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No: HPFGUIDX 42878

I'm really enjoying the speculation about cross-gender and 
pregnancies using polyjuice.  I have no answers on the matter (only 
Jo does, of course), but it did suggest to me another line of 
questioning.  I call it Polyjuice squared.  If Abigail takes 
polyjuice to become Betty, can Abigail-as-Betty take more polyjuice 
and become Cathy?

Say Abigail is a double agent, pretending to be Betty to spy on 
Voldemort for Dumbledore.  Voldie, not knowing Betty is really 
Abigail-as-Betty, cooks up a plot that involves Betty polyjuicing 
into Cathy.  When Abigail-as-Betty drinks the new brew, will she 
turn into Cathy?  Or will nothing happen?  Or will there be some 
sort of weird reaction where she becomes Abigail-as-half-Betty-half-
Cathy?  Does it depend on when her next dose of polyjuice was due 
(if it was almost time, the new brew would work, but if she had just 
takes the Betty juice, the Cathy juice wouldn't work)?  Speculate at 
will.



HF said:
>However, it's *Arthur* who calls [Mundugus Fletcher] old, and 
Arthur is presumably around 65-70 >years

Um, I thought we estimated that his oldest child was at most 30, and 
that Arthur and Molly got started pretty soon after leaving 
Hogwarts, so that makes him more like 50.



Fyre Wood asked:
>However, have you all noticed that they're all about the same age 
and 
>are all in the house of Slytherin? Is it a conspiracy that Malfoy, 
>Crabbe, and Goyle are all the same age? Or perhaps was it a thing 
>assigned by Voldemort issuing that on a certain date, Death Eaters 
>were required to make new recruits for his soon to be new squad of 
>Death Eaters?
>And what's the deal with them all being male? Is that important?

Oooh, this is bleak.  I think it is important, and here's why.  If I 
were Voldemort [accessing latent evil personality traits now] and I 
wanted to ensure another generation of greatness, I would take care 
of that personally.  In other words, I'd knock up every willing or 
not-so-willing woman I could find.  Sort of a one-man super race.  
See David Koresh (sp?) for a real world example.  Your really loyal 
DEs (Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle
) would surely offer up their wives in a 
display of loyalty.  As to why they're all male, that sort of thing 
is determined by the father (some men make more Y chromosome 
sperm).  Or, more bleakly, he only wanted boys and so all girls were 
aborted or sacrificed at birth.  This explains why there seem to be 
so many only children, too.

Ick.  Somebody start a more pleasant thread soon.

Ginny