Oh, I totally get why Slughorn might have wanted to hide this memory. What I don't get is why he thought that altering his memory so that he just seems more disapproving of Tom Riddle than he really was in any way fixes it.
I totally take back my original comment--*this* is what's weird about it, yes. I think I got confused because when you hear about this hidden memory you naturally assume some big surprise hidden there, and the memory is exactly the same both times. It's just the second one is more detailed. So Slughorn looks exactly the same in both memories. Even with the disapproval the important information is that Voldemort asked about Horcruxes, and frankly he seems pretty disapproving in the second memory, doesn't he? Everything he says about Horcruxes is negative.
Really, the kid's not too swift at either love or hate. I'm just hoping that "rather ineffectual self-righteous indignation" is actually the power that Voldemort knows not, because otherwise, Harry's toast.
LOL. Yeah, Harry's pretty much toast. The alchemical process he's going to isn't so much turning lead into goal as copper into slightly shinier copper.
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Date: 2006-08-19 12:18 am (UTC)I totally take back my original comment--*this* is what's weird about it, yes. I think I got confused because when you hear about this hidden memory you naturally assume some big surprise hidden there, and the memory is exactly the same both times. It's just the second one is more detailed. So Slughorn looks exactly the same in both memories. Even with the disapproval the important information is that Voldemort asked about Horcruxes, and frankly he seems pretty disapproving in the second memory, doesn't he? Everything he says about Horcruxes is negative.
Really, the kid's not too swift at either love or hate. I'm just hoping that "rather ineffectual self-righteous indignation" is actually the power that Voldemort knows not, because otherwise, Harry's toast.
LOL. Yeah, Harry's pretty much toast. The alchemical process he's going to isn't so much turning lead into goal as copper into slightly shinier copper.