Why did the portkey take Harry and the other Hogwarts contestant to Voldemort?
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), during the hedge maze, you must have quick reactions otherwise you can get taken out by sudden traps.
Both Harry and the other Hogwarts contestant are shown below:
They have to run to make it to the portkey to avoid being swallowed by the maze walls.
The portkey, the blue light behind the two, is the one that took the two to Voldemort.
Why did this portkey take the two to Voldemort when the other portkeys took other contestants back to the start?
Best Answer
This question has been discussed in Why was the Triwizard cup portkey in Goblet of Fire two-way? and Why Did the Triwizard Portkey Return Harry to the Outer Edge of the Maze?.
In short, the portkey already contained the charm that would teleport the winner (the first person who touched it) to the beginning of the maze — this was by design of the tournament. Note that only one such portal existed, because there was only one cup, to be held by the only winner (Harry and Cedric weren't expected to touch it together).
It's possible that Barty Crouch Jr. couldn't remove that charm (or didn't bother to, or it'd alert someone), so he put the charm that teleported Cedric and Harry to the graveyard on top of the existing charm.
Thus we have two layers: the outer layer (put by Crouch Jr.) teleports you to the graveyard; the inner layer (by design of the tournament) teleports you to the beginning of the maze.
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Why did the trophy take Harry to Voldemort?
It was essential to Voldemort's plan for it to be the cup. Above all, he (Harry) was supposed to die in the graveyard and it could have been framed as an accident (much like how the Ministry potrayed Cedric's death). No one but the Death Eaters were to know of Voldemort's return.Why was the Triwizard Cup a two way portkey?
The Cup was a portkey to the stage outside the Maze, so that there could be no argument over who first laid hands on it. This is why it was made exempt from the Hogwarts wards against portkeys. So all Crouch had to do was add a second Portus on top of the first one.Why use the Goblet of Fire as a portkey?
As well, Voldemort was very weak physically throughout Goblet of Fire -- perhaps it was a timing issue -- Voldemort may not have been strong enough to withstand the regeneration potion until the time of the third task, and so the Triwizard cup made sense logistically as the Portkey to the graveyard. Crouch Jr.Why did the portkey bring Harry back?
Voldermort did not want the wizarding world to know he had returned. Was the plan was to kill Harry at the graveyard and return his body to Hogwarts via the portkey so people would assume he died as a freak accident in the tournament (much like Cedric).Harry Potter Theory: Voldemort’s FULL Tri-Wizard Cup Plan!
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Answer 2
I think it is just for convenience of the movie, as it makes for a much more significant transition. Teleporting from a graveyard filled with Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort to a screaming and cheering crowd of his fellow classmates really helps to put the viewer (In my opinion) in a much better feeling of unease and discomfort to help show what Harry must be experiencing.
Answer 3
The other two contestants are injured/cursed during the last task. Harry and Cedric send up sparks to notify the judges/professors that there's an emergency. They were not portkeyed out of the maze.
As to WHY Harry is portkeyed to the Riddle estate, it's to use Harry in a ritual to give Voldemort a body since he was too weak before. (In the first book, he partially possesses Quirrell's body all year).
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