History of the Slug Club (+All 27 Members) - Harry Potter Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today we’re discussing professor Horace Slughorn, and his famed ‘Slug Club’- a club which can best be described through the wise words of Albus Dumbledore:
“Horace,” said Dumbledore, relieving Harry of the responsibility to say any of this, “likes his comfort. He also likes the company of the famous, the successful, and the powerful. He enjoys the feeling that he influences these people. He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the backseat - more room to spread out, you see. He used to handpick favorites at Hogwarts, sometimes for their ambition or their brains, sometimes for their charm or their talent, and he had an uncanny knack for choosing those who would go on to become outstanding in their various fields.”
“Horace formed a kind of club of his favorites with himself at the center, making introductions, forging useful contacts between members, and always reaping some kind of benefit in return, whether a free box of his favorite crystallized pineapple or the chance to recommend the next junior member of the Goblin liaison Office.”
Horace Slughorn’s ‘Slug Club’ was an out-of-hours dining and social club made up of his most well-liked and famous students. The club provided its members with unique opportunities, mentorship, and access to influential contacts, opening doors for their future successes. It’s origins date back to when he first began teaching at the school in 1931.
You see, Slughorn had a keen eye to identify if someone would go on to achieve greatness in some capacity, and would take great pride in their accomplishments.
While we are given some indication as to who is actually in this club in the books and films, we aren’t provided with a complete list. Names are mentioned, and in the film adaptation Slughorn’s ‘wall’ is shown, where he proudly displays the members of his club, but we want to know more!
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Loved the quote by Slughorn that you ended this video with.
I think Jim broadbent was perfect as Horace slughorn.
Me too, despite the fact that he looks nothing like he's described in the books
All the actors honestly fit so well in the movies despite their differences in the books
Down to the last minute details 👌
@soccmonke eh... some are pretty perfect. Luna and Arthur, for example, are spot on.
McGonagall is another example of perfect casting.
But then you have characters like Umbridge and Slughorn that are so good in the roles that the differences in appearance can be forgiven.
@@OverdriveGamesAnime I totally agree, I think everyone was cast exceptionally well, let’s see how the proposed reboot fares!🤔
While the actor in the movie doesn’t look much like the book description, personally the actor is how I pictured Slughorn
A lot of people hate on Slytherin and I agree Rowlings didn't give much attention to a redeeming side for the house. However, Slughorn fought against impossible odds at the Battle of Hogwarts. I think only Slughorn and Regulus come off well for Slytherins in the series.
They are the only Two that redeemed themselves in the end
You kinda forgot Snape thi
Snape/ Regulus Black/Merlin/ etc
Sorry, didn’t see regulus there
I agree I Think Dumbledore was 'also trying to give him a chance to return to the school possibly to rectify the damage he may have done by giving Riddle the information'he reminds him of the mistake by wearing Tom riddle's ring while asking him to return to the school'he definitely helped try to stop Riddles seconds chance at world domination.
These wizards/witches will make a fine addition to my collection -Slughorn
I understood that reference! 😁
Thank you so much for it. I really love Horace Slughorn truly heartwarming character. Sure he has favoritism which is not a good thing, but hey if every character would have been perfect there is no point in having a character. I always wondered about my favorite (Severus) and thanks to you I learned that he was in the Slug Club.
If Slughorn didn't teach Sirius, there must have been more than one potions master at Hogwarts at the time. After all, he did teach Lily Evans (Harry's mom), and she was at Hogwarts at the same time Sirius was.
I disagree with the idea that Professor Horace Slughorn was prejudiced towards muggle-borns.
Yes, he was sorted into Slytherin House which has a reputation for anti-muggle bigotry. However Horace seems not to have let this negative stereotype affect his actions. While he may have been brought up in a pure-blood supremacist environment, he taught with the same enthusiasm for his subject to all of his students no matter their heritage.
You may point towards Slughorn’s remarks that he was impressed that Lily Evans should be so talented considering she was muggle-born. Or his confidence that Tom Riddle’s abilities indicates that he comes from “decent wizarding stock”. While these less than pleasant aspects of his character are a part of him, it never came out in his actions. He never let blood status get in the way of his nurturing and encouragement for the ambitious, the intelligent, or the talented students he mentored.
I also believe that he abandoned such biased notions after his experiences with Tom Riddle. It must have been horrifying and humbling to know, and he had to know, that a simple conversation with a “quiet yet talented boy” about a taboo subject led to the deaths of so many of his own prized pupils and friends. Not unlike a certain headmaster of Hogwarts that had to learn from the deaths of others.
Professor Horace Slughorn may not have been a saint, but he was a superb teacher with an excellent eye for talent. And while not the first into the fight against Voldemort he certainly didn’t shrink from it.
I completely agree with this, I don't think he was in favor of pure blood wizards, since he inducted several wizards that were not of pure blood...
I agree he would never have let blood status get in the way of collecting a brilliant student
Excellent response! I agree!
I think Slughorn had bias toward pure bloods but no hatred towards muggle borns. Like if a student was particularly impressive he'd automatically assume they're pure blooded but if he finds the opposite it doesn't make him dislike them, if anything he almost sees it as them being impressive "despite" not being pure.
Then you haven’t been paying attention, he was surprised that Hermione’s so talented for a muggleborn and basically asked her if she’s sure that she’s not related to wizard Granger family. Don’t know what’s it about Slughorn that makes people overlook his nastiness tbh.
" You didn't bring Professor Slughorn out of retirement just to teach potions did you sir???"
I often wish he didn't lived all that years feeling shame for something he was never at fault
Yes, his talk with Tom Riddle about a banned and taboo subject does not make Horace Slughorn guilty. But his decades of silence about that conversation does make him culpable. If he had accepted his shame and told the truth about that night years ago to Dumbledore, rather than a few weeks before his death. Then perhaps many lives could have been saved.
“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”
@@robertmckenna3994 i agree with you. If he shared what happened earlier many lives would have been saved but if i Remember well dumbledore tried to speak with him about It, but he ran away.
It took his whole spirit. Poor guy living in fear knowing he's the reason Riddle made it so far. He was a broken man returning back to Hogwarts
I think you missed someone. Who was that Ravenclaw student who was related to the inventor of the wolfsbane potion? I remember Slughorn mentioning it on the train when he was talking to said student. The name of the student escaped me though. But I'm pretty sure you left them out.
You're thinking of marcus belby. He didn't make the cut. Like in the movies Neville didn't either and he said "he's got belby handing out towels in the lou"
Slughorn is the most realistic portrayal not only of Slytherin, but of how the world works, in the entire book. The Slug Club is how most professional networks operate, and you'll find teachers and people collectors like Slughorn everywhere. A magnificent example of a good Slytherin.
Didn’t he test poison on house elf’s and also was into the pure blood thing? Yeah he wasn’t good.
I also get the impression that he takes pride in teaching people that later on having some renown or acquiring positions of prominance in the ministry. Just a guess with him being disappointed with Sirius not being in Slytherin when he was head of the house.
Voldemort started the Death Eaters effectively here with Avary and Lestrange etc they started as The Knights Of Walpurgis, I find that such an interesting name.
Why is it interesting, what is it a reference to?
@@dmazingiwalpurgisnacht, a pagan festival also called night of the witches.
This is a good one, very enjoyable.
I'm just going to say, I love Jim Broadbent and think he is such a wonderful actor. From Bullets Over Broadway - to the adorable Bridget Jones movies & his sharp turn in Hot Fuzz - to his time in the Harry Potter movies - just a gem.
Awesome as always thanks
Slughorn invited Lily to the Slug Club because he found her charming. The fact she was good at potions was just a perk.
great video
Slug club! Always amusing 😄
I can never work out why he didn't teach Sirius I know he wasn't in his house but he must have taught him
That presumes there was only one potions teacher at the time. Since this was before the first wizarding war, there may have been more students and more teachers. If Slughorn only taught advanced potion making and Sirius didn't get that far in potions, he might not have taught him. However, that's only speculation.
Sirius likely gauged the Slug Club as a Slytherin organization and turned down Slughorn's request to join since Sirius wanted to distance himself from his family and Slytherin. Either that or Slughorn just didn't consider Sirius(or James for that matter) as special enough for the Slug Club. Either way is entirely plausible since the Marauders were very much about secrecy and anti-establishment. They would have gotten a kick out of refusing to join a stuffy club full of egos. Especially since Remus and Peter would not likely be invited. Or it's also as likely that their most adept deeds went mostly unnoticed by the school at large including Slughorn.
@@somersault1123 that is true but he says he never taught him in the film and book so JK must have messed up with remembering that he was the same age as Lily and she was one of his favourites
I love learning little-known details and theorizing about the hogwarts universe!
I just have a quick question about Abraxas Malfoy. Was he at Hogwarts at the same time as Tom Riddle? Did anyone know ?
yes he was
@@stephenbang2749 oh thank you !
Slughorn is basically the personification of gout.
can you also do a theory on why dumbledore changed his fashion? he looked normal on the fantastic beast series but on HP he looked like a traditional wizard with that robe.
I really loved Jim Broadbent in the role of Slughorn. Even with some of the changes (plotwise, to appearance etc.) I thought he captured the essence of the flawed but brilliant Professor Slughorn. Particularly the sequence where he describes Lily's gift of the petal / Francis the fish and how he subsequently knew Lily had died.
At times i disliked professor slughorn for picking favorites, but be honest, i fancy about favorites myself. People either love or hate the great and fail to see both sides. We are all creatures of light and shadow. But as you mentioned, clubs may safe you, no matter what creep you are. I had joined one club, though it didn't reflect my views completely, people wouldn't have exed me and loved me despite my flaws and strenghts. Lone wolf dies, pack survives. But that is the thing, saving one meets killing the other. What are you willing to sacrifice? You cannot save everything and everyone. And truth or better doubt is what people are abandoning most likely.
It's not vanity that Slughorn was prone to. It's pride. If he wasn't so proud, he wouldn't have offered the info that he knew about horcruxes. Which is why he regrets sharing the knowledge about them with Tom. He's always been described as over-weight. Vanity is less compelling than pride, especially in Slughorn's position. Just saying.
It does not (bode) well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
I'm just saying. The difference between pride and vanity IS Slughorn.
I love that quote, "It does not bode well to dwell on dreams and forget to live." Where does it origenate?
@@___Bo I haven't the slightest idea, this channel was the originator of that quote for me. I've never heard it anywhere else.
@kylekirkpatrick426 well it's a good one!
@@___BoDumbledore said this to Harry in the 1st book
Interesting.
How Horace wanted to shine through these students' talents (is like he wanted these students to say to everyone "I am here because of Professor Slughorn") and therefore he'll be able to have an endless source of "gratitude" gifts and privilages in his favor coming from them, once they were well portioned wizards and witches.
Slughorn is one of my favourite characters because he showed that prejudiced people have the capacity to learn and improve.
I knew an older coworker similar to Slughorn at work. He was very kind to me but he held internal prejudices that skewed his perception my abilities as a young woman of colour. But he was really open minded and acknowledged his mistakes when I challenged his bias and proved him wrong.
It’s easy to assume that people are being willfully hostile when they make racist assumptions, but when someone grows up in an environment where those stereotypes are rarely challenged, its easy to see why they didn’t learn sooner. I would never call my coworker or Slughorn “bad” people because they used to have prejudiced views. They just didn’t know better because no one ever tried to correct them. What matters is that they tried to make up for it.
Definitely appreciate the content you put out man. Keep it up!
@harryPotterTheory Please cover the duel between Voldemort and Slughorn which is in the book
5:22 People always do, don't they, if they knew them. 😂
12:44 Remember Slughorn saying to Harry, "You mustn't think I'm prejudiced?"
Video Idea: What would of happened to Snape if he taught DADA Class each year the position was open
I don't think he could have. Voldemort cursed the position so no prof could have lasted more than 1 year.
@@byarbrough002 that’s the point lol so I’m curious to see what his theories would be of, what would’ve happened to snape
He would have been dead in the first book. The position is cursed he didn't even make when he did get the position.
Harry would probably have more knowlage about DADA, for example; he would have known the unforgivable curses in first year, he would had know about Animagus and werewolves in first or second year; how to cast away bogarts, etc. Students would had been more advanced in complex dark magic spells and better equiped to duel against Deatheaters. Also learned sooner about Legeremancy and Occlumancy.
By 3rd year, students would had been spell, curse and charms beatsts able to battle against so many evils.
I liked Dumbledore's other comments about Slughorn liking to "COLLECT STUDENTS" FOR HIS CLUB.
Yeah
How did Slughorn not teach Sirius, when he taught Lily, who was in the same year?
I think he was meaning that cause sirius wasn't in slytherin like the rest of the black family
I'm assuming maybe she took a more advanced level potions class than sirius
Horus is the potions master until Severus joins he doesn’t retire until then
It speaks volumes about Rowling that the Weasley family are, "Redheads," while the remaining strands of Slughorn's hair are, "Gingerish," the former a description, the latter an insult.
Lestrange, a contemporary of Tom Riddle, may well BE Rudolphus, husband of Bellatrix.
There’s one missed out, the kid who’s uncle (I think) invented the Wolfsbane Potion
Make a video with all the passwords of Gryffindor's common room. Just because!
Let's go 🎉
If Slughorn wasn't Sirus's potion professor, who was?
He was his professor
@@mrdr0161 Slughorn just stated he wasn't
He’s referring to being head of Slytherin house, not being potions professor. He’s had the rest of the Black family, but not Sirius, as he was the only one in Gryffindor
@@katweaver2706 No he said he never taught him in the film and book
Interesting
Gilderoy and Slughorn would have been mayhem together
As anyone wondered how many generations magic can skip. Slughorn asked hermione if she was related to a potionier. Could that maybe be her great grandfather and her grandpa could have been a squib and never told her father about it??? New theory
Is ginny weasely the sorting hat?
Wasn’t Harry already “collected” on the first meeting on the hogwarts express?
Young nick from fear the walking dead is putting on a good English accent 😂
Wasnt “BC” Barnabas Cuffe?
so there isnt anyone who is breaking new ground? creating new schools of magic study or making new better potions and spells and objects ? is there like a nobel prize but for magic people? no PHD in magic ? well its deep but could be made to be deeper i guess in some ways
Do you think Lily Evans was only good at potions because Snape was with her helping her?
She was better than Snape tho. She inspired him to do potions
@@callherfoofooThat’s bs. Snape’s a potions prodigy. He rewrote a whole textbook at 16.
There can be no light without the dark 🌑
And without the light there can be no shadows.
If j k rolling would let him, it would be hilarious to see jack black as slughorn, in the new hbo max show
No jack black as Hagrid could you imagine. Ridiculousness
@@callherfoofoo to each there own I guess:)
What would Prof.Slughorn think and tell Harry Potter after learning that Harry defeated Voldemort once and for all?
Is it possible that slughorn had a kind of clairvoyance similar to other witches and wizards that could see into the future?
Naw. He wouldn't have helped Riddle if he knew. He seems to know most after the fact. Just like lily after the fact he knew. And put it together
@@callherfoofoo I hear where you're coming from and makes sense, but is it possible that there was parts of the future he couldn't see?
Canon Regulus fucking scares me
😊🎉🦁
Is it true Lucius Malfoy & xenophilius lovegood are brothers
No. Lucius Malfoy is Abraxas Malfoy's only child.
He teached Sirius iff he teached Lily
That presumes there was only one potions teacher at the time. Since this was before the first wizarding war, there may have been more students and more teachers. If Slughorn only taught advanced potion making and Sirius didn't get that far in potions, he might not have taught him. However, that's only speculation and your comment is a good catch regardless.
Or maybe BC could just be a mountain in British Columbia? 🤔
Pretty sure Neville and Marcus Belby were in the Slug Club
Neville Longbottom and Marcus Belby weren't actually chosen to join The Slug Club. They were both hired to get fresh towels and appetizers.
Does not compare to Rons eat slugs club.
first before 1 hour mark
wait B.C. Barnabas Cuffe
first before 10 minute mark
Claim your here within an hour ticket here🎉
Interesting. I bet Lily was only so good at potions thanks to Snape.