Portkey in GOF - Logistics

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 149620


 Amiable Dorsai proposed (As a reason for Voldemort to wait until the
Tri-Wizard to snatch Harry):

> > Theater

> Kemper now:
> While Amiable D offers a good reason, I don't see Voldemort as
> attention seeking.  What evidence we've seen is Tom and Voldemort
> as secretive. Voldemort didn't leave his business card at Madam
> Bones residence as proof he was the killer.  He shows up at the
> DoM not to battle.  He's there for the desire to learn the
> prophecy as soon as possible: you'd think he'd learn patience
> after 13 years of being less than spirit, less then the meanest
> ghost.

Amiable Dorsai:
Oh, I don't mean that he's a Tom Cruise type, always seeking the
spotlight, I mean that "Lord Voldemort" is a means to an end for Tommy
Riddle--a persona he uses, as he's used so many other personas, to con
people into doing what he wants.  He's done this most of his life--you
need merely look at the memories in Dumbledore's Pensieve to see it. 
To Armando Dippet, he was The Concerned Head Boy; to Hepzibah Smith,
he was the Ardent Young Suitor; to Horace Slughorn, he was the
Promising Student.  I think he figured out this approach once
Dumbledore showed him he couldn't just bully his way through life.

"Lord Voldemort" is a particularly effective role.  Look at Bella
Lestrange at her trial and Barty Crouch Jr. preparing to kill
Harry--they aren't just gang members, they're fanatics, devoted to
their Dark Lord.  Look at Fudge, willing to slander and ruin a 
teenage hero rather than admit to himself that
He-Who-Scares-the-Crap-Out-of-Most-People is back.

You don't get those kinds of responses out of people accidentally, it
takes deliberation, it takes selling, it takes, in a word, theater.
"Lord Voldemort" is a construct, established and maintained by exactly
the sort of grand gesture that Riddle was planning for Harry's demise
in Little Hangleton's graveyard.  Riddle needs spectacle, and he isn't
going to get it by Portkeying Harry out at just any old time.  He
needs to wait for the moment that creates maximum shock value.  He
would have gotten just that, if Harry would only have died on cue.  

Amiable Dorsai