What indicates to me that Slughorn is related to Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 138942

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at s...> 
wrote:
> CathyD:
Dobby's eyes are green too, does 
> that make him a relative of Harry's as well?
> 
> hg:
I never said that Slughorn's green eyes were the only 
> indicator...
> 
> CathyD:
> Ah, but that *is* all you posted as evidence in your initial post 
on the subject

hg:
Yes, and I admitted my mistake was in posting a tidbit, not a fleshed-
out theory.  Must have sounded half-baked.  Still, sorry to be so 
humorless, but it hurt my feelings.  Is there no history on the board 
of "testing the waters?"  I remember having a lot more fun here a 
couple of years ago than I do now.


> hg
> >>-- To close, (for the time being): Slughorn being Lily's 
grandfather is far more palatable than him being a dirty old man.
> 
> CathyD: 
> Agreed.  More palatable but just as unlikely, IMO. But then, I 
never once thought of him as a dirty old man, that was somebody 
else's line.  

hg:
No, never, never, never did I mean to imply that you or anyone else 
said he was a dirty old man!  In fact, I quoted Del, the person who 
touched what no-one wanted to, the blatant CREEPY factor about 
Slughorn.  She said she didn't think it was the case, and she 
wondered what it should make us think about.  If you inferred that I 
thought you were insinuating that, my apologies, of course.


CathyD: 
> The rest of your theory is too far out in left field for me, I'm 
afraid as it goes against canon evidence to the contrary.  The fact 
that LIly and Petunia may not look alike doesn't make them half-
sisters.  (I knew a set of twins in high school who looked so 
different from each other you would hardly know they were related, 
nevermind twins.)  

hg:
That seems to be the consensus.  Ah, well, can't blame a girl for 
trying.  
Thanks for taking the time to post a response to my train of thought: 
Jen Reese, CathyD, Lady Indigo, PJ.

hg.