Slytherin House

The Hogwarts house of ambition and cunning.

Slytherin was one of the four Houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, founded by Salazar Slytherin. In establishing the house, Salazar instructed the Sorting Hat to pick students who had a few particular characteristics he most valued. Those characteristics included ambition, cunning, resourcefulness, leadership, and shrewdness.

Quick Facts

Founder: Salazar Slytherin
Colours: Green and silver
Animal: Serpent
Element: Water
Ghost: Bloody Baron
Common room: Slytherin Dungeon

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Background

The founder highly valued and favoured pure-blood students and the Sorting Hat admitted that it could be a factor when being sorted. Students of any blood status could be placed in the house. However, a Muggle-born student from that house was considered to be quite rare.

The emblematic animal of the house was a snake and the house's colours were green and silver. There were two notable heads of the house; Horace Slughorn took the role twice (first leaving in 1981 and then taking the role again from 1997 until leaving before 2016), and Severus Snape. The patron ghost of the house was the Bloody Baron.