u/Material_Magazine989

I hate stories where Harry genuinely sides with Voldemort and fights for him, so I’m looking for fics where Harry uses Voldemort’s movement for his own purposes, only to turn against him in the end.

Nepo babies are people who gain unfair advantages through their family name and connections, regardless of merit or qualifications.

In many ways, Harry was the opposite of a nepo baby because his life was made worse by his name and who his parents were:

- The people who raised him hated him because of his mother.

- A teacher at school bullied him because of his father.

- If his parents hadn't defied Voldemort thrice, he wouldn't have become Voldemort's target.

PS.: This is just for fun, and obviously, this isn't meant to blame his parents. In most of these cases, it wasn't James or Lily's fault. It's just a fun counter to claims that the Potters' wealth and fame gave Harry an unfair advantage, when it was mostly a non-factor at best, or the opposite at worst.

I recently saw a post asking why Harry didn't just use Felix Felicis before fighting Voldemort. I thought the answer is fairly obvious: it is an incredibly advanced potion meant to give you a bit of luck, not perform miracles.

​Professor Slughorn makes it clear just how impractical this potion is for everyday use:

• ​It is incredibly difficult: Even for a Potions Master, it is "desperately tricky to make," and brewing it incorrectly has disastrous consequences.

• ​It is exceptionally rare: Slughorn, a hundred-year-old wizard with decades of experience with Potions, has only taken it twice in his entire life. Twice!

• ​Logistics are unknown: We don't know how rare the ingredients are, how difficult they are to obtain, or how long the potion takes to brew.

​Finally, there is the nature of the potion itself. Felix Felicis makes someone lucky, not invincible. Harry used it to nudge Slughorn into giving him a memory, which is a far cry from expecting it to guarantee the defeat of Voldemort and win a war. Luck only increases the chance of a favorable outcome; it doesn’t guarantee it.

When you factor in the extreme difficulty, the high risk of disastrous failure, the massive logistical unknowns, and the limits of luck itself, relying on Felix Felicis to defeat Voldemort was never a realistic strategy.

Edit: I think there's a big misunderstanding here based on some people's comments. Im not saying the concept of Liquid Luck is unrealistic (or that it does not help). I'm attempting to give an answer to people who were asking why Harry didn't just use Felix Felicis to defeat Voldemort. We shouldn't be expecting Harry to fight using Liquid Luck because it's impractical and unrealistic.