So, I was puttering around in IRC, and a thought struck me. You know how people always have their lucky (item)? Well, what if it's possible to manufacture a lucky item by soaking it in Felix Felicis? It's kind of a minor thing, but it might just change the course of whatever the character is doing at the moment.

 

We know that drinking to much of that potion gives you badluck, so would the same thing happen here?

Or perhaps...if you soaked an item in it, and then had that item against your skin, it would provide a slow, very slow, intake of the potion, meaning that it lasts longer that 24 hours, but doesn't give total luck, just a slight prod in the right direction or something.

I do like the idea, it has potential as a plot device in a fic. Imagine, the Weasley twins making an absolute killing (bad pun I know) by selling items soaked in luck potion.

 

Yeah, a very interesting idea. You'd have to be exact, with instructions about how to saturate certain objects and how to brew a potion so that it doesn't react with the object.

 

I always worked off the notion that mixing magic and potions was, unless otherwise directed by a master or textbook, a bad idea, seeing as how potions is such a precise art--stirring the wrong direction will often drastically affect the results, let alone a spell that may or may not have too much (or too little) magic put into it by the castor.

Is there some sort of magic-grading system devised in the magical world, that they use to judge how much magic is needed in a spell? That sounds like one of the more usefull systems that there would be--and, subsequently, exactly the sort of thing that they WOULDN'T have.

 

In The Company of Secrets-By Dream Red has something like that in it.
Warning: Not the most DPL fic!! (Ginny important, but not a love interest; founders)

 

Oh yeah, I read that. That was a little odd, I stopped reading when it didn't seem to go anywhere.

 

In chapter 11 of Gene-Spliced Harry we see this:

 

Well, seeing as how that's just from a fanfic, i'd take the opportunity to actually create some sort of set of rules when applying brewed potions to solid objects. Of course, I'd also imagine that there are other means that don't require a complex potion to be brewed that are far easier, i.e. enchanments. It would probably be far easier to enchant an object to be lucky in the same way, and also easier to recharge it.