polyjuice potion (was: Moody was really Crouch, Jr.)

[tangawarra1]

No: HPFGUIDX 34045

Original poster (unknown):
> > > >I don't like Moody.
> > > >I really don't care for him at all. He strikes me as the
> > > >sort of person who would happily strip away all of my civil
> > > >liberties, given half the chance, and I consider such men a
> > > >serious threat to civilized society.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "blpurdom" <blpurdom at y...> wrote:
> > I'm unclear as to how you came to this conclusion.  Are you sure
> > you're not basing this on the ersatz Moody, who was really Barty
> >Jr.?

I couldn't agree more! We do not know the real moody yet. We know
Barty Crouch Jnr's estimation of moody and that is all.

We know from CoS that polyjuice potion only affects the drinker's
physical appearance from the numerous times Ron and Harry catch
themselves out, realising they had said things to malfoy in the
slytherin common room that Crabbe and Goyle just would never have
uttered.

Crouch Jnr admits (under veritaserum anyway) that he kept moody
alive in order to have a point of reference, so dumbledore would not
suspect the switch (and the obvious necessity of requiring Moody's
hair to make 10 months worth of polyjuice I'm sure).

We know a little of the "real" moody from the accounts of
Dumbledore, Sirius, Diggory and Arthur Weasley but I hope to see the
real moody in book 5 and make up my mind about his character then.

rachel