[HPforGrownups] Re: really odd topic: Polyjuice Potion: Gender?

[Yoris]

No: HPFGUIDX 42861



Just a VERY SMALL note on DNA transformation

grey wolf:
> Option A: DNA-transformation:
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>
> If you turn into a clone of the original, copulating would be possible,
> and possibly getting pregnant would be, too. However, you would
> misscarriage within the hour, since the person you're polyjuicing into
> isn't pregnant herself, so you'd change into the non-pregnant version
> of her. A woman turning into a man could help another woman to become
> pregnant, too.
>
> Speaking of which, and before anyone asks, I don't think that
> polyjuicing into a pregnant woman would make you pregnant, since the
> baby is a different person. Unless you happened to take tissue from the
> fetus, he/she wouldn't be included in the potion. (and if you include
> the tissue of the fetus, you'd probably die, since you won't have a
> mother around you to feed you, give you air, etc.)
>
> In this case, however, if a man turns into another, has (unsafe) sex,
> and the woman involved becomes pregnant, the DNA would be the one of
> the person he has polyjuiced into. The same works for a woman that
> polyjuices into another woman (half of the DNA of the children is that
> of the woman you've polyjuiced into), although it would probably
> misscarriage, since they would have to be compatible for the fetus to
> survive.

Polyjuicing in HP series is CANON BASED, NOT DNA-transformation: scars and
lost legs and lost eyes are NOT in your DNA, but Crouch jr. got them
anyway when he converts to Mad-Eye Moody :)

Yoris


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