Polyjuice potions don't work while you're asleep

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No: HPFGUIDX 114105

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Janet Anderson" 
<norek_archives2 at h...> wrote:
> Carol pointed out:
> 
> >Carol, who think that Barty Jr. must turn back into himself every
> >night while he sleeps and therefore would be aware of what was
> >happening with the Dark Marks
> 
> I've been wondering about that for ages!  The Polyjuice Potion has 
to be 
> readministered every single hour.  So there *had* to be times when 
Crouch 
> Jr. was in his own form -- while he was asleep.
> 
> Snape says at some point that "Peeves can't get into my office."  
I would 
> suggest that the teachers' offices were impenetrable to ghosts in 
general, 
> or one of them might have drifted through one night while Crouch 
Jr. was 
> asleep and noticed that All Was Not As It Seemed.
> 
> 
> Janet Anderson

Don't forget that he kept foeglasses, a sneakoscope and no doubt 
much else to warn him of 'enemy' approaches.

Besides that, when Harry saw the name Barty Crouch on the maruader's 
map he reached entirely the wrong conclusion. Peeves might simply 
think Moody had some strange young man in his office (bedroom, 
wherever - teachers don't sleep in their offices one assumes though 
I suspect we'll never find out where they DO sleep - or IF they do). 
I find it odd btw that Barty's mum died while under polyjuice's 
effects and never transformed back (it seems).

More significant though, there's an alternative reason why Barty 
Crouch Jr might not see his dark mark returning (see next post).
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