Slughorn "clearly good"?

[heathrawlings]

No: HPFGUIDX 137813

> Marianne S: 
> In the pensieve scene where Tom Riddle is asking Slughorn about 
> Horcruxes, doesn't he already have the ring on his hand? I think 
even
> Harry noticed it in the scene. I interpreted that to mean Tom had 
> the ring and had performed the murders, but just hadn't made 
> it a horcrux yet. I further believe, based on Slughorn's words in 
the 
> UNmodified memory, that a horcrux is an object created with a spell
> immediately after a murder. Since Voldemort needed to use a spell
> to create a horcrux, I think that is yet another proof that Harry 
and/or
> his Scar cannot be one.
> 

Slughorn notices the ring when he sees Dumbledore and he knows the 
jig is up - that's why he knows instantly that Harry is after his 
memory when he comes to him - he saw that DD had the ring TR had 
when he was given the horcrux information, and he sees the crack in 
it. He knows then that TR took his lessons to heart and made the 
ring into a horcrux and that DD has found out and has broken one of 
the horcruxes and that he'll be after the rest.

I see him as resigning himself to his fate on behalf of good and 
agreeing to go to Hogwarts, not to play a huge part necessarily, but 
because seeing the ring (and Harry) remind him of the role his has 
however unwittingly played in LV's rise and he knows it's the least 
he can do to accept DD's request to return to Hogwarts.

Heathrawlings.