Talk:Polyjuice Potion

Harry and Ron did not have to change clothes while taking the potion because they were already wearing Slytherin robes.Morgoth14 01:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

That's in the movies; books precede movies on his wiki-Matoro183 ^{(Talk - Jimmy Fincher talk)} 01:38, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Health hazards of Polyjuice

This article says that Polyjuice contains both antimony and ammonia crystals (and apparently sodium nitrate and mercury as well). Wouldn't it then be highly toxic? 98.234.126.251 04:57, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

The ingredient list presented in the article is taken from a page of Moste Potente Potions shown in the Chamber of Secrets movie. In Chapter 10 of the novel, Hermione, reading from Moste Potente Potions, mentions a lot less ingredients:

"This is the most complicated potion I've ever seen," said Hermione, as they scanned the recipe. "Lacewing flies, leeches, fluxweed and knotgrass," she murmured, running her finger down the list of ingredients. "Well, they're easy enough, they're in the student store-cupboard, we can help ourselves. Oooh, look, powdered horn of a Bicorn – don't know where we're going to get that... Shredded skin of a Boomslang — that'll be tricky, too — and of course a bit of whoever we want to change into."

Under our Canon Policy, things from the movies are considered canonical, as long as they're not directly contradicted by the books or JKR herself. Since the ingredients given in Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10, are not provided in the form of a direct quotation of the text of Most Potente Potions, it's possible that Hermione simply skimmed the listed printed in the book and left out some ingredients when she spoke.

Personally, I think the extra ingredients are purely creative license on the filmmakers' part, and that they didn't realize the lethal cocktail they'd created. Sal ammoniac, however, seems to be irritant rather than outright toxic, and is used to flavour licorice candies and vodka in some countries. ★ Starstuff ^{(Owl me!)} 23:11, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Urine?

I was just watching the Chamber of Secrets film, and noticed that the page of directions for creating the Polyjuice Potion says something about putting some ingredient in urine. I uploaded an image. If you look at the bottom left hand corner, you can see what I'm talking about. --Parodist 23:40, September 19, 2009 (UTC)