[HPforGrownups] Re: RE polyjuice - Time Release Polyjuice

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 179887

> bboyminn:
> Next, regarding the one hour time limit. In a still unwritten
> fan fiction, one of Harry's friends, on Harry's behalf,
> approach Snape with a novel concept. They bring Snape a muggle
> time release cold capsule, the kind that are filled with
> little colored beads and explains the concept of the coating
> on the beads taking a certain time to dissolve and release
> the medicine. That way, a 4 hour medicince can be extended
> over 12 hours. They then ask Snape to apply that to Polyjuice
> potion, only instead of 4 hour increments of coatings, they
> use one hour increments.

Shelley:
Except that this wouldn't work, as you needed to take the ready-made 
polyjuice potion and then mix it with the "essence of Crab"- the hair or the 
toenail or whatever else- the part of the person you wanted to become. The 
time release capsule could only be made AFTER you mixed that essence of that 
person ingredient in, making that potion very specific in nature. What might 
be sold in stores could only be the base potion, without that second step 
that the user would need to alter further before use. And, the base potion 
might be able to last for months, but then is that also true of the added 
ingredient mixture? I would think that it might go bad or ineffective faster 
once it was in it's completed form, but that's just a guess.