Slug Club: Discussion [TERM XIII-VI]

[djmayhem-aubrey.livejournal.com]

Activity: Slug Club Discussion: Criteria for Slug Club Good or Bad?
Points: Long debate: Participation 10pts, Additional comment: 2pts
Deadline: Saturday, April 11 @ 11:59 PM EST.

Details: We all know how Slughorn chooses the members of his club. Now we face an interesting dilemma: some people think this is terribly selective. Some people think this is a good thing. This is not a debate. This is a discussion on what everyone thinks about Slughorn's criteria, and if there is anything you would personally do differently while keeping the ultimate goals of giving the Slug Clubbers' decent job prospects intact.




CLUB LEADER NOTE: Since I feel it needs to be said in light of some of the bollocks going on in other posts, if you cannot discuss something without getting your feelings hurt, this is probably NOT the activity for you. That said, do not personally attack anyone else for their opinions. We all have them, we are all entitled to them. I'll be watching the post and making sure things don't get out of hand.

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Comments

[the-gubette.livejournal.com]

Which also leads into a discussion of why Dumbledore would allow such an organized club in the first place. If Slughorn had played it off as a group of students who just happened to get together occasionally and hang out, that's one thing. But Slughorn made it clear that some students were invited and some were not. Is this really appropriate behavior for a professor? Not really. So why was it condoned?

Samantha-Hope//Slytherin

[et-tu-lj.livejournal.com]

I got the impression the Slug Club was used more as a casual joking reference to it, not as an official title. Which would make it not really an organized club for Dumbledore to allow or disallow. But even so, has Hogwarts never heard of inappropriate fraternization?

Kimberly//Ravenclaw

[the-gubette.livejournal.com]

This is true. I just think that if it was to the point of exclusive parties and curfew extensions, it had some kind of official approval. But yeah, inappropriate fraternization was kind of the norm for Hogwarts. Dumbledore kind of sucked ass as a Headmaster. It's a wonder the teen pregnancy rate at Hogwarts wasn't through the roof.

Samantha-Hope//Slytherin

[et-tu-lj.livejournal.com]

lol

Perhaps it helped that most of the teachers were older than the hills and/or anti-social. We should consider ourselves lucky that Lupin was too busy angsting over Sirius to have inappropriate thoughts about his students. ;P

I think any professor had full power to grant curfew extensions, because doesn't Mad Eye basically grant one on the spot to keep Snape from punishing Harry? So it wouldn't necessarily have to go through Dumbledore.

Kimberly//Ravenclaw
is very amused