Slughorn a dead end topic?

[potioncat]

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> hermionegallo wrote:
>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.

 
 Catkind wrote:
> 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.

Potioncat:
As for the Dumbledore theory: "He's dead, Jim."

Slughorn now...for some reason I always think it's Slugworth...is 
that a character in another story? And I always think of Hagrid and 
his Flesh Eating Slug Repellent. Not a very pleasant name, is it?

Slughorn collects people. He's a real networker. He remind me a bit 
of Bagman who may or may not have been tricked into revealing 
information to the DEs. If Slughorn likes to be around the important 
people, and some of those important people are DEs...what does he do? 
We know that in Harry's 6th year, Slughorn avoids taking any DE-
connected students into his club.I wonder about the Marauders' time. 
We think he had Snape in his club. Was he aware of which ones were 
connected, or was he not so particular then?

He's never joined the DEs, although he knew Tom Riddle; and he's 
nervous about them now. I wonder if he owed anything to DEs in the 
last war? He's younger than DD, he seems in good health, why did hte 
retire? Was he strongly encouraged by someone? Someone who wanted an 
opening for a new teacher?