[HPforGrownups] Re: The Polyjuice Potion and Mrs Crouch in Azkaban

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No: HPFGUIDX 32058

In a message dated 11/23/2001 1:12:45 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
cindysphynx at home.com writes:


> 
> I think that this issue is curious and is somewhat unclear based on 
> GoF, but it probably still holds up reasonably well.
> 
> Perhaps Mrs. Crouch took the potion hourly until she died.  
> Fortunately, she died before she ran out of potion.  Fortunately, she 
> didn't lapse into a two-hour period of unconsciousness before dying 
> that would have prevented her from drinking the potion hourly.  
> 
> It seems that once a person dies, they remain in their "polyjuiced" 
> state, meaning that Mrs. Crouch went to the grave looking like her 
> son.  We could think of polyjuice potion as something that gets 
> metabolized, and once she has died, the polyjuice potion stops 
> wearing off.  We know Mrs. Crouch still looked like her son when she 
> died because Sirius says he saw them take Crouch Jr.'s body away.
> 

Yes, Barty Crouch Jr. does say that his mother was buried looking like him so 
everyone thought that he was dead.  Then, they staged a mock burial when the 
mother supposedly dies and that grave is empty.

Harriet


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