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== General Overview ==
'''''Slytherin House''''' is one of the four Houses in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]], and as such is both a location and a group of characters. The common room is located deep within Hogwarts, apparently in the Dungeons. Students are Sorted into Houses by the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sorting Hat|Sorting Hat]] upon their initial arrival at Hogwarts based on their character. While students remain at Hogwarts, they each represent their House; a tally of House points is kept, with good behaviour and good marks adding to that total, misbehaviour and bad marks subtracting from it. The House Cup is awarded each year to the House with the greatest tally of House points.
== Extended Description ==
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While we see the inside of the Slytherin common room in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets/Chapter 12|''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'']], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ron Weasley|Ron]]'s sojourn there is necessarily brief. In [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 23|''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'']], Harry claims that he was a member of Slytherin house to avoid identifying himself, and gives a description of the Common Room as proof. This description does not quite match what he saw in the earlier book, but it is sufficient to mislead his captors.
Residents of Slytherin house will be selected according to the biases of the founder of the house, Salazar Slytherin. As Slytherin is known to have departed the school in anger at the decision of the other School Founders to allow teaching of magic to those who had [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Muggle|Muggle]] ancestry, it is not terribly surprising that those modern wizards who believe in the superiority of the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Pureblood|Pure-blood wizards]] should end up Sorted into Slytherin house. This is also reflected in the common room password the one time we hear it used; at Christmas in Harry's second year, it is "Pureblood".
Shortly before [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 36|the end of the last book]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Voldemort]] decrees that all houses at Hogwarts shall be terminated, except for Slytherin. Luckily, this decree has no effect.
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One must wonder whether the placement of the Slytherin common room under the lake is an author's mistake. It is true that in the same book where we enter the Common Room, we also see the Chamber of Secrets, which also has a major connection to Salazar Slytherin, including a statue of him on the far wall. It is also true that Harry remarks on the water on the floor of the Chamber, which leads us to believe that the Chamber is located under the lake. It is certainly possible that the author had slightly confused the two locales, and having placed the Slytherin common room under the lake in an interview, then had to keep it there in later parts of the story.
As mentioned, one characteristic of Slytherin house is that ''"These cunning folks use any means, To achieve their ends."'' Because this is mentioned, in some form, whenever we hear the Sorting Hat singing about the Sorting, we can guess that this is the major criterion for selection into Slytherin House. Cunning does not seem to require intelligence, as we can see from some other characters from Slytherin House, notably [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Vincent Crabbe|Crabbe]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gregory Goyle|Goyle]], and later [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Amycus Carrow|Amycus]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Alecto Carrow|Alecto Carrow]]. What does seem to be a common thread among those Slytherin students is a willingness to heighten their own status by putting down other students. This is particularly thoroughly displayed by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Pansy Parkinson|Pansy Parkinson]] and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Draco Malfoy|Draco Malfoy]], and by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lucius Malfoy|Lucius Malfoy]], who we are unsurprised to find was a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Prefects|Prefect]] in Slytherin House some fifteen years previous to the opening of our story. The portrayal of characters from Slytherin seems to be designed to show how easily cunning can become bullying.
It is worth note that almost all boarding schools divide their students into multiple "houses", based either on the residence in which they are placed, some other characteristic, or simple random selection. This division fosters some internal competition, which can lead to improved performance in the school, and allows for practice with teams outside the school. There is possibly some benefit to grouping students by temperament; presumably, by grouping all the more Machiavellian students together ito Slytherin house, there will be less ground for complaint about the more egregious social climbing incidents, because in theory all students in the house will be trying to compete on those grounds.
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