How did Crabbe & Goyle not notice?

[Mindy, a.k.a. CLH]

No: HPFGUIDX 25371

I am amazed by another thing in CoS. Once the Polyjuice Potion started
wearing off, and the Terrible Two dashed from the Slytherin Common Room
in a huff, obviously Crabbe & Goyle exited their closet, found their
shoes, and made their way indignantly back to their Common Room in
puzzlement. Draco should've then given them a bawling out for how weird
they had acted moments ago... How is it that none of them realized they'd
just been duped? It's so unlike Draco to let an opportunity like this
slip by him... Why didnt he raise a ruckus and try to find out who just
impersonated his friends and why? Not another word is mentioned after the
incident about its aftermath or repercussions. Perhaps Crabbe, Goyle and
Malfoy are so thickheaded that they didnt even notice what went on? What
do you think?

We have also learned from Harry & Ron's perspective, that when under
polyjuice potion, one only attains the outside characteristics of the
person being impersonated.  Harry and Ron received the voices and faces
of Crabbe & Goyle, but they maintained their own personality and their
own knowledge. They didn't BECOME Crabbe & Goyle. In that short hour, it
was quite some feat to pretend to be C & G. SO can you imagine how
difficult it must be for someone to impersonate somoene else, long term?
It is still beyond me how Barty Jr. managed to pull of his Moody
impersonation for a full year; a young boy who spent 10+ years under an
invisibility cloak hidden in a house, without schooling, mastering such a
difficult feat. Did he never stumble and act un-Moody-like? No one EVER
got suspicious? How can it be that he never acted Barty-like by accident?
Look how Harry almost apologized to Percy. IMO, acting under Polyjuice
Potion is an extremely difficult feat and perhaps that is why we see it
used so little in the four books.

MINDY

who is down to only fourteen digests more to read, thank G-d!
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