Snape brewing Polyjuice Potion (was: Snape the spy)

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 18272

--- lea.macleod at gmx.net wrote:
> 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
> doesnt seem a task he 
> will be able to accomplish in a time as short as
> that.

Brewing the potion takes 4 weeks, but the bit of the
person you want to be turned into doesn't have to be
added until the end.  Snape could very well have been
planning on turning himself into a DE still in favor
and so had some brewing just in case, but then when
Crouch Jr. showed up they decided to use him so they
wouldn't have to bother kidnapping another DE.

> 2. If you take the P.Potion with hair from the "soul
> sucked" Barty C., 
> wont 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?

The transformation seems to be limited to outer
appearance only.  Harry and Ron didn't take on any
characteristics of Crabbe and Goyle other than their
physical appearances.



Andrea

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