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那些狡猾的人会不择手段达到目的

斯莱特林

斯莱特林学院由萨拉查·斯莱特林创立,以野心、狡猾、领导力和足智多谋著称。虽然这个学院产生了一些黑巫师,但它也给世界带来了伟大的英雄,如做出最终牺牲的西弗勒斯·斯内普。就连梅林本人也是斯莱特林成员。

Traits: 野心、狡猾、领导力、足智多谋
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Colors: 绿色与银色

斯莱特林 at a Glance

Founder
Salazar Slytherin
House Animal
Serpent
Element
Water
House Colours
Green & Silver
Common Room
The Dungeons (beneath the Black Lake)
House Ghost
The Bloody Baron
Head of House
Severus Snape (later Horace Slughorn)
Quidditch
Slytherin Quidditch Team

斯莱特林学院的历史

斯莱特林学院由萨拉查·斯莱特林创立,他是霍格沃茨的四位创始人之一。萨拉查是一位强大的巫师,他看重纯血统的学生,最终在与其他创始人就接纳麻瓜出身学生的问题上产生分歧后离开了霍格沃茨。在离开之前,他创建了密室,希望他的继承人有朝一日能回来清除那些他认为不配留在学校的人。

尽管有这段黑暗的遗产,斯莱特林学院仍培养了许多伟大的巫师。学院看重野心、狡猾和足智多谋——这些品质如果运用得当,可以成就伟业。斯莱特林是天生的领导者,他们知道如何得到自己想要的,并且在必要时不害怕打破规则。

斯莱特林公共休息室位于黑湖下方的地牢中。它的窗户可以看到湖底深处,当光线透过水面时,给房间带来一种幽幽的绿色。尽管位置寒冷,房间却出奇地舒适,绿色的灯笼投射出温暖的光芒,豪华的家具围绕着壁炉摆放。

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绿色与银色

The Slytherin Crest & Colours

The Slytherin crest is marked by a silver serpent coiled against a field of deep emerald green. Salazar Slytherin chose the snake as his emblem because he himself was a Parselmouth, able to speak to serpents, and because the snake embodies the cunning, subtlety, and ambition the house treasures. Far from a mere symbol of villainy, the Slytherin serpent represents shrewdness, transformation, and the patience to wait for exactly the right moment to act.

Slytherin's colours are green and silver, tied to the element of water and to the house's home in the dungeons beneath the Black Lake. Emerald green suggests resourcefulness and a cool, calculating mind, while silver lends an air of elegance and ambition. The serpent, the lake-green light, and the silver trim together announce a Slytherin's defining promise: that those who are determined and clever enough can achieve anything they set their minds to.

The Slytherin Common Room & Dormitories

The 斯莱特林 common room
斯莱特林 · The Dungeons (beneath the Black Lake)

The Slytherin common room lies deep in the dungeons of Hogwarts, hidden behind a bare stretch of stone wall that springs open only at the correct password. Part of the room extends beneath the Black Lake, so its great windows look out not onto the grounds but into the green, weed-tangled depths of the water. Light filters down through the lake in shifting emerald rays, and on a lucky evening a Slytherin student might watch the giant squid or a shoal of silver fish glide silently past the glass.

Despite its cold and shadowy location, the Slytherin common room is a place of dark, understated luxury. Low leather sofas and elegant high-backed chairs are arranged beneath round greenish lamps that hang from the ceiling on chains, and a grand carved fireplace keeps the chamber surprisingly warm. Silver fittings and serpent motifs decorate the room, while the dormitories branch off through the dungeon passages — snug stone rooms with green hangings where the soft rush of the lake can be heard overhead.

What It Means to Be a Slytherin

To be a Slytherin is to be ambitious. Slytherins set their sights high and pursue their goals with a single-minded determination that other houses sometimes mistake for ruthlessness. A Slytherin rarely drifts through life; they plan, they strategise, and they are willing to do the hard, unglamorous work required to turn their ambitions into reality. This drive has produced ministers, inventors, and leaders who reshaped the wizarding world.

Cunning and resourcefulness sit at the core of the Slytherin character. Where a Gryffindor might charge headlong at a problem, a Slytherin steps back, weighs the angles, and finds the cleverest path through. They are natural leaders who understand people, read situations quickly, and know how to turn a setback into an advantage. Loyalty, too, runs deep in Slytherin — fiercely so toward the few they truly trust.

Of course, the same ambition that makes a Slytherin great can become a weakness if it goes unchecked. Pursued without conscience, cunning curdles into manipulation and ambition into recklessness. The finest Slytherins, from Severus Snape to Horace Slughorn, learn to aim their formidable talents toward worthy ends, proving that the house's traits are tools — and that the choice of how to use them belongs to each witch and wizard.

那些狡猾的人会不择手段达到目的

— The Sorting Hat

Notable Slytherins Through History

Slytherin has produced some of the most remarkable witches and wizards in history — beginning, surprisingly, with the legendary Merlin himself, who was sorted into Slytherin during his time at Hogwarts. The Order of Merlin, the highest honour in the wizarding world, is named after this most famous of Slytherin alumni, proof that ambition and cunning turned toward noble ends can achieve extraordinary greatness.

The house has also produced formidable witches. Bellatrix Lestrange was, for all her cruelty, one of the most powerful witches of her age; Narcissa Malfoy showed that a mother's love could outweigh even her allegiances when she lied to Voldemort to save Harry Potter; and Andromeda Tonks chose love over prejudice, breaking with her family to marry a Muggle-born. Each reveals the complex, contradictory spirit of Slytherin, capable of being turned toward darkness or toward light.

Perhaps no Slytherin embodies the house's capacity for redemption better than Severus Snape, who endured years as a double agent out of love, displaying a courage any Gryffindor would envy. Even Draco Malfoy, raised to believe in blood supremacy, faltered when asked to kill, his hesitation saving lives. Their stories prove a vital truth: no house is wholly good or evil, and a Slytherin's ambition is only ever as noble as the purpose behind it.

Which Hogwarts House Are You?

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常见问题

Who are famous Slytherin characters?

Famous Slytherin characters include Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy, Lord Voldemort (Tom Riddle), Bellatrix Lestrange, Narcissa Malfoy, Horace Slughorn, and Merlin himself.

Was Merlin in Slytherin?

Yes, Merlin was indeed sorted into Slytherin House during his time at Hogwarts. Despite the house's later association with dark wizards, Merlin is one of Slytherin's most celebrated alumni and received the Order of Merlin, First Class.

Who are notable female Slytherin characters?

Notable female Slytherin characters include Bellatrix Lestrange, Narcissa Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, and Andromeda Tonks (who later married a Muggle-born).

Where is the Slytherin common room?

The Slytherin common room is located in the dungeons of Hogwarts, partly beneath the Black Lake. Its windows look out into the green depths of the water, and it is reached through a concealed stone wall that opens with the correct password.

What are Slytherin traits and symbols?

Slytherin values ambition, cunning, leadership, and resourcefulness. Founded by Salazar Slytherin, its symbol is the serpent, its element is water, its colours are green and silver, and its house ghost is the Bloody Baron.

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