Imperious influenced by Polyjuice

[corinthum]

No: HPFGUIDX 45899

Naama wonderd:

> 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?


My thoughts:

I don't see any reason why Polyjuice wouldn't effect this sort mental 
voice.  Let's assume for the moment that when Harry heard Moody's 
voice, he wasn't misinterpreting the voice (although I feel Steve's 
arguments are perfectly plausible).  We don't really know how this 
voice would be produced with a normal, unpolyjuiced curser.  It 
obviously involves some sort of magic which takes a thought and 
transforms it into words for only the cursee to hear (as well as 
making said cursee want to obey the command).  

Now, Polyjuice seems to affect all parts of a persons body except the 
mind.  A person's normal speaking voice does change.  Assuming the 
curse draws its "voice" from anything other than the mind (such as 
vocal chords), it seems a legitimate assumption that it would steal a 
Polyjuiced voice.

In general, I think it possible for a potion to interfere with a curse 
if it interferes with the magical mechanism of that curse.

-Corinth