What if...

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calliope14 has posed an interesting Polyjuice-related question...

If a wizard is sleeping with a witch while he is polyjuiced as another wizard, and the witch gets pregnant, whose kid is it?

For example, if, say, Draco is polyjuiced as Harry, and sleeps with Ginny, and Ginny gets pregnant, then does the child have Draco's DNA or Harry's?

The thread is here if you'd like to share your $0.02. Callie's not a D/G shipper, and it's unlikely she'll be using this hypothetical as the basis for a real fic (at least, not w/ the characters mentioned <g>), so please try and refrain from the "OMG PLZ WRITE THIS D&G BELONG 2GETHER 4EVER" variety of comments. Not that I would any of you would ever do that.

I'm with the majority of the respondents so far, in thinking that any resulting child of such a union would be Draco's. Polyjuice appears to simply be an appearance-altering potion; it doesn't actually change who you are. But even if you wanted to argue that physically, every part of you changes (though Callie points out that your brain/mind doesn't change), so it would actually be Harry's sperm, we know that Polyjuice doesn't last forever; eventually you change back. So even if it were Harry's sperm that initially penetrates Ginny's egg, I would say that when the potion wears off, the sperm changes back to Draco's.

Unless the Powers of Darkness are at work and are determined to make it H/G. But in such a situation, it'd be fun to watch Draco angst about it, if he were so inclined. I mean, he brings it upon himself, really... <g>