RE; SocialChange

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 182120

Magpie wrote:
> Not that we really see. The Slug Club in Voldemort's Day is made up 
> of Purebloods but for some reason it's all male, just the way it 
> would have been at Oxford back in the day, when we've gotten hints 
> that the WW didn't follow the Muggle one when it came to sexism. 
> <snip>

Carol responds:
I'm not sure why you think the group of )presumably) slytherin boys
accompanying Tom Riddle is the Slug Club. My impression was that they
were his "friends" (followers), including not only Avery and Lestrange
(whom I take to be the fathers, respectively, of the present Avery and
of Rodolphus and rabastan Lestrange) but, perhaps, Nott, Dolohov,
Mulciber, and Dolohov, the early DEs who accompanied Voldemort to
Hogsmeade before his DADA interview (all but Nott the fathers of DEs
of snape's generation; Nott is still a DE as of HBP--dont know if he
made it to the Battle of Hogwarts). We don't know how many boys are
there exactly, about half a dozen, and some seem to be seventh years
rather than sixth years like Tom.

I see no reason to assume that Tom's following of future DEs is
identical to the Slug Club, which by the time Snape was a student
seems to have included girls, non-Slytherins, and Muggle-borns (Lily,
one of Sluggie's chief favorites, being all three). We don't know
whether the Slug Club even existed in Tom Riddle's time at Hogwarts,
but if it did, it might well have been quite different from the boys
we see with Tom. For all we know, none of them was in it. (I think
Nott was simply because Slughorn asks Blaise Zabini about him unaware
that Nott was one of the DEs arrested at the MoM, but other than that,
we have no indication. Two of the boys, Lestrange and Avery, have to
be reminded to turn in their essays "or it'll be detention"; they
don't sound like Slug Club material to me.

Carol, who thinks that Sibyl Trelawney must have been a sluggie or she
wouldn't have attended Slughorn's Christmas party (must have been
because of her famous ancestor, Cassandra T.)