Portkey in GoF

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No: HPFGUIDX 149657

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. 

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.


Sandy here:

How thought provoking this list is. It's wonderful!

The opinion Geoff expressed makes sense. I admit to having wondered how it 
was that the Cup took Harry and Cedric's body back to Hogwarts. It was my 
impression that a portkey was a one-way ticket, so to speak. That impression was 
formed with our introduction to portkeys early in the book. They traveled to the 
QWC via portkey and there were Ministry workers collecting all of the portkeys 
that had been used to transport everyone there. Based on that I formed the 
impression that the portkeys were *programmed* to a certain destination and that 
once there would have to be re-programmed for use again. Otherwise, those 
collecting the portkeys would have been transported back to the portkey's point 
of origin.

Sandy