Felix Felices

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 181605

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Lynn Walsh <lwalsh at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I am listening to the Half Blood Prince and am at the part after
> when Harry managed to get the memory from Slughorn and
> then was wondering if he could use it to get into the Room of
> Requirement.  Ron mentions that it would be nice to have a
> supply of it and Harry looks up the directions on how to make
> it.  The directions say that it has to brew for 6 months.


Doddie:

I'm replying to the original post because I think my initial 
response answers most questions raised in your post and the 
responses thus far.(not definitively JMHO)

We know Sluggy is short on cash and suffering from isolation when 
Harry accompanies DD to recruit sluggy..

We also know that of all the characters in the potter series, Sluggy 
was the only one(besides Harry) who ever entered Hagrids cabin and 
found it a veritable gold mine.(most likely Sluggly viewed it as a 
yet untapped source of wealth/comfort. Harry first viewed it as for 
the first time being welcomed into someone's home.)

So we as readers do not have to make such a big leap to consider 
that Sluggy kept/brewed/sold potions..(although his mail order 
service was probably more select, narrowed, and discriminating than 
the twins owl order service had been...

We know that Sluggy has been in hiding for a while and enjoy's his 
comfort. It is from this comfort that Harry first meets him.

This is why Sluggy returns to Hogwarts.....if Voldy is back, and 
Harry may be the chosen one...he will choose the path that affords 
him the most comfort.

So of course, on day one of his class, he will choose to display 
potions that are long brewing, extremely difficult to make and rare..
Even the HBP had no "quick fixin' of said potions in his "old 
textbook."....and unless one asks JKR we shall never  have known if 
Sluggy sold Felix to anyone else. If I had to ask about someone who 
may have paid exorbetent fees for a reliable brewed potion, I'd 
argue D.Umbridge..

I just think it's sad that DD never realized it may have been useful 
for Harry's extraction from Privet Drive....or perhaps Harry's 
polyjuice potion is the same thing as felix...(poor moody, if he had 
only decided to ride on the back of the broom and have dung steer 
after Dung drank moody Polyjuice potion...and the twin with the ear 
gone..w/o harry polyjuice...perhaps may have died then...not so 
lucky..

Dunno about this theory...or whether it was the sacrifice of his 
hairs(he didn't want to give them willingly but in the end, did he 
sacrifice them to the cause, or aquiese...if he sacrificed that may 
have been additional protection for those drinking said polyjuice 
potion.

Atleast according to DD..when love's involved, magic is at it's 
strongest..makes sense when one considers things...Harry never knew 
the REAL moody...and was not fond of dung at all...

Doddie,
(who wonders if Molly, after OOP, realized where the twins got the 
start up for the business from..hence, Harry, received her brother's 
watch..I wonder who got the other twins watch? was it ron(although 
his seemed to be new)? charlie? or Percy? or did that watch become 
something akin to Moody's eye?!?)