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Professor Horace E. F. Slughorn (born between 1898 and 1902) is a character in the Harry Potter series of novels written by J.K. Rowling. He is a teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and makes his first appearance in the sixth book of the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He is also a good and trusted friend of Albus Dumbledore.
Prior to the beginning of the series, Horace Slughorn was the long-serving Potions master at Hogwarts and Head of Slytherin House since at least the 1940s. He retired in the 1980s, but returned to both positions, as Potions master at the beginning of Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts and as Slytherin Housemaster at the end of that year. During his long initial period of employment at Hogwarts, Slughorn taught several of the main characters in the Harry Potter story. Among his pupils were the young Severus Snape and Lily Evans, Harry’s mother and one of Slughorn’s favourite students, whom he repeatedly praises as “one of the brightest I ever taught…vivacious…charming…cheeky”. Significantly, however, an earlier cohort of students included Tom Marvolo Riddle. On one occasion, Riddle questioned Slughorn about Horcruxes, artifacts which could act as vessels for pieces of a person’s soul in order to grant immortality. Having learnt of the nature of Horcruxes, Riddle went on to perform the necessary Dark magic to create his own Horcruxes, which contributed to his formidable power in his later reign of terror under his assumed name of Lord Voldemort. At some point after his retirement and the resurgence of Voldemort described in the novels, Slughorn went into hiding, concealing all knowledge of his whereabouts from both sides in the growing conflict in the Wizarding world. However, by the beginning of the sixth book in the series, Hogwarts headmaster Professor Albus Dumbledore has agreed to move Professor Severus Snape, erstwhile Potions master, to the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, and he manages to locate Slughorn and engage him to succeed Snape.
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When I first read HBP I didn't like Slughorn much, thought of him as a bit of a Lockhart, but I quite like him now, he's not perfect of course, he can be rather selfish, and tends to ignore those he doesn't consider important (ie. Ron) but he does seem to be a good bloke, and for once we see a Slytherin who isn't prejudiced against muggles, muggle borns, etc, or fascinated by the Dark Arts.
Yeah, that’s right. The books is from Harry’s point of view, and he thinks all slytherins prejudiced. But there is a lot of prejudice against slytherins i think. Of course some of them is assholes, though.