"Hocus Pocus"?

[potioncat]

> Carol responds:
> 
> Take a slug of Firewhiskey and then slug someone you don't like! Then, again, the Aurors might come after you.
> 
> Carol, who thinks that "Slughorn" relates to those little antennalike things on a slimy, snail-like slug's head


Potioncat:
Yeah, me too. Except over at main, a long time ago, someone pointed out a verse of poety that referred to a slug-horn. I've had it in my mind that a slug-horn is a drinking horn, good fit for a potions master. 

But I just looked it up. The reference I found was from Child (Childe?) Roland by Robert Browning, the slug-horn is sounded in battle. But that fits too, since Sluggy leads the reinforcements to battle.

One thing for sure, if my name was slughorn, I wouldn't waste any time learning how to cast the amimagus spell.