The Owlery - Do Wands Work for Polyjuiced Imposters?
Added 2025-06-14 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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I think Bellatrix embodies the "shoot first and ask questions later" mantra. I always took it that she heard something, killed it, and then saw it was just a fox. Not that she thought it through enough to see an animal and think auror, particularly with as rare as animagi are. As for the polyjuice potion, I would say it is a physically healthy copy of the person at the time you take their hair or whatever material is used. So it doesn't take in how Moody degrades as he's kept barely alive due to neglect in the trunk. Although BC Jr could be transfiguring his transformed hair to look normal if the potion was making him look patchy as he removes more and more. I always hated how the movies continually ask "How long will this batch of polyjuice potion last?" or Newt using it for a couple minute transformation. Dumbledore made it clear as did Hermoine that it last for 1 hr per dose and has to be taken every hour on the hour if you want to keep up the look.
Thomas Foster
2025-07-08 07:26:59 +0000 UTCI don't think wands know about whether or not the person is polyjuiced or not, because if it works like that one way it would have to work the other. Otherwise Ron, Hermione, Fleur, ect. Would have struggled with their own while transformed into Harry. And that's not really the case. I think polyjuice is exactly what it's described to be. You take on the physical characteristics of the person you're transforming into. As for how it knows that Moody is missing a leg or that Harry has a scar, it's magic. That is a completely valid explanation in a world of magic. I don't see how it can be more than that, because if it was, everyone who transformed into Harry would have been a horcrux during that time. Like I don't think Ron or Hermione could have spoken parseltongue during that time. Or if you transformed into Tonks, I don't think you'd become a metamorphmagi. (I think I spelt that right.) And with Barty Crouch Jr and his mom, if his mother was that close to death, and he transformed into her to leave, which he did, I don't think he would have also died had he stayed in that form. That's also why Barty Crouch Jr doesn't start having chunks of his hair removed throughout the year, like the real Moody does. So I think if Moody had a zit on his face when Crouch took his hair, they wouldn't appear when he transformed. It's whatever their baseline is. As for why they made the decision to keep like Daniel Radcliffe's voice while he's transformed, that's just for budget reasons. You have to pay actors more for speaking roles. And by the time they had the basically unlimited resources the had for the later movies that president had been set. And they kept having Crouch sound like Moody in the movies too. It's just a continuity thing at that point, even if it doesn't totally work.
Jake Ferreira
2025-06-18 04:39:15 +0000 UTC
