The curious incident of the Felix Felicis in the nighttime

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pip at e...> wrote:

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To play devil's advocate, I'd say the potential weakness of this 
analysis is with the massive extent of the luck, as well as the overall 
perspective--lucky for whom?

That is to say, it is indeed lucky that Hermione et al. survive in the 
way that they do, probably because of the potion.  But I don't know if 
we can say that, therefore, *all* the resultant events are influenced 
by their luck.  Is there a limit to the ambient effects of Felix 
Felicis?  Does it have such drastic effects all the way down the chain 
of causality, fairly removed from the immediate vicinity of those who 
have taken it?  We might try to argue that there's a chaotic system 
here, but I don't think human actions and motivations are amenable to a 
strictly deterministic model.

Unknowable at the moment, I think.  Seems a little overextended, to me.

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