Dumbledore is just sooo cool and powerful and impressive and wacky and authoritative that kids can't help but looooove him.
Slughorn puts on teas and encourages children to vie for his affection... or at least act like they like him. I also get the feeling that Slughorn is more likely to be of actual use to you, once you get out into the adult world. He very much exemplifies, to me, what House Slytherin is all about... power and influence. You think Malfoy the Elder wouldn't like some of the influence he has?
But Slughorn works at it, whereas Dumbledore gets his sycophanty via authorial fiat.
(NOTE: Damn, I wish we could edit comments, because I keep making MORONIC typos. Please forgive me. I plead the fact that I'm wearing contacts instead of glasses today, although why that should make me use the singular posessive instead of the plural a few posts up I can't say. *cries*)
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Date: 2005-09-12 06:54 pm (UTC)Slughorn puts on teas and encourages children to vie for his affection... or at least act like they like him. I also get the feeling that Slughorn is more likely to be of actual use to you, once you get out into the adult world. He very much exemplifies, to me, what House Slytherin is all about... power and influence. You think Malfoy the Elder wouldn't like some of the influence he has?
But Slughorn works at it, whereas Dumbledore gets his sycophanty via authorial fiat.
(NOTE: Damn, I wish we could edit comments, because I keep making MORONIC typos. Please forgive me. I plead the fact that I'm wearing contacts instead of glasses today, although why that should make me use the singular posessive instead of the plural a few posts up I can't say. *cries*)