Does Polyjuice Work with a Dead Person's Hair? (WAS: Voldemort murders in GoF)

[fyredriftwood]

No: HPFGUIDX 42705

Erisedstraeh2002 mentioned something:

Since 
> Voldemort's plan was to have Crouch Jr. take polyjuice potion for 
an 
> entire school year, this suggests that you *can* use a dead 
person's 
> hair to make Polyjuice Potion.  This makes sense to me since our 
hair 
> isn't alive, it's dead (same goes for Crabbe's fingernail clips 
that 
> Ron said he wouldn't drink in CoS!).
> 


It's really too bad that no one had a piece of hair from Lily or 
James Potter because it would be really interesting to have maybe 
Sirius take the potion and come back to Harry dressed as James and 
just have one conversation with him. He'd then be able to see his dad 
in a "life-like" version... and Harry could ask James!Sirius all 
these questions and James!Sirius could answer them

Okay, so it's a really bad idea, but still--if I had never met my 
parents face to face, that would be the closest I'd ever get--and I 
would take advantage of it =)

--Fyre Wood