He was born on 28th April, by a pure-blood family one of the so-called ‘Sacred Twenty-Eight’, which differently from the others didn’t encourage him to make only pure-blood friends, even if they quietly disagreed with Horace to hang along with Muggle borns. He attended Hogwarts and was sorted in Slytherin, where he enjoied the company of many fellows Muggle borns.
In 1931 he came back to Hogwarts as Potions Master, and became chief of the Slytherin’s house. He founded the “Slug’s Club”, into which he constantly invited and served with special treatment particular students with particular stories, who knew important people in the society, who was sone or daughter of famous witches and wizards. He was able to meet Gwenog Jones captain of Holyhead Harpies, from whom he still receives free tickets for Quidditch’s matches, or the Ministry of Magic, or still the predator of Daily Prophet who accept his owl and his option on the daily news.
Besides his club, he tended to treat all his students well, and always respected everybody even if as human-being he had himself his dislikes, in particular towards a student of his own house: Dolores Umbridge who he always had considered an “idiotic woman”.
During 1940 he had the chance to teach to a very particular boy: Tom Riddle, who joined his Slug’s Club not because he had particular contacts in the wizarding world, but because of his skills. Tom ended up as being one of his favourite students, since beside his amazing skills as wizard he was particularly able to prise Slughorn, such as bringing him dehydrated pineapple, even though Dumbledore tried to warn him that Tom was only using him, he never really believed in this, on the contrary he thought that judging Tom this way was completely unfair.
In the 1943 after a dinner with his Slug’s Club, Tom hold over to talk alone with Slughorn, he wanted an opinion regard a dark object he had read about in the restricted section: Horcruxes. At first Slughorn tried to face this as an academic discussion, giving Tom an overview of what they were just thinking that the boy had just some “sane” curiosity, but then the conversation involved in a discussion which scared Slughorn since when Tom understood that to create an Horcrux you must commit a murder, ask Slughorn in how many pieces can a soul be broken.
After Tom left the school instead of picking one of the prestigious careers he had been offered, he started to realise that Tom was probably not was he seemed. When Tom started to ask more and more for the place of Defence Against The Dark Arts Teacher, Slughorn stayed closed in his office so that he did not have to meet Tom, when the first Wizarding War started he heard that Voldemort had reached the immortality and after have learned who was behind the mask, he felt terrible guilty because he thought it was his fault for he had told Tom about Horcruxes. He stayed at Hogwarts, which he considered a safer place, even though Dumbledore knew he was hiding something about Tom, he was never able to understand what since Slughorn was an eccellent Occlumens.
During the following years he had the pleasure to teach to many other exceptional student, one of which was Lily Evans, who became one of his favourites, because of her natural skills for potions. When Voldemort seemingly died in October 1981, Slughorn was even happier than most of the wizarding population. He thought that Voldemort’s “death” meant that he never made Horcruxes and that freed him from having to feel guilty about informing Voldemort about them. However, Dumbledore noticed that Slughorn was particularly joyful about something, which made him gently question Slughorn. Feeling that his secret could be revealed, Slughorn resigned from Hogwarts after having taught there for fifty years.
During the following years though, the new that Voldemort hadn’t died reached his ears, and he started to feel terrible sorry again for the mess he had done, and even scared he wished he had stayed at Hogwarts which was for sure safer alongside with Dumbledore. On 27 June 1995, Slughorn was visited by Corban Yaxley who clearly came to recruit him into the Death Eaters. Slughorn quickly transfigured himself into an armchair and was glad when he was successfully undetected, even though he couldn’t understand what could possibly Voldemort wanted from him, since he had all he needed in his rangs.
He wasn’t able to hide forever though in fact in the Summer of 1996 Dumbledore was able to find him while he was hiding in a Muggle house, whose owners were currently on holiday. Despite he had destroyed the house, faking an intrusion he forgot to cast the Dark Mark above it, which was what allowed Dumbledore to find him. He left Horace and Harry alone on proposed, to allow him to lay eyes on Harry, which was what convinced Horace to come back to Hogwarts, along with the promise to have the old Professor Merrythought’s old office. During the year at Hogwarts Harry was charged by Dumbledore to discover the Slughorn’s memory, which he was able to by drinking the Liquid Luck he won in a potion lesson. Slughorn himself declared that he had the chance to use the Liquid Luck twice in his life, and he describe those days as “two perfect days”.
He took part in the Hogwarts battle, and survived it.
Muggle Worthy Case 
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