I'm gonna have to brace myself here. But. These things AREN'T cheating, by the ethics of their world, any more than using study techniques
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Things like luck potion are A NORMAL PART OF A WIZARD'S TOOLSET. They're not like it would be with us. Different tools, different ethics.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Rory__Walker
I may be misremembering, but didn't the test treat the luck potion as one of those Teenage Misbehaving Things though?
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*text Like the implication was that it was a dangerous thing and Harry might have been justified but if so only bc he was getting screwed
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The luck potion isn't illegal. Professor Slughorn openly offered a dose of it as a prize
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
It's a *luck* potion, so it theoretically doesn't give you any extra knowledge or skills per se
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
That's why he warns that it's dangerous and it's better to use it to have one ordinary "good day" than rely on it for important shit
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Which is pretty much what people say in anti drug arguments, except they don't give out a dose of heroin as a prize to prove the point
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Arguably though many characters are suffering from "luck disabilities" and should be entitled to a prescription
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It would be pretty great if being born jinxed or cursed was considered a treatable chronic condition
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"I get payments from the government bc of my Nothing Ever Goes My Syndrome. It's hereditary"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
"I hate my condition, but my mom would never have gotten pregnant with me at the worst possible time if she didn't have it, so"
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