Imperious influenced by Polyjuice

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 45872

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "naama2486" <naama2486 at y...> wrote:
> [ I'm not sure whether this has been brought up before, do if it
has, sorry. ]
> 
> I was thinking about Crouch!Moody. When he performed the Imperious 
> Curse on Harry, Harry heard *Moody's* voice in his head. *Not*
> Crouch Jr's. How can that be? From Harry and Ron's  experience with 
> Polyjuice  we know that you keep your own mind when you take the 
> potion. It is the appearance that changes, but your mind stays the 
> same. Does  Polyjuice affect Imperious, then? Can a potion affect 
> an Unforgiveable Curse?
> 
>  Thoughts?
> 
> Naama the Not-So-New-Anymore

bboy_mn:
My guess is that he heard a voice, but not necessarily Moody's voice.
Although, logically he would think it was Moody. Since he had never
experienced the Imperious curse before and had no idea what was going
to happen, added to that, that the Imperious curse makes you very
euphoric, and any thought that came into his head, he would just
assume that that's how the curse was suppose to work. 

He may have heard Moody's voice, or he may have heard Crouch's voice,
or he may have heard the words spoken in his head in his own voice.
While the book clearly says, "And then he heard Mad-Eye Moody's voice,
echoing in some distant chamber of his empty brain: 'Jump onto the
desk...'". It's not clear if that is a statement of fact or an
interpretation by Harry. 

If he knew he was under the curse and heard a voice commanding him to
do something, he would assume it was the voice of the person casting
the curse. Again, while the text seems crystal clear, I'm saying that
the combination of euphoria, expectations, and the fact that the voice
was 'echoing in some distant chamber' are factor that lend doubt to
the absolute accuracy of the text. 

You've raised an excellent point, and I don't recall it being talked
about before, but there are a lot of people who have been here longer
than I have, they would probably know better than me. 

As far as the point you raised, I'm not trying to say you are wrong,
I'm trying to come up with possible explainations. An alternate
explaination might be that when he took on Moody's body, his thoughts
as well as his speech took on Moody's voice. How creepy would that be?
To hear your own thoughts speaking to you in someone elses voice. 

So those are the only two explanations I can come up with, either it
was an assumption on Harry's part or Crouches mental voice change to
match his speaking voice. Of course, there is alway the possibility
that JKR just overlooked this point.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn