Portkey in GOF

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 149532

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David" <foodiedb@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > Once again, I am sorry if this has been covered, but if not:  I 
> was 
> > wondering why Crouch/Moody went through all of that trouble to 
> have 
> > Harry go through the tournament and then make the Goblet the 
> portkey.  Why didn't he, for example, just make Harry's toothbrush 
> or pillow the portkey?
> 
> Tonks:
> I was under the impression that just as you can not apparate out of 
> Hogwarts you also can not transport out via a portkey either. The 
> only reason the goblet portkey worked was because DD had make it 
> into one that would have transported the winner out of the mass. I 
> assume that because DD lowered the defenses to allow for that one 
> object to be a portkey that this was the only object that 
> Crouch/Moody could use. And he just changed the location of 
> transport, which for some reason bypassed any defense system that 
> should have been in place to prevent a change of location. 
> 
> I could be wrong, but that is my take on it.

Geoff:
This opinion has been expressed on a number of occasions except that there has been a 
general view that Crouch!Moody didn't change the location but added an intermediate 
stop, the thought being that, having killed Harry, Voldemort would take great pleasure in 
returning the body to Hogwarts via Dumbledore's original setting.