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Illustration of Slytherin house at Hogwarts

Founded by Salazar Slytherin

Slytherin House

Ambition, cunning, leadership and resourcefulness. Often misunderstood — not all Slytherins choose darkness.

Slytherin values ambition, cunning and leadership, and carries a reputation it does not always deserve. Voldemort and Bellatrix came from its ranks, but so did Snape, Regulus and Slughorn. Here are the basics of the house of the serpent and who belongs to it.

Ghost
The Bloody Baron
Element
Water
Colors
Emerald & Silver
Head of house
Severus Snape (later, Horace Slughorn)

Slytherin characters

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Portrait of Lord Voldemort, a pale, bald, noseless figure with slit red eyes and a black robe
Lord Voldemort
Slytherin
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Portrait of Severus Snape, a pale man with long black hair, a hooked nose and a black robe buttoned to the neck
Severus Snape
Slytherin
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Portrait of Draco Malfoy, a young man with slicked-back platinum blond hair, a pale face and a green Slytherin robe
Draco Malfoy
Slytherin
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Portrait of Bellatrix Lestrange, a witch with thick black curly hair, heavy-lidded eyes and a crooked smile
Bellatrix Lestrange
Slytherin
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Portrait of Dolores Umbridge, a short, squat witch with a toad-like face, a pink cardigan and a velvet bow in her hair
Dolores Umbridge
Slytherin
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Portrait of Horace Slughorn, a stout walrus-mustached wizard in a velvet robe with a host's smile
Horace Slughorn
Slytherin
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Portrait of Lucius Malfoy, a pale man with platinum blond hair, in black robes holding a snake-headed cane
Lucius Malfoy
Slytherin
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Portrait of Regulus Black, a dark-haired young man with aristocratic features like Sirius's, in green and silver robes
Regulus Black
Slytherin
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Portrait of teenage Tom Riddle, a tall young man with dark hair and elegant features, in a Hogwarts uniform with a cold gaze
Tom Marvolo Riddle
Slytherin

To read

A silver heraldic serpent on an emerald green background, lit by a cold light that seems to come from the water
The houses

Slytherin House: Why It Isn't the House of the Villains

Voldemort came from Slytherin, but so did Snape, Regulus and Narcissa. Why the snake house isn't the villains' house, with proof from the books.

The other houses

Gryffindor Ravenclaw Hufflepuff