Did Slughorn drink Felix Felicis? (was Re: The first-years conspiracy)

[lucianam73]

No: HPFGUIDX 142330

Lucianam wrote:
>
> I was wondering about Felix Felicis. Didn't Harry trust it just a 
> little too much? 
> 
> It was just a potion_ okay, it was supposed to make you extremely 
> lucky_ but still, just a potion. Which means, exactly, a certain 
> amount of liquid inside a bottle (more specifically a bottle Harry 
> kept inside a sock, in the bottom of his trunk).
> 
> If the liquid inside the bottle inside the sock inside the trunk did 
> contain Felix Felicis, still it could be over its 'expiration date', 
> for example (Slughorn giving away valuable potions? Dodgy!).
> 
> But what if the liquid was not Felix Felicis? 
> 

Now Lucianam again:

Almost everyone (or was it everyone?) who replied didn't buy the 'Fake 
Felix' possibility. I'm not jumping off my own wagon, but allright, 
admitting Harry drunk real Felix. That chapter is still suspicious! 
(After the Burial)

I don't 'trust' it. Ever since the first time I read it I thought 
something was going on there, under our very noses. I just don't 
believe 'everything went well'. 

Then what if Harry didn't drink any fake potion, but FF? How could 
things have gone wrong? When 'he was the luckiest person in Hogwarts'? 

Slughorn could have drunk it as well. Then of course he'd be just as 
lucky as Harry! And when Harry was trying to get the memory from 
Slughorn, thinking he had Felix's help, well, Slughorn also had that 
help, but AVOID giving the memory to Harry. Where obtaining the meory 
was concerned, all Harry really had was his own cunning. And how can 
we know he wasn't outsmarted by Slughorn?

What makes me say Slughorn took Felix:

I've been very suspicious of the Apparition test taking place in the 
same day as Aragog's burial, and of its day being announced long 
before. That figures in my other theory (above), too. But on with this 
new one: Slughorn already knew Harry was after his memory. He kept 
fleeing from Harry. Now, wouldn't it be reasonable he took some FF in 
the day [I] he thought Harry was taking his Apparition test [/I]? Just 
in case Harry had decided to break the rules and drink a little lucky 
potion to ensure he'd pass the test?

When Harry enters Slughorn's class that day (the other kids having 
gone to Hogsmeade for the test), there are only three students.

'Too young to Apparate?' Slughorn asks.

That suggests he didn't know Harry wasn't taking the test. But he  
(Slughorn) could have taken the potion already _ 'two tablespoons at 
breakfast...'

Why isn't this crazy? Because Slughorn got really lucky that day, 
that's why. He made a lot of money!

He met Harry after his meeting with prof. Sprout, and not only learned 
that valuable Acromantula venom could be obtained; in being invited to 
the funeral he also was given a plausible excuse to approach its body. 

There's more luck coming: Slughorn manages to extract the venom 
without Hagrid noticing. He finds out there's unicorn hair hanging 
from the ceiling, and Hagrid gives him a whole tail as a gift! 

And last but not least, Slughorn gets a very special piece of info. 
Something only Harry and Dumbledore had known until that moment: 
confirmation, from Harry's own mouth, that he is the Chosen One.

Lucianam, still convinced the Foggy Memory is the real one and 
wondering who That Boy is!!!