The TRUTH About Polyjuice Potion | Harry Potter Theory

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Today J dives into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to reveal all the weird inner workings of Polyjuice Potion! Can you polyjuice a dead person? Could a child polyjuice into an adult? Shoud Pumpkin Juice be called Pumpkin SLUDGE??
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[@KageTaylor]

Hey can you guys please theorize about when and where young witches and wizards receive the trace?

[@bboops23]

@@KageTaylor or just a video explaining how the trace works because it always feels like a plot hole

[@christianwarren999]

Are narwhals real?

[@BizonX100]

Plot twist: The grizzly eagle shark is not a cross breed but simply just a shark that eats grizzly eagles.

[@funkyfacecool]

Hello

[@detsellamorningdew7915]

JK Rowling created the coolest possible ability for Tonks, then used it almost zero times.

[@howardlanus8467]

I agree. They could have used it so many ways, like impersonating Voldemort attacking Diagon Alley. To paraphrase the Grinch "If I can't find proof, I'll make it instead".

[@klaasromkes7961]

@@howardlanus8467 prob not somthing bumbeldore would do but still posebol

[@rarecarebearbx]

Yeah in hindsight she could have done a lot better

[@ethabn4]

@@klaasromkes7961 bumbeldore posebol what is posebol

[@maofamily6509]

@@ethabn4 I think it is Dumbledore and possible po ssi ble po se bol

[@DaniesDesigns]

As a British person I can confirm we do not drink pumpkin juice. I always assumed it’d be like apple or orange juice kind of consistency 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@charmedrools1]

YOU don't drink pumpkin juice. mix it into a black coffee instead of milk and sugar, trust me you won;t regret it

[@ThatFreakingGinger]

I drink it

[@thomasleach100]

I dont eat or drink pumpkin

[@kinda_kiwi8718]

Same

[@sofig1237]

How do you even juice a pumpkin?

[@goskaparchatka]

With the transforming into Tonks thing, WE SEE HER NATURAL FORM when she loses her metamorphagi powers because of her grief at Lupin refusing to be with her. Her hair turns a mousy-brown colour, and the rest of her face is relatively the same as normally.

[@chezchez3821]

But it’s possible that that was just what she looked like when she lost then

[@Actually_its_Ashely]

@@chezchez3821 yeah

[@foodofthegods]

The movie is inaccurate though. Her hair is more of a dark chocolate color. A “mousy” brown would look like- It would look like…. Lupin’s hair. Sooooo

[@iliriaishere]

@@foodofthegods u might just been onto something :0

[@foodofthegods]

@@iliriaishere you best bet I’m onto something

[@meghna4613]

Short-sighted eyesight can be caused by the shape of your eyeball so the Polyjuice potion could have just changed the shape of their eyeballs when they turned into Harry.

[@user-ik2co2dk2e]

I have that

[@ianschank]

“Tonks should have been doing a lot more” is the understatement of this whole video. Talk about an under utilized character. Not only just by the author but by Harry! She’s only a few years older than him, right in that range where if you don’t want to go to your parental figures for help but you might go to an older sibling figure. And is an auror which is the job he wants and she seems to think he’s pretty cool and always seems happy to talk to him whenever she’s around, but instead of treating her like a mentor and cool older friend he often seems mildly annoyed by her

[@beccag2758]

Yes! She was one of my favorite characters and we barely got anything from her other than the (in my opinion weird) romance😭

[@London4live]

agreed, I think harry would have had every reason to be interested in a more in-depth relationship with tonks. Although I think in Half-blood prince this changes, because throughout the whole year he assumes that she is devastated about sirius' death (feeling responsible for it/being in love with him) and as he himself doesn't want to face the subject I guess this is his reason to not really get in touch with her more

[@shoshanarubinstein2354]

Harry wasn't close with Tons as he was an angsty teenage boy. Tonks was more close with Hermoine and Ginny. If anyone's to blame its Tonks for not stepping up to help.

[@fidelianerina]

@@London4live Honestly it would make a lot of sense. He felt responsible for Sirius dying, and thought that Tonk's new patronus meant she loved Sirius. So clearly he would avoid her. Once he realized the truth of her partonus he was already planning on finding the horxruces now that Dumbledore died. He was about to get ready to be on the run. He knew what he would need to do, and didn't want anyone close to him to get hurt. It's why he broke up with Ginny, to keep her safe. Plus there would be no way to even try getting close to Tonks while on the run. Sadly he never got the chance after Voldemorts death cause her and Lupin sadly passed. I'm sure it's something Harry would regret, knowing he could have had a closer relationship with her. Yet at the same time, he was close to Lupin and i'm sure at the end of the battle there was enough heartache for him with Lupin and Fred that maybe it saved him from even more heartache.

[@judywright4241]

---He still would’ve seen Tonks as an ‘adult’, plus the movie left out how she started losing her own power longing after Remus. Not a person that Harry felt he could count on.

[@zachrobledo2252]

Honestly one of my favorite details is that Dumbledore never fixed his broken nose. We can talk all day about his moral decisions with Harry, but the fact that he knew he deserved a punch in the face and probably more for being pretty much directly responsible for his sister’s death is such a great character detail.

[@annalisahooper3842]

I have never relized that. you are a genius!

[@rubygracemoseley8144]

I never really thought about it but yeah..that’s probably why he never fixed it

[@miriamrosemary9110]

Oh yeah! Great point. Should totally make a video on that!

[@zachrobledo2252]

@@annalisahooper3842 haha thanks! Yeah he keeps is nose broken to remind him of his past actions and it’s a physical trait that really represents a more spiritual understanding of his situation. It may seem just like a broken nose, but the reason behind it is so much deeper.

[@Astral_thee_God]

lol this is just what J said in the video, just more words

[@Domihork]

"Have you seen the lad eat some chicken wings?" *shows Ron eating chicken legs*

[@emmaharkins]

My main question would be - how did Barty Crouch keep appearing as healthy madeye - he kept him alive so he could use his hair but madeye was getting sicker and sicker, and basically starving to death, but barty as moody still looked healthy and stuff

[@CarbonKrazie]

Ignore this theory, polyjuice potion copies a person's current appearance as a healthy person. Like everything, hair goes stale and probs wouldn't work

[@koibubbles3302]

@@CarbonKrazie I mean but then there’s a lot of questions as to what would be considered healthy because crouch jr STILL didn’t have a leg or an eye

[@CarbonKrazie]

Yeah, re reading this, Barty never let moody fall ill, in the books he was fine, slightly malnourished, but not sick. In the film he was completely fine

[@exicalsons]

@@CarbonKrazie Didnt he misses chunks of hair?

[@CarbonKrazie]

@@exicalsons that's because Barty was pulling them out!

[@thathsaraamarasinghe6774]

Its been pretty much two decades since Harry Potter was released and SCB somehow seems to still find topics to discuss

[@zerophantomyt433]

Anyone else feel old when they read that?

[@vaganzadan87]

Almost 2 and a half decades - Philosopher’s Stone came out in 1997!

[@mena94x3]

Well, it’s been 38-44 years since the first Star Wars trilogy was released and there’s nonstop discussion about them, 66-84 years since The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were released and there’s _gads_ of discussion still happening about them. 85 years since comic book superheroes first flew off the shelves, 204-210 years since Jane Austen’s novels were released, 408-431 years since Shakespeare wrote his plays . . . Each of these are still being performed on stage and screen, being discussed in schools and have hoards of dedicated fan clubs, websites and people on social media still discussing them and debating various characterizations / motivations / plot-points . . . The list could go on and on . . .

[@Sala.Lindberg]

@@mena94x3 Duude, well playd. Feel like the use of overkill is the right way to state this 😵💫👍🏻👍🏻

[@dkres82]

@@Sala.Lindberg perhaps it was overkill but they definitely got their point across.

[@meliskoolies]

ahh the forever asked questions about harry potter always come back to "is it magic? or is it British?"

[@da_xbox360]

next: can British people do magic

[@izzieluv]

🤣

[@Monie71793]

😩💀💀

[@Meg_intheclouds]

I can neither conform or deny, though never drank pumpkin juice myself.

[@meliskoolies]

My thoughts on pumpkin juice are that either british people like horrible tasting things or Rowling just was like orange juice but make it Halloween-y

[@leonorewinterer8644]

If curses get transfered when using polyjuice potion, does that also mean all seven Harries had Lily's 'anticurse' love protection as well?

[@josephlewis112]

No because at that point lilys protection wore off because he no longer called number 4 privet drive home.

[@leonorewinterer8644]

Sure, 4 Privet Drive is a special case, in that Voldemort can not hurt Harry there at all, but it's not the full extent of Lily's protection, is it? Until the events of Goblet, Tom can't even touch Harry without getting hurt, and that's at Hogwarts. Pretty sure some of that 'portable' protection will remain, even after Harry leaves Privet Drive for good.

[@josephlewis112]

@@leonorewinterer8644 you may be right but I'm pretty sure Dumbledore told Harry that once he no longer called it home his protection would just ware off.

[@josephlewis112]

@@leonorewinterer8644 disregard that last comment I just looked up how old harry was during that event. He was 17, meaning his protection wore off anyways since he was of age.

[@leonorewinterer8644]

@@josephlewis112 I think you might be mixing things up here. A mother's love doesn't care how old you are, after all. ;) See, for example, the 'How Did Harry Come Back to Life?' video, where J mentions the protection in Lily's blood in relation to the scene in the forest and the final duel, which happens way after the flight of the 7 Harrys.

[@abuchanan234]

I’ve always assumed it worked sort of like voodoo dolls in pop culture where the “bit of the person you want to turn into” is more of a target lock that tells the potion who to turn you into and the ingredients bind you to the person and adjusts your body into their current state

[@statisticallysound]

When Harry and Hermione went to Godric’s Hollow and used the polyjuice to appear as an elderly muggle couple

[@castlecrusher909]

They literally said that one in the video lol

[@statisticallysound]

@@castlecrusher909 yeah but not at the beginning when he said “which one didn’t I mention”

[@Ilyena]

@@statisticallysound did he mention when harry transformed into the redhaired muggle for the wedding?

[@adhyayanchoudha1055]

Barney who is named as cousin barney or, barney weasly but hes actually a muggle

[@statisticallysound]

@@Ilyena another one!

[@jhardman1876]

What would have been funny is if instead of everyone turning into Harry in DH, Tonks shifted to look like Death Eaters and everyone got the hair from that, so when the real Death Eaters showed up they would be fighting people who look like they're on their team. Plus, you can have the classic "I'm the real Bellatrix" "No I'm the real Bellatrix" exchange

[@JasonSmith-vm1mb]

Whilst I agree with this there is a problem. Only the DE will cast unforgivable curses proving who they are.

[@GhastlyG]

@@JasonSmith-vm1mb The aurors were permitted to use unforgivable curses

[@dantemoose420]

The real Bellatrix would just start blasting off Unforgivables. "... Youre not me. CRUCIO!"

[@sanyabist3843]

It would've been but but while tonks of turned into a death eater... It's still her hair.. It's her dna right..no it won't change them into death eaters

[@JahanMisra]

@@sanyabist3843 watch the end of the video it’s the last thing he talks about

[@kalenrieman3313]

The quote "At the end of the day I guess it's just a matter of viscosity... Isn't it always?" Is one of my favorites I've heard in a long time.

[@cynnimini2650]

The missing use of polyjuice potion is when Barty Crouch uses is to switch his son and wife to get Barty Crouch Jr out of Azkaban

[@liucijaful]

Also Bill and Fleurs wedding and Harrys and Hermionies visit to Godriks hollow

[@yawninglion1677]

Albus and Scorpio used it in Cursed Child if that counts

[@khodexus4963]

You answered your own "unanswered question" about adopting someone else's age when you referenced Crabbe and Goyle polyjuicing into little girls.

[@AifosViruset]

Also, moody and Barty Crouch Jr är not the same age but fake Moody looks the right age.

[@charlottefaye1628]

I think it's more in regards to actual (magical) age instead of appearance of age, in other words you turn into what the person looks like at the time the sample was taken but would that result in magical methods to determine age like the 'age line' in GOF showing their age or your own?

[@gorcia6]

You can easily assume that was just a question to keep things going. He knew the answer right away but it was a plot device. Com'on people they know Harry Potter more than any of us ;p

[@khodexus4963]

@@gorcia6 Do they, though? Just because they do alot of research doesn't mean they are incapable of making mistakes and missing things. I myself do extensive research for the purposes of my own fanfiction, and I've caught things they've missed, as evidenced by the questions I get right that they get wrong on their periodic quizzes. The reverse also happens, I make no claims to be perfect, but I frequently catch things they seem to have missed. And even if it was intentional, my statement is no less accurate, so anything I might assume doesn't change anything.

[@gorcia6]

@Khodexus maybe they miss something sometimes, but in my opinion this is not the case. As I said for me it is a plot devise to move things forward, since J does answer this question in the video.

[@anntecz]

"Have you seen the lad eat some chicken wings?" 😂😂😂

[@khadijasenghor286]

😂😂😂

[@DrTimes99]

*shows him eating chicken legs

[@prothalium1543]

Imagine having more likes than the pinned comment itself. At least for now.

[@Cecilia-zm4dj]

I haven't even watched the video yet but I'm assuming we're talking about Ron 🤣

[@GarrettMerkin]

My first thought was that "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" song. Look that up. The end is about chicken wings. Dating myself...

[@987liss]

My biggest question about polyjuice potion is, why do they still have their own voices? If they become a perfect physical copy of someone else, then surely they would have their vocal cords too, right?

[@amanda-leem7134]

That was a movie change. The books their voices changed

[@987liss]

@@amanda-leem7134 oh! Man, I get the books and movies confused way too often 🙈🙈 thanks!

[@idiotic_coffeegurl]

Don’t always trust the movies to PERFECTLY adapt the books they are adapting. Yes, sometimes in movies some scenes can be better than those scenes in the books, but those are kind of rare.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

And head shape and the larynx and pharynx.

[@PerovNigma]

I'd write it off as stylisation for audience benefit, but Harry tells Ron how to sound more like Crabbe, which is annoying. It does at least add to the scene where Runcorn-Harry stupefies Umbridge.

[@rhondacrosswhite8048]

I’ve always wondered why Sirius didn’t use polyjuice potion to transform into someone else when he was so tired of being stuck at 12 Grimauld Pl when he was in hiding. He could have looked John Q Public long enough to get out for a while.

[@UnfazedPhoenix]

Dementors can detect you through polyjuice. It has no effect on them. That's why he was safe only in his animagus form and could escape to begin with.

[@wave6553]

The sentence "Tonks should have been doing a lot more" is one that I have found myself thinking frequently.

[@glittery_cucumber]

I always thought Polyjuice potion is like taking a picture of someone in the moment you took the "piece of them" and transforming into that version of them.

[@vera1148]

If that is the case you could morph into someone and cut off your hair and always have an infinite amount of any polyjuice at your disposal.

[@kapiquantum]

@@vera1148 if u cut YOUR hair in the moment of transformation u will still tranformed with less and less hair Its long but not infinite

[@kyleeversfield8276]

Actually the cut off hair would likely transform back into the hair of the person who drank the potion once the potion wore off. It magic and there is no reason just because you removed it from the body that the magic would suddenly last forever on that hair.

[@Shudnawz]

@@kyleeversfield8276 Consider this: 1. Get hair from Target. 2. Make polygoop with hair from Target. 3. Change into Target. 4. Before the hour is up, cut your transformed hair (which is now similar to Target), and put in prepared polygoop. 5. Hour is up, and you have some ready polygoop which, is either a. same as the original polygoop (turning you to Target) or b. polygoop containing one of your OWN hairs, turning you to yourself at the time of being transformed into Target. Either way, UNLIMITED POLY!

[@glittery_cucumber]

@@vera1148 Interesting idea! Maybe you couldn't "double polyjuice" though? Like taking a picture of a picture, it would come out wonky?

[@cjesta6050]

What if the real reason Voldy is bald is so no one can transform into him using Polyjuice Potion🤔🤯

[@awaywiththefaeries9464]

But they can use his ‘bodily fluids’ or nails or snot....

[@jordynmanthey9930]

@@awaywiththefaeries9464 THAT MUST BE WHY HE HAS NO NOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SMBudge]

And that’s why he’s so pale; he got rid of all his blood so it can’t be used!

[@Roozyj]

@@SMBudge He does have uncomfortably long fingernails though

[@TV-ly3dp]

@@Roozyj Who would want to drink that

[@ariellamannes3003]

About the baby or kid who drinks polyjuice of an adult, I think they would age physically but keep the mentality of their age. Like Hermione who turned into a boy when she took polyjuice with Harry's hair, or Mundunges growing taller, or Fred and Geroge shorter.

[@unitds27-delta]

Or Harry, Ron, and Hermione becoming adults to infiltrate the Ministry in Deathly Hallows

[@KittyandLychee]

Fun fact about the boomslang snake: Boomslangs have really good eyesight. Their eyesight is so good, they are able to spot a camouflaged chamaeleon

[@stuartmcnaughton1495]

Barty Crouch Jr. and his mother transformed into each other using Polyjuice Potion to spring him from Azkaban.

[@beansontoast7586]

Also at the wedding Harry used it to be barny

[@vikramb183]

Although neither was dead at the time, and they probably didn’t bother with it after he was back home and she was dead

[@tobyscott9756]

Her

[@MerkhVision]

@@tobyscott9756 not her. Barty Jr was the one that was escaping from jail, not his mother!

[@starry_night5385]

I think the Polyjuice Potion would work for Lupin . When they return from the Seven Potters Mission, Kingsley Shacklebolt asks Lupin the last words Dumbledore said to the pair of them to check for imposters. When Harry is asked to tell the creature he saw the first time he visited Lupin's office, Hagrid asked why he wasn't asked any such question. To this , Lupin says that the Polyjuice Potion can only he used on humans and not on Hagrid as he was a half -giant. I think it rules out all those half-creatures from birth but not all curses. Thus , it works for Remus's impersonation, in my opinion.

[@AnimeOtakuDrew]

A few questions. You made a very good case for being able to turn into a younger version of someone if you have a sample collected from them at the appropriate age, but what if you collected a sample from someone and that person died after the sample was collected? Whatever it is in that sample that dictates the appearance bestowed by the resulting polyjuice potion would remember its source as alive and however they looked at the time the sample was collected. So, for example, could a Death Eater capture Arthur Weasley, collect a sample to make a polyjuice potion, kill him, then use the potion to sneak into someplace disguised as him? Second question (and related to the first), what if the person you're copying dies while you're under the effects of a polyjuice potion to look like them? For example, what if Moody had died while Barty Crouch Jr. was in the middle of a DADA class? Finally (and unrelated), if a polyjuice potion is made by using a part of the person you want to turn into, could a horcrux be used to make a polyjuice potion, especially if the potion's ability is linked to the soul of the donor as you suggest? I mean, a horcrux is literally a piece of someone's soul. So, if Tom Riddle's diary was tossed into a polyjuice potion, could it turn someone into him? Or the ring? And, if so, at what age? Would you appear the age he was when the horcrux was created, or as present day Voldemort (I mean, if a horcrux acts as a tether that keeps someone from dying, then there must be some active link that it maintains to that person, so it could be argued that you should turn into their present form)? I'd love to see you do a follow up video and address these questions. Still, this was a really good video!

[@TheRuthPo]

It’s a magic thing - pumpkins are less of a thing in the UK than the US. I’ve never heard of anyone in the UK drinking pumpkin juice outside of Harry Potter.

[@helenamirian908]

Mmhmm I think all the pumpkin stuff for wizards year-round are due to them being associated with Halloween=magic. Or wizards are Karens.

[@miepmiep2274]

@@helenamirian908 i wanna speak to your pumpkin manager. You’ll get fired and i sue you for everything you have

[@bobbydeftos79]

Polyjuice is used by the order to disguise Harry on multiple occasions including at Bill and Fluer’s wedding. Harry and Hermoine also use it when they visit Harry’s parents grave in Deathly Hallows. NOW GIMME THOSE BONUS POINTS J😂😂😂

[@burdenedwithgloriouspurpos9132]

also Grindelwald transforming into Graves. And did Voldemort give Nagini polyjuice to transform into Bathilda Bagshot?

[@marie-aurepigal2975]

@@burdenedwithgloriouspurpos9132 I don't think Nagini polyjuiced into Bathilda Bagshot because in the books (and maybe in the films?), Bathilda's skin falls to the ground when Nagini comes out.

[@burdenedwithgloriouspurpos9132]

@@marie-aurepigal2975 yeah, good point. I was just mostly joking anyway.

[@biga7682]

@@burdenedwithgloriouspurpos9132 I think Grindelwald used a transfiguration spell

[@Alex-ds8wm]

I thought when Harry and hermione returned to his parents graves they returned as himself

[@sirfunkalot3404]

the potion doesnt just give u the external appearance, but also inner appearance, organs, skeleton, muscles, eyes. thats why they see like harry does, Myope, Presbyopie etc is literally change in the physical appearance of your eyes that makes them concentrate the light that goes into them diffetently than healthy eyes

[@ArcticFoxWaffles]

Do you think there'd be some sort of black market for celebrities' hair after they got a haircut or something so people can just transform into them whenever if they got some of their DNA?

[@you_already_have_it]

For muggle celebs - I don't think so since witches/wizards don't know and don't care about anything of muggle's world.

[@annarushlau9722]

Example of someone’s magic dying with them: Lily’s flower petal fish she gave to Slughorn.

[@elainegoates9792]

or the spell dumbledore put on harry so he would stay still and not get captured by deatheaters

[@thomasjeppesen3055]

Dumbledore probably knew Voldemort was alive because the Defense against the Dark Arts position still was cursed after his fall in Godric’s Hollow. That curse presumably also broke with Voldemort’s death.

[@anvime739]

Not canon since it’s only in the movies

[@London4live]

@@thomasjeppesen3055 good thinking!!

[@travisjackson6609]

Dumbledore spell on harry in the tower in book 6 is another example of a spell stopping at caster's death

[@thetimetraveller2671]

For the child-thing (whether you'd age if you drink Polyjuice potion) I think with Mundungus' transformation into Harry it's rather clear - you actually become younger/older

[@lucifersdevilishdetails.]

And later in the same book the trio age up when they took it to break in to the ministry

[@boltingvulture9970]

Same with Crabbe and Goyle transforming into different age girls through the 6th year for Draco

[@ihopeicanchangethisnamelat7108]

I just saw a comment talking about how Barth Crouch Jr

[@royjaskowski905]

I always thought Snape was the cause of Harry’s poor eyesight. We know Snape invented several spells. We saw James in the movie begin his time at Hogwarts not needing glasses. But later both James and Harry needed glasses. In my head canon Snape used a curse he invented that inflicted James with such poor eyesight that even his kids couldn’t see properly! Now that’s a curse!

[@aryanpathak224]

Now that's a thing I think young Snape would do

[@MerkhVision]

That sounds fun but the realistic answer to the thing about James is that people’s eyesight gets worse as they get older, plenty of people don’t need glasses when they’re young kids but end up needing them in their teen years.

[@wildcatterry17]

Forensic science isn’t possible in HP. You can frame anyone with murder, impregnate or become impregnated and no one would know. Imagine if Snape impersonated James Potter with Polyjuice and impregnated Lily. Gives more reasoning as to why Snape protects Harry (Harry is his son) and despises him (because he looks like James) at the same time. Would’ve been a massive twist.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Yeah, but, ew.

[@wildcatterry17]

@@ginnyjollykidd I agree.

[@helenamirian908]

When Harry was in the waiting station place, he was in a perfect form of his body, as in the afterlife, as in why Sirius looked young and happy, etc. Like our ideas of Heaven. We'll look like ourselves but better. That's why Nearly Headless Nick has a partially severed head, the Baron is bloody, etc. They have not moved on.

[@IceBearfor]

The one missing:Harry at the wedding as a distant Wealsey cousin Also,Moody doesn't like to look back on the past, it distracts from the now.

[@simplebutpowerful]

won't catch Moody saying "NO CAPES" tho

[@loading4629.]

"Cousin barny"

[@scifiwriter6092]

You guys are so amazing! I really appreciate the amount of research that you do to make these videos.

[@juliaferreira8491]

I am 100 percent sure that Lupin, James, and Sirius have answers to all of these questions, bc Lilly was the best potions student of their year and they'd do it with absolutely no convincing.

[@lordbryam]

What about using the hair of someone already on the polyjuice effect? Would you transform into the person whom they transformed into or would you transform into the person that took the polyjuice??? To polyjuice a polyjuice user.

[@craigschwartz9778]

J. I need an answer to this.

[@zachkrebs4626]

J:"you can use hair, nails or blood" Me: imagines Harry drinking voldemorts tonail And could they use baby teeth?

[@sinnvolltasche2169]

I think one could use teeth, yes.

[@bluepawwarriors4038]

Anything that has DNA.

[@yf-n7710]

They could use baby teeth, although then they would turn into a child version of that person from when the tooth was lost. (At least if you are going by the explanation in this video).

[@isabelbard853]

Well, gross, lol. Now I have that image in my head

[@andreaguevara6023]

or adult teeth

[@OkGoGirl82]

In the books when they take the Polyjuice potion in CoS, Harry didn't need his glasses because Goyle's eyesight was fine. But they changed all that in the movies. As for the question of using the potion for a dead person, my thought is that it would only work if the material (hair or whatever) was collected when they were alive.

[@TheKwiji]

this video has become a perfect representation of what kind of thoughts keep me awake when I try to sleep

[@fynndog6893]

It would be the younger version of the person because Barty Crouch is perfectly healthy and normal while being mad eye, and moody was starving and week at the bottom of the briefcase.

[@helenamirian908]

Hmm, interesting! Whereas Crouch was getting access to food and drink. Do you think he needed to keep eating a snack every time he took potion? He wasn't 'eating for two'. Really makes me think.

[@maddielow2328]

i think it’s more so that you turn into the person at the point you took their hair or whatever, so if barty crouch jr took a big tuft of hair from moody at the point he put him into the briefcase then he would turn into the pre briefcase moody by using the pre-taken hair. i think if he took hair from moody while he was in the briefcase he would’ve looked all starved as well. But that’s just a guess lol

[@London4live]

@@maddielow2328 but he did take hair from him all year and not just in the beginning. Thats why Barty crouch juniour kept the real moody alive instead

[@merenwen4495]

@@maddielow2328 You keep your own health status and you have to use fresh hairs. Chrouch explained both. He said he had to keep Moody close and alive so he could steel his hair from time to time. He also told that he could escape Azkaban because his mother was ill and dying and he also was. The dementors could only tell that a dying person was a leaving, and a dying person was locked in the cell.

[@jawstrock2215]

It's a disguise, but it sort of living? if you hurt yourself while polymorphed, it would show on the polymorphed disguised, same way if you transformed in an underfed, then fed yourself, you would look fine. It's magic afterall :D

[@joshuah.4496]

“What does the real Tonks even look like?” Something I ask myself every time I read Order of the Pheonix

[@anvime739]

Me too. I imagine that very similar to Bellatrix and Andromeda. But perhaps she looks more like her dad.

[@elderscrollsswimmer4833]

One theory is that she's really shorter and just constantly makes her legs longer with her metamorphing -- and that's why she's so clumsy! (Though I guess she doesn't do that if she's in a serious situation).

[@anvime739]

@@elderscrollsswimmer4833 thats a fun idea

[@izzieluv]

We see her appearance in HBP when she is depressed because Lupin is ignoring her.

[@evelina2548]

We have pumpkin juice in Sweden. It is not the most common drink because it is seasonal. It is usually found in late autumn around October - November and has a consistency of orange juice with pulp in it. 🤗

[@mjpete27]

Great subject and fantastic video content ! Nicely done, Kudos to your entire staff!

[@smittysmee]

I feel like the child question was answered when teen age Harry was aged up to become Runcorn. And same for the other two lol.

[@sevret313]

I think by a child they mean much smaller like let's say a 5-year-old.

[@victoriaferrer94]

Hey guys. There are so many questions now and it was because you decided to put Voldy on the thumbnail: 1. Is it possible to transform into someone who's soul is broken by a horcurx? 2. If you transform yourself into Harry Potter pre-Deathly Hallows, wouldn't you be also transform into the piece of voldemort that's inside him? Since their souls are intertwined... does that mean that everyone was a little voldy in 7 potters? And 3. Can you use a piece of a horcrux to transform into the person? Since there is a part of the soul in that object? So many questions. My head hurts.

[@lemons2001]

I think the answers are yes, no and no, because polyjuice potion only affects your external appearance and therefore I would expect it to be linked more to your material body than your soul. However, I guess one could argue the horcrux becomes a part of your body when it houses a part of your soul

[@converse0for0eva]

I also think it's not possible. Splitting the soul (creating a horcrux) is a huge effort. It can't be that easy to replicate someone's soul.

[@viktoria_pikovsky]

I don't know if you are aware of it, but the Cursed Child play/ book did gave an answer your first question, and the answer is YES. In the play, Harry used a piece of Voldemort's body (I think it was a hair) to successfully transform himself into Voldy right in time to stop the main villain of the play. On top of it, at the time this transformation happened Harry already wasn't a Hourcrux, so the transformation wasn't influenced by whatever piece of Voldemort's soul Harry could had within himself (as he simply had none). So if to take the play as canon, it is indeed possible to transform yourself to a person who created hourcrxes out if their soul. Sadly I cannot give you an answer to your 2 other questions, but I hope this does work.

[@kiarariboni9521]

@Wafflemage But in the books their voice changes, it's only in the 7th movie that it doesn't, how else do you explain Barty Crouch Jr. Having Moody's voice in the 4th one

[@viktoria_pikovsky]

@Feef the Beef That's.... that's kinda what Polyjuice suppose to do. It only transforms your physical look (including notable scars and features), but doesn't give you the abilities of the person you transform into. and transforming to look like Voldemort is exactly what Harry tied to achieve.

[@EverRed]

In the deathly hallows remus doesn't check if hagrid is an imposter because he is a half giant so the polyjuice won't work cross species but Kingsley checks Remus so I think you can polyjuice into werewolves

[@krystofdayne]

Isn't there are scene in Book 7 where Lupin announces to Harry "My name is Remus John Lupin, and I taught you Defence against the Darks Arts and the first time you walked into my office, there was a Grindylow sitting in a tank" or something like that, you know, to identify himself that he is indeed himself and not someone polyjuicing him. So that would imply that Remus himself at least thinks it's possible for other people to transform into him.

[@toonmili03]

Yeah but someone like Tonks would be able to turn into him by changing just enough features

[@calvinwade6574]

The bad eyesight is based off the shape of his eyes and then not focusing light correctly. So since the polyjuice changes they're physical attributes all of their eyes will be as bad as Harry's

[@travisjackson6609]

I wonder if Lilly had bad eyeaight since harry has his mothers eyes

[@lillukoita]

@Syd - but no one said anything about lily's glasses so she could have bad eye sight?

[@lillukoita]

@Syd - oh I see. Well that maybe was a decision they had to make or jkr pictured her like that but I can't remember anything about lily's eye sight from books \(•_•)/

[@lordpowell3788]

Harry should get lassic eye surgery. Then go back to magic land. Where they can grow bones but not fix eye sight

[@m1tthrawnuru0d06]

In regards to Lupin: The order thought someone could polyjuice into him. They always ignore Hagrid but question everyone else including Lupin. And Lupin tells us it is because Polyjuice wouldnt work on Hagrid due to being half-giant.

[@ashtenjampayas]

WhZt about Fleur she is part Veela

[@forestgrump4723]

@@ashtenjampayas I think it would have to be more recent than her “great great grandmother” to prevent polyjuice working. Her great grandma being had would probably be immune but anyone beyond that it’s probably safe

[@wolframstahl1263]

Technically, if two beings are capable of producing fertile offspring, they are the same species. (But I guess Magic > Biology) But concerning Lupin, checking him could just be a cover-procedure to hide his lycantropy. They are already massively paranoid (and rightfully so), not questioning Lupin might give away secret information to any unwelcome visitors.

[@SgtSupaman]

@@wolframstahl1263 , no, they are biologically close, like in the same genus or family, but they are not necessarily the same species. For instance, a horse is the species Equus ferus caballus, while a donkey is the species Equus africanus asinus, but the two can mate despite not being the same species. This is because they are similar enough for it to work (they are both genus Equus).

[@wolframstahl1263]

@@SgtSupaman Horse and donkey can mate to produce (mostly) infertile offspring, mule. I won't speculate too much about the fertility of Hagrid or Lupin, but that's exactly why I specified the 'fertile' offspring. As far as I know, that's pretty much where the line of speciation is drawn.

[@lemonslisterine1862]

Harry uses the polyjuice potion to become a ginger boy from a nearby village to disguise himself as a Weasley relative and Barty Crouch's wife uses it to disguise as Barty Crouch Jr. when he was in Azkaban.

[@catterin7815]

Barty Crouch Jr. also uses it to look like his mother to escape Azkaban. A question would be, was he still using it after she died? As her hair was taken before she died, shouldn't it still work?

[@jacobduncan2142]

This theory clashes with another one I liked. Why the triwizard cup had the ability to teleport back to the start of the maze if Voldemort was going to kill Harry, and why he took Harry's blood, not to just touch him, but BE him.

[@thescarletteve]

Love this 🤩 THEORY IDEA: How did Tom Riddle get all his information about his family and about where things like hufflepuffs cup were? How did the Nicholas Flamel from Harry Potter create the philosophers stone? How does Amortentia work? How did Herpo the Foul figure out ow to create Horcruxes Love your videos, they are so creative and you always have me sold by the end 😊

[@r_i_v_e_r1407]

ME TOO

[@isabellamariefletcher1568]

When u think about it..... what was Herpo doing that caused him to figure out horcruxes... like what?

[@eitanyshayahu9415]

I know half the answer the rest i dont

[@Jan_Koopman]

Answer to the 2nd question: Probably the same way he did according to the actual legend

[@thescarletteve]

@@Jan_Koopman I was thinking that but for some reason I feel like it’s different but if it’s the same I’m cool with that

[@ObscurusBooks]

That's exactly how I imagined Polyjuice Potion to work. You'd look and sound like the person you took the piece from, including biological features like eyesight etc., but you wouldn't have their magical powers. But the thing that always bothered me in the movies was that the ones taking Polyjuice Potion kept their own voices instead of them sounding like the ones they turned into. I get that this was a filmic technique to show who turns into whom, but when transforming into a different body, your vocal chords also transform, so it's illogical that they all kept their real voices in the movies! Sorry, the rant is over now ... 😑😅😂

[@ariesearthdragon]

Plus, they are inconsistent with it, unless Barty Crouch Jr is just really good at voice impersonations.

[@awesomesauce6601]

Name of the Wind theories!? I love me some Kingkiller Chronical, you just made my day.

[@patentleatherkicks]

Another interesting thing about the polyjuice potion was George's ear. George was injured by Snape's Sectumsempra while he was juiced to look like Harry, but the injury transferred over to George's own body once the potion wore off. I wonder if this would still have happened if he had been hit by a regular severing charm (Diffindo) or if it was because Sectumsempra causes a cursed injury.

[@bobbydeftos79]

“It’s just a matter of vescocity *scoffs* isn’t it always” - what a delivery

[@Carly529]

J fixing his hair is the funniest thing I've seen all day tbh😂

[@hyrumthomas427]

If you took the sample of person A using a person B, poly juice, potion, which would you transform into?

[@imranshafiq3727]

I......can’t believe you used a Kingkiller Chronicle analogy. Or even referenced the series at all!!!! I love your videos, The Kingkiller Chronicles is my favourite book series, AND NOW THEY’RE COMING TOGETHER!!!!! ITS ALL IVE EVER HOPED FOR!!!!!!!

[@DocJackson96]

I was just thinking about polyjuice potion as I got the notification!

[@SuperCarlinBrothers]

Well that's cool!

[@futbol_rolf9624]

@@SuperCarlinBrothers also also actually actually you’re right

[@wolframstahl1263]

@@futbol_rolf9624 Super easy, barely a Game Theory!

[@1SlateS314]

The weird thing is that in CoS when Harry and Ron change into crabbe and goyle their voice doesn’t change but in DH Harry’s voice turns into Runcorn’s when he is impersonating him

[@CrackFoxJunior]

In the books, the voice always changes. The films are inconsistent. Harry and Ron have the same voices (Or at least are presented that way to the viewer), but Crouch's voice changes to Moody's.

[@anonymone453]

@@CrackFoxJunior Because we always see things from Harry's point of view, when Harry knows someone is polymorphed we hear that character's original voice because Harry knows who that person really is. It's not accurate in-universe but it makes the portrayal less confusing to follow.

[@mauer1]

@@CrackFoxJunior Harry, did you put your name in the goblet of fire, asked Dumbledore calmly.

[@1SlateS314]

@@CrackFoxJunior Oh yeah ur right

[@quackerzdb]

@@CrackFoxJunior they actually address that in Goblet in the movie. Barty does a perfect impression of Hagrid to show how he did Moody's voice.

[@angielindsay8611]

I've been wanting more information on poor vision in the HP universe for the longest time! Thanks for addressing one of the many many problems with eyesite and glasses that the author created. Seems ridiculous to me that they would have spells to repel water and fog from glasses, but nothing to improve eyesite. They can't even regrow eyes like they can regrow bones!

[@nrdgrl2118]

Ooooo I’m soooo excited for king killer videos 😍

[@aDifferentJT]

I miss the way you changed T-shirts for the sponsor/ad spots, it made it really clear what was content and what was ad.

[@Vmml_Tbqfunyy]

Di- Did you jus- Did you just call Express Vpn an emotionally unstable ghost?

[@diyavatsavai5778]

Moaning Myrtle has finally found a friend!

[@ewanmacdonald8466]

The part about Harry’s scar raises questions too. Like it’s not like a simple scar from a cycling accident it’s a magical scar with its own magical hang ups. So can the potion replicate magical enchantments?

[@lukasbroderus8582]

you guys do the most sponsors of any yt channel I have ever seen. You must be making so much money.

[@benlime1235]

Fleur is half Veela but successfully uses Polyjuice Potion to change into Harry before the Battle of the Seven Potters.

[@jeannebouwman1970]

Well she is only quarter veela, or eight veela (I don't remember)

[@helenamirian908]

Quarter? Her "grandmuzzer"? Unless she had Veela blood on both sides.

[@JohnBloggart]

Yes, us Brits all start theday with a cool drink pumpkin juice; one of our five a day. We all also attend bording schools, have the ability to fly, and occosionally spontaniously combust!! Xx

[@caitrinmcfetridge8889]

hey, don't forget about our daily tea and crumpets

[@diyavatsavai5778]

I believed it up until flying 😂

[@anneanderson145]

12:24 Great clip. Great actor.

[@charitylady7389]

I have never before wished I owned a juicer. But now I am definately getting one next time that pumpkin harvest comes around - cause I've got to know about the sludge!

[@h20-addict71]

One thing I’ve always thought about, harry and gang let a dragon loose in England, what’s the dragon up to 🧐

[@Sarah12471]

They just be chillin

[@ikbenrickie]

Probaply died because he wasnt fed by wizards

[@lucario2able]

@@ikbenrickie or ate some cows lo

[@hannah.lindseyy]

He's now the prime minister of Wales.

[@josephlewis112]

@@ikbenrickie I highly dought the dragon could not fend for itself

[@jbjisawsome101]

Did anyone else have the thought that when everyone turned into Harry during that scene that now everyone in that scene now knows what Harry was packing if you know what I mean? 😳

[@ElysiaWhitemoonOmega]

and did one of the girls had time to try peeing standing up?

[@Aquila556]

There is a 2 chaptered drarry fanfic with this idea. "The problem with polyjuice" on ao3 I think.

[@koibubbles3302]

Yeah I mean why didn’t they put on the clothes and stuff BEFORE they changed because I feel like it’s really embarrassing on everyone's behalf

[@you_already_have_it]

@@koibubbles3302 IKR. Poor Harry. Everyone was just stripping down showing his body openly. So wrong.

[@toonmili03]

@@koibubbles3302 the clothes would not fit everyone in their own bodies since its Harry's size.

[@SilliS]

What if you lose a leg and use the leg itself for the potion. Would the potion grow you a new leg? Would the potion grow you the part that was used to make the potion?

[@nataliey3623]

I always interpreted the 'your eyesight really is awful' as her struggling to look through the very strong glasses rather than her not being able to see without them

[@darkamora5123]

I'd say the piece of the person is tied to their current soul, regardless of what age they were when the piece was taken. In Goblet, Dumbledore knew Moody was still alive, because Barty was using PJP to transform into him. If he'd made a backlog of potion, and it was tied to when it was made, then killing Moody wouldn't matter. But death would have either made it impossible or killed him.

[@witerabid]

I always thought Barty Crouch Jr. kept Moody alive because he needed a constant supply of hair and even if he had shaved the whole head the supply would've run out at some point and it was probably fairly difficult to know for certain how long he had to keep the charade going when he started...

[@frankthedew]

Now THIS is the type of question that keeps me up at night. Great job as always, guys!

[@accio_firewhiskey8256]

The trio breaking into the ministry

[@ConnorDoubleYou]

If Hagrid couldn't take the potion because he's half-giant, how did the half-Veela Fleur transform into Harry? This one's always bugged me.

[@MerkhVision]

Giants are known to be resistant to magic. Maybe Veelas aren’t?

[@AndrewJGaming]

@@MerkhVision She's also only 1/4 veela

[@timonobel615]

Velas are already half human so maybe that has a part

[@jacobsheehan5775]

Well, Giants are different from veela, and veela are pretty human, like already, as a factor giants having resistance to magic

[@ameliabrown3987]

The main thing I took from this was "Tonks should have been doing a lot more" because...yeah. She's criminally underused, especially in the movies

[@annamontana6719]

I'd love to see a video explaining metamorphmagi! How does it work and is there any limitations to it? Could Tonks change her facial features or height and if so, why does she choose to look how she does? And what is her "natural" form? Does it take energy or something to change or maintain the looks and what is the thing behind her gray hair when she was depressed? Why doesn't the ministry or the Order utilize her power at all? Oh, and could her clumsiness be a result of choosing to have wrong kind of body and legs?

[@marissaelliott6102]

You forgot the one where Harry Ron and Hermione break into the ministry. Also LOVE watching ur vids! And if you love Harry Potter, please read Keeper of the Lost Cities. It has so much opportunity for theories and is sooooo good!

[@corpralcobra420]

I think it's basically the "disguise self" spell from DnD. You are you underneath, you are just wearing an illusion, but in the harry potter world, the illusion is physically touchable.

[@mackenziehardy2388]

Yay! Love all of y’all’s HP content

[@SuperCarlinBrothers]

Thanks!

[@funnydude3071]

Yes

[@DrewWutsit]

For real though, every HP video of theirs is gold

[@Polska_Edits]

@@DrewWutsit totally agree

[@rararocco]

THESE SOCKS ARE AMAZING

[@stellafanders]

I miss this phrase so mucu

[@proclarushtaonasat]

Maybe the potion only uses the DNA to "lock on" to the targets life signature (or something like that) and you transform into whatever they currently look like, when you drink the potion? This would explain scars and missing body parts, as im not convinced, DNA would reflect those things, regardless of wether theyre magic or not.

[@lillianrodrick5852]

I run a D&D campaign set in the HP universe. And one of the characters is a metamorphmagi. We ruled that when polyjuice potion is taken with their hair, the drinker turns into what the character would look like if they couldn't change their appearance. In fact, the character used polyjuice potion to 'reset' their own appearance because forgetting what they actually look like is a real risk (if they change their appearance beyond 'duck bill' or 'cool hair', I make them make checks to remember what they look like).

[@glitchythings4362]

Read a fanfiction where Hermione gives Draco some polyjuice so he can hide with her (It's actually one of the very few good Dramione stories I've ever read) and Draco puts some hair from a random hairbrush into the potion and (Though unexplained how she knows) Hermione recognizes "him" as Tom Riddle and freaks out before Draco reassures her that he's not Tom Riddle. It was very interesting.

[@chacopaco407]

What's it called?

[@jeannebouwman1970]

@@chacopaco407 i would also like to know

[@lazybones775]

​@@jeannebouwman1970 me too

[@EspeonMistress00]

How tf did a +50 year old hair stay in that hair brush lol?

[@Rachel31509]

@@chacopaco407 mhm I’d also like to know what it’s called I’d like to watch it

[@joshuaneth4216]

You should cover why Fred and George never seen Peter pettigrew on the marauders map before they gave it to Harry

[@eevee239]

Theres a theory they always mention from another channel(forgot who) when they talk about the map and that theory is that only the marauders can see the marauders on the map and that in the prisoner of Azkaban movie when harry sees wormtail doesnt really count or happen idk I havent seen the theory but thats what they said when they mentioned it

[@olchapplobro5258]

@@eevee239 I believe the channel they mentioned was Seamus Gorman

[@williampaulsinghharika2627]

@@eevee239 maybe Harry could because the map confused him for his father.

[@AlphaFX-kv4ud]

@@williampaulsinghharika2627 harry didn't see Pettigrew that was a movie thing

[@blueandbronzeravenclaw1961]

maybe you can only see a transformed animagus is you know they are an animagus

[@henriettajsoneskelin7806]

It is only mud-like when brewed on Crabbe/Goyle, if I remember correctly. Which funnily enough seems to fit well with the soul theory of polysludge

[@the0siren0of0night]

This sounds like some of the thinking I had when working out what kind of world my fan fiction would be set in...

[@heylolp9]

In order to save my computer from ever becoming victim of any attacks i just made a program that turned Cortana mentally unstable now i am safe forever

[@jozef09]

Awesome.....

[@solidsnaker1992]

i'm not so sure making Cortana mentally unstable will make you safe, she may leak your info to everybody

[@heylolp9]

@@solidsnaker1992 nah bro that happens through the Microsoft terms and conditions anyway

[@solidsnaker1992]

@@heylolp9 Fair point

[@andreasrimstad6733]

How about transforming into the snake/human version of Voldemort? Would you look like he does in the movies, or like an older version of fully human Tom Riddle

[@andreasrimstad6733]

@the god of cringe In stead of his hair, you would just use his DNA from elsewhere, like blood for example

[@simonadams4071]

Btw the other time they use the polijuice potion is when they go to visit godrics hollow so Voldemort won’t recognise them