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Retirement
Horace intended to enjoy a delightful retirement, free from the cares of
teaching and the burden of guilt and fear that had been with him for years. He
returned to the comfortable home of his parents (now dead), where he had
enjoyed school holidays, now taking up permanent residence.
For nearly a decade, Slughorn enjoyed his well-stocked cellar and
library, paying occasional visits to old members of the Slug Club, and hosting
reunion feasts at his home. He missed teaching, however, and occasionally
felt a sad chill at the thought that the famous faces of tomorrow were now
passing through Hogwarts without the slightest knowledge of who he was.
About a decade into Slughorn’s retirement, word reached him through
his extensive contacts that Lord Voldemort was still alive, although in some
disembodied form. This, of all the news in the world, was what Slughorn
most feared, for it suggested that his deepest dread had been well founded;
that Voldemort lived on, in some fragmented spectral form, because his
younger self had successfully created one or more Horcruxes.
Slughorn’s retirement now became a fraught affair. Sleepless and
frightened, he asked himself whether he had been wise to leave Hogwarts,
where Voldemort had previously feared to invade, and where Dumbledore
would surely be well informed about what was going on.