Speculation on Liquid Luck
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 ( Read more... )
Horace told his class it was “Desperately tricky to make, and disastrous to get wrong.” (HBP 9 ( Read more... )
It's funny how only Harry Potter is allowed to discovers how awesomely powerful the house elves are, and uses them - TWO of them - at various times to do his work for him.
Even the dark lord knew what the elves could do ... but then never uses them again.
(Rowling has Hermione try and explain it away - even Rowling must have winced over this particular plot gulf - as the dark lord thinking it demeaning to use them, or something. Even though he does. Once.)
I enjoy this Watsonian/Doylist thing - I've seen the words before, in skimming through posts in this community, but the overload on the words (viz the comment of condwiramurs, above) forced me to recourse to Google to find out what it was all about. I've always enjoyed the 'Watsonian' deductions here. Although sometimes it is a bit hard, particularly with the more glaring errors, not to see the big ROWLING WAS A TERRIBLE WRITER sign in front of one's nose.
But in this case ... more fun, maybe, but I don't think it hangs together. I mean, if *Harry Potter* could think to use a house elf - HARRY POTTER - then you'd think the purebloods who'd lived with the elves all their lives would have come up with the idea, just once or twice.
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