Huh. Adding the "Re:" to your subject line made it too long and gave me a nasty red message. Woe. So I changed it to "stuff".



Ah, well, he's been right about some things lately. It would be weird if that lasted too long.



Yes. That was highly disturbing. And completely seemed in Slughorn's nature.



Which made me think that there are 7 years at Hogwarts and wizards and witches come of age at 17. Not that 17 has a lot to do with 7, but still.



I thought he was referring to horcruxes, not killing...



The impression I got was that while killing is indeed a supreme act of evil and doesn't do your soul any favors, it doesn't actually split unless you are intending to use the killing to make a Horcrux. I could be completely off on that, though.











I have always been confused about this as well. Perhaps someone can enlighten us.



Indeed.




I don't know. I mean, he notices it there, but among all the other junk piled up, it's not too surprising that he doesn't place any particular importance to it.



Hehe. I know. It's a good bit of writing.