Hello / Portkey

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 161750

---  alick leslie <alick_leslie at ...> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> 
> ...
> 
> I have a query related to GoF ... 
> 
> 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?
> 
> Alick
>


bboyminn:

If you look at all the Portkeys used in the series, you
will see a variety of mean of activating them. Yes, the
Portkey the took everyone to the World Cup was keyed to
'time of day and date'. But we see other Portkeys that
do not follow this model.

The following methods of activation have been seen at 
some point in series-

- specific time of day and date.

- touch activated. In a sense this is time of day and
date but the time is NOW.

- time activated by intent. Similar to touch activated
but the time is, as an illustration, on the count of
three. In this case, when the creator of the Portkey
counts to three, it is his intent that activates it.

- any others I may have forgotten????

As to the specific Portkey in the Tri-Wizards Tournement,
we have theories. First, the Cup is clearly 'touch'
activated. Second, some of us have assumed that the Cup 
was /always/ a Portkey. Since it brough Harry back 
outside the Maze, we assume that it was always intended
to bring the winner back outside the Maze to end that
task, and allow him to be declared the winner. In a 
sense, that is how you would know who the winner was, he
was the person that arrived outside the maze in front 
of the judges holding the Cup.

Now, Moody added a new destination on top of the original
destination. So last on-first off, Moody's destination
was activated first and took Harry to the graveyard. But
the original destination still remained on the Cup. When
Harry touched it the second time, he was taken back 
outside the Maze when he would have, under normal
circumstances, have been instantly declared the winner.

Some dispute this theory, but it is a reasonable path
of logic that make reasonable sense. Other thinks 
that Voldemort had two destination programmed into the
key so that he could send Harry dead body back to 
Dumbledore, which would have been both a disgrace to
Dumbledore and the Ministry, and a declaration of war. 
It would have been an omen to Dumbledore that Dark Days
were now upon him. 

That is a fair summary of our previous discussion. Though
I don't think we have discussed this in a long time.

Hope that helps.

Steve/bboyminn