[HPforGrownups] Re: Polyjuice possibilities?

[Torsten]

No: HPFGUIDX 52206

Grey Wolf:
>The last time, it was aked from the other side, 
>and I said that if you polyjuiced into a werewolf, you would transform 
>into wolf form during full moon. I am not so sure now, though. I have 
>the feeling that lycanthropy is a curse (based on the fact that 
>werewolves cannot reproduce into werewolves, which indicates that it is 
>not a naturally self-perpetuating species, thus that it is not a *real* 
>species).

Question is, what kind of curse? Crouch Sr. put his son under Imperio and it remained 
in place when he polyjuiced into his mother. So the transformation doesn't destroy at 
least this kind of curse. But Lycanthropy probably works quite different.

>No. Canon tells us that Harry and Ron didn't become stupid when they 
>PP'ed into Crab & Goyle. This indicates that your mental abilities 
>remain the same and thus, if you weren't an animagus before, you are 
>still not one.

Why do you consider the animagus trait a mental ability?

Thanks for the quotes from the older posts. ^^

>If you turn into an identical copy of the original person (down to the 
>very last cell), copulating would be possible, and possibly getting 
>pregnant would be, too. However, you would misscarriage within the 
>hour, since the person you're polyjuicing into isn't pregnant herself, 
>so you'd change into the non-pregnant version of her.

Ok, but now I wonder about Crouch Jr. Considering the condition the real Moody was 
in when Dumbledore found him, shouldn't Barty have turned into a very weak, ill-
looking person (with a bad haircut ^_~) all the time?

>On a sidenote - most inter-species offsprings in real life (the few 
>that are possible, that is) tend to produce barren children (e.g. 
>mules). In fantasy books, however, traditionally this is not the case 
>(the only exception I can think of off hand is Dark Sun world).

Well, Dark Sun is influenced by the AD&D Dark Sun game rules ... Are the DS Half-
Dwarves and -Elves barren? I thought they weren't.

> I wonder if JKR *has* made Hagrid barren?

Would be interesting how children of two Half-Giants, Hagrid and Maxime, would turn 
out. Would the human or the giant part be strenghtened?

-Torsten