looks determining character

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 139723

 responds:
>>It's funny that this topic came up because I think that JKR is 
setting up the most repulsive character in the series to be a good 
guy. Yep, I think that it's going to be Slughorn.

CathyD:
I didn't/don't find Slughorn the least bit repulsive.  I do find him a little sad.  He's a man who's age is somewhere between that of McGonagall and Dumbledore, who is an excellent potions maker by all accounts, and must be a very good teacher to have stayed at Hogwarts as long as he did.  Yet, instead of living his life on his own merits, he lives, rather vicariously, through his former students, making contacts to get a basket of Honeydukes confections or Quiddich tickets. I rather pitied him while I was reading DD's comments about Slug and his collecting students speach to Harry.  

vmonte
>enormously fat
>shiny pate
>prominent eyes

CathyD: 
Enormously fat: Robbie Coltrane and Richard Griffiths.  Shiny pate: have to go outside Hogwarts for this one, sorry, Patrick Stewart and Avery Brooks. Prominent eyes: Luna Lovegood and Elijah Wood.  Oddly, I don't find anything repulsive about any of them, either.

>JKR needs to show a Slytherin that is on the good side.

CathyD:
One word: SNAPE.

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