Polyjuice and death?

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 42133

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Laura Ingalls Huntley" <huntleyl at m...> 
wrote:
> John Quinn:
> >I was thinking yesterday about the Polyjuice poition, and >was 
wondering if it could *theoretcally* be used to become "immortal". 
> >By that I mean, before you die, you start to put your fingernails 
> >into different jars. When you die, a successor will make the 
potion 
> >drink it and continue the cycle.
> 
> That's more like cloning, isn't it?  It'd be your body..but not 
*you*.
> 

Wait a minute, polyjuice potion has to be taken every hour. Granted, 
a strand of hair will do, but 24 times a day, 365 days a year, and it 
won't be too long before there's not many bits left. A fingernail in 
a jar isn't going to cut it.

And it is possible that the person you're intimidating has to be 
alive -- that the potion requires live tissue. Otherwise, why didn't 
Barty Jr. just kill Mad-Eye?

Darrin
-- Fingernails in a Jar... hmmmm... good band name