Polyjuiced Hermione

[mrs_sonofgib]

No: HPFGUIDX 106725


> JoAnna wrote:
> 
> > As for Madam Pomfrey keeping her in the hospital wing for so 
> > long... I have no doubt that Hermione begged her to let her 
> > stay.  Would you want to be among your classmates after having 
> > accidentally transfigured yourself into a cat?  <snip>

Jem <squeakinby at t...> wrote:
> Why, if you can regrow bones overnight, does it take 3 weeks to 
> unpolyjuice Hermione?  That's the issue for me, not that Hermione 
> doesn't want to be seen, but why this magic of Madame Pomfrey's 
> seems so out of whack with all her other remedies.


It does seem rather inconsistent that it took so long.  But, if we 
remember that when Arthur Weasley was in St. Mungo's and the healers 
had a bit of a hard time figuring out how to cure him (he kept 
bleeding when the bandages were removed) then it kind of makes 
sense.  Since Polyjuice potion is not supposed to be used in human-
to-cat transfigurations, there would need to be time to figure out 
the cure.  I'm guessing that Hermione was not very forth-coming in 
what had caused her predicament (since she stole ingredients, got 
the book under ... dodgy circumstances etc).

~tina, who is still trying to figure things out...