Polyjuiced Hermione

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 106763

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jason" 
<shrtbusryder2002 at y...> wrote:
> Hey everyone! I was rererererereading  CoS with a hilighter pen 

> 
> Why does JKR go through the extra words and pages to turn Hermione 
> into a cat? The boys didnt find out any information or get into 
any > trouble that would have benefited Hermione not being a part 
of. 


JKR does this to

1. show us how truly unique animagi are--one cannot take a potion to 
change into an animal..

2. show us that the most intelligent can make a mistake at the worst 
of times.

3.Perhaps Millicent Bulstrode is not someone who Malfoy would speak 
around?!?!?

4. simply to show "how potions can go wrong" (can see a tv(or rather-
'floo')) show broadcast live from diagon alley in my mind).

5. take Hermione down a peg or two because no one around her 
will/can do it..(hence just because one can brew a cup of tea 
doesn't make one a tea leaf). 

Just think for a moment....what would Hermione's reaction have been 
if Ron had accidentally got a Toe hair from filch's slipper(knowing 
Ron's luck he would have transformed not into the slipper, nor 
filch, but some other unsavory sigle celled entity residing in 
Filchs slipper?(ewwww...Ron, staring as "Fuminda Cheese...tune in 
next week...)

At the very least....if Hermione could recover from a PJ potion; 
then, she may well have the ability to become an animagus as we must 
remember the barking witch who shares her ward with Lockhart I 
believe. (Heaven knows it would solve the "all of them getting too 
big to fit under an invisibility cloak" problems if Hermione was an 
Animagus).

sheesh...just makes one want to travel in time and place a 
disgusting amount of 'fumunda' cheese into the "fake Moody's" hip 
flask..I think the Dementors would have ran away.

Dee