The director also cast a virtual unknown newcomer to he role of the husband in his candid view of the average man - a character lost in the midst of the faceless masses.It follows the troubled man""s obsessive search to end his vertigo (and deaths that result from his ""falling in love"" affliction).Cursed like Katie Bell had been, Slughorn was planning to give the entire bottle of mead to Dumbledore as a gift, not realizing that the mead had lethal poison mixed in with it, and it would have killed the Headmaster.Both bedevil each other and try to stir up the engagements each of hem start to develop with other suitors/mates, as the clock ticks oward the finality of their divorce.