Polyjuice potion (was Re: Spinner's End)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 156783

Tinktonks:
> Nobody would need to polyjuice Tonks--she's Metamorphamagus 
(Probably
spelt ALL WRONG sorry!) all they'd have to do is act like her. But I 
can't see anyone else getting all snuggly with Lupin ; )

Ceridwen:
I'm not sure if I was clear here.  I meant someone Polyjuiced to look 
like Tonks, not that someone Polyjuiced Tonks.  Sorry for any 
misunderstandings!

The only problem with Tonks was that she didn't metamorph at all.  
She was mousey all through the book.  This is part of what got me 
suspicious: if someone had Polyjuiced into her, they might not be 
able to pull off the odd assortment of hair colors.  They might not 
know how to do it, even in a body just like hers.  Other things that 
got me:

Her Patronus changed.  Of course, before HBP, we didn't know that 
Patronuses were set and couldn't change, but since Snape made a point 
to mention it, I wondered if it was someone else's Patronus, someone 
he knew, and he was telling them that he had noted the difference so 
stop using the Patronus.

She wasn't clumsy.  She jumped off a moving train dragging Harry with 
her.

She wasn't her usual ebullent self.

We learn that she was unhappy about Lupin shrugging her off, but that 
thought still niggled at me.  Was it the real reason?  Everything 
seems to fit, especially with the tale of Merope's poor magical 
powers and her overbearing family and, later on, being dumped by TR 
Sr.

Houyhnhnm (sp?) mentions that the idea of someone disguised as 
someone else is hammered into the first chapters like a shoot-out at 
the Chekhov Corral.  We get the Ministry pamphlet, Dumbledore making 
a point to mention his favorite jam, and the 
unforgettable "Mollywobbles".  Was the gun in these first acts only 
loaded with weak blanks?

Ceridwen.