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Why The Wizarding World NEVER Mass Produced Liquid Luck?

Stickman Hogwarts

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Felix Felicis can make almost everything you attempt succeed, so why didn't the Wizarding World simply mass-produce Liquid Luck? Why didn't Dumbledore stockpile it for the Order of the Phoenix, give it to every Auror, or hand out bottles before the Battle of Hogwarts? A potion this powerful sounds like it could have changed the entire war against Voldemort.

In today’s Hogwarts lesson, we uncover why Liquid Luck was never mass-produced—from its six-month brewing process, rare ingredients, extreme difficulty, and dangerous side effects to Ministry restrictions, Fred and George Weasley, Dumbledore, and the surprising limits of what Felix Felicis can actually do. Turns out, bottled luck isn't quite the magical cheat code it appears to be.

20 Comments

@tech2titan444 1 month ago

To brew a large batch of Felix Felicis without turning it into poison... Lets use Felix Felicis.

@AlyssaTaylor9 1 month ago

Because its exceedingly difficult, costly, and time-consuming to make, with disastrous consequences if done incorrectly. Its physically toxic when overused, and will mess you up in the head. It's basically magical heroin.

@christopherknowles 1 month ago

I theorize that slughorn got hired by Dumbledore because he could reliably brew FF to keep it out of Voldemort’s hands.

@ThatCyanSquare 4 weeks ago

Harry Potter doesn't need liquid luck, he got plot armor

@TasTheWatcher 1 month ago

> get one vial
> take a tiny sip at key moments during the brewing process to make more

@themunchur0477 1 month ago

Because they pay attention in school!!!! It’s TOXIC in large quantities, and it makes a person over confident, in other words it changes how you think, causing a person to take unreasonable risks even when not using it! It’s kind of like using a potion to fly, pretty soon someone is going to forget to use it and jump off a building or it wears off and you just fall!

@KotoniUchiha 1 month ago (edited)

I don't believe Felix Felices literally making you happier while you're using it was just visual of what it looked like when active. That stuff is a drug.

@ViplavKumarRanjan-j5l 1 month ago

Bro if everyone drank liquid luck it would just cancel out and everything would be normal

@BShandyman 1 month ago

OK, but a Quidditch match with every character on liquid luck would be epic to watch

@assassinxsteveo 4 hours ago

“Voldemort’s noseless plans”
hilarious!!! Actually almost spat my drink out.. Hope you don’t mind me keeping that one… 😂😂😂😂

@LCCWPresents 1 month ago

If you mass produce liquid luck it would turn into a drug like coffee. You would have to drink it everyday to keep up with your more successful peers in the wizarding world to such a point where if you stopped drinking or producing the potion it would create a system collapse bigger than the Bronze Age collapse

@massivblackholegaming7666 3 weeks ago (edited)

“The real Felix Felicis was the friends we made along the way” typa end

@Genius.E 1 month ago (edited)

14:17 Maybe not if she had drunken it the night of Voldemort’s attack. However, had she been able to obtain and drink it just before they casted the Fidelius Charm, her luck might have compelled her to advocate for Dumbledore to be the secret keeper without Pettigrew being privy.

@AdaptiveGamerX 1 month ago

Drink liquid luck then make a load of it

@skvvlk 1 month ago

With difficult exams I am more surprised no one invented a focus potion.

@hyper_tacoman1659 3 weeks ago

Carefully make a small amount of liquid luck. Take some liquid luck; make a shit ton of liquid luck. become billionare.

@Rabidconscience 1 month ago

I think a cool way to balance it could have been making it consume the brewers luck. As in, the brewer is distilling their luck into a liquid form. Thus rendering his or herself profoundly prone to misfortune. And if that person didn’t have enough luck to give, the potion fails and they are still cursed with unluck.

@unclecuddles5232 3 weeks ago

I'd love to hear the "recreational activities" Dumbledore got up to. You know it was some cool ass shit. Prolly as a flex to impress or possibly even an intimidation tactic or possibly both. Accomplishing a tremendous feat of magic that no one would dare attempt due to the risk of failure he makes look effortless as if it was simply "all in the wrist".

@tomman9435 3 weeks ago

3:09 In the books it does say it is a cauldron. A small cauldron, but still much more than a single vial. He had set the vial he gave to Harry off to the side before class.

@barti560 1 month ago

Extremely difficult and expensive, also I doubt that liquid luck actually manipulates probabilities, it might just actually have highlighted magical senses. WIzards do have seers, so it is likely that they have some hidden magical sense that allows them to sense probabilities but only rare wizards and witches have it, and potions just enable it and guide them to that sense. It's also toxic. But thats my theory