[HPforGrownups] Regulus and Sirius WAS :Re: Slytherin's Horcrux (was:Hogwarts Houses Unite!)

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 163781

> Kemper now:

> Slughorn didn't need Sirius to get sweeets (or other desired thing)
> from the Blacks.  At the time of the Mauraders, he is already, I'm
> assuming, connected with the Noble House through Bella, Cissy and, of
> course, Regulus.  So why would he want the set?  Slughorn doesn't
> really buy into the pureblood dogma, so he wouldn't want Sirius for
> bloodline affiliation.  On the train, Slughorn invited potential
> clubbers based on family connection (which I'm ruling out as it is
> already established as he is talking about it in retrospect) or based
> on intelligence/power/creativity.

Magpie:
I think he does buy into the Pureblood dogma--just not as much as DEs do. I 
don't think Slughorn was always meant to be a paragon of equality (his old 
Slug Club didn't even seem to have girls)--or that he is now. Family and 
relatives are still important to him. He picks people for reasons other than 
that too, but being a Black would still be enough to get him interested, 
just as he was interested in Neville. Neville got counted out when he 
actually met him, but Sirius certainly wouldn't even if he wasn't all that 
brilliant. He's charismatic and very handsome.

But to be clear I do think that Sirius was notably talented. I just don't 
think Slughorn's line would be proof that he was exceptionally brilliant. 
Slughorn picks people because he think they've got something that will make 
them one day powerful and successful, and you can't always assume one person 
had one particular quality.

Kemper:
> Kemper, who wonder's what Molly's potential is... she said Slughorn
> didn't have time for Arthur, does that mean he had time for Molly?

Magpie:
I doubt it. Slughorn doesn't hide the students that he favors, and as 
Arthur's girlfriend Molly would see that. It's more in her character to see 
Arthur as the person who should be admired in that context, not herself. She 
seems to be validated through him in that area of life.

-m