“Why did Harry have to be the one to locate and destroy the horcruxes? I’m sure others (e.g. Kingsley, Moody et al) could have done a much better job.”
Imagine if Harry knew nothing about the Horcruxes, and Moody, kingsley etc. destroyed them all. Then, after Snape died, Harry learned that he would have to die, because there was a piece of Voldemort’s soul in him, one of the Horcruxes. He would have no idea that the others had all been destroyed – therefore, why SHOULD he give up his life, when it might be for nothing? For all he’d know, there could be five Horcruxes out there still. Once he dies, Voldemort will take over, and there’s no knowing that kingsley etc. would survive….. Harry gave up his life, since he had just dedicated the last year to destroying Horcruxes. When he knew the job was nearly finished, and that he was dying al kiddush Hashem, that’s when he had the courage to face Voldemort and be killed.
“Why did (fake) Moody have to devise the entire elaborate plan of entering Harry into the tournament, and helping him every step of the way, and volunteering to carry the cup etc.? He could have skipped all of that and just turned any random thing into a portkey at any random time and he would have achieved the same result of getting Harry to the graveyard, with a lot less suspicion created along the way.”
He couldn’t just make anything a Portkey. He wanted ONLY HARRY in the graveyard. If he turned any random thing into a portkey, how could he know that no other student would touch it? Even in his office – there have been numerous times where students sneaked into teachers’ offices and touched/taken things they werent supposed to. So it had to be in the maze.
“Well, READ Harry Potter and you won’t be so flabbergasted!”
SO TRUE!