Slughorn a dead end topic?

[cat_kind]

No: HPFGUIDX 137679

hermionegallo wrote:
> Isn't anyone interested in Slughorn?  I posted a couple of days ago 
and 
> no-one at all responded.  I was postulating that he could have faked 
> Dumbledore's death; maybe that's why I got no bites?  Or I just got 
> swallowed up by the other posts.  (Thinking hopefully.)  I find him 
to 
> be a compelling character.
> 
> It's #137521, in case someone was interested and missed it.
> 
> hg.

catkind: I'm interested in Slughorn, but it's hard to refute your 
theory if you don't tell us why you think it's true.  

On the face of it it seems highly unlikely - Slughorn is so totally in 
it for himself, and Dumbledore is very blatantly himself in that last 
interview.  Or have I misunderstood what you're suggesting?

I'm interested in Slughorn, though, because I'm not at all sure what 
we're supposed to make of him.  To me, he's the sort of person I 
really truly hate - he's bigoted and public-schoolish and selfish, but 
he's right about people often enough to make it hard to condemn his 
biases and charming to boot.

Personally, I wouldn't trust him further than I could throw him.

catkind