Moody's eye/polyjuice

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 43741

Gabrielle wrote:
> so...How Could Crouch Jr. have used Moody's magical eye? Could anyone 
> with out an eye, have stuck it in their socket and would it have 
> worked? 

Moody's Magical Eye is an enchanted object of great powers, but is 
still only an enchanted object. That is the reason Crouuch was able to 
use it. So, yes, IMO any person missing an eye can use it if he puts it 
in his socket. It may be configured so that it only works for Moody, 
but I'd find that strange an unprecedented in canon. Besides, why 
bother? If anyone can use it, it doesn't have to be destroyed after 
Crouch dies, just reselled.

> Or was that because of the polyjuice that it worked, and if 
> so why? if ploy juice can do that could you also give predictions if 
> you were a polyjuiced-Trelawney? 

Polyjuice potion will not give you the powers of Trelawney, the same 
way it wll not give you the magical abilities of Dumbledore, or the 
intelligence of Crabbe. The polyjuice only helped in this case by 
giving Crouch a socket in which to put the magical eye.

> or would you be turn into a werewolf at full moons if you were a
> polyjuiced-Lupin?

This question is very interesting, even if it doesn't really have much 
to do with the rest of the post. I'm willig to believe that you would, 
in fact, turn into a werewolf while being polyjuiced!Lupin, since it's 
an inherent quality of the blood/tissues/cells/whatever. Of course, you 
would un-trasform past an hour, since the werwolf wouldn't take more 
polyjuice, I think. And, if you took the potion during a full moon, you 
would be polyjuiced into the wolf form directly. Of course, this is all 
my theory, since we don't have any canon to back it up one way or the 
other.

> And I have one more, how did Moody acquire that 'magical eye'
> anyways? did he invent it, find/buy it, was he born that way? 

He did NOT born with it. IIRC, in the pensieve scene he still has both 
normal eyes. I think he bought the eye to replace the one he had lost 
while fighting DEs. And of course, he got himself an eye that is even 
better for his job and his constance vigilance than the old one: an eye 
that can see theough all an every material, including his own body.

> Will Moody's eye still work for him, even though it was taken out of 
> his socket? 

Of course it will! After all, it worked for Crouch, who had to take it 
out of Moody's socket. 

> I'm just confused about the whole eye/polyjuice thing. 
> How far does polyjuice work, and when and why does the eye?
> 
> Gabrielle~
> who really seems to be writing a bit much lately~

I think you've missed the main point: the eye, like the wooden leg, is 
nothing more than an artifact. Imagine, if you will, that it's made of 
wood, painted to look like an eye. That's as far as it goes, really. 
The piece of wod (or whatever is really made of) has received any 
number of enchantments to help his wearer to use it. For one thing, the 
user, who has lost at least an eye, can use it to *see*. In all 
directions, too, instead of being limited to the normal vision arch of 
normal eyes. Not only that, it's got the magical equivalent of 
Superman's "x-ray" vision. And it possibly has other nifty tricks 
Crouch hadn't the oportunity to use. Polyjuice is not involved in this, 
either: it only gived Crouch a socket in which to wear it, but the eye 
worked for real!Moody without him taking any polyjuice.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf