Slughorn makes me uneasy

[a_svirn]

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> Betsy Hp:
> No, I understood you completely and my entire response was couched 
in 
> that vein.  I wasn't speaking at all about the validity of 
Slughorn 
> being an *actual* pedophile, I was speaking of him as a 
> representative of, just as you were.  
> 
> My view is that Slughorn is more representative of someone 
interested 
> in talented young adults then a predator of children.  Fenrir, on 
the 
> other hand, as an eater of young children (who then tries to take 
> those children into his pack) is the more obvious pedophile stand-
in, 
> IMO.
> 

a_svirn:

You know this joke about the difference between pedagogue and 
paedophile? That the paedophile is the one who actually *loves* 
children? Why on earth Slughorn should be predatory IF he were to be 
a paedophile? It would only land him in a big trouble
 
And whether he loves kids in general, or some of them in particular 
I agree with Del: his, well, fondness, for Harry is indeed expressed 
by JKR in a very suggestive language. And, as you yourself noted, it 
does look like she "borrowed" him from Evelyn Waugh's "Scarlet 
Woman" where homosexual Dean of Balliol "Sligger" never missed an 
opportunity to pet the Prince of Wales and otherwise shower him with 
attention.