Portkey
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| Portkey | |
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By using Portus on any object |
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Transports people to a pre-determinated destination |
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A Portkey is an object enchanted to bring anyone who touches it to a specific location. Most of the time, a Portkey is an everyday object that would not draw the attention of a Muggle. Travelling by Portkey is said to feel like having a hook "somewhere behind the navel" pulling the traveller to their location.
Portkeys have an advantage over Floo powder in that they may transport many people at once, but each Portkey can only transport its users to one destination. Unlike Apparition, Portkeys may also be used by anyone, possibly even Muggles, though there are no known instances of this occurring. Portkeys travel to the destination along with their users. With some Portkeys, touching it again transports the users back to their original location. Others, however, can be handled after their use without effect.
Some Portkeys are preset to travel to their destinations at a specific time. Examples include the Portkeys that transported wizards to the Quidditch World Cup in 1994 and the ones that transported members of the Order of the Phoenix from safehouses to the Burrow after the Battle over Little Whinging in 1997. Other Portkeys are triggered immediately by a person's touch; examples include the Triwizard Cup, which transported Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory to Little Hangleton, and the broken statue head that sent Harry Potter back to Hogwarts after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. It is unknown how one effects the difference between the two types of Portkeys.
