1. Harry Potter Promise NR.11


    Date: 9/18/2017, Categories: Fiction Fan fiction, Author: zimbi

    ... the man. Slughorn knew a lot about his mum, as she had been one of his star students, and more than once compared Harry to her, in terms of talent. Though he normally didn't like it when someone compared him to his parents, wanting to be seen as his own person, Harry found he really didn't care so much. Perhaps it was because for the first three years of his schooling, Snape had been quick to tell him how much of a dunderhead he was, just like his father. That had kind of tainted the whole experience. But now that Snape was no longer at his throat complaining and belittling him, he found that he didn't mind being compared to his parents so much. He knew they had been talented and wonderful people, and he wouldn't mind aspiring to be like them. "So you must have been teaching a while, then," Harry commented idly, trying to get the professor to confirm their theories. "If you taught my parents, and Professor McGonagall said you taught her as well." Slughorn chuckled jovially. "Oh yes, I remember Minerva. Bright young witch. Much better at Transfiguration than Potions, of course, but no slouch. Oh my, that was years ago! Did she tell you that?" Harry nodded. "She said you had probably been teaching a few years before she started, and you retired a few years after my parents graduated." Well, the last part wasn't really true, it was more just what he knew from when Snape had started teaching, and Harry knew he had taken over for Slughorn. Horace nodded, thinking. "Let's see, I ...
    ... started here, oh, must have been 1928. Goodness was it really that long ago?" Harry nodded mutely, doing the math quickly; Slughorn would have surely been a teacher when Voldemort had attended. He wasn't sure he should say anything yet, though, wanting to earn the older man's trust and get a little bit more of a rapport, first. Slughorn regaled him with a few stories of his first few years on the job; there were several that Harry quite enjoyed hearing, as they involved Dumbledore running into issues in his new role as the Transfiguration professor. Everyone hailed Dumbledore as the new Merlin, and had done so for so long, it was amusing to hear stories from before he had been someone so many looked up to. "Goodness me, is that the time," Slughorn exclaimed a couple of hours later, coming out of a story about his group of first years who had to spend an entire Saturday cleaning frog spawn off the ceiling of the Potions lab after a mishap in class. "You should get on up to lunch before it's over." Harry nodded and started to clean up a bit, before he left the room, though not after accepting an invitation to a luncheon the following week, and promising to pass the invitation along to his friends. XXX Later that day, Harry told the others what he had learned from Slughorn. They were all surprised to hear that the professor had been teaching for that long. "My mum and dad said that he taught them," Ron commented, "but this is way before them." Harry nodded. "Professor Slughorn ...
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