[HPforGrownups] Snape brewing Polyjuice Potion or Snape the "Bat"

[Lumen Dei]

No: HPFGUIDX 18374

Hello!  I am new and quite fascinated with this list, even if it is costing me some sleep to read the multitudinous posts.

About the idea of Snape and Polyjuice.  The many theories present are intriguing, yet as many point out, run into some large wizarding "tech" snares.  My sister and I have another take on this: Snape is an unregistered animagus...he turns into a bat.  Hints of this seem to be sprinkled throughout the books: in Book I, the last chapter, Quirrell contemptuously refers to Snape hovering around like an over-large bat.  And there are two other places in the other books (I cannot look up the references right now for exactness) where JKR describes him as sweeping out of the room like a bat.  She loves dropping hints.  It would easily explain his ability to spy, especially if the Death Eaters are addicted to such places as graveyards for meeting places.  Anyway, it is another theory to chew on while we wait.

Lumen Dei
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MMMfanfic at hotmail.com 
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  Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 1:46 AM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Snape brewing Polyjuice Potion (was: Snape the spy)


  There are a few problems with Snape as polyjuiced Crouch jr:
  1. Time Constraint.  Whatever he was sent to do by Dumbledore, it was 
  agreed prior to The Dementor's Kiss.  Dumbledore didn't find out 
  about Crouch until the Hospital wing scene.
  2. Too huge a risk.  Polyjuice only lasts for an hour.  (umm, I need 
  a drink, Master...)
  3. Crouch used this to impersonate Moody.  JKR is more inventive than 
  this.



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