DH - unanswered (and irritating) questions

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 173272

"ciraarana" <ciraarana at ...> wrote:
> 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 replied:  
"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).  

DuffyPoo
aka CathyD

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