Ravenclawâs Existential Crisis
*Ravenclaw was having two separate conversations with Hufflepuff and Slytherin and these are the results of that
Ravenclaw: I was wondering...do you think that if a person takes the polyjuice potion they turn into the personâs current age or the age that they got the hair from? This is very important. Like could you take the hair from a baby 10 years ago and drink polyjuice and turn into that baby or the 10 year old version of the kid? Iâm having an existential crisis over this.
Slytherin: Thatâs actually a good question. I think it would be the age the person was that their was taken from bc like DNA, right? So the hair wouldnât continue aging and whatnot so wouldnât it just go to the age it was from? But maybe it doesnât bc magic and stuff?
Hufflepuff: Iâm leaning towards age of when they got the hair bc of DNA and stuff but it could be the other
Ravenclaw: Now another question: by that logic, could you hypothetically take a hair from your younger self and have a soft of eternal youth? Like you never physically age so long as you drink polyjuice.
Slytherin: Hmm, I suppose so if you kept taking the potion
Ravenclaw: Sort of like how the philosophers stone works
Slytherin: yeah, I think so
Ravenclaw: oh my Merlin, the potential of the story. Literally Voldemort could have gone back into time using a time turner and gone to the orphanage and stolen a hair brush. Who needs horcruxes?
Slytherin: Legit. He just wasnât smart enough to actually think about that Ig
Ravenclaw: Okay, another question: by extension could you take a hair from a person who will eventually die and then turn into them after they are dead? Can you tell Iâm spiralling?
Slytherin: I can in fact tell and I believe that, by logic of the other questionâs answer, you could in fact do that.
Ravenclaw: *sends a pic of convo with Slytherin to Hufflepuff*
Hufflepuff: Hey! We have the same thought process! Also if you could turn into younger I think you could turn into someone who is dead bc you have their hair from when they were alive. But the whole you can be younger thing works... as long as you donât run out of hair
Ravenclaw: but then you could time turn to a different point in time and get more DNA.
Hufflepuff: But does the polyjuice potion change DNA??? Like are you actually that person or are you covered in like a magic cloak thing bc if it doesnât change DNA you would still be old
Ravenclaw: Now that is the million dollar question
Ravenclaw: Bc in the 7 potters Hermione comments on Harryâs horrid eyesight and Ron makes that relieved comment about Ginny lying about Harryâs tattoo
Hufflepuff: TATOO?! I donât remember that... oh wait
Ravenclaw: It was a thing. It was a really small comment but it throws a wrench bc tattoos are not DNA and the whole joke is that the tattoo wouldâve appeared.
Hufflepuff: but isnât polyjuice potion more of a cloaking thing, so itâs like they get to wear the other personâs skin? So it doesnât really matter that the tattoo isnât DNA it still would show up bc they are essentially copying the other person
Ravenclaw: Then why canât Hermione see from her own eyesight?
Hufflepuff: Bc they are wearing the other personâs skin so they see the world through their eyes
Ravenclaw: Hmm that might explain
Ravenclaw: Okay another question: say you take a hair from Tonyâs in one of her transformed forms, would you turn into OG Tonks or neon hair Tonks? And would you have the power to transform?
Slytherin: I think in that type of situation, you would originally transform into the form she was in but I think you would have the power to transform?
Ravenclaw: So if you transformed into Tonks, you could become Metamorphagus. By that logic, you changed into the Marauders, would you be animagi?
Slytherin: Hmmm, Iâm not sure about that one tho bc itâs a different process they had to do in order to gain but if you said yes, it would depend on time you changed into them.
Ravenclaw: Wait, if Voldemort took a hair from Tom Riddle would he become himself?
Slytherin: I think he would become himself in Tom Riddleâs form not Voldemortâs form but Ig so
Ravenclaw: The perfect disguise
Slytherin: Literally. He could get away with acting like a student so long as he avoided certain professors
Ravenclaw: OOOOOOO new complication... we know that Moody had a leg stump and eyepatch right? So did Barth Crouch Jr. magically grow a leg and eyeball when the polyjuice wore off?
Ravenclaw: I really need to stop. Iâve spent 45 minutes not working
Hufflepuff: Broseph stop. This was not meant to be analyzed this much. But with the Moody thing, it could be the same argument as Harryâs eyesight.
Slytherin: Iâm curious about whether, if someone took a squib or muggleâs hair, they would be able to do magic with their wands in that form or not
Hufflepuff: I donât think they would be able to bc of the whole through their eyes with their skin. They canât do magic, therefore, you canât do magic.
Ravenclaw: Wait no bc in Deathly Hallows, Harry and Hermione use polyjuice when they go to Grodrics Hollow into muggles and they do magic
Hufflepuff: But did they do magic as the muggles or did they do magic as them desgisedw lol thatâs not even a word. No actually, my question is movie or book. Bc I remember that in the movie but not the book
Ravenclaw: Idk, I will check later
Hufflepuff: *texts Slytherin their side of the convo with Ravenclaw*
Slytherin: *sends text back to Hufflepuff* Honestly itâs a complicated thing to think about. Do you know whether Ravenclaw looked it up?
Slytherin: Iâm looking it up.... It says Harry doesnât transform using polyjuice potion into a muggle within the books