Slughorn's Reaction (re: Chapt 29 ...)

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 164294

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:

>> However, I don't think our dear Mr. Slughorn is so much
> Ever So Evil as he is merely Ever So Self-Centered and
> Self-Involved. When he is distracted I think he is lost
> in thoughts of how the nights tragedies affect him.

va32h here:

Yes, that's exactly what he is. It's textbook Slytherin behavior 
isn't it? Isn't that what Phineas Nigellus tells Harry? Slytherins 
are brave enough, if it's their own necks they are saving.

I think, actually, Slughorn is meant to be our example of a "good" 
Slytherin.(good being comparative, of course) He is basically a good 
guy, amiable enough, and even when he is acting mainly in his own 
self-interest (helping to bury Aragog to get the valuable venom) he 
manages do it with some pretty convincing feigned sincerity. Hagrid 
certainly appreciated Slughorn's presence, even if he did not 
understand its real meaning. 

And of course when real evil came to call, in the form of Tom Riddle 
and the question of horcruxes, Slughorn was properly and sincerely 
repulsed by it. 

va32h, whose post count is maxed out now, due to a post that was lost 
for two days in Yahoomort, only to appear today, when it is 
completely irrelevant!