I got the impression that Felix Felicis had extraordinary or possibly perfect knowledge of the current state of the world and the drinker’s utility function, was thus able to calculate the best course of action over the period of time the drinker would be under its influence for, and hijacked the drinker’s System 1 (and possibly motor control) until it was out of xyr system.
If it DOES hijack the user’s motor control, which there is SOME evidence for, then it probably would work with a Ouija board (but scrabble tiles come in specific, limited sets—might not work right), but then what does it mean that Harry didn’t use one in canon when his goal was to find out about the horcruxes? If it were that easy, the potion should have made canon Harry use something similar to find the number of horcruxes and their locations, and probably the curses on them, too.
So I think it doesn’t do that. And I don’t know how much good it could do him in a locked room with a Ouija board if it can’t do that. I think the best thing there is to shout “Hey, Hermione, the experiment’s a failure! Let me out!”
Indeed; one wonders why Harry didn’t accidentally break a horcrux that day, or why there weren’t more enemy casualties in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.
Harry accidentally breaking a horcrux would have been so phenomenally difficult… AND, the FF had to time everything right to happen to meet Slughorn AND happen to brush against Ginny at just the right time, and then he spent the whole time after that at Hagrid’s. The nearest horcrux was in the Room of Requirement; the nearest horcrux-destroyer was in Dumbledore’s office. And which is more valuable, one horcrux or knowing how many there are?
I got the impression that Felix Felicis had extraordinary or possibly perfect knowledge of the current state of the world and the drinker’s utility function, was thus able to calculate the best course of action over the period of time the drinker would be under its influence for, and hijacked the drinker’s System 1 (and possibly motor control) until it was out of xyr system.
If it DOES hijack the user’s motor control, which there is SOME evidence for, then it probably would work with a Ouija board (but scrabble tiles come in specific, limited sets—might not work right), but then what does it mean that Harry didn’t use one in canon when his goal was to find out about the horcruxes? If it were that easy, the potion should have made canon Harry use something similar to find the number of horcruxes and their locations, and probably the curses on them, too.
So I think it doesn’t do that. And I don’t know how much good it could do him in a locked room with a Ouija board if it can’t do that. I think the best thing there is to shout “Hey, Hermione, the experiment’s a failure! Let me out!”
Indeed; one wonders why Harry didn’t accidentally break a horcrux that day, or why there weren’t more enemy casualties in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.
Harry accidentally breaking a horcrux would have been so phenomenally difficult… AND, the FF had to time everything right to happen to meet Slughorn AND happen to brush against Ginny at just the right time, and then he spent the whole time after that at Hagrid’s. The nearest horcrux was in the Room of Requirement; the nearest horcrux-destroyer was in Dumbledore’s office. And which is more valuable, one horcrux or knowing how many there are?