Polyjuice Potion and Snape and/or Draco Parallel Transformations

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 14248

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Margaret Dean <margdean at e...> wrote:
> Amanda Lewanski wrote:
> > 
> > Margaret Dean wrote:
> > 
> > > It makes me wonder about the effects of using a Polyjuice Potion
> > > long-term, and how much of the false "Moody" actually =was= 
Moody and
> > > not an act. 
> > Thus, I would have thought spending a length of time in animal 
form
> > would affect your thinking---but here's Pettigrew, twelve years 
as a rat
> > under his belt, effortlessly picking up where he left off as a 
human.
> 
> Unless he sneaked off every so often during those twelve years
> and became a man again for a few hours (maybe long enough to
> visit the local pub...).
> 

I can just visualize Scabbers sneaking out of the Burrow and 
transforming into Wormtail for a few hours in the middle of the night 
every few weeks, sitting among the gnomes and the chickens, bemoaning 
the loss of his master and cursing those bratty twins who kept 
persecuting Percy, his master and only friend...
And I can see Percy pouring out his secrets to his little pet rat, 
and sulking when Molly insisted that he give little Scabbers to Ron, 
the summer before Ron started at Hogwarts. "You don't want Hermes to 
eat Scabbers, do you?"

Also wanted to note - Crouch wasn't allowed a wand while under his 
father's control, so (a) was he using the Real Moody's wand, and if 
so, how did he get it to work as well as he did? Was he practicing 
little charms in the evenings to get the feel of it? Or did he really 
intend to turn Draco into a French poodle, but messed the 
transfiguration up?

And speaking of Draco, which I so often do, I have to insist that 
Snape is *not* Mr Darcy. He can't be! Apart from the fact that 
Elizabeth IS Hermione, and there's NO future for the two of them, it 
is clear (in my private universe) that Draco is Darcy. See! 5 letter 
names starting with D, which also contain an A, a C, an R and a vowel 
(or at least a sometimes-vowel). For more proof, go to my fanfic, 
Homage, at http://www.fanfiction.net/index.fic?action=story-
read&storyid=209007 : )