OOP: polyjuice question

[Alon van Dam]

No: HPFGUIDX 65651

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Audra Hammer" <Audra1976 at a...> 
wrote:
> --- "athenal15" <tonks101 at h...> wrote:
> > I was just wondering what would happen if somebody tried to 
> poljuice
> > into someone who is a metamorphmagus.
> >  Do you think they would look like what the metamorhmagus 
> naturally
> > looks like, or what he/she is looking like at the time?
> >  Also, do you think that the person would take on the abilties of 
> a metamorphmagus while they are transformed?
> 
> 
> Me:
> 
> That's a good question.  I would say we don't know enough 
> about metamorphmagi or about Polyjuice to answer it though.  If 
> the metamorphmagus's body has the power to transform just by 
> the brain willing it, and if Polyjuice gives you the exact body of 
the 
> person you are transforming into, body chemistry and all, then 
> you should be able to use the ability.  However if it is a 
> combination of the brain and body that allows a metamorphmagi 
> to transform (like a certain brain chemical being released), then 
> you would't have the ability, because you retain your own brain 
> when you use Polyjuice.  In that case, you would just look like 
> what the metamorphmagus naturally looks like.  Interesting 
> thought--I wish we could experiment with it!
> 
> -Audra-

Me:

I think it would turn one into the 'natural' form of the 
metamorphmagus, quite an interesting sight, really. It might change 
one into the form currently employed (seeing as the hair would be the 
current hair used, which the metamorphmagus can change at will, as we 
all know). The notion that Polyjuice would give one the abilities of 
the person changed into I find a bit absurd. Would that mean that if 
you polyjuice into an Animagus, you could change into that animal at 
will as well? Or that you can suddenly speak languages you never knew 
before? I think that Polyjuice allows you to look like the spitting 
image of someone and allows you to copy the voice, but the rest, I 
think, is up to you.

Alon