Thank you, that has been bothering me ever since I first read GoF!
Likewise. Though it only occured to me on seeing the film that perhaps the Cup was always supposed to be a Portkey - to bring the winner back to the maze entrance and the cheers of the onlookers. I read a theory somewhere that only Headmaster-created/endorsed Portkeys would make it in or out of Hogwarts (if not, then why did Draco not use one to bring in the Death Eaters?), so that CrouchJnr only had to overlay Dumbledore's Portket spell with his own, to divert the Portkey from its proper destination. It also would explain why the Cup returned to Hogwarts when touched in the graveyard.
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Date: 2005-12-27 11:45 pm (UTC)Likewise. Though it only occured to me on seeing the film that perhaps the Cup was always supposed to be a Portkey - to bring the winner back to the maze entrance and the cheers of the onlookers. I read a theory somewhere that only Headmaster-created/endorsed Portkeys would make it in or out of Hogwarts (if not, then why did Draco not use one to bring in the Death Eaters?), so that CrouchJnr only had to overlay Dumbledore's Portket spell with his own, to divert the Portkey from its proper destination. It also would explain why the Cup returned to Hogwarts when touched in the graveyard.