Polyjuice workings/Snape's reaction to Prank)( was: Shack Flints/Dragons/Trelaw)

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No: HPFGUIDX 36827

Amanda:
> Or it could be like Polyjuice, which evidently can be cooked up to a point
> and then left to simmer. There's definite steps to get it "ready" for a
> portion of whoever you're turning into, but it can apparently stay at the
> "ready" stage for quite a while. Reasoning:
> --It only lasts an hour (the effects); Crouch would need fresh batches
> rather a lot.
> --The real Moody was kept alive for the harvesting of hair periodically (and
> it must have been periodically, or Crouch would just have killed him after
> 

Eloise:
Which brings me back to the problems I always have with Mrs Crouch. How on 
earth did a dying woman manage that? It's hard enough to believe that she 
actually managed to drink some within an hour of death, without adding 
problems of preparation.

Catlady:

> In my own view of the Potterverse, 16-year-old Severus feels as 
> humiliated and as resentful of the humiliation as in your [Marina's] 
> theory, but 
> all he did to be ashamed of was that he (finally!) ran away, leaving 
> Potter behind him, between him and the onrushing werewolf (which is 
> what Potter had urgently been ordering him to do and he kept refusing 
> until the monster was actually approaching). Upon exiting the 
> Whomping Willow, he *suddenly realises* that *he* Ran Away, leaving 
> Potter as diversion for the monster, while *Potter* has died at the 
> 

Eloise
I like this version! I think he would be very ashamed of running away. Even 
more ashamed that he had let himself be tricked, but very ashamed of running 
away, nevertheless. I prefer it to Marina's vision of his turning into a 
quivering lump of jelly.

Catlady:
> The knowledge that Potter will be viewed as a hero and memorialized
> at Hogwarts while he is considered a coward bites at him much more 
> urgently than any later thought of life-debt, and causes him to run 
> for help (!) to his Head of House or Headmaster. When he discovers 
> that Potter was Perfectly Safe as an Animagus (note: not Perfectly 
> Safe, considering the werewolf/Padfoot fight in PoA), he is totally 
> convinced that Potter and Black set this up On Purpose to make him 
> run away like a coward. He could believe that Lupin was in on That 
> Plan, as in it, Lupin was not in any danger of biting him (and being 
> sent to Azkaban, or whatever the punishment is for a werewolf who 
> 
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Eloise
I'm not sure of your time scale here. Snape doesn't discover that they're 
animagi until he hears the conversation in the Shrieking Shack - yes? Yet 
when Harry suggests that the reason Snape has never liked Lupin is because he 
thought he was in on the joke, Snape decloaks and agrees, the implication 
being that he always thought that, despite not knowing they were animagi.
I suppose Snape often does know or suspect more than he lets on, but I really 
do think that if he had known, he would have told Dumbledore to be on the 
lookout for a big, black dog. On the other hand, I suppose it is conceivable 
that at some point he discovered James' secret, but not the others'.

Eloise



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