OOP: Mixed Bag of Questions/Comments

[secondforceman]

No: HPFGUIDX 69090


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan XG" <SusanXG at h...> 
wrote:
> > Mixed Bag of Questions...Please comment/answer/question to the 
> best of your 
> > ability. :o)
> > 
> > 2. Does the Polyjuice Potion work with a dead person's hair?
> 
> Me -- TigerPatronus:
> I think it won't, and that's why Crouch Jr. had to keep Moody alive 
> in the bottom of the trunk during GoF. If the PP didn't need, let's 
> say fresh DNA, Crouch, Jr. could have just killed Moody, pulled out 
> his hair, and stored it in a Ziploc bag in a freezer. This would 
> have been much safer than storing a living Moody in the trunk. Crouch 
> Jr. killed his own father, so he's not too squeamish to kill people. 
> 
> TK

It just struck me that hair actually *is* dead cells... but then 
magic isn't always logic (thank goodness). Maybe the connection to 
the body is sufficient.