"Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends, those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends."
Slytherin was founded by Salazar Slytherin and values ambition, cunning, leadership, and resourcefulness. Students sorted into Slytherin are known for their determination to achieve their goals and their ability to think strategically.
The house colors are green and silver, and its symbol is the serpent - representing cunning and ambition. The Slytherin common room is located in the dungeons beneath the lake, symbolizing the depths of thought and strategy that characterize its members.
Slytherins are characterized by their:
The complex Potions Master whose cunning, resourcefulness, and deep capacity for love made him one of the most important figures in the wizarding war.
A skilled potioneer and Head of Slytherin House who demonstrated the house's networking abilities and appreciation for talent.
A witch who defied her family's pure-blood supremacist beliefs, showing that Slytherins can choose their own path and values.
Perhaps the most famous wizard of all time, Merlin was a Slytherin who used his abilities for the greater good, embodying the best qualities of the house.
The Slytherin common room is a long, low underground room located beneath the lake in the dungeons of Hogwarts Castle. The room has greenish lamps and chairs, and the light gives the room a greenish tinge. The common room has lots of low-backed black and dark green leather sofas, skulls, and dark wood cupboards. It is decorated with tapestries featuring the adventures of famous medieval Slytherins. The room has a grand atmosphere but also a quite cold one, with a perpetual chill in the air.
If you are ambitious, determined to achieve your goals, and willing to use your resourcefulness and cunning to get ahead, you might belong in Slytherin. However, the only way to know for sure is to let the Sorting Hat decide!
Take the Sorting Quiz