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***** 'Not being suspected' is irrelevant to Barty's purpose, as his only reason for being there at all is to set up Harry's kindapping. So long as he can physically carry Harry off of Hogwarts grounds, Barty has no reason to come back after that's done. So he really has no excuse for not assigning Harry a detention in the Forbidden Forest, escorting Harry out there himself, and then sapping the kid over the head and bamfing away with him the instant they're outside the Hogwarts immediate anti-Apparition zone. Heck, there's a gift-wrapped opportunity for him to do that in the series; when Barty Sr. caught up to them at the edge of the Forbidden Forest and tried to warn them. Instead of leading Barty Sr. off to be murdered, he should just have left him there with the people and escorted Harry "to Dumbledore's office", and then yoicks and away. Instead, [[Idiot Ball]].
**** In the books, the maze was on the Quidditch Pitch so it was on the school grounds, even though the much larger movie maze may not have been. But this doesn't mean you're wrong as it's implied portkeys can be used in Hogwarts if the person has the authority to do so - Dumbledore made one to send Harry and the Weasleys to Grimmauld Place in ''Order of the Phoenix''. Crouch Jr. wouldn't have been able to make one until Dumbledore gave him permission to do so. (I believe it's pretty widely accepted that the cup would have sent the winner back to the entrance of the maze - he just set a different location!)
**** For that matter, nothing requires the villains to actually wait until Harry's at Hogwarts before kidnapping him. He spent the last part of that summer at the Burrow, which in year 4 was not yet warded with any special security precautions. And Wormtail is intimately familiar with how to sneak in and out of the Burrow, as he lived there as Scabbers the rat for over a decade. Creep in at 3am, drop a portkey on sleeping Harry, done.
*** Also, why did the school's staff let Harry participate? They were aware of the suspiciousness of Harry's name coming out of the goblet, as he said that he didn't put it there, and him participating goes against the rules, which stated that there would be only 3 participants, who also had to be older than what Harry was at that point. Not to mention that Harry himself wasn't even interested in participating in the first place. If they hadn't made him participate, Voldemort wouldn't have been able to restore his body, and Cedric wouldn't have been murdered.
**** It was mentioned earlier that anyone chosen by the Goblet was put under a powerful, binding magical contract, which meant that they ''had'' to participate. Dumbledore warns of this when he tells the students who are of age to not sign up frivolously, but to be certain that they want to potentially go through with it.
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