What did you hear about the good luck potion? It is called "Felix Felicis." What is it, who created it and what is the recipe for a magic drink? Read about all this in the article.
Good luck potion
This is a liquid of the color of molten gold, a magic drink that brings good luck in all matters to the one who drinks it. Muggles (those who do not have magical powers) are not affected. The dose of admission depends on the weight of the magician and on the time during which luck is needed. An approximate dose for a drinker weighing 50 kg and a drink lasting 10 hours is 1 sip.
Healers warn that this potion should not be drunk often, because it leads to excessive self-confidence, dulls the sense of self-preservation and gradually poisons the body.
"Felix Felicis" has an extremely complicated recipe and manufacturing procedure. An improperly brewed drink is pure poison, to which there is no antidote.
"Felix Felicis" is forbidden to use in any sports competitions (like Muggles dope), exams and elections.
Who invented it
Joan Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter book series. This is a story about a wizard boy, his friends and the adventures they experienced. She came up with "Felix Felicis." For the first time, “liquid luck” appears in Chapter 9 of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Slughorn, a potions professor, tells the reader about the miracle drink in detail.
In the wizarding world, the “recipe for luck” was invented by the sorcerer Sigmunt Budge, who was proud of his creation and called it the best potion of all time.
Using
After Harry Potter received a bottle of “liquid luck” from Professor Slughorn as a reward for a perfectly brewed “drink of living death,” Felix Felicis was used several times.
- Harry pretended to add the magic drink to his friend Ron's pumpkin juice to give him confidence in his first Quidditch game.
- Harry drank a little potion on the day of the funeral of the spider Aragog. The dose was enough to get hidden memories from Professor Slughorn of his conversation with the Reddles about the Horcruxes.
- The remnants of "good luck" were drunk by Ron, Hermione and Ginny before the battle with the Death Eaters, who tricked into Hogwarts school.
The book describes how the heroes felt and behaved after they swallowed the potions of “Felix Felicis”. They slowly but surely crept in a sense of limitless possibilities, previously things that seemed difficult now seemed a couple of trifles, they were extremely overwhelmed with self-confidence.
How to make a miracle drink
How to cook "Felix Felicis"? The recipe for “liquid good luck” is very complex. The cooking steps are described below.
- 1 liter of water collected during the first spring rain, pour into a pot of gold, simmer for 12 hours on low heat.
- Add 6 crushed moonstones. Stones are added one at a time at intervals of 1 hour.
- After a day, very carefully pour the boomslang poison. Leave for a week to languish over a very slow fire.
- Beat 3 elven eggs and add slime 1 of the Egyptian amphora. Mix thoroughly so that the potion does not thicken.
- On the 20th day of preparation, carefully chop the magic plants, add the powder to the cauldron.
- Grind unicorn horn and hippogriff claw. Add to boiler.
For 5 days, stir the potion clockwise every 2 hours. If everything is done correctly, then at this stage the drink will acquire a silver color. You need to leave him to insist for 5 months. When time runs out, “luck” will start to bubble up strongly. Pour a spoonful of fog. Done! Correctly brewed potion “Felix Felicis” will be of gold color.