Quirrel was a ravenclaw while Pettigrew was a Gryffindor. Meanwhile people like Regulus Black, Horace Slughorn, and Severus Snape all have 2 things in common. All 3 were Slytherin and were instrumental in their contributions to defeating Voldemort
The only slytherin i dont just hate is slughorn. Maybe snape is not that bad but he choose hate some charachters like neville and hermione without even a reason
They should really promote more the fact that Merlin was a Slytherin. He is the wizard the wizard merit award is named after for crying out loud. But since Merlin promoted helping muggles so modern Slytherin might not look positively on him.
@@aur9035 There's no canon on exactly when Merlin lived, in either Harry Potter or in actual Arthurian legend, which keeps changing exactly when it takes place
PyroGothNerd merlin lived in the time of king arthur, that was the 5th century aka 401-500. Hogwarts was founded in 990 A.D. so I doubt that Merlin was alive, or he was 500 years old at least, but he wouldn’t have been teached at Hogwarts because he was way to old
she married ted tonks a muggle born and Slytherins hates muggle borns and half bloods and her family were all Slytherin but sirius that he was a gryffindor
I hope he was a Ravenclaw, but can you confirm this? What is the source? I would also like to know Dean's source in naming Rita Skeeter as a Slytherin.
You know who's a good example of a HEALTHY SLYTHERIN? Hiro Okumura - from 'Isekai Word Cheat', the Manga. He likes Books a lot, so you think first of Ravenclaw, but then you realize that: no, he's actually a Slytherin. A very, very healthy one. He's always thinking of his own benefit, but in a very healthy way, that is rather hard to describe. He's affecting everyone, but not manipulating anyone, if you get what i mean. He's also teaching people being polite - in a very rude manner though (lol)... He's practical and teaches people that most importantly. Mercy, Kindness and all that are indeed Positive BUT you can also NOT EXPECT them - you need to pay people for their work, for example. And that's just a summary about him.
Hagrids Statement in the Books does not make sense. You can excuse Ron (though not really...) cause he's a stupid little boy when he speaks out his prejudices against Slytherin. But Hagrid knew Sirius Black (even borrowed his bike) and believed, like everyone believed, that he killed a dozen people. Sirius actually being innocnet does not matter for that; it's stil weird.
Peter was in griffindor though. And I’d even equate Lockhart with evil cause he was willing to let a little girl die and obliviate her brother and his friend to protect his rep.
I used to loathe the implications of all Slytherins automatically being branded as evil. Being ambitious, resourceful and determined doesn't necessarily make you an evil person, and when Rowling realized that she hadn't depicted a sympathetic example of a Slytherin, she created Slughorn as a positive depiction. Slytherin House DEFINITELY deserves more love! 💚🐍
I feel like a lot of people in the house seeking power, knowledge, and their goals had something to do with it. Often times, ambitious people will step on others to get to their goals or use them to their advantage. (Just thinking the opposite of Hufflepuffs).
I agree, I'm a Slytherin. The houses traits are ones of powerful and successful people, these traits are also the easier to misrepresent and go too far with; cunning resourcefulness and Ambition are all traits seen as neutral because they can be displayed in very different ways and if these traits are displayed in a toxic manner... well the house will quickly get a bad rep. However these traits are extremely useful and when used properly can create very strong successful people that everyone would admire. Merlin is a good example of all traits used properly. The problem comes when the line between what is good and what is bad is so thin with these traits that you end up with bad people overwhelmingly in one house. It's likely the reason so many arrogant people are from Gryffindor, Know it all's or eccentric people in Ravenclaw, and Mindless followers or Pushovers are in Hufflepuff, it's their traits improperly expressed, in many cases to the extreme that creates these bad stereotype.
Slytherin is about deciding for yourself what you desire or value, and pursuing that, and knowing what you are willing to give up or sacrifice to achieve your goals.
... It's simple a theme Rowling thought was pretty good and then realized "Oh damn, if Ron, Harry and Hermine are in different Houses, then they can't hang out together all the time." which watered it down from the get go. I mean, if every Slytherin Dude would be borderline "Dangerous", why they don't banish them? And what does Crabbe & Goyle doin' in Slytherin? Why is Hermine in Gryffendor and not Ravenclaw? I mean she's literally the embodiement of "Knowin' it all but gettin' nervous pretty easily.". And how does this whole thingy work after the Battle of Hogwarts, I mean sure a few Slytherins under Slughorn came back if I remember correctly buuut ... I mean, imagine you're an 11 ~15 year old one and while everybody else does something you get shipped off because "You're not trustworthy!" because of the House you got sorted in to. I wouldn't care much after that about any other Wizzard outside my House. In addition to that, there are Plotholes like: The whole inner Circle of Deat Eaters must have known that Voldemort isn't a Pureblood for an example.
@@DaroriDerEinzige The houses are assigned based on what traits you value not what you possess. And what Slytherin really values is a sense of moral relativism. And I very much doubt the death eaters knew Voldy was half blood, remember to them him being a powerful wizard is proof enough that he's pureblood even if he doesn't know his parents.
I think some of the reason many evil wizards were in Slytherin house is simply because the traits valued by Slytherin can more easily lead to a dark path if the individual is thirsty enough for power. That doesn't make the house evil. It's still about individual decisions.
Even if Lily was placed in Slytherin, day to day life would've probably been hell for her being Muggleborn. She would most likely have been bullied all day everyday and wouldn't have even been able to escape from it even in the common room and dorm where you should feel most safe at Hogwarts.
Nah, he’d probably be in slytherin if he were at Hogwarts bc he IS very cunning, clever, charming, powerful, ambitious and reflects all the traits of a slytherin, don’t get me wrong, I DONT think that all dark wizards come from slytherin, IM a slytherin
@@zoe-mi9yj same also no I think that it’s like only ppl EXPECT that all wizards come for Slytherin but they never realise that most Slytherins have been painted as EXTREMELY BAD like Draco Snape and Narcissa
In his letter to Grindelwald, Dumbledore said “If you didn’t get expelled from Hogwarts, we would never have met.” That means Grindelwald went to Hogwarts but his house is unknown.
This is just fake. Fans started to hate slytherin bcoz many dark and bad wizards especially Voldy came from that house. Draco and his gang were bullies at the start but Draco learnt the lesson in the end. And they hated muggle-borns (MUDBLOODS according to them)
not only that, but the main traits of a Slytherin are cunning, ambitious and determined, with a high chance at succeeding in life. If an evil person were in any other house, they would be less likely to go forward with their evil plans, and therefore not be as much of a threat. The evil people who are sorted into Slytherin are the frightening ones, because they will actually go though with their plans. So the way I see, it, it's not like the Slytherin house produced Death Eaters - like-minded people in other houses just weren't determined or ambitious enough to live up to it, so very few of them actually ended up as Death Eaters
Many forget that Dumbledore a Gryffindor almost went down a dark path influenced by Grindelwald until the tragic death of his sister sobered him up. Let’s all begin to imagine an alternate timeline where Dumbledore actually became a dark wizard, the closest example I can think of is Loftr’s Saruman.
I really think Dumbledore was more of a Slytherin than a Gryffindor. While he came to value bravery and chivalry over ambition, that was only after he left the school and had to overcome his love of a bloodthirsty would-be oppressor. His traits point far more obviously toward Slytherin, I think it's just retrospect and motivated reasoning that led Rowling to put Dumbledore in Gryffindor.
Jk Rowling: All houses are capable of producing great wizards Also Jk Rowling writing Harry Potter: Green Robe People Equals Evil Destruction Death!!!!!
@@Charolette21 yes l was about to write it but l thought that the person l was replying to will understand. It wasn't her fault. Maybe it is a misunderstanding. Yes she did make slytherin sort of a bad house but in the end we all realised that slytherin is not a bad house. It is just the people that went in that house. Andromeda black (now tonks) was also in slytherin but she never went bad. And so didn't slughorn. Snape might have made some bad decisions but he was good at heart. Some Slytherins are supposed to be ambitious and cunning. There is nothing wrong with being ambitious it is just that being cunning is a bit rude. Hope you understand and have a good day 😊😊😊
Lets be honest, before Voldemort's final fall, it would have been insanely dangerous for a Muggle Born to be sorted into Slytherin. Sleeping in the same dorm as the kids of secret Muggle haters? You'd have to lie everyday about your birth and live in constant fear of those sleeping near you.
I don't think so. I just think those traits tend to be more easily corrupted, leading people to become bad more often than loyalty, intelligence, of bravery.
@@jlack1985 the thing is, a Slytherin can posses all of those other traits, just as anyone with dominating loyalty, intelligence, or bravery can have the capability of abusing power. The way she paints ambitious, cunning people is very black and white
@@gabri_cheesellamasneeze9006 Not sure how you say she paints cunning and ambitious people in a black and white way when Snape happens to be the most grey character in the books. The problem is that Rowling needed to make Voldemort a cunning and ambitious person to be the type of threat that he is, and then she made those the traits of Slytherin House itself. To be wizard Hitler, and to try to subjugate an entire class of people, requires those traits, because every tyrannical leader in history who has attempted those types of things has had those at the cornerstone of their personalities. Same goes with their followers.
@@jlack1985 Snape is the exception in the book. He truly is the grey area in the books. I would say she adds in more grey area as the books progress, but you still have one house of bad guys and one house of good guys (minus Pettegrew). But yeah your point is valid. This is more of a light hearted comment proposing a possibility that would be amusing if it were true
I’m an official gryffindor by pottermore, but I really liked how in the cursedchild albus potter came in slytherin, and how he said green is more calmly than red.
I thought in HP lore Merlin was one of the first wizards (says so on his chocolate frog) and therefore existed before Hogwarts was built? So how could he be slytherin
Slytherins aren’t bad by nature, however there strengths provide more opportunities to go down a dark path in exchange for having some of the most powerful strengths.
Love how you keep improving the opening animation. I was a gryffindor, now I'm a hufflepuff. Bad guys always look cooler, easterling armor, lotr: two towers, best armor in the whole film
Don’t forget, Slughorn went to get any Slytherin from the dungeon who were willing to fight on the right side during the Battle of Hogwarts. As I said in another video of if muggles were in Slytherin, now that Voldemort is dead, the Sorting Hat should be magically altered to erase the pureblood heritage. After like 300 years or so, there’ll b more tolerance and acceptance in the house.
Altering the Sorting Hat to erase pure-blood heritage would either remove the person's magical ability or remove half of their genetic makeup which would likely kill them. Magic is a genetic trait (which explains muggleborns and squibs, genes can lie dormant for generations and can also skip a generation), so removing pureblood status would inherently have to affect their magical ability if it doesn't kill them.
@@antikommunistischaktion I think Sifilore meant that the hat would just ignore the pureblood heratige of the student and sort them based on their personality, rather than remove it from the person.
@@jessyt6282 Exactly, pureblood heritage is like when in the old medieval days the rich would only marry the rich just like them and with there not being that much as the commoners were more; it would lead to incest with distant cousins. There's a video that "A History of Royal Incest & Inbreeding - Part 2: Royal Houses of Europe " c for yourself. P.S. as said in the books, pureblood heritage has nothing to do with magic at all, ur strength is how good u r.
When Harry was asking the sorting hat to not put him in Slitherin he knew more than you give him credit for. He knew that Malfoy was in Slitherin and he didn't like Malfoy. Even if he made an assumption that Slitherin was going to contain more people like Malfoy than other houses, he would have been right. There was a reason the sorting hat sorted Malfoy to Slitherin without even touching his head.
@@hathawyn Has that been established as the only reason? I know it was a definite influence but Harry still showed an enormous appetite to prove himself and a willingness to bend the rules to that end. He's also a natural-born leader that sought greatness at every opportunity, albeit for more obviously heroic reasons that better lend themselves to the chivalrous Gryffindor house.
@@beatrixthegreat1138 yes I know that, I have read deep into Harry potter lore. The founder and voldemort are two different people but come from the same blood line, from Salazar to the haunts and voldemort
9:38 - Umbridge claimed the Slytherin locket's "S" stood for Selwyn, not Selhurst. Still nice background information on her in general. Hadn't heard about her disowning her mother and brother before :o
I think the emperor in revenge of the sith said it best "good and evil is a point of view anakin" everything can be looked at as evil in the right light. Power and ambition aren't themselves evil. Its what you do to get and with them that defines the line.
It’s interesting you referenced Star Wars. Here’s some key differences. Who would people rather impersonate, wear the costume of? Voldemort, or darth Vader? The death eaters, or storm troopers? The bad guys in Star Wars are more fun to portray unlike in Harry Potter Also, Voldemort / death eaters resembles hitler too much, so that’s part of why we are harsher on slytherin than the dark side.
Why is everyone in the comments acting like a single person has ever said "everyone in slytherin is evil" when it's "every evil person has come from slytherin"
I respect all houses, ALL of them produced good wizards and witches Gryffindor: Harry Potter Slytherin: Orace Slughorn Hufflepuff: Cedric Diggory Ravenclaw: Filius Flitwick
I agree with you. What was Severus Snape thinking that Lily Evens could be sorted into Slyherin house. You are correct there were not Muggles in Slyherin. I guess Snape was blinded by "love"
Snape was a Slytherin. He wasn't necessarily bad. Even the greatest wizard of all time,(Not Dumbledore, sorry to break ur bubble) Merlin was a Slytherin.
WOW! MALFOY: I expect there's a cell in Azkaban with you name on it. HARRY: Just stay away from me. Great job. Very informative. I subscribed and turned on notifications. Epic video. BTW. Nice new intro to HARRY POTTER FOLKLORE.
I love the new intro! Also I’m a hufflepuff and quite soft and I used to get really bullied because I was an easy target but ever since I started a new school I got new friends, who are mostly slytherin and now I rarely get called rude names. Slytherins are harshly accused of being evil but none of my friends are evil we do tease each other for being evil but it’s just teasing and my friends are all amazing!
If Hermione was Slytherin,no Slytherin would be her friend because of blood status. Plus,she doesn't have any Slytherin traits as far as I can remember.
I remember when my friends and I were younger, Slytherin was considered an insult. I swore I was a Gryffindor and wore the colors proudly. However, now that I’m older, I can consider more than one side. I’ve also taken the sorting test a lot and consistently get Slytherin. I’m proud to say I’m in the house of the snake and know that your greatest strengths can also be your greatest weaknesses. I hope that future generations of Potterheads don’t have to deal with the same kind of thought processes. That “Slytherin is bad and evil” and “Gryffindor is the best” because that’s not always the case. If you are a fellow Slytherin, or maybe even a Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff, and a younger fan reacts negatively to your house, please don’t be afraid to educate them. Slytherins aren’t evil. Ravenclaws aren’t just nerds. Hufflepuffs aren’t dull. And that goes for older fans who may jeer against Gryffindor now that they can open their views. Yes, the lions can be overrated at times, but don’t forget that they too have both good and bad.
We should've had more examples of Slytherins being outwardly good. Snape, for how helpful he was, was still a dick who bullied his students. And Slughorn was only brave at the very last minute. It's easy to see why most of the fandom thinks all dark wizards are Slytherins
My headcanon is that the whole “slytherin=bad” is rather recent in the wizarding world due to Voldemort and his supporters. As pointed out Slytherins can be good and members of other houses can be bad if not outright evil. I find no reason not to believe that many other dark wizards in the past were from the other houses or that house slytherin produced heroes. Also you gotta wonder how many Slytherins were pushed into the death eaters hands because of the stereotypes.
I actually have No theory on this my self but I do know that no gryfindor hufflepuf and ravenclore never became evil or at least that is what I have heard
If you guys think that Draco Malfoy is evil, he's not but you can disagree.he's not evil because he quickly fled the battle of Hogwarts with his mother and father and he became a death eater only to survive but he was a bully and he is aragant
I always wondered if Salazar Slytherin left Hogwarts of his own accord or did the other three Founders tell him enough was enough - toe the line or GTFO.
omg broo you hit the nail in the head with the Darth Vader part. I imminently pointed to my Black series Darth Vader Light saber...... that alone did is for me in the video. you rock dude!!
It takes a certain level of ambition to try to change the wizarding world; for better or worse. In that way, it makes perfect sense why so many dark wizards were Slytherin.
Look the reason why there were so many evil wizards in slytherin was because people believed slytherin is the evil house so if you are planning on being evil you tell the sorting hat to put you in Slytherin. Also Hufflepuff is the only house to have never produced an evil wizard. Gryffindor produced Pettigrew May he go to h*ll, Ravenclaw produced Quirrell, and Slytherin produced Bellatrix May she accompany Pettigrew to h*ll. I hate that people always say it’s only slytherin that produces bad wizards. And although I believe that muggleborns are just as magical as pure bloods I also think that pure bloods will usually (usually not always) be better at school at first than muggleborns. Think about it logically. Pure bloods and halfbloods have been around magic all their lives. They played with their parents wands and practiced magic. Although your parentage has no effect on your magical skill it does on your performance in school at first. Believe me I am not a death eater or a bad person so please don’t attack me with hate. Also I am ashamed to call Umbridge a woman or even a female
I think large factor of Slytherin's reputation is that by evil characters from Slytherin (Voldemort, Malfoys...) their (ex-)house is often mentioned and their personality is given as an example of Slytherin's characteristics (cunning, ambition...). However by evil characters from other houses their houses aren't (basically) mentioned (Quirrell, Lockhart...) or they are given as an example of people who don't have their houses' characteristics (e.g. Wormtail is regarded by everyone as coward even though Griffindors are supposed to be brave).
Leta Lestrange and Andromeda Tonks are such great, nobel and brave characters even through they are from Slytherin house in the wizarding franchises.Snape too is such a brave and powerful man..
Always been a Slytherin. And proud of it. I can’t imagine myself in any other house. If I had been a muggle born while blood supremacy was still so important, I have no idea what house I’d be in. Probably gryffindor, but pretty much all of my family are slytherins too lol. Maybe we would have been a relatively “pure blood” family lol.
