[HPforGrownups] Cop-out

[Daniel Siegmann]

No: HPFGUIDX 25076



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tabouli [mailto:tabouli at unite.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:13 AM
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Cop-out, Harry's death, the foundering ship
> S/L, Minerva's bra, V
>
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> Admittedly Polyjuice is physically ingested, not holistically
> wand-waved, but hey, it's Magic after all...

I think you've just answered your own question here. A potion can only
affect what it touches. If a person drinks it, they are affected as a whole.
It could only effect something besides the drinker's body if it was spilled
on another object - and who knows what effect polyjuice potion would have on
clothes?

> The people who reminded me about the spectacle patterns on Rita
> and McGonagall had a point, though.  However, given that it's
> *just spectacles* that seem to have this property, I suspect this
> may point to something else.  Once upon a time people were
> wondering why so many wizards need eyesight correction when they
> can regrow the bones of an entire arm overnight... could it be
> that there's more to wizard glasses than meets the eye...?

The spectacles left a mark, but that doesn't mean robes, along with whatever
was in them, didn't transform as well.

Wizards' glasses having special powers is certainly possible. However, I'd
point out that poor eyesight is a genetic deficiency, while not having bones
was not. Repair damage is easy enough, but it would be more difficult to
correct genetic problems. OTOH, if laser eye surgery can do it, I'd think
magic could too.

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Draxon Varradami
gandalf at optonline.net