Was Severus in the Slug Club? (Was: Snape liked Hogwarts? )

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 154397

> >>Leslie41:
> > Ditto.  Slughorn obviously chooses students he feels will do him 
> > good, whom he feels will reflect well on him. It's really 
> > disgusting, his little club.  I can't imagine Snape being in    
> > it.  I can't imagine either Snape liking Slughorn, or the way he 
> > cozies up to the students.

> >>Potioncat:
> <snip>
> Neither Hermione or Ginny have any ethical problems attending the 
> Slug Club. Nor do I think Snape would refuse to be in the club.   
> Still we don't know.

Betsy Hp:
I agree, Potioncat.  I don't see young!Severus refusing to belong to 
the Club.  He'd see the same advantages Hermione saw: a chance for 
an outsider to get some good networking in.  That Lily was in the 
club is (IIRC) canon, so I don't think the Slug Club was sneered at 
by the student body.  (Sirius and James may have sneered, but then 
they had the advantage of their family name, and Sirius was in the 
middle of refuting that kind of old boy network anyway.)

> >>Potioncat:
> We only see Snape and Trelawney. We don't see the invitation list. 
> Nor do we know for sure that other teachers weren't there either   
> while Harry was there (but he didn't see them) or that they came   
> afterwards. 
> Now, how many think Minerva was in the Slug Club?

Betsy Hp:
Hmm, for some reason I doubt Minerva was in it. But I'm not sure 
what my reasoning is.  Too practical, maybe?  She strikes me as 
someone who was a solidly good student but not one with flair.  Or, 
her flair was of an underground sort where she was the queen of all 
pranksters but was rarely, if ever, caught.  (The Slug Club seemed 
awfully male around her time, as well.)

I will say the absence of Flitwick, who I can't see passing on any 
party, is fairly indicitive that this was an exculsive Slug Club 
affair.  And of course that's just as wobbly a foundation as the 
rest. <g>

Betsy Hp