Slytherin House

Slytherin House was one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was founded by Salazar Slytherin and served initially as to designate his pupils from those of the other three Founders. Slytherin was a Celtic druid, the last of a dying breed whose goal in life was to preserve paganism and wizarding tradition, and valued resourcefulness and ambition in his pupils. His crest was a snake and his colors were green and silver, those now given to his namesake house. The Heartless Housecarl is the House ghost and has been since 998.

## Slytherin Dungeon

Slytherin Dungeon is on the northern side of the main castle and is naturally on the dungeon level. The entrance is a plain stone wall that one must speak the correct password in order to enter through. The hallway towards the Slytherin Dungeon is lined with statues of all the Slytherin Heads of Houses, alive or dead.

The Common Room has large, thick windows on the northern side that shows the depths of the Black Lake and showers the common room in a calming green light. The walls are granite slabs and are decorated with Slytherin banners and greenglass oil lamps. A large and sleek fireplace surrounded by a bank of black leather couches and wingback armchairs dominates the eastern side.

The southern side of the common room leads into an antechamber and hallway. On either side of the hall, there are boys' and girls' dorm rooms. The room furthest from the common room are for the 1st years and the rooms closes to the common room are for the 7th years.

## Author's Notes: Slytherin Sorting Metrics

The Sorting Hat centers its selection of Slytherins based on its experience, but also on their compatibility with several metrics determined by Godric Gryffindor shortly before his death.

### Roman Virtues

Cleverly, each House has four virtues that the founders felt the most important in their students.

* **Dignitas**: Dignitas is a sort of internal prestige, not unlike a modern concept of dignity or status from which responsibility and authority may be drawn. Slytherin's self-confidence and his abilities gave him authority rather than his morality.
* **Pietas**: Pietas can be defined as a devotion to one's ideals or close relatives. Slytherin's responsibility was to his traditions, and he expected his pupils to have a similar responsibility to their kin.
* **Prudentia**: Prudentia is translated as wisdom in most circles, and indicates foresight and personal discretion. Slytherin kept his secrets to himself, and delegated secrets only to those who could aid him best.
* **Salubritas**: Salubritas refers to one's high level of personal hygiene and presentation. Slytherin kept a very clean house and ran a very tight ship. Cleanliness for a Slytherin is an outward sign of their personal prestige, their value in their image, and their self-discipline.

### Christian Sins and Virtues

Despite his paganism, Salazar nevertheless was categorized by Gryffindor based on his strengths and weaknesses within the Christian framework.

* **Chastity**: Slytherin saw most romantic relationships as compromising, showing favoritism to one as opposed to furthering the goal of the many. For most Slytherins, chastity is expressed in their devotion to one spouse, to preserve their dignity and their spouse's virtue; anything less is a betrayal.
* **Diligence**: Slytherin was very hard working and prized that ability in his students. He was wholly concerned with gaining everything he had through practical means.
* **Envy**: Slytherin was not envious in that he was jealous, rather that he was ambitious to be as good as those whom he recognized as being more virtuous, prosperous, etc: his ancestors and his students. His ambition was spurred by his goal for self-improvement.
* **Pride**: Slytherin was a prideful man who did not compromise on his moral vision. His outward signs of pride extended to his appearance, what he said, and whom he associated with.

### Myers Briggs

Though this was not a metric used during their time period, subsequent generations and particularly Ravenclaw Muggleborns have typified the ideal Slytherin based on five criteria.

An ideal Slytherin is an ENTJ-A.

* **Extraverted**: Slytherin was an extrovert. He surrounded himself with allies and like-minded students and preferred to work closely with this group. The ideal Slytherin does so as well, seeing the use and value in every person and actively fostering those relationships to further ones ambitions. Introverted Slytherins do exist, but they place limits on how willing they are to rely on others and may be more individually ambitions: furthering their own personal agency rather than fulfilling a vision.
* **Intuitive**: Slytherin was intuitive, as he focused on motivations and intentions rather than the result of action, particularly if the actions were in line with his group's vision. He was also a visionary; rather with working with what he had, he pushed for what he wanted. Sensing Slytherins do exist, and if they are more extroverted they can be considered protectors of their chosen group or if they are introverted defend their ambition jealously.
* **Thinking**: Slytherin was thinking in that he framed his decisions in how it fit within the larger design rather than how it affected others outside of his group.
* **Judging**: Slytherin was a methodical thinker who believed in putting in work to get his desired result. No matter how difficult the task, if it furthered his goals Slytherin would soldier through it.
* **Assertive**: Slytherin was uncompromising in his vision. He knew what he wanted and was willing to put in the work to get it. Turbulent Slytherins do exist, and they are generally focused more on personal rather than cause-based ambition.

#### *Other Personalities in Slytherin*

ENTJ personalities are in line with Slytherin's vision, but of course there are room for all sorts of Slytherins. Based on their similarities, the Sorting Hat will consider those who have 3 similarities in the Myers-Briggs against the House standard, as the Founders innately understood compatible personalities were better suited to be in similar Houses. ISFP-T personalities will be refused entry into Slytherin.