Polyjuice Potion question

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 88462

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "smtopliff" <topfor at a...> 
wrote:
> I could not find specific discussion regarding the Polyjuice 
Potion 
> that Barty Crouch Jr. was using although I thought there had been--
> please enlighten me:
> 
> 
> There is some ambiguity regarding the timeline prior to Moody's 
> attack by Crouch at the beginning of GOF  

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So...who brewed the potion?
> 
> Was it Ludo Bagman?  How does he fit into all of this?  

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Meri here: 
I always assumed (not that I even thought of this before you brought 
it up) that Wormtail brewed the potion. I am pretty sure that LV 
says something like Wormtail preformed some simple spells and brewed 
a potion to keep LV alive before his rebirth, so I always assumed 
that Wormtail had at least the talent to brew Polyjuice potion. 
After all, three second years in a girl's bathroom did it in CoS, so 
it can't be that hard for a fully qualified wizard and the Dark Lord 
to whip some up. And as to Ludo Bagman, I don't know what the things 
that Rita Skeeter knows about him that would make Hermione's hair 
curl (not that it needs it) are, but I don't get any sinister 
impressions from him at all. I think that he's too stupid to be evil 
and that his gambling is problem enough for JKR to resolve. Why did 
he react the way he did that night at the World Cup? I have no idea. 
(Maybe he thought the wizards doing the muggle torturing were going 
to come after him for rescinding on gambling debts ;)) But do I 
think that he's a DE? Not in a million years. 
Meri (who knows by now not to take any JKR character at face value, 
but can't help doing so with Ludo Bagman)