Portkey

Portkey is a term I borrowed from Harry Potter to capture the impact of trauma on our experience of time.

Robert D. Stolorow: Portkeys to 9/11 2008

So I arranged a Portkey and that was the last I saw of him.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Mr. Weasley had therefore gone to meet the Delacours on top of a nearby hill, where they were to arrive by Portkey.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

“It was a ball of light, kind of pulsing, and bluish, like that light you get around a Portkey, you know?”

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

He's made it an imprisonable offense to connect this house to the Floo Network, place a Portkey here, or Apparate in or out.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

With a jerk behind the navel as though an invisible hook and line had dragged him forward, Harry was pulled into nothingness, spinning uncontrollably, his finger glued to the Portkey as he and Hagrid hurtled away from Mr. Tonks.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Mr. Weasley had therefore gone to meet the Delacours on top of a nearby hill, where they were to arrive by Portkey.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Once you're within the boundaries of the protective enchantments we've put on their house you'll be able to use a Portkey to the Burrow.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

"The Portkey, " he said, remembering all of a sudden.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

"Ron and Tonks should have been back first, but they missed their Portkey, it came back without them, " she said, pointing at a rusty oil can lying on the ground nearby.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007