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

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 146934

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Maria Vaerewijck 
<maria8162001 at y...> wrote:
>
> 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.

Hi there again,
I just wanted to make my point with book in hand. Regarding the fake 
attack on Slughorn's house:

"My dear Horace," said Dumbledore, looking amused, "if the Death 
Eaters had really come to call, the Dark Mark would have been set 
over the house."
  The wizard clapped a pudgy hand to his vast forehead. 
  " The Dark Mark," he muttered. "Knew thre was something ...ah 
well. Wouldn't have had time anyway. I'd only just put the finishing 
touches to my upholstery when you entered the room."
p. 64, Scholastic Books ed. 

Now that's not as good as casting the mark but it is sufficiently 
ambiguous to make me question his loyalties. 
Jen D, putting her head back into her book and memorizing all the 
important stuff...



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