Was it Slughorn? Slug Club and DE's

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 141458

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
>
 
> bboyminn:
> 
> Your both forgetting one thing, in a manner of speaking, Death 
Eaters
> didn't exist when Slughorn was Head of House. That was the very
> beginning for Riddle/Voldemort, and while he may have been gathering
> loyal like-minded individuals, they were not organized into the 
DE's yet. 
> 
> At that point the DE's had no history, background, or track record. 
In
> a sense, there was nothing for Slughorn to know. Years later when
> Riddle re-emerged as Voldemort and created the formal DE's, and they
> began reeking terroristic havoc on the world then the concept of 
being
> a DE would have had some meaning, but not in Slughorn's time.
> 
> In terms of Slughorn's overal performance as Head of House, I'm
> inclinded to agree it was pretty poor. He spent all his time fawning
> over his 'Slug Club' members, plotting and planning what they could 
do
> for each other, and ignoring everyone else. I suspect 'everyone 
else'
> was a far more substantial number than those in the Slug Club.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Steve/bboyminn

Didn't Voldemort have Death Eaters at Hogsmeade waiting for him when 
he applied for the DADA job(the memory in the pensive)?  Also, 
Regulus was a Death Eater, Slughorn was the head of Household at that 
time period - Snape was already a DE.  They DID call them Death 
Eaters.  At Crouch's trial, they asked about Death Eaters.  So, they 
knew about them.  And in SS/PS, when LV was vaporized in 1981, there 
was a celebration in the WW - as, and forgive me-I don't have my book 
in front of me, the WW had been terrorized for 11 years with LV's 
rule.  

I got the impression that Sluggy retired just as Snape took over in 
1981.  Which means that Slughorn WAS around as HoH at the same time 
as the DE's.  


colebiancardi