Portkey in GOF

[Ana]

No: HPFGUIDX 149539

David:
> <snip> 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?


Ana:
I can only guess. Perhaps he figured that if Harry had gone missing in 
an ordinary day, Dumbledore wouldve known or suspected that something 
odd had happened and could have tried to rescue him. That would make 
things harder to LV (specially if he still didnt have a suitable body 
of his own). 
I think that by making the Cup the portkey, he guaranteed that no one 
would go looking for Harry for a few hours, because they didnt know 
what was going on inside the maze, so they simply wouldnt assume 
anything was wrong.