Mandrake and Polyjuice Questions

[Kelly L. <kethlenda@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49039

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erisedstraeh2002 
<erisedstraeh2002 at y...>" <erisedstraeh2002 at y...> wrote:

However, I wonder about the potential restoration of Crouch 
*Sr.'s* 
> body.  Crouch Jr. transfigured his father's body into a bone, 
which 
> he buried in front of Hagrid's hut.  Hermione tells us in Ch. 6 of 
> CoS that mandrake juice "is used to return people who have 
been 
> transfigured or cursed to their original state."  So could 
mandrake 
> juice work on Crouch Sr.'s bone?  Could you pour mandrake 
juice on 
> the bone and return his body to its original state?  Would its 
> original state be alive or dead?  Even if he doesn't come back 
to 
> life, the restoration of his body would at least provide 
> corroborating evidence for what Crouch Jr. said under the 
veritaserum 
> for non-believers such as Fudge.
> 
> ~Phyllis

A very good question.  I've also wondered about Polyjuice 
Potion--if you die while Polyjuiced, like Mrs. Crouch, do you revert 
to your original form after an hour passes, or do you remain in 
the assumed form forever?  If Mrs. Crouch was exhumed at 
Azkaban, would they find her body or a copy of her son's?  

Kelly L.