[HPforGrownups] Re: Imperious influenced by Polyjuice

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 45879


 weavingon <weavingon at earthlink.net> wrote:
Or, perhaps, the effect of Polyjuice would cause you to appear to be that person (from someone else's perspective) in every aspect...including any sort of telepathic persuasion or magic you may use while in that form. The intent of the potion is to make others belive that you are that person, after all.

Me:
Are you implying that Polyjuice does anything but affect a person's outward appearance?  I do not believe it does anything beyond this, based on the fact that Harry and Ron do not get Crabbe and Goyle's brains when they transform themselves (and, the fur on the face notwithstanding, Hermione doesn't get the brain of a cat).  If they were to have some "telepathic" link with Malfoy's sidekicks, they could have found the Slytherin common room with no problem.  Instead, they almost ran out of time wandering around the dungeons.
 
A more likely explanation for Crouch's dead-on impersonation of Moody, personality, magical-style and all, is that he KNEW Mad-Eye Moody.  Given his father's position in the Ministry during Voldemort's first reign of terror (as seen in Dumbledore's Pensieve) it is entirely possible that the elder Crouch and his wife regularly entertained Aurors in their home or took their son with them to social engagements in other homes where Aurors would be present.  In this manner, he may also have had occasion to meet the Longbottoms, and this is something that may have led him to believe that Frank Longbottom or his wife knew the whereabouts of Voldemort after he lost his power (if, hypothetically, Crouch was the one who hatched the plan, and not the Lestranges or the other unnamed wizard who was tried with them).  
 
All told, even though he was not long out of school when he was caught and sent to Azkaban (Harry reckons he's around nineteen when he sees him on trial) he probably had plenty of contact with the Longbottoms and Moody over the years.  He was in a position to know very important details about Moody, and, as a Death Eater, he was no doubt taught how to do the Unforgivable Curses.  I sincerely doubt that the potion has anything to do with anything beyond his physical appearance as Moody.
 
--Barb
 


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