The first-years conspiracy

[hg_skmg]

No: HPFGUIDX 142020

Lucianam73   wrote:
(snipped)
> I was wondering about Felix Felicis. Didn't Harry trust it just a 
> little too much? 
> Of course this raises The Big Question: did Harry get the right 
> memory? Ahem there's actually a second question: if he did get he 
> right memory, what went wrong during/after Aragog's burial that 
> Felix Felicis could have prevented (had Harry drunk it)?
> 
> Dumbledore said the Sluggish memory was the most important of ALL. 
> He told Harry there was nothing as important as retrieving it. So I 
> guess Harry taking a fake unknown potion just before he asked 
> Slughorn for that vital memory is a Huge Thing.
> 
> By the way I thing the real Sluggish memory is not the one Harry 
> got, but I'll leave this for another post.



hg:
lucianam, I agree that Harry not being under the influence of the 
Felix is a huge thing -- but at that point our thinking seems to take 
separate paths.  I hope that I can contribute something valuable to 
you anyway, especially seeing how much you've put into your theories.

I think Harry had the real thing, and it wasn't working anymore by 
the time he got the memory.  He thinks the bottle holds 24 hours' 
worth, but it holds 12; he takes a "carefully measured gulp" which, 
if he drank the amount he thought he was, actually covers him for 
only 60-90 minutes.  Plus, he leaves at sunset and arrives back at 
the castle past midnight.  (Your question about what went wrong in 
the scene in the hut, that could have been avoided if he'd been under 
Felix's influence, is interesting to me and begs further thought.)

I think the hugeness, then, lies in Harry behaving as he does of his 
own accord, Slughorn making his choice freely without being subject 
to any magical influence, and the likelihood that Harry erroneously 
assumes that Slughorn will remember nothing the next day.

I do think he got the right memory, freely given him by Slughorn.  
Although the question of Time travel is really interesting (yes, I 
did read your other post!), I don't see the connection here, only 
because I don't agree that the memory he gives Harry is the modified 
version.
In regards, then, to your other post, you didn't tie in the RAB thing 
you mentioned in this one, but I don't think it's possible for him to 
be talking to Regulus because it would be decades before Regulus' 
birth.  If you are still running with this theory, whom else might 
you suggest he's talking to?

Hope you can make use of my input.
hg.