Was it Slughorn? (was: The potion maker)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 141449

 
> SSSusan, cracking knuckles & ready to be back at the keyboard after 
>a weekend at The Witching Hour:
> 
> How *did* Slughorn perform as HoH? 
> 
> It certainly *appears,* anyway, that a whole lotta DE recruiting 
was 
> going on in his house under his nose when Tom was there!  I get the 
> sense that Snape is FULLY aware of what's happening with his 
> Slytherins, knows which kids are most likely to go down the DE 
>path.  
> With Sluggy, OTOH, I could just see a whole lot going on to which 
>he just wasn't attuned because those kids weren't "the" kids for 
>him.  So, not only did Lord Voldemort emerge from Slytherin while 
>Sluggy was HoH, but so did beaucoup de Death Eaters.  Erm... that 
>could be rather embarrassing stuff for the HoH to have been unaware 
>of.

Potioncat:
Interesting isn't it, Slughorn slipped information to Tom about 
horcruxes; Trelawney has made a couple of predictions about LV; Snape 
is the one who took the prophesy clip to LV...and all of them are at 
the Slug Club Christmas Party. I'd really like to get a list of all 
the Slug Club members from JKR. 

The HoH question is a good one, because when you get right down to 
it, we don't really see canon proof of any of the Heads knowing squat 
about the kids in their houses. Although I agree with you that "Snape 
is fully aware of what's happening with his Slytherins, knows which 
kids are most likely to go down the DE path" I'm not sure we have 
canon evidence. (Except that IMHO he placed Crabbe and Goyle in 
detention to keep them away from Draco.) 

But to the topic, Slughorn may have contributed to LV's recipe for 
the potion; but I'm betting or hoping that Slughorn doesn't know he 
did. DD didn't seem to know a lot about the potion in the cave and 
Snape wasn't waiting for DD with a steaming goblet of antidote in his 
hand.

As for the Witching Hour and Accio, it suddenly dawned on me that we 
never discuss the HP conventions here at HPfGU. Does it all happen 
over at OT? Or does it not happen? Did anything else come up that 
would make for good topics here?