228 The Life of Professor Slughorn

228 The Life of Professor Slughorn

After Callan asked this question, Professor Slughorn was stunned for a moment. This was not the kind of question he wanted.

Lily, on the other hand, slowed down the movement of picking up her backpack. She tried hard to hide her presence and wanted to stay and listen to the professor's answer.

Karan waited patiently.

"Oh."

After a while, Professor Slughorn came back to his senses.

"Are you going to ask Dorcas?"

Professor Slughorn spoke immediately.Although he felt that the question was a bit unexpected, he did not feel offended by it.

Instead, he seemed happy to talk about Meadows.

"She's excellent. In fact, very good, especially in Potions."

"Although she occasionally makes small mistakes in the last step of preparing the potion. But I can see that she didn't mean it, and it was probably in...sixth grade? Or seventh grade? I I can’t remember exactly. But during that time, Dorcas never made any mistakes again, and she could always prepare the best potions.”

When talking about this, Professor Slughorn seemed a little proud.

"I have always understood that she is talented in Potions, not in Transfiguration or Charms. The best she can get in these two courses is good, but in Potions class, she gets good grades every year. They will all get excellent results!”

"Of course."

He turned to look at Lily, who was holding a backpack, and said with a smile: "I believe you will be even better than her, my dear."

Lily glanced at Karan speechlessly, feeling uncomfortable knowing that she was not worthy of her name.

But at this moment, Karan suddenly asked again: "Wasn't Professor Meadows good at transfiguration and charms when he was in school?"

Lily blinked, and she immediately realized why Karan asked such a question.

In the last semester, Meadows did not show such a lack of magical talent.Steve also said that she would specifically find those XXXXX level magical animals for duels, and even defeated them.

And she still remembered that the last step of preparing potions almost always required the use of a wand to cast a spell, but Meadows would actually make a mistake in this place?

This was so unlike Meadows, it seemed like she was talking about someone completely unrelated to her.

"Weird, isn't it?"

Professor Slughorn didn't pay too much attention to Callan's doubts. He just smiled and said: "As a professor at the school, I always thought that I could successfully discover all the talents of the students, but in the end they always let them I was shocked."

"Dorcas is no exception."

After answering this question, Professor Slughorn asked again with some hope: "So, are there any other questions?"

He even gave a very obvious reminder.

"For example, something to do with Potions?"

Professor Slughorn still hasn't given up on the idea of ​​exploring Callan's talent.

At this time, Karan was silently recalling the life that the other party should have had.

Slughorn was born into a wealthy family and was even one of the 28 Saints.His parents had pureblood supremacist tendencies, allowing him to make the "right" friends while in school.

But Slughorn did not listen to his parents' advice. He had his own ideas and became friends with many Muggle-borns.

Although his parents disapproved of this, Slughorn still believed that he should associate with those who were truly talented, rather than judging others based solely on their pedigree.

After this, Slughorn became Head of Slytherin and Potions Professor at Hogwarts.He founded the Slug Club and attracted many talented students to join.

Among them is Tom Riddle.

That is Voldemort.

And this also resulted in the biggest mistake he had ever made - telling Riddle part of the knowledge about Horcruxes.

After Riddle left Hogwarts, Professor Slughorn began to feel uneasy because Riddle disappeared, he failed to accept outstanding job offers, and he severed ties with Slughorn.

This finally made Slughorn realize that Riddle was not as perfect as he appeared.

After Voldemort came to power, Slughorn did not recognize this as his former student from the beginning, because Voldemort's appearance changed a lot.

But he eventually found out about it.

When Voldemort returned to Hogwarts, requesting the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Slughorn holed up in his own office so that he would not have to meet with Voldemort again.

He was glad that this didn't happen.

But after that, he still heard rumors that Voldemort had achieved immortality, which made him feel increasingly uneasy.

It was not until the end of the First Wizarding War, when Slughorn learned that Voldemort was dead, that he finally felt relieved.

Because Voldemort's death meant he never made a Horcrux, Slughorn finally no longer had to feel guilty about it.

But Dumbledore still noticed Slughorn's strangeness.

Because he was really unusually happy.

Faced with Dumbledore's questioning, Slughorn refused to confess or let the secret be revealed, so he took the initiative to leave.

But even so, during the Second Wizarding War, he bravely stood up and fought face to face with Voldemort.

As the head of Slytherin at the time, I have to say that this was a very difficult decision.

Perhaps he did this because of guilt, or perhaps just because he was kind from the bottom of his heart.

But in Karan's view, this guilt is completely unnecessary.

Slughorn didn't really teach Riddle anything about Horcruxes.

Because what Riddle really wanted to ask at that time was the possibility of creating multiple Horcruxes.

But Slughorn didn't give a definite answer.

He was even deeply shocked by this.

In particular, Voldemort's first Horcrux, the diary, only sealed his memories up to fifth grade.

He already knew how to make Horcruxes.

But now, Myrtle is not dead.

Then the diary should not appear.

Voldemort never created the same first Horcrux.

But Ravenclaw's diadem still appeared in the Room of Requirement.

At Karan's signal, Lily pouted dissatisfiedly and deliberately strode away.

There were only two people left in the whole classroom.

It's risky, but worth it.

So, Karan raised his head and he asked.

"Sir, I would like to ask you if you know..."

"The Horcrux?"