Dumbledore's death / Slughorn

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 134534

Geoff said:> Nope.  He would have returned to his normal shape as Slughorn after 
> being killed.


UNIX4EVR said:
"Are you sure about that? I must disagree, because canon states 
otherwise....
...."The Dementors are blind. They sensed one healthy, one dying 
person entering Azkaban. They sensed one healthy, one dying person 
leaving it. My father smuggled me out, disguised as my mother, in 
case any prisoners were watching through their doors.

My mother died a short while afterwards in Azkaban. She was careful 
to drink Polyjuice Potion until the end. She was buried under my name 
and bearing my appearance. Eveyone believed her to be me."'



You answered your own question.  Polyjuice Potion would continue to work for the rest of the hour since Mrs. Crouch had taken her last swallow.   Until it wore off *she* would still be *he*.  The magic wasn't something she was doing, the magic was in the potion she took.  Not the same as Slughorn transfiguring himself into DD and being AK'd in which the magic, Slughorn's magic, would be gone with him when he died, as the Body-Binding spell on HP stopped when DD died.  That's why Sirius could say "The Dementors buried him outside the fortress, I watched them do it."  Crouch didn't come to Azkaban for his *son's* body, because he knew by the time he got it back home for a proper funeral, the body would be that of his wife and just how do you explain that one, when you've buried her once already?

CathyD
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