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... )
Yes, of course it does! I'd quite forgotten.
Although I'm not totally clear on that. I know spells take *energy*, but can it be replenished? Or is it actually 'life force', shortening the wizards' lives? I do recall hints (or maybe stronger than hints) about the latter.
I really have to go and read the latest couple of books of the series, I'm not up to date.
By the way, just in case you don't know, if you go to Duane's LJ blog - user dduane - you'll see that (a) she's half-way through a series of drabbles setting up Kit and Nita as her 'OTP' and (b) she's releasing new editions of the books, updated for the modern age. I have to go and read those drabbles, my time in HP has activated my 'romantic gene', I'd love to see Kit and Nita as a couple.
(She seems to have stopped mid-way through her set. :-()
she wanted me to write a comparison between Snape and Ed the shark.
Snape and Ed! Hee. Yes, I can see similarities there. Interesting.
though I still stand by my "grand unified theory", which is that Rowling threw in anything and everything from the 19th century English novels she knew and loved, without considering the implications of what she was writing.
Well, yeah. Of course!
Seriously, it seems pretty darn obvious to me that that's exactly what happened. The lady proved, with the last two books, that (a) she didn't have a darn thing planned, was just making it up as she went along; and (b) she didn't have the brains to come up with something good. It's *easy* to grab bits and pieces from popular myth and throw them in to the pot if you're not going to be held accountable for making sense of it all at the end. Sadly, Rowling wasn't so held accountable. :-(
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