I wonder if Snape was even part of the Club, actually.
This is another one of those things in the books that I'm already seeing as a fact, even though we don't know one way or the other :-) I have sort of been assuming all along that Snape was not part of the Slug Club; there just isn't anything in HBP that indicates otherwise to me (I know absence of proof isn't proof of absence, but still...)
And I keep coming back to Molly's "high flier" comment. I don't think it was brilliance or drive alone that interested Slughorn. I think he was looking for some indication that someone would be successful (attitude or "spunk", like with Ginny, Lily's, and even Tom Riddle's charisma... whatever it was, he is obviously quite good at recognising it). Which makes Hermione a puzzle, I agree. She's obviously smart and driven, but all Slughorn has to go on is Harry's comment; it could very well be, given Harry's reluctance to be part of his club, that she was invited along to encourage Harry.
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Date: 2005-09-08 03:58 pm (UTC)This is another one of those things in the books that I'm already seeing as a fact, even though we don't know one way or the other :-) I have sort of been assuming all along that Snape was not part of the Slug Club; there just isn't anything in HBP that indicates otherwise to me (I know absence of proof isn't proof of absence, but still...)
And I keep coming back to Molly's "high flier" comment. I don't think it was brilliance or drive alone that interested Slughorn. I think he was looking for some indication that someone would be successful (attitude or "spunk", like with Ginny, Lily's, and even Tom Riddle's charisma... whatever it was, he is obviously quite good at recognising it). Which makes Hermione a puzzle, I agree. She's obviously smart and driven, but all Slughorn has to go on is Harry's comment; it could very well be, given Harry's reluctance to be part of his club, that she was invited along to encourage Harry.