[HPforGrownups] Polyjuice potions - dead or alive?

[artsylynda at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 59263

Odile:
> imagine the horrific stench that a rotting corpse
> wouold produce.  He would have certainly attracted
> some unwanted attention

In GoF, Crouch Jr. transfigured his father's body into a single bone and 
buried that (in Hagrid's worked up ground for the nifflers to dig in), so the 
corpse smell really isn't something he'd be worried about -- he could always 
transform Moody's body into a single bone if he needed to.  And imagine how smelly 
Snape's classroom must be, or Hagrid's hut, or the greenhouses -- it could be 
all those at Hogwart's aren't as bothered by "icky" things as we Muggles are.  
I mean, really, would you drink that nasty polyjuice potion with Crabbe or 
Goyle's hair in it?  Eauwwwww!  As for the "dead or alive" question -- I suspect 
the "donor" needs to be alive for the potion to work.  Otherwise, dark 
wizards would go around disguised as people they've killed -- Pettigrew wouldn't 
have to be a rat all his life, he could take on the appearance of someone else 
(even Bertha Jorkins) -- so I think the hairs must need to be from a live 
person.  JMO.

Lynda 
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