Slughorn -- DE or not? (was Re: When will the ministry start kicking butt and taking names?)

[Maria Vaerewijck]

No: HPFGUIDX 146910

Jen D <rkdas at c...> wrote:
> 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. <snip> I seem to remember that the Dark 
Mark hung above the house. If I remember my GOF canon correctly, 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. <


maria8162001:
There was no dark mark hanging above the house where Slughorn 
was staying. That's what gave him away from the pretended DE 
attack, the lack of the dark mark. As every wizard knows whenever 
the DEs attack  a certain place the Dark mark always hung above, 
and with Slughorn's case there was none of it.