When will the ministry start kicking butt and taking names?

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 146865

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathy King <kking0731 at g...> 
wrote:
> 
> Snow:
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> 
> Interestingly enough one of the first hesitations Slughorn had 
with becoming
> a teacher at the school was the fact that he didn't want to be 
seen as a
> member of the Order:
> 
> 
> 
> "Still
the prudent wizard keeps his head down in such times. All 
very well
> for Dumbledore to talk, but taking up a post a Hogwarts just now 
would be
> tantamount to declaring my public allegiance to the Order of the 
Phoenix!
"
> HBP pg. 72
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> 
> Does this mean that all the teachers at Hogwarts are indeed Order 
members or
> are they seen as such (birds of a feather flock together)? I 
wandered about
> this from the first time I read it.
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> 
> 
> Slughorn is, undoubtedly a ministry official type of guy, so why 
would he
> have been introduced but to give us information about Voldemort(?)

I think
> he may have given us a whole lot more; like Lily being one of his 
all time
> favorites despite the fact she was muggleborn.
> 
> 
> 
> I wouldn't discard Slughorn so quickly if I were you he is very 
giving of
> information.
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> 
> 
> Snow
> So glad you replied. I meant to mention this previous post but 
forgot. First, I want to give credit where credit is due. John 
Granger's excellent paper on HPB has an eye-opening analysis of 
Slughorn and one of his most intriguing points was that the fake 
attack that Slughorn set up before DD and Harry go to his house was 
perhaps a little too good. I don't have my copy of HPB in front of 
me but I seem to remember that the Dark Mark hung above the house. 
If I remember my GOF canon corretly, it was only LV's followers who 
knew how to conjure that mark. I do not trust Slughorn as far as I 
can spit him. 
Jen D