbledore the teacher (was: Umbridge, detention, scars, and plotlines, oh m

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 126186


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant9998" 
<eggplant9998 at y...> wrote:
> 
> A-svirn: 
> 
> >why did LV bother with this tournament 
> > at all? If all he  needed was to arrange
> > a port-key, surely Crouch jr. could 
> > arrange it  any time he wanted without
> > going to such lengths in order to ensure
> > Harry's victory? One can turn ANYTHING 
> > into a portkey, can't one?  And 
> > Crouch-Moody had the whole year 
> > at his disposal. 
> 
> If I were JKR's editor for GoF I would suggest Voldemort say 
something
> like this to his death eaters in the graveyard:
> 
> "There is a powerful spell preventing port keys from working at
> Hogwarts but during the Tri Wizard Tournament people would be
> arriving from all over the world so I knew the spell would have to 
be
> temporarily removed, if not in the castle itself at least on the
> grounds. It also amused me to have Harry Potter whisked away to his
> doom at the very instant he thinks he's going to attain his 
greatest
> triumph. And I did it right under Dumbledore's nose with the entire
> world watching, people can now see with their own eyes which one of
> us is more powerful."
> 
> Now I just need to just figure out why anybody would want to watch
> the second and third tasks. Staring at a hedge and the unruffled
> surface of a lake lacks a certain visual appeal.
> 
> Eggplant

a_svirn:

There is a bit of his speech you forget to mention:

"I also think it's a good policy to keep my faithful followers busy, 
so that they won't have enough leisure time to entertain daydreams 
about the world dominance and immortality".  
a_svirn