Hello / Portkey

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 161747

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jajaredor" <jajaredor at ...> wrote:
>
> > > Alick:
> <SNIP>
> > > The portkey in GoF that took Harry and Cedric to LV also took
> Harry
> > > back: how did it work? If young Crouch set it up he surely
> wouldn't
> > > arrange a return journey; and I thought portkeys were time-
> specific,
> > > you couldn't just touch one and be off.
> > >
> > > The portkeys at the world cup appear to be time-specific and one-
> way
> > > use, so how did this one example work as a return and at any
> time?

Jade:
> Hello,
> 
> I was cleaning up my mailbox and run across this spot. Anyways,
> planned by Voldemort or not to return Harry to Hogwarts after he has
> been slayed by him, Harry couldn't have known when the portkey-cup
> was going to be activated seeing as portkeys are supposedly time
> triggered. Maybe it is not a portkey or maybe it is, just that Moody
> did a bit of modification? Just like Hermione has been doing to the
> other spell/charm to suit her needs.
> 
> I wish it could have been explained to us a bit more.

Geoff:
This has been discussed previously; I haven't had time to try to find 
posts as it was a long time ago. One theory which was advanced (not 
mine by the way)was that the TWT Cup-Portkey was set up at 
Dumbledore's bidding to return the winnig candidate to the start and 
that Moody modified it to go via the graveyard, the intent being that 
Voldemort would then return Harry's body that way to tell the world 
what had happened.