[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's mission

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 15807

koinonia02 at yahoo.com wrote:

> I want JK to deceive us.  I don't want to see the Polyjuice used so
> soon.  Especially where Snape is concerned.  I want to see *Snape* in
> action as *himself*, not pretending to be someone else.

Yes! Me too.

> I just don't see how Snape and Dumbledore had time to change their
> plans.  There was no time.  How long would it even take to make
> Polyjuice Potion?

This is the best argument for there being no grounds for the
"Impersonate Crouch" theory. It took Hermione a month to make the
Polyjuice Potion. The bits of the other person are added just at the
end, so I'm presuming that for a long-term gig like Crouch Jr. did, you
have a cauldron of "ready to add the last ingredient" simmering and
ready. There's no way that Snape and Dumbledore would have had time to
make the potion, once they realized Crouch was alive.

>  Whatever it was that Dumbledore asked Snape to do, Snape was ready at
> that moment. He wasn't going off to the dungeons to prepare Polyjuice,
> at least not in my opinion.

Mine either. Again, this is the best argument so far against Snape's
using polyjuice to be Crouch. My anal, detailed timelines included.

--Amanda


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