[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Mixed Bag of Questions/Comments

[HimemyaUtena at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 71915

[SD]
> I must disagree.  In GF (US 682) Dumbledore says "The imposter
> needed, of course, to keep the real Moody CLOSE BY, so he could
> continue making the potion."  Later, (US 689) Crouch says  "I kept him
> alive, under the imperious curse.  I wanted to be able to question
> him. To find out about his past, learn his habits, so that I could
> fool even Dumbledore." The wording in these two passages leads me to
> believe that the polyjuice potion would work even if the person were
> no longer alive.  Crouch himself says the only reason he kept Moody
> alive was to question him.

[Me]

I think that it's a combination of the two. He needed to question Moody, but 
he also needed to keep a supply of the hairs. I think that the hair would work 
if the subject was dead (what if you took someone's hair and then they died? 
How would that be different) but that the supply would eventually run out. 
Especially if Moody had short hair. The potion does need to be taken every hour. 
Since fake!Moody was at this for almost a year, that's a lot of polyjuice 
potion. So, in my opinion, he kept Moody alive to question him, but also to keep 
up on his supply of Moody hairs.

Adrianna