Harry Potter and the Luck Potion

by Spiny Norman

How does this "Liquid Luck" (felix felicis) work, and why don't we see (or use) more of it? Probably because using luck, a time machine, or say, a machine gun would make the story really really short.

1. Chapter 1

Harry Potter and the Luck Potion

Plan 3, in case the time machine and the bazooka don't work

So there it was: The full cauldron of Liquid Luck that professor Slughorn had made. It was a lot of Felix Felicis.

Harry took a mug, dipped it, and took a sip. At first, it tasted simply sweet, then, as he slowly drank the cup, other tastes drifted in and out: caramel, vanilla, and others that he did not recognize immediately. All in all, it was pretty good. The way its taste kept changing ever to slightly did have a tendency to keep you drinking. Before he knew, Harry had taken a second mug and had already nearly finished it.

"Two is enough,", he thought, "hat should do it.". What 'it' was he didn't know yet, but it should do at least something. He put down the mug and looked around, waiting expectantly to see what lucky events would occur. Nothing happened. After a minute or so, he changed his mind about the luck potion. "Ah, it's probably molten fudge mixed with meade…", he thought, "Old Sluggy having a laugh at the students' expense. It was unlikely to begin with: How can you make luck? I can make a broom fly, but I don't know if anything could force coincidences to happen. The potion tasted fine, though.".

He closed the door quietly and went back to finish an assignment in the library. It hadn't been mysteriously already written before him, more proof that the luck potion was totally rubbish.