Houses

Slytherin

Founded by Salazar Slytherin

Slytherin is ambition, cunning, and a founder’s blood prejudice that the books never tidy away. Salazar Slytherin built the Chamber of Secrets and left a basilisk for his heir. The heir, a thousand years later, is Tom Riddle. The house also holds people who refuse the script written for them: Severus Snape’s double life, Regulus Black’s theft of the locket, and Draco Malfoy lowering his wand in a burning room. Green and silver are the colors. The trait the Sorting Hat names is the will to get what you want.