Slughorn a dead end topic?

[prep0strus]

No: HPFGUIDX 137730

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:

> 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?


Slugworth is one of the rival chocolate makers in Roald Dahl's 
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, and is the one who one of Wonka's 
lackey's pretends to be to set up a fake bribe situation for the 
children in the first movie adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate 
Factory.

And I always think of Slugworth as well... Slughorn really is a gross 
name. It just doesn't seem slick enough a name for a networking 
Slytherin.  But, then, he's not very slick really.  I think 
Dumbledore's affection for him is strange.  He's clearly a 'good' 
person, who doesn't go in for actual evil.  But he's not a nice 
person, not a fair person, and not a person who stands for much that 
Dumbedore stands for - but then, neither does Snape.  When will we 
see a TRULY good slytherin.

Slytherin, according to the hat, is for the ambitious, which doesn't 
have to have other negative qualities associated with it - the twins, 
Percy, Hermione - these could all be considered ambitious people, 
while Crabbe and Goyle don't seem to have ambition beyond the next 
meal, as well as for 'those whose blood are purest', which we already 
know isn't true, based on Snape & Riddle.  So, really, it's for those 
who are unpleasant, unfair, and possibly with a tendency toward evil.

I get the feeling the Houses are something that JKR got trapped in, 
and don't really fit with what they've been described to be.  Cedric 
could be Gryffindor, Hermione could be Ravenclaw, Neville could be 
Hufflepuff... but no one appealing could be in Slytherin.

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