[HPforGrownups] Snape's mission

[Starling]

No: HPFGUIDX 15777

I'm not sure if this polyjuice potion thing could work.  
After all, one needs something (ie hair) from the person in order for the polyjuice potion to work.  I agree that that sending Snape as Barty jr. would probably be the best cover, but can you make polyjuice potion from a dead person?  After all, Barty kept our dear friend Mad-eye alive to make the potion, or this is the implication i got from the text anyway:
GoF, ch. 35, Veritaserum

"Dumbledore climed into the trunk. lowered himself, and fell lightly onto the floor beside the sleeping Moody.  He bent over him. 
'Stunned --  controlled by the Imperius curse -- very weak,' he said.  'Of course, the would have needed to keep him alive.' 
<snip!>
'The imposter needed, of course, to keep the real Moody close by, so that he could continue to keep making the potion.  You see his hair...' Dumbledore looked down on the Moody in the trunk.  'The imposter has been cutting it off all year, see where it is uneven?' "

To me, this means that one must be alive for a Polyjuice potion to work -- if not, why didn't Barty just chop off all of Moody's hair and just be rid of him?  
I dunno if Snape's mission is to go straight back to You Know Who...he's too valuable to send off on a mission like that.  Knowing JKR's sneaky tendancy to pull tricks, I bet that she'll pull a nice white rabbit out of her hat and surprise us all.  I just have the feeling she wouldn't make it that obivous.

Just my 2 knuts...

Abbie
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Haggridd 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, 02 April, 2001 1:14 AM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Snape's mission


  Hello all, I am not new to Harry Potter, although I am new to this 
  board.  My screen name was Haggridd on another message board.  I am a 
  52 year old OBGYN, reared in NewYork City, and now practicing in 
  Louisiana.  I will review as many of the older posts as I can, but as 
  for now...

  Regarding Snape:
  Has anyone considered that the only way for Snape to complete his 
  mission would be to use polyjuice potion to disguise himself as Barty 
  Crouch, Jr.?  There doesn't seem to be any other reason for the 
  author to have kept him alive.  Voldemort can detect all lies.  Snape 
  may not, therefore, represent himself as a double-turncoat. 
  Voldemort knows Severus's history; he would be caught out.  He must 
  find a situation where he would be accepted, and not asked any 
  embarassing questions.  The Crouch, Jr. scenario satisfies those 
  conditions. None of the Death Eaters knows Crouch, Jr.'s fate.  Even 
  Karkaroff, were he to rejoin the Death Eaters, wouldn't have known 
  that Crouch, Jr. had impersonated Mad-Eye Moody, let alone that Crouch 
  had been the victim of the Dementor's Kiss.

  Well I hope that I haven't resurrected some theory already thoroughly 
  chewed over.  
  Best wishes,
  Haggridd


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