The Bloody Baron is the Slytherin House ghost. He seems mysterious and unfriendly to the other houses, but he is actually very kind to Slytherins and will usually agree to scare people for them if asked nicely. Just don't ask how he got bloodstained, he doesn't like it. The Slytherin common room and dormitories are located in Slytherin Dungeon.
Students enter the Dungeon through a concealed stone wall. They must present the correct password it changes every fortnight to open the wall and reveal the entrance to the common room. Slytherin's common room looks out into the depths of the Hogwarts lake. The Giant Squid and other interesting aquatic creatures often pass by the windows. It has the feel of a mysterious, underwater shipwreck, but it is still quite cosy.
The dormitories have ancient four-posters with green and silk hangings and beadspreads embroidered with silver thread. Medieval tapestries depicting the adventures of famous Slytherins hang from the walls. The light comes from silver lanterns hung from the ceilings. But did you know Merlin himself was a Slytherin, or that according to legend, the ribbon of a First Class Order of Merlin is green to reflect his Hogwarts house?
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Our emblem is the serpent, the wisest of creatures; our house colours are emerald green and silver, and our common room lies behind a concealed entrance down in the dungeons. As you'll see, its windows look out into the depths of the Hogwarts lake. We often see the giant squid swooshing by — and sometimes more interesting creatures.
We like to feel that our hangout has the aura of a mysterious, underwater shipwreck. Firstly, let's dispel a few myths. Well, you don't want to believe everything you hear from competing houses. The Sorting Hat took his preference into account and picked Gryffindor instead.
Dumbledore made sure to remind Harry that he possessed many traits of Slytherins. This goes to reiterate the notion that most people possess traits from more than one Hogwarts House in Harry Potter. Kara Hedash is a features editor and writer for Screen Rant. From time to time, she dives into the world's most popular franchises but Kara primarily focuses on evergreen topics.
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She loves binging a new series and watching movies ranging from Hollywood blockbusters to hidden indie gems. Most of the characters in the book spend their school days at Hogwarts, and are sorted into one of the four houses based on their personalities. The other three houses are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw.
Each house has specific qualities that represent it. I have personally found that Slytherins tend to become the great managers of the world, in mirror to how Gryffindors tend to become the great leaders of the world.
While many readers seem to wish that Slytherin House could be banished from Hogwarts, the fact is that Harry could not have defeated the Dark Lord without the help of Slytherin members. Through Draco, someone he knew well, Harry began to humanize the Death Eaters and realize how trapped some of them were in their predicament with the Dark Lord. While each person can only be sorted into one house, there are many people in this fandom most commonly found on the game, Pottermore that identify with more than one house, since they exhibit qualities from multiple houses.
Here are the generally accepted base personality traits for each house:. I feel I have wisdom many people come to me for advice , individuality read any bio I wrote about myself , and ability to accept anyone for who they are as my Ravenclaw traits, and just enough of a hint of strong willpower, which is one of the very few Gryffindor traits I have.
Slytherins tended to take charge and possessed strong leadership skills. They were often self-assured and confident of their own competence and can be very loyal. Another characteristic some Slytherins share was a tendency towards deep, unrequited love.
Interestingly, Bellatrix Lestrange held feelings for Tom Riddle himself, which was a factor in her fanatical devotion to the Death Eaters ; although Lord Voldemort was incapable of loving her in return, the existence of Delphini suggests that there was at least some kind of intimacy between them.
Although Merope Riddle likely never attended Hogwarts and therefore wouldn't have been sorted into Slytherin at all, she was a descendant of Slytherin himself and fit the pattern of those sorted into his house, as she held deep and unreturned feelings for Tom Riddle Snr , who often travelled by her house on his carriage. Slytherin's founder, Salazar Slytherin. The Sorting Hat claimed that blood purity was a factor in selecting Slytherins. It was not the main factor, but it suggests that the Sorting Hat took into account the lineage of the student as well as traits.
Muggle-born Slytherins existed, but were very rare, as noted insultingly by Scabior the Snatcher. There had also been definite examples of half-bloods sorted into the house, including Tom Riddle , Dolores Umbridge , and Severus Snape. Harry Potter was nearly sorted into Slytherin, but because he asked not to be, he was placed in Gryffindor instead. There had been various examples of pure-bloods sorted into other houses; the Weasley family , Sirius Black , Neville Longbottom , and James Potter were all sorted into Gryffindor house, and Ernie Macmillan was sorted into Hufflepuff.
The concept of blood purity playing a part in picking students for Slytherin house stemmed from the founder Salazar Slytherin , who wanted a stricter policy of admission to the school — one limited strictly to pure-blood students. This was contrary to the wishes of the other founders at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry , who wanted to accept students of any blood status.
It is important to note that not every student in Slytherin agreed with the idea of blood purity, but every member would still be affiliated with their founder's reputed views a thousand years later.
Since the house would nearly always select students who shared his view for that house, many members would still give that impression of that house during their time at Hogwarts.
For example, in December , the password for the common room was "pure-blood". Slytherin and Gryffindor were generally rivals in Quidditch and for the House Cup , of which the former had won seven years in a row prior to Harry Potter's arrival at Hogwarts in It was also rare for Slytherin and Gryffindor students to be friendly with one another, and was also quite common for them to share animosity.
There were exceptions, such as Slytherin Merlin who had a friendship with Gryffindor Sir Cadogan and Slytherin Severus Snape and Gryffindor Lily Evans , who were best friends until Snape's use of the slur " Mudblood ", as well as his aspirations to be a Death Eater, caused Lily to sever their ties. Their rivalry was particularly the case during the First and Second Wizarding Wars.
During the second war, no Slytherin student joined the association known as Dumbledore's Army ; however, this is likely the fault of Hermione Granger , Ron Weasley , and Harry Potter , who only invited people they trusted. The three also shared a deep mistrust of any Slytherins. Slytherin's relationship with the other two houses, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw , was variable.
By the time of Harry Potter's years at Hogwarts, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were frustrated at Slytherin's seven-year winning streak and readily supported Gryffindor in their efforts to break it, to the extent that they even turned against Harry and his friends when their rule-breaking cost Gryffindor points and thus the lead with Slytherin rubbing it in at every opportunity.
When Harry was named as a Hogwarts Triwizard champion alongside Cedric Diggory of Hufflepuff, the three other houses assumed he was trying to steal Hufflepuff's glory and supported Cedric as the "real" Hogwarts champion, though the Slytherin house may have likely only done this out of spite for Harry rather than any actual support for Cedric.
Slytherin had a well-known reputation for creating Dark Witches and Wizards that many would even say that every Dark Witch or Wizard was actually in Slytherin it also didn't help that Voldemort himself was in Slytherin too when he was a student at Hogwarts. It appeared that reputation had led to an ironic prejudice against the entire house. It is unknown how many Dark Witches and Wizards were from this house before Tom Riddle began recruiting Death Eaters , but many of them came from a family that valued blood purity and would prefer, like Riddle, to be in the house and recruit from there.
In fairer terms, there were many good witches and wizards in the house who opposed the use of the Dark Arts , as well as discrimination based on blood purity , such as Horace Slughorn , Andromeda Tonks , and Leta Lestrange. Andromeda was related to many dark witches and wizards, such as her own sister Bellatrix Lestrange , and brother-in-law Lucius Malfoy , but she chose to forsake the loyalty to her family in favour of marrying the Muggle-born Ted Tonks.
Leta was quite different from the majority of her family with her kind - albeit self-deprecating and bitter - personality, her love for both Newt Scamander and Theseus Scamander, her career ambition without ruthlessness, and her self-sacrificing bravery in the face of Gellert Grindelwald , in stark contrast to the usually compassionate Queenie of house Pukwudgie, who joined Grindelwald rather quickly.
Also, the allegiance of Severus Snape was found to ultimately be towards Albus Dumbledore to the point of serving as a triple agent for the Order of the Phoenix , in stark contrast to Peter Pettigrew, the former Gryffindor who became a double agent for the Death Eaters instead. Merlin of King Arthur fame was also a Slytherin. It might also be possible though quite unlikely that the Sorting Hat simply sorted anyone with ill intentions into Slytherin, regardless of whether they possessed cunning and ambition, which helped to unfairly give this house a bad name.
Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle were both incredibly stupid and did not have clever or cunning minds, but were still sorted into Slytherin.
They could have possessed one of the minor traits as even Peter Pettigrew was not placed into Gryffindor for bravery, but for chivalry instead. It is also likely that Crabbe and Goyle were simply placed there by process of elimination since they exhibited virtually none of the qualities valued by any of the other houses lacking the work ethic or honesty of Hufflepuff , the academic prowess of Ravenclaw , or the bravery of Gryffindor.
The Sorting Hat simply could have taken into account what house they wished to be placed in which, with their family history, was most likely Slytherin.
The behaviour of Slytherin house at the Battle of Hogwarts is also debated. The majority of their members departed Hogwarts before the battle started and a few joined their families in becoming Death Eaters. The traits of the house were considered obvious examples of people turning toward an ill purpose such as cunning and ambition, but they were not inherently negative.
Furthermore, traits from the rest of the houses such as daring, intelligence, and loyalty could also become easily negative. Another trait that could be seen as a negative one was self-preservation. The idea that many of them seemed to value their own lives more than the lives of others could make them less thought of and trusted, but that was not always the case.
Phineas Nigellus Black gave that impression when he saw Harry Potter trying to run away because he was afraid that his presence was putting his friends in danger.
He stated that " We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, when given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks ". There were exceptions to this rule, however, such as Snape, who Harry said was a " Slytherin and The truth is that while most Dark Wizards were Slytherins, many members of Slytherin House did not have dark leanings and were even kind and accepting, while smaller groups of Voldemort's supporters were aligned with the other three Houses.
During the Battle of Hogwarts, while all of the Slytherin students left the school before the fighting started, [21] several of them did return with Professor Slughorn as reinforcements to join the fight against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters, and some decided to fight as a part of Dumbledore's Army.
Because of this, the light in the common room was green. Harry Potter along with Ron Weasley entered the common room in his second year to find out if Draco Malfoy was the one opening the Chamber of Secrets. To enter the Slytherin common room one must merely speak aloud the current password in front of a stretch of a damp stone wall; once the word was uttered a concealed stone door would slide aside leaving a rectangular hole in the wall leading to the Slytherin common room.
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