Qualities of Polyjuice (was Re: Polyjuice as Dumbledore?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 160531

Eddie wrote:
> All this talk about Polyjuice makes me wonder what Harry could do with
> a bit of Dumbledore's hair (for instance) and some polyjuice potion...
> 
> Think it could be a bit of an advantage to have "Dumbledore" suddenly
> make an appearance when everybody knows he's dead?


Potioncat:
Well, the good guys would think he was an Inferius and hit him with 
whatever spells a wizard casts at an animated dead body. The bad guys 
might think he had used a time turner and hit him with an assortment of 
AKs, Imperiuses, etc.

And when all was said and done, it would just be Harry, dressed up like 
Dumbledore.

I think if you took the  hair from the dead person, you would be a dead 
person. Whether that would last for an hour or longer, I cannot say. 
Crouch Jr suffered the loss of a leg and eye and bits of nose to become 
Moody, but he did not take on the temporary, drugged condition Moody 
was actually in.

Now, what would happen, do you think, if you took a lock of hair that 
had been saved from an earlier time? Would you get the the person who 
is now or the person who had been? 

Just think, if you could mix up a Polyjuice potion of yourself at a 
younger age? Gives a whole new meaning to second honeymoon.