Hey, Brother! Jay we have said it many times on this channel but never, I repeat, never
hire Voldemort to plan your wedding
I Mean You probably wouldn't anyway as far as I gather he doesn't really understand like the whole
love thing but you probably wouldn't anyway because you know he's
dead so there's that. But most specifically you shouldn't hire him because he sucks
at planning stuff. Was it really necessary
for Harry to win the triwizard cup for him to kidnap him?
It seems like there would have been easier ways to do it but
then again the plan doesn't exactly go smoothly so maybe the real issue is that we don't know his entire plan, but today
we think we have it figured out
Hey Brother
Now I say we but I would like to give credit to
Miraniel who actually came up with a very similar theory that heavily inspired
Ours I will put a link in the description to his full article
Okay so to be fair to Voldemort the fact that he pulled off anything at all is pretty dang miraculous
First he sends Barty Crouch Jr. who has just spent
over a decade in Azkaban prison and then another year living under the imperius curse with his father to
Overpower none other than Mad-eye Moody
You know Just Mad-Eye Moody the insanely tough
battle-tested War Veteran best order of his time Mad-Eye Moody
Obvious target for a guy who hasn't practiced magic in like 15 Years
Somehow that works though and then his job is just to impersonate that guy for you know an entire year on the fly
Just impersonate a guy who has two major disabilities
missing an eye and a leg How hard could it be to get used to that really quickly?
And this isn't book canon but
for some reason in the movie the Polyjuice Potion doesn't come with
voices so in that case he's also
faking a voice for an entire year
But we go by book canon around here so it doesn't really affect this argument at all it's
just one of these things that annoyed me and i needed to find a way to complain about it
But after that all he has
to do is you know bewitch a super powerful magical artifact, the goblet of fire, get Harry's name to come out of It and then
get him to the center of the maze first
By the way he totally acts like Harry needs to actually like do well at the first
two tasks which he definitely doesn't
All that really matters to him in the end is that he touches the cup first Harry actually has to
compete in the tournament because of a binding magical contract
And Crouch just like zaps the other contestants while he's in the maze anyway so
What does it really matter where Harry stands at that point?
And why why why do they leave the blast-ended skrewts
Out of the movie it has nothing at all to do with this theory but again I needed a place to complain about it
But whatever even if that's the plan and even if that's a little convoluted
That's not even the biggest problem, the biggest problem is the triwizard cup
If you will recall earlier in the book JK Rowling sets up the idea of a
port key when Harry and The Weasleys travel to the Quidditch World cup
Whose omission by the way from the movie is like even worse than
The blast-ended skrewt but hey at least we got to see a giant wall of Krum's face right
That was sarcasm I wasn't excited about that part
Anyway when port keys are first explained to us it works a little bit like this
If you are touching a specific object at a specific time you will be transported to a specific place
But alas The Triwizard cup, the port key at the center of the maze,
Does not exactly follow these rules
It is basically just waiting for the first person to touch It
And according to Pottermore this is actually how most port keys work
Instead of needing to touch It at a specific time it's more just for security purposes
if there's tons of people heading to one location like The Quidditch World Cup
Either way that's not what's weird about it
What is weird about it is the fact that it is enchanted to work
twice and not back and forth From the same place
The first time Harry grabs it he is transported to the Graveyard but the second
time he grabs it he's transported back to the school but not to the center of the maze
at the entrance of the maze
This is kind of interesting because It could suggest that The Triwizard cup was intended to be a port key the whole time
As in the triwizard tournament Aka the most Boring spectator sport in all of history
Would be the most boring at the most exciting moment
Which is when somebody actually wins
So if you can imagine cannon fires
contestants enter the maze somewhere deep in the maze you can't see into
Someone wins the tournament
Also would probably suck having to find your way like back out of the maze to show everyone your new fancy glowing cup
I have my own, no big deal
But if it was intended to be a port key the whole time it could be so much more exciting
Everyone enters the maze someone finds the middle of the maze and boom
There they are holding the cup right at the entrance of the maze
And the crowd goes wild!
[cheering]
It would make sense but doesn't yet explain how
Voldemort's plan could have been a little more elaborate than what we saw
And besides that even if that was the plan
Barty Crouch is the last person to handle the cup before Harry and Cedric touch it
So clearly he programmed it to go off twice
What gives
Why might Voldemort want to come back to Hogwarts?
Because again worst case scenario for Voldemort and his return is
Everyone learning that it happened especially Dumbledore and people at The Ministry all of whom are currently at Hogwarts
I mean he must have wanted to send someone back then though, but who?
Maybe he would want to send Harry's body back to flaunt his victory
And yet that's no good for one he keeps promising
Nagini that she can eat Harry after he's killed him and two again he wanted to
return in secret, the fact that Harry is able to return and alert Dumbledore and Fudge that he's back is a
huge problem for his plan or at least it should be, except Fudge is the frickin worst
Maybe he wanted to bring his entirely newly formed body and his army back to Hogwarts and stage a surprise attack
But again same problem
Wants to return in secret not in front of Dumbledore
So why the return function if sending anyone back at all basically reveals your return and you fully plan on killing Harry
Because not sending Harry back is almost just as bad as revealing yourself
If Harry just disappears into the maze and never returns
Maybe not everyone would figure it out but I have a feeling Dumbledore would
And in any case Harry is kind of famous and I have a feeling
The entire wizarding world would sort of be interested in
wondering why he disappeared
So how do you kill Harry without anybody finding out that he's dead
And also not letting anyone know that you have returned?
Only there was a way in the Wizarding World
To look like someone else Oh yeah wait  "Polyjuice potion"
The exact thing that your secret agent has been using all year to great effect
It's perfect really nobody can see what's happening inside the maze
because it's the worst spectator sport ever and there's no time limit
so it doesn't matter how long It takes
Harry goes into the maze, touches the cup, gets murdered
someone takes a piece of his hair, returns through the front of The Triwizard tournament
Exactly where it's supposed to end looking exactly like Harry
And Nagini gets to enjoy a nice dinner Which actually sounds kind of delightful
Or or morbid maybe I always get those confused
Now Miraniel thinks that Voldemort himself would come back as Harry
And this is where we start to disagree we don't think Voldemort
Quite wants to enter the fray yet I mean after all he
Just got converted from being like a weird infant slug thing
Plus there's no way that he could fool Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore as a
Fake Harry but you know who might be able to
The guy who literally lived with Ron, Harry, and Hermione as a rat
for three years: Peter Pettigrew
Not only is he the best person for the job but he is actually the one person that Voldemort
Absolutely knows is going to be in the graveyard with him and is one of his most trusted
Servants and that is what I believe is Voldemort's true and complete Plan
For Harry to absolutely arrive at the graveyard through the cup so that he's able to kill him
And then return as an impostor and get whatever
Information or possibly even kill Dumbledore
That is if Wormtail could get past Crookshanks which I doubt
For my question of the day What do you guys think? Does this
help clear up a little bit if a plot hole?
Was this Voldemort's complete plan? Please leave your thoughts in the towel section down below
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