Slug Club

Slug Club
Organisation information
Founder(s)	Horace Slughorn
Headquarters	Hogwarts
Intentions	Cultivate students who had potential or connections

The Slug Club is an informal name for Horace Slughorn's favourite students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Slughorn taught Potions at Hogwarts during two different stints; both times, he singled out students he thought had potential, either because they had influential relatives or themselves possessed a talent of some kind. He invited these select students to parties, notably at Christmas, and kept in touch with them even after they had graduated, as they could provide him with insider information or various luxuries.

Known current members

• Melinda Bobbin — family owns a large chain of apothecaries
• Hermione Granger — the top student in her class
• Cormac McLaggen — Uncle Tiberius is well connected within the Ministry of Magic
• Harry Potter — the famous 'Boy Who Lived'
• Ginny Weasley — talented in casting the Bat-Bogey Hex
• Blaise Zabini — mother is a beautiful witch, who has been married and widowed at least seven times and has thus inherited a great deal of gold from her former husbands

Severus Snape, Argus Filch, Draco Malfoy and Horace Slughorn at the Slug Club's 1996 Christmas party.

Current students who were invited for an "interview", but didn't make the cut

• Marcus Belby — his uncle Damocles invented Wolfsbane Potion, but Marcus hadn't spoken to him in a while.
• Neville Longbottom — his parents, Alice and Frank Longbottom were great Aurors, but Neville was held not to show their talent.

Probable Past Members

• Dick Cresswell — now Head of the Goblin Liasion Office with insider information on Gringotts
• Barnabus Cuffe — now editor of the Daily Prophet
• Lily Evans — top student, excellent at Potions
• Ambrosius Flume — now owner of Honeydukes, who sends Slughorn sweets
• Gwenog Jones — now Captain of the Holyhead Harpies
• Lucius Malfoy — good student, now a Death Eater
• Nott, Sr. — Theodore Nott's father, to whom Slughorn inquired about and referred to as an old friend
• Tom Marvolo Riddle — very promising student with excellent marks, later became You-Know-Who
• Eldred Worple — author of Blood Brothers: My Life Amongst the Vampires