The gay, bi, and undecided guys I hung out with in my first couple of years at university. I should have been more clear on that, but I think I was trying to reply to a mass of HP threads all at once -- sorry.

I have vivid memories of standing on the doorstep finding excuses not to let my flatmate's lecturer in after he had been a little bit too pushy with the third member of our household a a party the week before.

So Slughorn's an interesting character (and it's not as if I don't write about equally dodgy blokes), but I can't bring myself to like him, and find him an odd addition to what is after all a kid's book.

Gina