Speculation on Liquid Luck

[terri_testing]

This idea came up in an exchange with, if I recall, madderbrad, but for those who missed it there, here’s my theory on Felix Felicis.

Horace told his class it was “Desperately tricky to make, and disastrous to get wrong.” (HBP 9

Comments

[librasmile]

That IS a fairly elegant theory. =^) And I'm with you on the "nothing comes for free" tip

[oryx_leucoryx]

Where do you see a negative rebound when Harry used the Felix?

[terri_testing]

Love caeria!

Covenants and potions and negative rebound.... I'm not sure that canon establishes a rebound. Harry fFELT unlucky when his dose started to wear off, but it's not clear he really was--I mean his annoying run-ins with Peeves and the Fat Lady served to get him to DD's office that night. Doesn't seem wildly unlucky to me. Sluggy said it was very dangerous in excess (either one-time overdose or over-protracted use), but not otherwise.

And the thing about potions is... a lot of magic is, I do A, it has effect .B. Almost all of the magic Harry learns is like that. There's an Emma Bull quote I used as epigraph for "Red Maned Lion" that's really apropos:

“Hoodoo is all the energy and attention you bring to what you do. Everything you do. The work of your hands, done with all your attention, becomes a container full of energy that you can transfer to someone else. Baking bread is a hoodoo work. So’s putting in a garden. Or fixing an amplifier, or teaching someone else to. If you do it right, with your whole head,

[mary_j_59]

That's the nature of a Potion. To be a gift.

Interesting implications there, aren't there?!

[oryx_leucoryx]

That's the nature of a Potion. To be a gift.

What happens when a brewer sells a potion for profit? Does this interfere with the effectiveness?