Dumbledore the teacher (was: Umbridge, detention, scars, and plotlines, oh my!.

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 126222


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatelderone" 
<greatelderone at y...> wrote:
 

a_svirn:
> > Maybe it's just the way portkeys are made – as a return ticket, 
> > rather then a single one?
 
GEO: Then why outside the maze? He and Cedric were taken to the 
> graveyard at the maze's center so shouldn't he have been spit back 
> out at the center instead of outside the maze according to your 
> theory?

meltowne: Maybe because he didn't change the ultimate destination of 
the portkey, but hijacked it.  Thus it took Harry to the graveyard as 
a detour and then when he touched it again, it took him to its 
original destination.

It also seems to me that if the portkey was able to transport Harry 
to the graveyard, then perhaps all of DD's guards on Hogwarts were 
down.  Maybe it had something to do with the monsters and the way the 
maze was set up.  That would also mean that any Death Eaters who were 
at Hogwarts may in fact have been able to apparate to the graveyard, 
and Snape might have been there, if he had been in a position to 
disappear without being noticed - or with DD's permission.  We know 
Crouch Jr wasn't there, and Karkarov, but this opens possibilities 
for the other missing Death Eater.  I think JRK wanted us to assume 
Snape wouldn't be there because he couldn't leave Hogwarts, but maybe 
he could.