Harry potter and the halfblood prince summary shmoop. She met a tragic end as voldemort attacked her for expressing her promuggle views in the daily prophet. He and the slug club during riddles era are chatting. Harry later uses the felix felicis to help retrieve a memory from slughorn that details the conversation between the professor and riddle about horcruxes as well as the possibility of creating more than one horcrux. In the book, harry basically wore a drunk slughorn down until he gave him his. Professor mcgonagall was known for her ability to transfigure into a tabby cat, which was demonstrated a few times throughout the series. Unlike alecto carrow, she thought muggles werent too different from witches and wizards and expressed tolerant views in her class. Lily evans potterhorace slughorn works archive of our own. Why was professor slughorn reluctant to give his memory of.
He served as potions master until 1981, then again from 1996. At least until book six, where i think the best example of a complex character in this world, particularly a complex slytherin, is horace slughorn. When she isnt living vicariously through a book or at a concert, she is a. However, dumbledore knew the attack was staged because there was no dark mark looming over the building. More than any other character, professor slughorns appearance in the film is very different from his description in the book. While lockhart is undoubtedly a textbook narcissist, slughorn is a good person deep down, though himself quite vain. He turned to dumbledore and asked, professor, do you think it would be safe to show professor slughorn the unabridged version of my book. He was potions professor for over fifty years and head of slytherin before retiring in 1981. Slughorn was the potions master and head of slytherin house at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. This means that slughorn and merope could have gone at the same time, and not to mention, in the same house. Previous discussion without spoilers can be found here. I think we could trust him with an appropriate segment of that information, since he seems to be so good at keeping secrets. Be brave professor, be brave like my mother one of the most. The character of horace slughorn in harry potter and the half.
After class, harry corners slughorn and asks the potions professor about horcruxes. Only two memories three, if you count professor slughorns tampered and untampered memories as separate are shown in the film. Slughorn is charmed by harrys cheeky bezoar solution, but still thinks harry should learn to brew an antidote potion. In the 7th and final book, slughorn briefly appears with other teachers assembling to fight death eaters. He clearly has very fond memories of those two days hbp9.
Harry potter and the halfblood prince 2009 frequently. It is unknown what became of the slug club when severus snape became headmaster during the 19971998 school year. And harry, determined to secure a pensieve memory from slughorn that. Harry opened the vial and poured a small amount of it down hi. Movie slughorn and book slughorn are really different. Bandai dc comics disney funko gundam harry potter lego architecture loungefly marvel comics pokemon pusheen star wars studio ghibli. What dumbledore didnt know and what he suspected slughorn knew was how many horcruxes voldemort had made.
Slytherins evil trait has always been that theyre ambitious, a desire to rise above. Horace slughorn is the longserving potions teacher and head of slytherin house since at least the 1940s, until his retirement after the 198182 school year. I would like to know when exactly slughorn stopped teaching at hogwarts. Felix felicis makes the drinker lucky for a period of time, depending on how much is taken, during which everything they attempt will be successful. Harry watches slughorns real memory, which starts with. Where does the book harry potter and the halfblood prince fit in the series of seven titles. Ron and hermione knew that they had to get slughorns real memory, hermione suggested that harry yes the liquid luck that hed got at the beginning of the year. Horace slughorn served as the potions professor during harrys sixth year at hogwarts. Harry potter and the halfblood prince story structure. The memory of their last facetoface encounter kept intruding too, and it rather. I wish there were more professors like this in college. Horace slughorn wikibooks, open books for an open world.
Using a spell from the halfblood princes book, he nearly kills dracos. Jim broadbent as professor horace slughorn from harry potter and the halfblood prince horace slughorn former potions professor at hogwarts and head of slytherin house who taught tom marvolo riddle and returns to hogwarts in harrys sixth year. The tone of horaces voice on this subject reveals a lot about him as far. His three new apprentices are about to experience what being collected feels like. Felix felicis, also called liquid luck, is a magical potion first introduced during professor slughorn s initial potions class in hogwarts. While he seems to be a kindly and gregarious old man, slughorn is also cowardly, more concerned with his own safety and comfort than anything else, and dominated by his obsession with influence and fame. He was able to modify a pensieve memory, change it to the point where even professor dumbledore could not view the original, and harry had to get a new copy of the true memory hbp17. Dumbledore enlisted the help of harry potter to accomplish this, together. This is in the book, dumbledore already guessed and his guesses are usually good, but he needed slughorns memory in order to confirm his guess. On the way harry bumped into slughorn, who learnt that hagrids acromantula friend aragog was dead. Horace slughorn fantasyworlds fandom powered by wikia. Two had been destroyed by that point tom riddles diary. Why do harry and dumbledore need to get the memory from slughorn. Harry, this is an old friend and colleague of mine, horace slughorn.
Harry potterhorace slughorn works archive of our own. After weeks of putting it off, harry finally manages to coerce the necessary memory out of slughorn. Rowling also wrote some more about slughorn in a new book. Professor slughorn is an accomplished occlumens, harry, hence the memory, he said, the twinkle returning to his eye for a moment. Hogwartss new potions professor, whom dumbledore recruits at the beginning of the novel. You know, so he could get a better idea of the situation. He derives a tremendous importance and sense of himself through and visavis his relationships with important people. Why do the harry potter books get longer after each one until halfblood prince. A great memorable quote from the harry potter and the halfblood prince movie on harry watches slughorn s real memory, which starts with tom tapping the hourglasstom riddle. The forgotten book and the ministry man by sasharyder fandoms. Harry potter and the half blood prince chapter 4 hogwarts. The memory is said to be needed because it contains valuable information that is needed to defeat him.
After harry told them that hed hid the book, they headed back to the common room. Sep 01, 2017 it takes away the slytherin students choice as well. This book had written instructions on how to make the perfect potion, therefore harry won the potion with ease. A parallel could be drawn between the vain nature of lockhart and professor slughorn who were both wooed into teaching by harry potter. It takes away the slytherin students choice as well. Harry finally gets professor slughorn to share the memory of voldemorts descent into dark magic. They were only mentioned specifically in one book in hogwarts, but that doesnt mean there werent other copies of the same book.
Malfoy, crabbe, and goyle snuck back into the castle and tried to capture harry themselves, which didnt go all that well for them. British actor ian hart portrayed quirrell in the film adaptation of the book. Harry, however, got a book which belonged to someone known as the halfblood prince. This may be our last memory of him, but our best will always be that moment down at hagrids hut. The headmasters daughter a neville longbottom love story. In harry potter and the halfblood prince, dumbledore orders harry to retrieve the memory about the talk with tom riddlevoldemort from slughorn. The armchair grunts and transforms into horace slughorn, dumbledores old colleague and a former hogwarts professor. Slughorn seems to respond that he knows nothing about them. In the book, he is described as being bad and very fat with a walruslike mustache. Harry watches slughorns real memory, which starts with tom. Slughorn gives to harry his true memory and speaks about harrys mother. His comforts included soft chairs and footstools, fine wines and books, boxes of confectionery and.
In harry potter and the halfblood prince movie, dumbledore asks harry to retrieve the actual memory from professor slughorn. As a halfblood wizard, a hogwarts student, hogwarts professor, and later head of slytherin, professor slughorn has made his presence known among the hogwarts students and staff. He uses all of that borrowed clout in order to cover up a rather diminished view. Instead, there are more professors like professor binns in college, and more teachers like snape in element. Read about the chapter that made us fall in love with. Dumbledore had hoped tom riddle would turn over a new leaf, but his underlying suspicions were well founded. The movie diverges quite significantly from the book in this area. The first one of a young tom riddle hero fiennes tiffin learning that he is a wizard, the second being the altered memory of horace slughorn, and the third being the real memory slughorn provides harry with, which has not been tampered with. Muggles guide to harry pottercharactershorace slughorn. After being tasked with the nearimpossible mission of trying to obtain a memory of professor slughorns that the professor had attempted to edit, harrys slurp of felix led him to hagrids hut. Hes still not friends with slytherin, but hes now able to see the good and bad in other characters, and so he sees that not all slytherins are. Harry potter and the halfblood prince is a fantasy novel and the sixth installment of the harry potter series, written by british author j. Twice the memory inexplicably turns foggy and only slughorn s voice is heard, notably when riddle asks him about horcruxes. Horace slughorn, the single most underrated character.
What class does professor slughorn teach in the 2009 film, harry potter and the halfblood prince. A sluggish memory wikibooks, open books for an open world. I believe that this demonstrates how harry has matured over time. His full name was revealed in the pottermore books pm. Harry then ran up to his dorm and came back down with the tiny vial in his hand. Voldemort in harry potter and the halfblood prince shmoop.
He was also head of slytherin house for the school year 19971998. Snape had summoned professor lupin using a very similar technique in an earlier book, and professor umbridge had mentioned that all the fireplaces were monitored. Professor slughorn is brilliant sure, but hes got a perverted, selfserving streak a mile wide. In the movie harry potter and the halfblood prince, wizarding world movie audiences were first introduced to horace slughorn, played by jim broadbent, for the first time. He was a friend and colleague of albus dumbledore, who persuaded him to return to the post in 1996. Slughorn knew how to teach, and he was actually teaching. Pottermore looks back at the moments that made our favourite characters so memorable. Jan 23, 2016 you have to understand slughorn s character. The character of horace slughorn in harry potter and the. He won an academy award and a golden globe award for his supporting role as john bayley in the feature film iris 2001, as well as winning a bafta tv award and a golden globe for his leading role as lord longford in the television film longford 2006. In the book, many went straight to voldemort, while a few went with professor slughorn and then returned to help win the battle. It is meant to be used sparingly, however, as it causes giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous.
Slughorn quickly clues in to the fact that dumbledore has sent harry to collect his horcrux memory. Felix felicis ncyclopedia wiki fandom powered by wikia. After the creation of a new potion professor slughorn decides to invite a few guests to attend his latest slug club meeting. Ironically, slughorn probably didnt even remember it. Following his retirement and the resurgence of voldemort, slughorn goes into hiding. On paper, slughorn seemed a far sight nicer than that snape chap who. He also served as head of slytherin house, before retiring in 1981 due to a fear that albus dumbledore would discover that he had told tom riddle.
He and dumbledore watch the memory and learn that voldemort split his soul and enspelled it in seven different horcruxeswhich must all be. Slughorn stared at harry with a little bit of confusion, but even more curiosity, and. Welcome to the postdh discussion of horace slughorn. Slughorn sighed and lifted his wand to his head, but bill stopped him. How important actually was the memory of slughorns. The awardwinning book, which was published in 2005 sold over 9 million copies within the first 24 hours of being released, was noted for having a more ominous tone that its predecessors.
What is something about horace slughorn that is overlooked. James broadbent born 24 may 1949 is an english actor. How did slughorn even know about horcruxes if it was such a big secret. From wikibooks, open books for an open world slughorn s memory, that slughorn mentions someone named lestrange. Oct 29, 2009 slughorn gives to harry his true memory and speaks about harrys mother. Harry potter and the half blood prince timeline timetoast.
Professor slughorn challenges the class to make a potion to win the bottle. Professor dumbledore says that harry is uniquely equipped to retrieve the unedited memory from slughorn, and charges him with that retrieval, saying it is quite possibly the most important thing harry will have to do. From wikibooks, open books for an open world book, and professor umbridge had mentioned that all the fireplaces were monitored. The harry potter and the halfblood prince quiz zoo. The memory, which shows tom asking about horcruxes, is very obviously edited such that none of slughorn s responses are present. Professor slughorns hourglass 849421002381 item barnes. Later that year, dumbledore would task harry with coercing the full memory of slughorns. As 14 melhores imagens em horace slughorn harry potter.
He was an old potions professor who seemed to know a lot about dark magic and was the head of slytherin house. At the beginning of harrys 6th year at hogwarts, dumbledore and harry convince a genial wizard named horace slughorn to come out of retirement to teach potions. In slughorns memory they watch as a teenage tom learns about horcruxes, a kind of incredibly dark magic that allows its wielder to divide his soul and encase it in a vessel and, thus, evade death. The complications with memory the harry potter lexicon. Slughorn created the false destruction to convince intruders that death eaters had killed him. Chapters 22 and 23 contain some of the most significant moments in the harry potter and the halfblood prince, as harry and dumbledore finally unlock the secret to defeating voldemort. By seeing the actual memory, dumbledore became aware of the horcruxes but in the beginning of the movie, we can see that dumbledores one hand had become black and burnt because of the curse he got from destroying gaunts ring. In the film, he is barely overweight, his hair barely thinning, and he doesnt sport any facial hair. Broadbent received four bafta film award nominations and won for his performance in.
He attended hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry as a member of slytherin before returning in 1931 as potions master. After harrys failed attempt to get a particular memory out of the professor, slughorn apparently stopped these meetings in order to prevent giving harry another attempt. The chapter that made us fall in love with horace slughorn. In the 7th and final book, slughorn briefly appears with other teachers assembling to. Bob ogdens visit with marvolo, merope and morfin gaunt caractus burke talking about the acquisition of meropes locket. Slughorn concealed and changed the memory but eventually gives up the real one, sacrificing his own reputation with dumbledore to help harry avenge his parents death. Which professor in harry potter and the halfblood prince fakes a. So, that means slughorn attended hogwarts from any sevenyear period between 1893 and 1931. Your confusion may stem from the fact that the word horcrux isnt mentioned in the altered memory, whereas it is in the book. What is the first memory dumbledore shows harry in the pensieve. The final memory involving voldemort that harry and dumbledore contend with in book 6 is a big one. Why do harry and dumbledore need to get the memory from.
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