Polyjuiced Hermione

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 106714

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "coolbeans3131" <joj at r...> 
wrote:
> 
> >  ---Jason wrote:
> > > > Why does JKR go through the extra words and pages to turn 
> > Hermione 
> > > > into a cat?... Is this just showing  us that polyjuice is 
only 
> > for 
> > > humans? 
>  
> 
>   "sad1199"  wrote:
> >  I don't know if there is a connection but, in OotP (American) 
> p.511 
> > there is a mention of a woman at St. Mungo's whose whose entire 
> head 
> > was covered in fur and Harry thinks to himself that something 
> > similar had happened to Hermione in their second year.
> 
> Joj replies:
> Yeah, and it's also one of the memory flashes Harry has with 
Snape.  
> Why bring it up twice in OotP?  I also wondered why Harry didn't 
get 
> a flash of her petrified, as that was a much worse situation.  If 
it 
> was an unimportant bit used for a little fun and humor in CoS, why 
> would it ever be brought up again?

Potioncat:
Yes, and think about it.  Snape must have known how Hermione got a 
cat face at the time it happened in CoS. Even if he never really 
knows what the trio were trying to do.  He suspects Harry of 
stealing supplies for polyjuice in PoA and he sees a flashback of 
that first episode in OoP.  We also know that Agnes (fur faced woman 
in St. Mungos) has a son....of course, her son may be Mark Evans. ;-)
Potioncat