Snape brewing Polyjuice Potion (was: Snape the spy)

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> > > > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> 
> > wrote about Snape´s task at the end of GoF:

> What if he made up a batch of potion using hair from the soul 
> sucked 
> > > Barty Crouch Jnr and then went to see Voldemort posing at his 
> most 
> > > loyal servant.
> > 
> > The problem is that very little time elapses between when they 
> found 
> > out that Barty Crouch has been sucked soul-less and when 
Dumbledore 
> > says to Snape "You know what you have to do."  Whatever it is, it 
> has 
> > to be something they have planned out in advance.  


I find that an excellent idea (and far more subtle than Snape 
transforming into Harry). It opens endless possibilities to how 
the Snape-Voldemort-relationship will go on.

There´s two problems, though:

1. Brewing the P.Potion takes four weeks, as we know from CoS. Unless 
you suggest Snape always has some of it brewing somewhere in case 
anyone wants to transform into someone else, it doesn´t seem a task he 
will be able to accomplish in a time as short as that.

2. If you take the P.Potion with hair from the "soul sucked" Barty C., 
won´t you turn out to become just as "soul sucked" as he is?
Or is the transformation entirely reserved to the outward likeness of 
the other person?