Today, The Morgans have continued visiting Hogwarts guided by Professor Albus Dumbledore, its Headmaster and Professor Rubeus Hagrid, its Guard.
They have been talking about its four Houses, their history, members, values and rooms. It has been an amazing interesting day.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is divided into four houses: Gryffindor, founded by Godric Gryffindor; Hufflepuff, founded by Helga Hufflepuff; Ravenclaw, founded by Rowena Ravenclaw; and Slytherin, founded by Salazar Slytherin.
Before the visit, the family has been practising some A2 Cambridge Tests.
Slytherin is 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. Slytherins tend to be ambitious, shrewd, cunning, strong
leaders, and achievement-oriented. They also have highly developed
senses of self-preservation. This means that Slytherins tend to hesitate
before acting, so as to weigh all possible outcomes before deciding
exactly what should be done.
Slytherin corresponds roughly with the element of water due to serpents being commonly associated with the sea and lochs in western European mythology, as well as serpents being physically fluid and flexible animals. Similarly, in Celtic mythology, water is seen as a portal to another world, leading some to speculate that the element was chosen to symbolise many Slytherins' hope for a pure-blood only community. The colours also correspond with waters around lakes and lochs often being green, and silver being often associated with grey rainwater.
The emblematic animal of the house is a snake and its colours are green and silver.
Slytherin and Gryffindor are 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 1991. It is also rare for Slytherin and Gryffindor students to be friendly with one another, and is also quite common for them to share animosity. There are 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.
The Slytherin common room is in the dungeons of Hogwarts Castle and underneath the Black Lake. Because of this, the light in the common room is 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 is uttered a concealed stone door will slide aside leaving a rectangular hole in the wall leading to the Slytherin common room.
Slytherin's head of house for Harry's first six years of school was Severus Snape; however, as he fled with the Death Eaters at the end of Harry's sixth year, Potions Master Horace Slughorn became the head of Slytherin House.
Or perhaps in Slytherin,
You'll make your real friends,
These cunning folks use any means
To achieve their ends.
You'll make your real friends,
These cunning folks use any means
To achieve their ends.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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