Quick thoughts on listening to HBP

[sff_corgi_lj]

Poor fox.

• If Horace is 'old' but not as old as AD, would he have been teaching Potions to Hagrid as well?


• Was his retirement the immediate occasion for Snape becoming Potions Master AND Head of Slytherin, or did they come to Snape at separate times?


• [AU] If Slughorn was teaching Potions to the Marauders' year, that means he was almost certainly Head of Slytherin and Potions Master to Medeni as well. [/AU]


• [AU] Were Medeni and Regulus in the same year? We've never touched on whether she had to throw frog spawn at the Slytherin boys. [/AU]


• Does anybody else get a feeling of Oscar Wilde around Slughorn, or is it just me being only vaguely familiar with the man and his works? (Or maybe even the HedonismBot from Futurama?)


• Somebody else was a little creeped out by his apparent tendency to collect more boys than girls, and true, because of the dependent and minor status of most of the Slug Club(s), there's a tiny twinge of a possible.... But it generally seems to be more admiration and reasonably benign manipulation than anything which should never be acted upon at school.

...and that's all I got written down before work started short-circuiting my thought processes.

Comments

[minoukatze.livejournal.com]

Does anybody else get a feeling of Oscar Wilde around Slughorn, or is it just me being only vaguely familiar with the man and his works? (Or maybe even the HedonismBot from Futurama?)

I can sort of see the Oscar Wilde vibe, since you mention it, but I don't think Slughorn's quite soulful enough to be on par with Oscar. HedonismBot, on the other hand...;)

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I did get Wilde-vibes. Good to know it wasn't just me! :) Horcruxes seemed Dorian Grayish, too...

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Excellent point!

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Poor fox indeed! I didn'a like that one bit.

Slytherin is all about Power, and social power is just as valid as any other kind. Certainly that's what Slug Club teaches.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Oh, well said. The 'social ambition' part didn't occur to me.