"Just don’t let him add you to his personal collection of dolls to play with and suck dry."
No - stay part of Dumbles collection and let him use you up instead!
You know, I do rather wonder whether Harry would have ever had his 'Tom History Lessons' if Albus hadn't so spectacularly messed up his first retrieval of a horcrux.
Do we have any indication that Slughorn actually “sucks dry” his protégés? Slughorn is engaging in mutually beneficial exchanges. Occasional tickets to Quidditch games and boxes of candied pineapple are not that high a price to pay for career assistance in a small, insular world that seems to work primarily on the basis of who you know and who your family is.
And Slughorn does help muggleborns and half-bloods, even if he isn’t always flawless in his political correctness. Practical help is more important than perfection of terminology. Personally, I find Arthur Weasley’s ignorance and Dumbledore’s arrogance more annoying than one or two “credit to her race” comments from Slughorn. At least he’s being useful. And the benefits he asks in return are not particularly large; his major rewards seem to be emotional: being at the center of things and being important to successful people
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Dumbledore doesn't share. He needs Harry to only listen to him.
Get involved with Sluggy and Harry might notice how it could be a mutually beneficial relationship. Slughorn gains from the Slug club, but he also helps them and has them help each other. It would be a disaster for Dumbles if Harry starts to ask how has DD helped his Order members.
/Do we have any indication that Slughorn actually “sucks dry” his protégés?/
While reading HBP, I never even got any indication that Slughorn was perverted or an ephebophile either. I mean, yes, he’s morally dodgy, what with his attempts to wheedle Hagrid into giving him Acromantula venom and his dismissal of anyone who’s not well-connected (see his repeated refusal to get Ron’s name right), but I never saw anything of a sexual nature with him.
/And the benefits he asks in return are not particularly large; his major rewards seem to be emotional: being at the center of things and being important to successful people./
The HBP movie portrayed Slughorn in a much more sympathetic light and that was one of the things that they established about him: that he genuinely enjoyed helping his students and was sad when they forgot him.
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No - stay part of Dumbles collection and let him use you up instead!
You know, I do rather wonder whether Harry would have ever had his 'Tom History Lessons' if Albus hadn't so spectacularly messed up his first retrieval of a horcrux.
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And Slughorn does help muggleborns and half-bloods, even if he isn’t always flawless in his political correctness. Practical help is more important than perfection of terminology. Personally, I find Arthur Weasley’s ignorance and Dumbledore’s arrogance more annoying than one or two “credit to her race” comments from Slughorn. At least he’s being useful. And the benefits he asks in return are not particularly large; his major rewards seem to be emotional: being at the center of things and being important to successful people ( ... )
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Get involved with Sluggy and Harry might notice how it could be a mutually beneficial relationship. Slughorn gains from the Slug club, but he also helps them and has them help each other. It would be a disaster for Dumbles if Harry starts to ask how has DD helped his Order members.
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While reading HBP, I never even got any indication that Slughorn was perverted or an ephebophile either. I mean, yes, he’s morally dodgy, what with his attempts to wheedle Hagrid into giving him Acromantula venom and his dismissal of anyone who’s not well-connected (see his repeated refusal to get Ron’s name right), but I never saw anything of a sexual nature with him.
/And the benefits he asks in return are not particularly large; his major rewards seem to be emotional: being at the center of things and being important to successful people./
The HBP movie portrayed Slughorn in a much more sympathetic light and that was one of the things that they established about him: that he genuinely enjoyed helping his students and was sad when they forgot him.
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