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According to Slughorn, Lily was one of his most favourite students and it is easy to see why – what with her charming personality, magical talent and skill at potion-making. Her death clearly had an impact on Slughorn and the fondness he felt for her was evident.
An unlikely candidate for a teaching position at Hogwarts, Horace Slughorn is a strange, hopelessly self-serving professor. Although Slughorn's intentions are usually good, and his behavior is almost always harmless, he has extreme difficulty seeing past his own needs and desires.
Ol' professor Slughorn was not the best teacher, but he wasn't awful either, and that's why he is number 7 on our list. Let's start with the good. Slughorn knew how to motivate his students and inspire them to work hard and with diligence. He incentivized engagement and made hard work pay off.
Tom Riddle asks Slughorn about Horcruxes. Slughorn explains it is the darkest of Dark magic that can split a soul to encase it into another object; if killed, the perpetrator never actually dies because his soul shard remains earthbound.
In fact, at the beginning of the series, barely anyone but Dumbledore and Hagrid knew that Voldemort was the charming, successful Tom Marvolo Riddle.
Dumbledore is quick to point out that Voldemort has killed his own father to avenge his abandonment of Voldemort's pregnant mother. Voldemort does not stop to consider the fact that Merope had placed Tom Riddle under a love spell and forced him into a union he never would have considered otherwise.
Headmaster of Hogwarts throughout most of the Harry Potter series, it is safe to say that Dumbledore is the most powerful professor at Hogwarts. With his Elder wand, Dumbledore managed to get away both times he was threatened imprisonment at Azkaban. He could also duel Voldemort and hold his ground.
While Snape is a Potion-Making disciplinarian who does not accept mediocrity, Slughorn is a more accommodating figure who sees the potential from his students. And their effectivity can be based on what they have done through their class.
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Slughorn's help on the battlefield (where he joined the other professors in the many duels against the Death Eaters) and representing Slytherin house in place of Snape showed that the Potions professor had heart – even if it took him a while to properly come through.
Despite his ambition, Slughorn knew where to draw his personal boundaries. His tendency to ally himself with powerful, talented, and important people never blinded him to his moral values, and thus, he was never tempted to join forces with Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
Snape was one of Slughorn's favorite students when he was at Hogwarts. Snape was a Slytherin when he was at Hogwarts, and like many students in that house, he excelled at Potions, the Dark Arts, and Charms.
Now, as firmly established, Snape was not the greatest fan of Harry, but that didn't mean that he ever stopped loving Lily. Dumbledore was surprised that Snape seemed to care for the boy. With a swish of his wand, Snape conjured up a Patronus – Lily's Patronus, a doe. 'Always,' he said.
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Of course, perhaps her greatest display of love and kindness comes when she protects Harry from Voldemort.
Minerva McGonagall:
Professor McGonagall is head of Gryffindor house and is the Transfiguration teacher.
The Head of Slytherin is Horace Slughorn (who left the role to Severus Snape for fifteen years before taking it up again in 1996) and the House's patron ghost is the Bloody Baron.
Phineas Nigellus Black, who to this day remains the least popular headmaster Hogwarts has ever known, makes little effort to hide the utter disdain he has for his students. He is a cantankerous, lazy and vain pure-blood with a myopic view of the world and a condescending and unjustifiably superior attitude.
' As Head of Hufflepuff, Professor Sprout exemplified the house's traits of compassion and tolerance. While the other Hogwarts houses favoured intelligence, bravery and determination, Hufflepuff house simply welcomed everyone – as long as they worked hard and were loyal.
May 29, 1993: Harry Potter stabs a basilisk fang into Tom Riddle's diary inside the Chamber of Secrets—unknowingly destroying his first Horcrux.
It is revealed during the series that Hagrid attended Hogwarts while Tom Riddle was also a student at the school, and that Hagrid was expelled during his third year (because Riddle, in his pre-Lord Voldemort days, framed him for opening the Chamber of Secrets).
After he regains his body in the fourth book, Rowling describes Voldemort as having pale skin, a chalk-white, skull-like face, snake-like slits for nostrils, red eyes and cat-like slits for pupils, a skeletally thin body and long, thin hands with unnaturally long fingers.