OOP: Mixed Bag of Questions/Comments

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 69277

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "secondforceman"
<theforceman at h...> wrote:
> 
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan XG" <SusanXG at h...> 
> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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 ...edited...
> > 
> > TK


> 
> It just struck me that hair actually *is* dead cells... edited...
>
>secondforceman


bboy_mn:

Hair may just be dead cells, but it resides in the aura of life force
that surrounds living person. Perhaps, it is a shred of this
intangible life force that is brought to the potion by the fragment of
the person being added to the potion, and not the physical material
itself.

Illustration: Using Kirlian photography, you can tear a piece off of a
leaf, then photograph the leaf, and you will still see the life force
arua of the missing piece, as well as see the life force around the
torn off fragment of leaf. 

So, if the person is dead, the abstract eccense aura would not be
there, and would not convey the essense of that person to the potion.

Sounds like as good an explanation as any.

bboy_mn