Talk:Felix Felicis

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Felix Felicis, according to this page, doesn't alter circumstance, but causes your mind to tell you what to do, subconsciously. This isn't true. Just to name a few: Filch, on any other night, wouldn't have forgotten to lock the door. The prefects wouldn't have been on the other side of their patrol grounds. Slughorn wouldn't have been talking with Sprout in the middle of the night. Who knows...maybe Aragog might not have even died on any other night, thus not permitting Harry to invite Slughorn to Hagrid's to talk to him. Felix Felicis changes circumstance...it hypnotises people into being where the drinker would want them to be. I mean, the route Harry took to get to Hagrid's hut that night wouldn't have changed, Felix or not. But theren't no way all those people could have been in the exact same place they were, they wouldn't have been doing the things they were, going the places they were. This may all be pointless, but I'm just saying... --VolatileChemical 01:52, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps. But then, if circumstances that night were different, would the potion not have instructed Harry to go about achieving the task some other way? Anyway, someone else has already altered it to something different. Perhaps that paragraph is too speculative. I'll take it down.Serendipodous 11:56, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Err... where did this pronunciation come from? That's not how the Latin would be pronounced. Graft 04:56, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, the pronunciation is wrong; in Latin, it wouldn't be "feli-kus", it would be "fe-leek-eece" Serendipodous

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The follwing text was cut from Potions in Harry Potter, and may be incorporated into this article:

"It is very complicated to make, requiring at least six months, and is the color of molten gold. This potion was first seen in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in which Harry won a vial of the brew by winning a contest in Potions class. He later used it to get Professor Slughorn's memories into the Pensieve, and later gave it to Ginny, Ron, and Hermione to aid them at the Battle of Hogwarts. Used in excess, it can be dangerously addictive and sometimes fatally toxic."

Ëvilphoenix ^Burn! 06:22, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, the pronunciation is wrong; in Latin, it wouldn't be "feli-kus", it would be "fe-leek-eece"

But the way the name would be pronounced in Latin is surely irrelevant. Many Latin words and phrases are used in English, and we pronounce them according to our own conventions. Those conventions would generate the pronunciation FEE-licks fe-LEE-siss, which is therefore the correct pronunciation of this as an English name.

Even if you don't want to remove the English, a note about the correct Latin pronounciation should at least be included somewhere. Recap 07:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I also take issue with the following: The name, like many things in the Harry Potter novels, is Latinate in origin, and translates to "lucky of lucky," or "happy of happy." ("happy", strictly speaking, means "lucky.") Latin "felix" means both "happy" and "lucky", but English "happy" does not mean "lucky". This really needs to be rewritten. 144.178.184.86 22:51, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Probably not. It's right - "strictly speaking" happy does mean lucky. I believe you can see such in Shakespeare or even 19th century literature. Obviously they aren't used the same way in the vernacular, but nothing here is actually incorrect. Feel free to alter it if you think the phrase "strictly speaking" is misleading. --BDD 17:17, 27 December 2005 (UTC)