Bravo! That sounds right!

Thats what I was thinking

it is set for a certain amount of time, so he could of set it from the start of the tournament till like 5 hours on

i have to agree with this.

Yes, Im so confused now. More than ever!

i think the tri wizard cup was, like has been said before, was a touch based portkey... how ever on the point of how it got them back to the stadium is where it gets muddy.. i think that dumboldore was the one who reactivated the port key like he did for harry in the ootp with the statue. however i am not saying anyone is wrong that is just my idea.... i love hearing theories it really gets me thinking

Yeah i agree. It was Harry's parents that told him to let go. Their echo...............so that's how he got back.

[quote]Well, if you remember, at the end of the book 5 Dumbledore tells Harry that Mad Eye wasn't really Mad Eye. He was replaced by someone else--used the Polyjuice Potion. So in theory, Mad Eye didn't really put the portkey in the maze, someone else did. Can't remember for sure who, but Mad Eye was not the one that made the triwizard cup a portkey. I think it was one of Voldemort's supporters[quote]
I think it was preplanned by the death eaters so that harry gets transported to the voldermort.

yes, Moody planned it out that Harry would touch the cup first.

madeye made sure that harry got to the cup so that he would be transported to voldemort.portkeys can be used at anytime like at the quidditch world cup they were used to get there and then after the deathmark when everyone waited til morning to go home they used the same portkeys.

u have got me confused but i think that mad eye set it all up n i dont remember the portkey at the world cup thing disscarded

i mean this totally explains why harry got into the portkey first. as for how it brought harry back and forth, it was definitely a charm.

yea, it was a charm, and i think that the spell was new, that's why it was ok for Harry to touch the portkey. Moody must have put it on when he was sure that Harry would touch the portkey. But if Moody was patrolling the hedges, why didn't he attack Cedric?

A portkey is a transportation devise which can be programmed any way you desire.

Once created by using the Portus spell, a portkey can be set to transport anybody who touches it to a designated location, or to become active at a pre-determined time and transport to that location anybody who happens to be touching it at the moment.

Also the Department of Ministries, Portkey Office, must give authority before the caster can create a portkey.

I believe an object that appears to be worthless junk is used so attention isn't drawn to the portkey. If a muggle came upon a mucky old boot in a field they woudn't pick it up. But if it was an object of worth they might. Even though a muggle coudn't use it, neither could the wizard who placed it there.

This is my theory, and I also believe that it is activated by touch.

Muggles could use it though... right? In the book Mr. Weasley says 'we wouldn't want muggles to pick them up and start playing with them.' when he is talking to Harry.

I agree with the whole "portkeys activated by touch" thing, but I don't understand how it could be re-used to get back. Maybe they used a special kind of spell or something. Like they can send Patronuses with messages. An advanced way to do it. I don't know...

i know that Mad Eye made it easier and made sure Harry got to the cup.
but your right isnt there a specific time the portkey leaves?
like at the begininng of GoF, Mr. Weasley is like we have to hurry and get to the portkey!
i think you can choose tho..it can be activated by touch too i guess.

but i dont know how it transported them back..
was that just in the movie? cant remember..
but thats weird. unless its a special kind of portkey? idk.

It's definite that Crouch charmed the Tri Cup so that whoever touched it first would be transported to the graveyard. He manipulated the third task so that Harry would touch the cup first (Cedric wasn't supposed to have touched it at all). It's possible that a Portkey is only active for a certain amount of time while it's charmed, but the transport to the World Cup was a different situation than with Crouch. The World Cup Portkeys were set up at certain points of time all over the world, while Crouch only needed that cup to work once. Whether or not Portkeys are for one way transport is kinda irrelevant, I think. Portkeys are for quick transport, and I'm sure that wizards can set them up in any matter they please. I mean, who saw the Tri Cup being a Portkey ahead of time? Not me

but i still thought portkeys could only be used once.
didn't Mr. Weasley say something about that in GoF?
like Harry asked where are we going? and he was like we have to get to the other portkey?
or something like that..haha cant remember.

I thought that portkeys went only one way but its a Magical world and you never know what will happen. Exspect the unexspected