From: toon@toon.com   
      
   On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:55:19 +1100, Sky Rider    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 3 Jul 2003 07:01:01 -0700, skadabra65@hotmail.com (K2_Greyhame)   
   >wrote:   
   >>lord leto  wrote in message news:<3F040BE8   
   D30EC31C@lycos.de>...   
   >>> tiny little OotP spoiler included...   
   >   
   >>> So you can't apparate or disapparate at Hogwarts. But what is that   
   >>> protection good for when you can obviously use portkeys? In GoF the GoF   
   >>> portkey takes Harry out of and back into Hogwarts. In OotP an outgoing   
   >>> portkey is used in Dumbledore's office.   
   >   
   >>> I guess this has been discussed before because of the GoF portkey. You   
   >>> could argue that the quidditch field (= the maze) may be located outside   
   >>> the protected area. But now the portkey in Dumbledore's office renders   
   >>> the the apparating ban totally useless. Or was it ever mentioned that   
   >>> the protection prohibits incoming portkeys only?   
   >   
   >>> At the moment I don't see what would keep an army of Death Eaters from   
   >>> going after Harry whenever they want to.   
   >   
   >>Well using a portkey is very different from just apparating. It seems   
   >>that it would take considerable time to setup a portkey. A portkey is   
   >>like a gate between two locations, it can transport you between them,   
   >>but you have to set it up at both ends.   
   >   
   >>You can't just take a portkey and set it to take you to Hogwarts, you   
   >>have to set one end of the portkey, set it to your side, set up the   
   >>other side for the porkey to transport to, etc.   
   >   
   >>None of this is explicitly stated by JKR but it seems reasonable to   
   >>assume that a portkey isn't just a roundabout method of apparation,   
   >>since there are many difference b/w it and apparating (i.e portkey   
   >>stays there, it moves with you (i.e Harry using portkey in GoF maze,   
   >>and the portkey reappears on other side) etc.   
   >   
   >   
   >Quite a good point this. DD makes a portkey out of the centaur statue   
   >head in the MoM just by saying 'Porteus' and off Harry goes to DD's   
   >*office*.   
   >   
   >If it's that easy... why doesn't Voldemort do it and send in the   
   >troops??   
   >   
   >The only thing that comes to mind is a line from the film of HBP when   
   >just before DD and Harry apparate out of the school Harry says he   
   >thought it was impossible and DD says "That's one of the benefits iof   
   >being me"... but it's a bit of a weak argument??   
      
   Maybe not.  What if Hogwarts blocks portkeys, unless created by the   
   Headmaster?   
      
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