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Photo: AaronTruss1989 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons Photo shows Jim Broadbent as Slughorn (right) on the Half-Blood Prince set with Rob Knox (2008)
Horace Slughorn
Hogwarts' Potions master collects famous students and wears a silvery walrus that could anchor a velvet smoking jacket all by itself.
- Actor
- Jim Broadbent
- Film
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Year
- 2009
- Medium
- Movie
- Style
- Walrus
- Fan Votes
- 0 legendary · 0 meh
Why Horace Slughorn's Mustache Matters
Jim Broadbent joined the Harry Potter series in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) as Horace Slughorn, the returning Potions master with a weakness for comfort, crystallized pineapple, and well-connected students. The mustache arrived with him: a full, pale walrus that spills over the lip like a man who has never once been in a hurry.
Slughorn is written as a large, genial figure, and Broadbent plays him as equal parts host and coward. The mustache softens every scene — it makes his flattery feel cozy rather than sinister, which is exactly what the character needs to be before the story reveals the memory he has been hiding.
Among the Hogwarts faculty, it is the most luxurious lip on staff, and it pairs beautifully with the waistcoats.
- Jim Broadbent won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for *Iris* (2001).
- Broadbent returned as Slughorn in both parts of *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows* (2010–2011).
- Slughorn is the founder of the "Slug Club," an invitation-only society of students he believes will go places.
How to Grow the Walrus
Big, bushy, and draped over the mouth like a velvet curtain. The mustache of wise men and Sam Elliott.
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