DH - unanswered (and irritating) questions

[ianuno3]

No: HPFGUIDX 174183

ciraarana:
> > Q: The Polyjuice Potion. It only lasts for an hour. That was
important
> > in GoF. And in this book it's never even once mentioned! And some
of
> > the adventures took longer than an hour. Is this a new version of
> > Polyjuice? Why aren't we told so?

Anne:
> "We are shown in GoF that PJ potion can last for a year if the
> pjed person keeps taking drinks of the potion.  I think maybe (not
> sure about this) that this is what's going on here."
>
> I think what ciraarana meant was that Fake Crouch had to remember
to take the potion every hour: "But I think, in the excitement of
tonight, our fake Moody might have forgotten to take it as frequently
as he should have done ... on the hour ... every hour ... we shall
see." GoF Can Ed pg 592.
>
> In DH, particularly with Harry as Barny Weasley, and Harry and
Hermione in Godric's Hollow, we only see them taking one big
swig: "Harry had taken a large dose of Polyjuice Potion and was now
the double of a..." (DH CanEd Pg 115) and "...so it was late
afternoon when they finally swallowed Polyjuice Potion(DH Can Ed pg
263).....He could tell that it was almost dawn by the stillness and
the quality of the cold"  (DH Can Ed pg 282).
>
>

Longtime sporadic lurker and first-time poster. I'm so glad there's a
forum for those of us that are this passionate about Harry.

The Polyjuice inconsistencies in DH really leapt out at me,
especially at the wedding, in Godric's Hollow, and most of all, the
MoM sequence. There's no way they could've accomplished what they did
before and during the MoM scene in under one hour.

In fact the only time Polyjuice Potion was used and the effects were
spot-on, was the Seven Potters/Fallen Warrior chapters in DH. When
everyone was arriving at the Burrow, all of the fake Harrys were now
themselves again -- they were supposed to arrive at the Burrow an
hour after they left Privet Drive, and they were.

JKR appeared to go out of her way to make a point of the hourlong
effects in CoS and GoF, so I was surprised there weren't little
reminders from Hermoine to have extra bottles for Ron and Harry in
case they split up at MoM, and to remind them, "Oh, our hour's almost
up. We better take another dose."

If someone had read DH without reading the first six books, it
shouldn't have bothered them. For those of us who have read the
series over and over, perhaps JKR, having introduced to us to Barty
Crouch Jr. taking it hourly throughout GoF to maintain his Mad-Eye
form, thought we'd just assume that.

I wish that detail of the time limit of Polyjuice Potion had remained
prevalent in DH only because the potion played such a big role
throughout the book.

Ian, who wishes he could use PP to be part of the trio just for an
hour.