Thoughts on polyjuice...

[conuly]

So, we know that polyjuice changes you more than just superficially - Crabbe and Goyle became girls (hee), Harry's eyesight improved....

Question: What happens if you polyjuice into the form of somebody who has a fatal form of, say, cancer, and you stay in that form for a while? Will the cancer progress in you and kill you? What if it was something like diabetes, and you didn't know? Could you die that way?

Question: What if *you* have cancer (or whatever)? Can you polyjuice into somebody else's shape, and just stay there forever? Would the disease come with you into this new form?

Question: If the polyjuiced person is sick when you take the sample, sick with something not part of the body, something contagious, can you pick up the disease while in their polyjuiced form, and spend an hour coughing? Can you get sick in your own form that way?

Question: What if you use an old sample to polyjuice? One from a decade ago? Would you polyjuice into the form the person was then?

Question: If that's so, couldn't that be used to extend your lifespan? You could polyjuice into your younger self, so long as you had enough samples, couldn't you?

Question: When the fakemoody polyjuiced into Moody, he lost a leg, which then regrew after the polyjuice potion wore off. What if he'd lost a limb while polyjuiced? Would that remain lost in his real form?

Comments

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

You know, sometimes I think the fandom as a whole spends waaaaaaaay more time and effort thinking about these things than JKR does.

The limb question is interesting. I'm assuming that if Moody polyjuices into someone with two legs, he'll regrow his leg. How does that affect his phantom pain? Has the wizarding world found an effective way to deal with that problem? Because my dad's remaining pain seems to be mainly neurological, so I wonder.

I'm really kind of curious as to how the wizarding world deals with neurological issues in general. Even with magic, messing around in the brain seems dodgy.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Well i think you've thaught about polyjuice more than rowling did. On the whole turning into girls thing, what would happen do oyu think if say someone was concieved while a parent was under the efects of polyjuice potion? Would the rsulting offspring (given a suficient supply of hte potion to allow it to be carried to term in the case of a female) partake of the genetics of the origional parent, or that of the polijuice source.
the more i think about it it the more polyjuice seems like an extra convienent dues ex machina rather than a well thaught out idea.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

You know, sometimes I think the fandom as a whole spends waaaaaaaay more time and effort thinking about these things than JKR does.

The limb question is interesting. I'm assuming that if Moody polyjuices into someone with two legs, he'll regrow his leg. How does that affect his phantom pain? Has the wizarding world found an effective way to deal with that problem? Because my dad's remaining pain seems to be mainly neurological, so I wonder.

I'm really kind of curious as to how the wizarding world deals with neurological issues in general. Even with magic, messing around in the brain seems dodgy.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Well i think you've thaught about polyjuice more than rowling did. On the whole turning into girls thing, what would happen do oyu think if say someone was concieved while a parent was under the efects of polyjuice potion? Would the rsulting offspring (given a suficient supply of hte potion to allow it to be carried to term in the case of a female) partake of the genetics of the origional parent, or that of the polijuice source.
the more i think about it it the more polyjuice seems like an extra convienent dues ex machina rather than a well thaught out idea.