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| | Overanalyzing the Text: HPfGU#40412: The Triwizard Portkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | He also, whether intentionally or not, changed it from a one-way Portkey, designed only to carry its user from the center of the maze to its periphery, to a duel-use Portkey, designed first to carry its user to the graveyard and then back to the periphery of the maze. |
 | | It means that the first time that the Portkey is touched, it will follow its new orders ("take user to graveyard"), while the second time it is touched, it reverts to its original programming ("take user to periphery of maze.") |
 | | That's certainly a possibility, although I think that I still prefer the idea that the plan was originally to use the Portkey's secondary destination, either to descend on Hogwarts or simply to send Harry's corpse back as a nice little message for the wizarding world. |
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