ESE Slughorn Continued

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 139854

Jessie:
IMO LV does not have confidence in Malfoy being able to kill DD, so
he needs someone inside of Hogwarts to keep tabs on both Malfoy and
Snape, what better person than Slughorn? I am not sure if Slughorn
is willing or an unwilling spy for LV, but I am sure that he is
guiding and bullying Malfoy simultaneously watching that Snape is
sharing all he knows, and monitoring DD to his physical condition and
his quest for the Horcruxes. Snape has told the Bellatrix and
Narcissa that Dumbledore is wounded and vulnerable; HBP p 31).
Chapter 15 HBP pages
323-324 Malfoy tells Snape that "I've got all the assistance
I need, thanks, I'm not alone!" and, when Snape asks him, "if you
are placing your reliance in assistants like Crabbe and Goyle –", 
Malfoy responds, "They're not the only ones, I've got other
people on my side, better people!" Who else besides Greyback could 
Malfoy mean, no one but Slughorn IMO. If we have learned anything 
from JKR's books it is the fact that the new guy is never what he 
seems to be, and this is very evident in Slughorn.

vmonte:
Doesn't JKR make a point to tell us that Slughorn has no interest in 
DEs? And it's Zabini who tells us this, not Harry. Draco may have 
enlisted Zabini and Pansy into his ring. I also don't think it is a 
coincidence that JKR made sure to show that Zabini was attracted to 
Ginny (despite hating her for who she was). JKR even showed Ginny 
insult Zabini in front of everyone when she called him a poser.

Vivian