[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's mission

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 15806

Rachel Taylor wrote:

> >A kiss-victim, despite having their soul sucked out, is still alive
> >at some level, if only an elementary biological one. Is that
> >sufficient for Polyjuice purposes?  Time will tell.
> 
> I always thought that Polyjuice turned you into the person that they were at
> that moment.  So if Snape was to use the Polyjuice and turn into  crouch jr
> now, he would turn into the soul less shell....  It makes sense, just like
> if you turned yourself into Dumbledore, you would turn into Dumbledore as he
> is now, not as he was 25 years ago...

Wouldn't that have meant Harry and Ron turning into an
unconscious, potion-drugged Crabbe and Goyle?  Or Barty Jr.
turning into an unconscious Moody, for that matter.  At the very
least, there has to be some wiggle room, temporally.
 
> I also agree with whoever it was that said that Polyjuice is used up as a
> plot device... It seems to me that JK will come up with a new way to decive
> us, everyone will be looking for Polyjuice now.

That, I agree with.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>