Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be slytherin

[Ziza]

Dont let 'em pick up dark arts and ride them old brooms
let 'em be gryffindor, hufflepuff and such

[Orion Invictus]

There are literally just 4 houses, but Ravenclaw gets relegated to "and such". Sad.

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

[Fienyx]

Ravenclaws are grey road wizards. We could go either way really, or, we do good things to bring calamity and horrendous things to create grand miracles.

[harmonia81]

Ravenclaw is my favorite. The ancient magic narrative seems to flow well with a Ravenclaw MC, I thought... especially one that wants to try and continue Isidora's work.

[Xee_Zomboy]

Nah suckers! TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!

[Alu Midian]

i mean, i kinda get it, salazar was a ♥♥♥♥, but alot of the games story seems to lend itself to flow better if you are a slytherin, bestbroforlife sallow is a snek, merlin was outed as a slytherin, alot of other references to your house in the story seem to flow better if you are a snek house.
also, i like the idea of being the only 'good boi' in that house. headcanon i see my conversation with other students who remark on how im a good person being as such ' well my dad, who is in deep with muggle politics, once told me this: being nice costs you nothing, but earns you much', im still an ambitious little ♥♥♥♥, but im a nice ambitious little ♥♥♥♥

[Edmund Greyfox]

Bah,

Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw only exist to provide people who can applaud the heroes from Gryffindor, and Slytherin only exists to provide dark wizards for the heroic Gryffindor's to smite.

[Jynn]

Slytherin gets a bad rep because of the discrimination from the other Houses :( everyone is tainted from Harry Potter's biased and hateful point of view

just because Harry knew some really bad Slytherins doesn't mean ALL of them are bad

really Gryffindors are just as nasty as Slytherins, they just pretend they're heroic and good while doing it, but they're arrogant, rule-breaking, and just as prone to bullying others as any of the bad Slytherins

I like to think MOST Slytherins are just normal students doing normal student things, and staying out of the stupid rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin. After all, out of like 50+ Slytherin students, we only met around a dozen in the book, all the ones antagonistic to Harry. We never get to see the normal Slytherin students who are just doing normal student things and focusing on their school work :(

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Alu Midian:

i mean, i kinda get it, salazar was a ♥♥♥♥, but alot of the games story seems to lend itself to flow better if you are a slytherin, bestbroforlife sallow is a snek, merlin was outed as a slytherin, alot of other references to your house in the story seem to flow better if you are a snek house.
also, i like the idea of being the only 'good boi' in that house. headcanon i see my conversation with other students who remark on how im a good person being as such ' well my dad, who is in deep with muggle politics, once told me this: being nice costs you nothing, but earns you much', im still an ambitious little ♥♥♥♥, but im a nice ambitious little ♥♥♥♥

I did like that not every Slytherin is a POS. Ambition isn't inherently an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trait, it's just that a lot of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ think being ambitious means putting others down to try to get ahead.

[cap-boulanger]

Laughing at how many people don't know the source material. (And I am not referring to the Potterverse.)

[Edmund Greyfox]

Originally posted by Jynn:

Slytherin gets a bad rep because of the discrimination from the other Houses :( everyone is tainted from Harry Potter's biased and hateful point of view

just because Harry knew some really bad Slytherins doesn't mean ALL of them are bad

really Gryffindors are just as nasty as Slytherins, they just pretend they're heroic and good while doing it, but they're arrogant, rule-breaking, and just as prone to bullying others as any of the bad Slytherins

I like to think MOST Slytherins are just normal students doing normal student things, and staying out of the stupid rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin. After all, out of like 50+ Slytherin students, we only met around a dozen in the book, all the ones antagonistic to Harry. We never get to see the normal Slytherin students who are just doing normal student things and focusing on their school work :(

That's because all of them are off in their hidden class rooms learning the dark arts, practicing their forbidden curses, and working out new and amusing ways to torment muggles and mud bloods.

Seriously though, even Slytherins own notes make it clear he was obsessed with blood status, and setting the scene for a Voldemort to come along and purify the wizarding world. He wasn't exactly a great role model for young wizards and witches unless you think they should have grabbed power and let only the pure bloods rule over everyone else in both the wizarding and muggle worlds.

[Sweet Tooth]

Slytherin for life, see ya chumps *farts away*

[Jynn]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by Alu Midian:

i mean, i kinda get it, salazar was a ♥♥♥♥, but alot of the games story seems to lend itself to flow better if you are a slytherin, bestbroforlife sallow is a snek, merlin was outed as a slytherin, alot of other references to your house in the story seem to flow better if you are a snek house.
also, i like the idea of being the only 'good boi' in that house. headcanon i see my conversation with other students who remark on how im a good person being as such ' well my dad, who is in deep with muggle politics, once told me this: being nice costs you nothing, but earns you much', im still an ambitious little ♥♥♥♥, but im a nice ambitious little ♥♥♥♥

I did like that not every Slytherin is a POS. Ambition isn't inherently an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trait, it's just that a lot of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ think being ambitious means putting others down to try to get ahead.

Precisely, people just assume "Slytherin = bad" because that's what Harry Potter thinks, and JK Rowling didnt' bother to show any normal Slytherin students in the book

but a lot of Slytherin traits aren't inherently bad. Ambition and meeting goals is admirable in a school or workplace setting, being resourceful and clever are good things.

But for a lot of people, Slytherin = bad and that's all there is to it, disregarding how many villains came out of other Houses (Peter Pettigrew, Lockheart, Quirrel) or are just jerks (Zacharias Smith, Cormac McLaggen, Harry Potter himself, etc )

[Jynn]

Originally posted by Edmund Greyfox:

Seriously though, even Slytherins own notes make it clear he was obsessed with blood status, and setting the scene for a Voldemort to come along and purify the wizarding world. He wasn't exactly a great role model for young wizards and witches unless you think they should have grabbed power and let only the pure bloods rule over everyone else in both the wizarding and muggle worlds.

that doesn't mean every single Slytherin is a bad person though

I mean, Godric embodied bravery but there were tons of Gryffindors who weren't that brave and some who turned to be outright evil

Not every student sorted into a House matches all qualities of that house. So i doubt that every single Slytherin is required to be a evil blood purist

[SuspectedCrab]

I don't know about the books, but not everyone in Slytherin are bad. They only gave real screen time to the bad ones in the movies, where as in the background you can see other Slytherins studying or playing with students from other houses. Someone who's an a-hole but good at heart can still be placed in Slytherin. People like Snape and Draco are people who got screen time but were still good at heart.