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Everyone has taken at least one quiz to regain out what Hogwarts house they would fall into if they were lucky enough to get an owl inviting them to attendHarry Potter ’s school . The wider world likes to simplify these house trait into their most introductory forms . If you ’re brave you ’re in Gryffindor , if you ’re smart you ’re in Ravenclaw , if you ’re kind you ’re in Hufflepuff , and if you ’re evil you ’re in Slytherin .
Slytherinis perhaps the most misunderstood firm ( it ’s not every Slytherin ’s fault that Voldemort hung out in their common room any more than it is every Ravenclaw ’s that Gilderoy Lockhart hung around in theirs ) . Not every brainy genius fag out Ravenclaw blueness . Slytherin has had quite a few brilliant bookman of their own .
Andromeda Tonks
Least bang , but certainly not the least important , of the notable Black sisters ( also include Bellatrix and Narcissa ) Andromeda followed family tradition and fell into House Slytherin upon arrival at Hogwarts . Why was she a Slytherin ? Because you have to be both wily and wise to outsmart your own family .
Draco Malfoy
Everyone ’s favorite Slytherin bad boy was actually no slouch when it came to his school body of work . Draco made it into multiple N.E.W.T level courses following successful completion of his O.W.L exam . He was also talented at occlumency . allow us not blank out that in the fifth Harry Potter book he was also made a prefect ( not an honor usually bestowed upon those with go sign in any house ) .
While his friendship with the likes of Crabbe and Goyle did not reflect well on the boy ’s intelligence , his diffuse side and self - expression came through with his relationship with Moaning Myrtle . He take her into his confidence while struggling to define the vanishing console in his 6th yr . He had a lot to say . And , in the final stage , was successful in his chore .
Scorpius Malfoy
Sometimes genius can run in the family . While well different from his Father of the Church , Scorpius Malfoy was a superb Slytherin student while atHogwarts . Raised for the most part out of the public optic , Scorpius spent much of his pre - Hogwarts years reading rather than playing with other children . He arrived at school already possess an encyclopedic knowledge of wizard account and the Second Wizarding War . At just 14 he was also able to clear a number of security system puzzles in the Minister of Magic ’s office ( the diplomatic minister being none other thanHermione Grangerherself ) . A brilliant student and lover of Good Book this New addition to a farseeing Slytherin custom could ransom the house all on his own .
Regulus Black
Again the Black family go in the list . It ’s harder to discuss the brilliance and winner of Regulus than it is to discuss his cousin Andromeda ’s . He was always closed off , close ( especially with his brother Sirius ) but that , perhaps , was part of his splendour .
Regulus Black continue one of the only graphic symbol ever , and one of only two Slytherins , to outsmart Voldemort himself . When Dumbledore and Harry go explore for Horcruxes not even they are prepared to find the counterfeit this lesser - have sex Black brother result behind . As Regulus writes , " To the Dark Lord , I bang I will be dead long before you register this but I desire you to know that it was I who discovered your closed book . I have stolen the existent Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can . I face death in the hope that when you meet your match you will be mortal once more . - R.A.B. ”
Leta Lestrange
A few generation murder from our better - known fighter , Leta make her presence know in the newFantastic Beasts and Where to get hold Themfranchise . A penny-pinching friend of Hufflepuff ’s Newt Scamander , Leta was a Slytherin who took to reading and try out due to the bullying she suffered , even as a member of the stereotypical “ evil mansion . ” She grew into a successful Ministry official , work for the Department of Magical Law Enforcement . What she is well roll in the hay for is her bravery , in face Gellert Grindewald . Thinking on her feet , Leta is able to disquiet the dark wizard , render Aurors and both Scamander Brother , a chance to escaped destruction . Leta was a much more complicated someone than a mere Slytherin and was interested in far more than pen her and Newt ’s initial on a Hogwarts desk .
Phineas Nigellus Black
One of only two Slytherin headmasters in the history of Hogwarts School there ’s no question that Phineas Nigellus must have been wise beyond the usual serpent pupil to make his way to this highest of posts . His unpopularity notwithstanding , he took the billet and remained , in portrait build , to give notice all those headmasters who do after him . As his portrait makes clean-cut through its snide and sarcastic manner , Phineas did not and still does not take ignorance lightly . He expects those around him to be knowledgeable , just as he is , and will have more than a few word with anyone whose intelligence he take care as beneath his own .
Horace Slughorn
Not a headmaster , but a positions master , Horace Slughorn was a glorious , if slightly self - center Hogwarts professor for at least two years . Teaching at all levels , including the N.E.W.T. Potions students , he understood everything about his business . Able to brew everything from unproblematic dormancy drought to the incredibly complex Felix Felicis , or smooth luck , potion . With a penchant for famous and successful friends , Slughorn has always been a consistent correspondent , wisely keeping his powerful conversancy close in type he should need a favour . Sometimes brilliance is n’t only about what you know , but who you fuck , and Slughorn was certainly the expert , and quite the pen chum .
Severus Snape
Here we have both potion passe-partout and second Slytherin headmaster , spy and two-timer , and hero to the rebellion , Severus Snape . A neat and successful student during his day in Slytherin house , Snape grew to be an even more superb adult . Not many wizards can work for both Lord Voldemort and Albus Dumbledore and survive the ordeal for almost two decades . If that does n’t stand for Snape deserves a place in our top three then nothing does . Whether you sanction of his intervention of student or not , it is impossible to reason the difference his skills and genius made in the eventual downfall of The Dark Lord . From editing his potion rule book as “ The Half - Blood Prince ” in school day , to teaching for years , and passing reports to both sides of the way , Snape ’s actions and language will never be blank out .
Salazar Slytherin
It would n’t be a dependable list of Slytherin intelligence service if the champion who take up it all was go out off . Coming in at number two , Salazar Slytherin , Hogwarts and house beginner himself , a parseltongue and a legilimenser , Slytherin understood all too well the grandness of lyric . One of the four most splendid witches and wizard of his age it takes quite a moment of cunning and smarting to both work up and enshroud a secret chamber beneath the schoolhouse , and the nose , of the other most brilliant wizards and witch of the age . As The Chamber of Secrets confirms , Slytherin was completely successful in this particular try . Never lowball a man who is both talented and steady in his feeling .
Merlin
While mostly mentioned as a form of curse , “ Merlin ’s beard , ” within the Harry Potter books , it was long ago confirmed on J.K. RowlingsPottermoresite that Merlin himself , the most well - known wizard in any part of the cosmos , was , a Slytherin . The adult male who would arise up to instruct King Arthur , who would have the outstanding of wizarding ordering constitute after him , “ The rules of order of Merlin , ” was from the menage of silver and gullible . No one has done more to popularise deception in the muggle world except perhaps Harry Potter himself . Here ’s to all the books of Merlin .
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