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{{Youmay|one of the founders of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]|the house in [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]], [[Slytherin]]}}
 
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'''Salazar Slytherin''' (fl. c. [[First millennium A.D.|993]] – [[1000]]) was a [[pure-blood]] [[Wizardkind|wizard]], noted for his cunning and determination. He was regarded as one of the greatest wizards of the age, respectively as a [[Parseltongue|Parselmouth]] and as a skilled [[Legilimency|Legilimens]]. Slytherin was one of the [[Hogwarts founders|four founders]] of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] along with [[Godric Gryffindor]], [[Helga Hufflepuff]] and [[Rowena Ravenclaw]], as well as the namesake of the [[Slytherin|Slytherin House]].
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'''Salazar Slytherin''' (fl. c. [[First millennium A.D.|993]]) was a [[pure-blood]] [[Wizardkind|wizard]], noted for his cunning and determination. He was regarded as one of the greatest wizards of the age, respectively as a [[Parseltongue|Parselmouth]] and as a skilled [[Legilimency|Legilimens]]. Slytherin was one of the [[Hogwarts founders|four founders]] of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] along with [[Godric Gryffindor]], [[Helga Hufflepuff]] and [[Rowena Ravenclaw]], as well as the namesake of the [[Slytherin|Slytherin House]].
   
He distrusted and was, in fact, quite disdainful of [[Muggle-born]] students to the point of proposing that they should not be accepted at Hogwarts. However, when he expressed his opinion to the other [[Hogwarts founders]], they did not agree with him. In response, he left the school, never to return. Slytherin died sometime near the [[11th century|eleventh century]], after creating the [[Chamber of Secrets]], concealing a [[Salazar Slytherin's basilisk|basilisk]], ready to have the [[Chamber of Secrets|Chamber]] reopened to purge the school of those who, in Slytherin's view, were unworthy to study magic: [[Muggle-born]]s.
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He mistrusted [[Muggle-born]] students to the point of proposing that they should not be accepted at Hogwarts. However, when he expressed his opinion to the other [[Hogwarts founders]], they did not agree with him. In response, he left the school, never to return. Slytherin died sometime near the [[11th century|eleventh century]], after creating the [[Chamber of Secrets]], concealing a [[Salazar Slytherin's basilisk|basilisk]], ready to have the [[Chamber of Secrets|Chamber]] reopened to purge the school of those who, in Slytherin's view, were unworthy to study magic.
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
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Said to be one of "''the four most brilliant witches and wizards of the time''"<ref name="COS9">{{COS|B|9}}</ref>, Salazar Slytherin founded [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] in his adulthood, with friends [[Godric Gryffindor]], [[Helga Hufflepuff]] and [[Rowena Ravenclaw]], though he later severed ties with Gryffindor. He even appears to have carefully selected members of [[Slytherin|his own House]].
 
Said to be one of "''the four most brilliant witches and wizards of the time''"<ref name="COS9">{{COS|B|9}}</ref>, Salazar Slytherin founded [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] in his adulthood, with friends [[Godric Gryffindor]], [[Helga Hufflepuff]] and [[Rowena Ravenclaw]], though he later severed ties with Gryffindor. He even appears to have carefully selected members of [[Slytherin|his own House]].
   
According to [[Albus Dumbledore]], the qualities which Slytherin prized in his "handpicked students" included resourcefulness, cleverness, determination, and a certain disregard for the rules, along with the ability to speak [[Parseltongue]]. He also selected his students according to cunning, ambition, and [[Blood status|blood purity]]. His House within Hogwarts is symbolised by a serpent, with House colours of green and silver.
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According to [[Albus Dumbledore]], the qualities which Slytherin prized in his "handpicked students" included resourcefulness, determination, and a certain disregard for the rules, along with the ability to speak [[Parseltongue]]. He also selected his students according to their cunning, ambition, and [[Blood status|blood purity]]. His House within Hogwarts is symbolised by a serpent, with House colours of green and silver.
   
 
====Leaving Hogwarts====
 
====Leaving Hogwarts====
 
{{Quote|I always knew Salazar Slytherin was a twisted old loony, but I never knew he started all this [[Pure-blood supremacy|pure-blood stuff]]. I wouldn't be in his house if you paid me. Honestly, if the [[Sorting Hat]] had tried to put me in Slytherin, I'd've got the train straight back home....|[[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] expressing his disdain for Slytherin's views|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
 
{{Quote|I always knew Salazar Slytherin was a twisted old loony, but I never knew he started all this [[Pure-blood supremacy|pure-blood stuff]]. I wouldn't be in his house if you paid me. Honestly, if the [[Sorting Hat]] had tried to put me in Slytherin, I'd've got the train straight back home....|[[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] expressing his disdain for Slytherin's views|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
   
After founding Hogwarts and co-existing for years, a rift eventually began to grow between Slytherin and the other founders. Slytherin despised taking students from [[Non-magic people|Muggle]] families, seeing them as untrustworthy and unworthy of being taught magic, and tried to persuade the other [[Hogwarts founders|founders]] to only take students from [[pure-blood]] [[:Category:Pure-blood families|families]]. However, the other founders didn't agree with Slytherin, particularly Gryffindor. Eventually, Slytherin and Gryffindor had a fierce and possibly even violent argument over the subject, (according to the Sorting Hat it is possible that they duelled, or that a civil war of sorts broke out between the houses). Slytherin chose to leave the school eventually, but he had left the Chamber of Secrets and his Basilisk behind.<ref name="COS9" /> It is unknown when he died.
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After founding Hogwarts and co-existing for years, a rift eventually began to grow between Slytherin and the other founders. Slytherin disliked taking students from [[Non-magic people|Muggle]] families, seeing them as untrustworthy and unworthy of being taught magic, and tried to persuade the other [[Hogwarts founders|founders]] to only take students from [[pure-blood]] [[:Category:Pure-blood families|families]]. However, the other founders didn't agree with Slytherin, particularly Gryffindor. Eventually, Slytherin and Gryffindor had a bitter and possibly even violent argument over the subject, (according to the Sorting Hat it is possible that they duelled, or that a civil war of sorts broke out between the houses). Slytherin chose to leave the school eventually, but he had left the Chamber of Secrets and his Basilisk behind.<ref name="COS9" /> It is unknown when he died.
   
 
===Post-mortem===
 
===Post-mortem===
 
[[File:00The-chamber-of-secrets-harry-potter-34783631-1024-768.jpg|228x228px|thumb|left|The statue of Salazar Slytherin and the hiding-place of Slytherin's basilisk in the [[Chamber of Secrets]]]]
 
[[File:00The-chamber-of-secrets-harry-potter-34783631-1024-768.jpg|228x228px|thumb|left|The statue of Salazar Slytherin and the hiding-place of Slytherin's basilisk in the [[Chamber of Secrets]]]]
   
According to ancient legend, as told by History of Magic Professor [[Cuthbert Binns]], Salazar Slytherin was responsible for the construction of the Chamber of Secrets beneath [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] dungeons. It was specifically created for the purpose of purging the school of all [[Muggle-born]] students. The Chamber contained a basilisk which could be controlled only by his own "[[Tom Riddle|true heir]]", and use it to purge the school of all those who, in Slytherin's view, were unworthy to study magic: Muggle-borns. At least part of the legend was revealed to be true in [[1943]], when Tom Marvolo Riddle, the heir of Slytherin, opened the Chamber and used the Basilisk to attack Muggle-borns.
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According to ancient legend, as told by History of Magic Professor [[Cuthbert Binns]], Salazar Slytherin was responsible for the construction of the Chamber of Secrets beneath [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] dungeons. It was specifically created for the purpose of purging the school of all [[Muggle-born]] students. The Chamber contained a basilisk which could be controlled only by his own "[[Tom Riddle|true heir]]", and use it to purge the school of all Muggle-borns. At least part of the legend was revealed to be true in [[1943]], when Tom Marvolo Riddle, the heir of Slytherin, opened the Chamber and used the Basilisk to attack Muggle-borns.
   
 
One girl the [[Basilisk]] actually killed is now a ghost known by the name of [[Myrtle Warren|Moaning Myrtle]]. The opening to the Chamber of Secrets is located in the bathroom she now haunts, and can only be opened by speaking Parseltongue, as Slytherin could. Riddle opened the Chamber again in [[1993]] through the use of one of his seven [[Horcrux]]es, his diary. Using the bit of his soul encompassed by the diary, he possessed [[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]] and forced her to do his bidding. While he still attacked Muggle-born students, his ultimate goal was to lure Harry Potter into the Chamber and kill him.
 
One girl the [[Basilisk]] actually killed is now a ghost known by the name of [[Myrtle Warren|Moaning Myrtle]]. The opening to the Chamber of Secrets is located in the bathroom she now haunts, and can only be opened by speaking Parseltongue, as Slytherin could. Riddle opened the Chamber again in [[1993]] through the use of one of his seven [[Horcrux]]es, his diary. Using the bit of his soul encompassed by the diary, he possessed [[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]] and forced her to do his bidding. While he still attacked Muggle-born students, his ultimate goal was to lure Harry Potter into the Chamber and kill him.
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Salazar Slytherin owned a [[Salazar Slytherin's Locket|locket]] emblazoned with the letter ''S'' that became an heirloom of his last known line of descendants, the [[House of Gaunt|Gaunts]]. [[Merope Riddle|Merope Gaunt]] sold the locket to [[Caractacus Burke]]. It was then bought up by [[Hepzibah Smith]], who had a love for antiques. It was subsequently stolen from her by [[Tom Riddle|Tom Marvolo Riddle]]. Riddle would later turn the locket into a Horcrux, and conceal it in a seaside cave he had visited in his youth. The same locket was later removed from the cave by [[Regulus Black]] with aid from his [[house-elf]], [[Kreacher]]. Kreacher was ordered to destroy the locket, but was unable to do so.
 
Salazar Slytherin owned a [[Salazar Slytherin's Locket|locket]] emblazoned with the letter ''S'' that became an heirloom of his last known line of descendants, the [[House of Gaunt|Gaunts]]. [[Merope Riddle|Merope Gaunt]] sold the locket to [[Caractacus Burke]]. It was then bought up by [[Hepzibah Smith]], who had a love for antiques. It was subsequently stolen from her by [[Tom Riddle|Tom Marvolo Riddle]]. Riddle would later turn the locket into a Horcrux, and conceal it in a seaside cave he had visited in his youth. The same locket was later removed from the cave by [[Regulus Black]] with aid from his [[house-elf]], [[Kreacher]]. Kreacher was ordered to destroy the locket, but was unable to do so.
   
It was later stolen from the [[House of Black|Black family]] home at [[12 Grimmauld Place]] by [[Mundungus Fletcher]], and eventually found its way into the hands of the Ministry of Magic employee, [[Dolores Umbridge]]. Umbridge used it as an intimidation tool by wearing it and claiming the ''S'' stood for [[Selwyn]], a [[pure-blood]] family line. She either did not know better or wanted to conceal its real meaning from the public.
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It was later stolen from the [[House of Black|Black family]] home at [[12 Grimmauld Place]] by [[Mundungus Fletcher]], and eventually found its way into the hands of the Ministry of Magic employee, [[Dolores Umbridge]]. Umbridge used it as a credential by wearing it and claiming the ''S'' stood for [[Selwyn]], a [[pure-blood]] family line. She either did not know better or wanted to conceal its real meaning from the public.
   
 
The locket was recovered by [[Harry Potter]], and was later destroyed by [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] with [[Godric Gryffindor's Sword|Godric Gryffindor's sword]]. This act of destruction removed all of the Horcrux's power.
 
The locket was recovered by [[Harry Potter]], and was later destroyed by [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] with [[Godric Gryffindor's Sword|Godric Gryffindor's sword]]. This act of destruction removed all of the Horcrux's power.
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In the [[1997–1998 school year]], Slytherin's heir, Riddle (now known as Lord Voldemort), realised his ancestor's wish of purging the school of Muggle-borns via another method: by taking over the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]] and using [[Muggle-Born Registration Commission|falsified propaganda]]. Voldemort managed to have Muggle-borns evicted from the wizarding world, and at the end of the year, Voldemort even claimed that Hogwarts no longer needed Sorting, and that Slytherin's symbols, shields and colours would suffice. After Voldemort's death, all of this was repealed, and Slytherin's ultimate desire ended in failure.
 
In the [[1997–1998 school year]], Slytherin's heir, Riddle (now known as Lord Voldemort), realised his ancestor's wish of purging the school of Muggle-borns via another method: by taking over the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]] and using [[Muggle-Born Registration Commission|falsified propaganda]]. Voldemort managed to have Muggle-borns evicted from the wizarding world, and at the end of the year, Voldemort even claimed that Hogwarts no longer needed Sorting, and that Slytherin's symbols, shields and colours would suffice. After Voldemort's death, all of this was repealed, and Slytherin's ultimate desire ended in failure.
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However, even after Voldemort's death, Salazar Slytherin's bloodline survived through Voldemort's secret daugther [[Delphini]], whom he concived with [[Bellatrix Lestrange]]. As of 2021, Delphini is the last known survivor of the Slytherin bloodline.
   
 
==Physical description==
 
==Physical description==
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==Magical abilities and skills==
 
==Magical abilities and skills==
*'''[[Parseltongue]]''': Salazar Slytherin was one of the earliest recorded [[Parseltongue|Parselmouths]] and used this ability to control a basilisk. His house's symbol is a serpent due to this, and he passed this trait on to his descendants.
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*'''[[Parseltongue]]''': Salazar Slytherin was one of the earliest recorded [[Parseltongue|Parselmouths]] and used this ability to control a [[basilisk]]. His house's symbol is a [[Snake|serpent]] due to this, and he passed this trait on to his descendants.
 
*'''[[Legilimency]]''': Slytherin was said to have been a skilled Legilimens.
 
*'''[[Legilimency]]''': Slytherin was said to have been a skilled Legilimens.
*'''[[Dark Arts]]''' (possibly): There are rumours that he originally built the Chamber of Secrets as a place to teach students [[Dark Arts]]. 
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*'''[[Dark Arts]]''': There are rumours that he originally built the Chamber of Secrets as a place to teach students dark magic as an [[Dark Arts (class)|academic class]]. Indeed, he was capable of casting the [[Killing Curse]] and the [[Imperius Curse]], which were not [[Unforgivable Curses|unforgivable]] during his lifetime, and was skilled in the handling of [[curse]]d objects, showing him to have been an exceptionally powerful [[Dark Wizard]] with a proficiency for malevolent [[magic]].<ref>{{LEGO|Y2}}</ref> He was also highly likely to have been skilled in the casting of various other [[dark charm]]s and [[spell]]s.  
*'''[[Wandmaker]]''': Slytherin created his [[Salazar Slytherin's wand|own wand]] of [[Schlangenholz|snakewood]] and [[basilisk horn]]. He also taught it the unique ability to "sleep" when instructed.<ref name="PM-ilvermorny" />
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*[[Wandlore|'''Wandlore''']]'''/[[Wandmaker|Wandmaking]]''': Slytherin created his [[Salazar Slytherin's wand|own wand]] of [[Schlangenholz|snakewood]] and [[basilisk horn]]. He also taught it the unique ability to "sleep" when instructed.<ref name="PM-ilvermorny" />
*'''[[Basilisk]] breeding''': Slytherin managed to breed a basilisk and kept it alive in the Chamber of Secrets for over one thousand years, surpassing its average nine-hundred year lifespan.
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*'''[[Basilisk]] breeding''': Slytherin managed to breed [[Serpent of Slytherin|a basilisk]] and kept it alive in the [[Chamber of Secrets]] for over one thousand years, surpassing its average nine-hundred year lifespan.
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*[[Charm|'''Charms''']]: With the combined abilities of the other founders, he helped to bewitch the [[Sorting Hat]] into a sentient and talking magical object with personality, to [[Sorting ceremony|sort]] students well after their lifetime. This implies that Slytherin was highly proficient and talented in charm-work, along with the other founders.  
   
 
==Possessions==
 
==Possessions==
*'''[[Salazar Slytherin's wand|Wand]]''': Slytherin owned a wand made of Snakewood with a Basilisk horn core. It was passed down through the generation until it was stolen from Gormlaith Gaunt by her niece Isolt Sayre and later buried on the grounds of Ilvermorny School in North America.<ref name="PM-ilvermorny" />
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*'''[[Salazar Slytherin's wand|Wand]]''': Slytherin owned a wand made of Snakewood with a Basilisk horn core. It was passed down through the generations until it was stolen from Gormlaith Gaunt by her niece Isolt Sayre, and later buried on the grounds of Ilvermorny School in North America.<ref name="PM-ilvermorny" />
 
*'''[[Slytherin's Locket|Locket]]''': Slytherin owned a locket which he passed down to his descendants. It was later turned into a Horcrux by his descendant Tom Riddle.
 
*'''[[Slytherin's Locket|Locket]]''': Slytherin owned a locket which he passed down to his descendants. It was later turned into a Horcrux by his descendant Tom Riddle.
 
*'''[[Serpent of Slytherin|Basilisk]]''': Slytherin owned a basilisk and kept it in the Chamber of Secrets.
 
*'''[[Serpent of Slytherin|Basilisk]]''': Slytherin owned a basilisk and kept it in the Chamber of Secrets.
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==See also==
 
*[[Rowena Ravenclaw]]
 
*[[Helga Hufflepuff]]
 
*[[Godric Gryffindor]]
 
*[[Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk]]
 
*[[Salazar Slytherin's Locket]]
 
*[[Tom Riddle]]
 
*[[Chamber of Secrets]]
   
 
==Etymology==
 
==Etymology==
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The name '''Salazar''' is originally a Portuguese family name. [[Wikipedia:António de Oliveira Salazar|António de Oliveira '''Salazar''']] was a fascist dictator of Portugal (where Rowling lived for several years) from [[1932]] to [[1968]]. Rowling stated that the name "'''Salazar''' Slytherin" was chosen after the Portuguese dictator's name.<ref>[https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/852974465587847168 I did indeed take his name from António Salazar, the Portuguese dictator.] [[J. K. Rowling]] on Twitter </ref>
 
The name '''Salazar''' is originally a Portuguese family name. [[Wikipedia:António de Oliveira Salazar|António de Oliveira '''Salazar''']] was a fascist dictator of Portugal (where Rowling lived for several years) from [[1932]] to [[1968]]. Rowling stated that the name "'''Salazar''' Slytherin" was chosen after the Portuguese dictator's name.<ref>[https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/852974465587847168 I did indeed take his name from António Salazar, the Portuguese dictator.] [[J. K. Rowling]] on Twitter </ref>
   
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==Behind the scenes==
 
==Behind the scenes==
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[[File:SalazarSlytherinPortraitWU.png|thumb|A [[Portrait]] of Salazar Slytherin as seen in {{WU}}]]
* Despite the quote attributed to him of Slytherin "only teaching those whose ancestry is purest", Slytherin has long accepted Half-Blood witches and wizards into its ranks (most famously Severus Snape and Tom Riddle).
 
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[[File:SalazarSlytherinLEGO.jpg|thumb|Salazar Slytherin as a LEGO mini-figure]]
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[[File:Salazar_Slytherin.png|thumb|Salazar Slytherin in {{LEGO|Y2}}]]
 
* Despite the quote attributed to him of Slytherin "only teaching those whose ancestry is purest", Slytherin has long accepted [[Half-blood]] witches and wizards into its ranks (most famously [[Severus Snape]] and [[Tom Riddle]]).
 
** However, the above is likely done as a matter of necessity, as there are presently no longer enough Pure Blood families in existence for Slytherin to sustain itself on just them (something even the genocidal Voldemort and Death Eaters understood, if only begrudgingly).
 
** However, the above is likely done as a matter of necessity, as there are presently no longer enough Pure Blood families in existence for Slytherin to sustain itself on just them (something even the genocidal Voldemort and Death Eaters understood, if only begrudgingly).
 
* Slytherin was the featured "[[Wizard of the Month]]" for June 2007 on [[J. K. Rowling]]'s website, where he was profiled thus: "One of the four celebrated Founders of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]], Salazar Slytherin was one of the first recorded [[Parseltongue|Parselmouths]], an accomplished [[Legilimency|Legilimens]], and a notorious champion of [[pure-blood]] supremacy".
 
* Slytherin was the featured "[[Wizard of the Month]]" for June 2007 on [[J. K. Rowling]]'s website, where he was profiled thus: "One of the four celebrated Founders of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]], Salazar Slytherin was one of the first recorded [[Parseltongue|Parselmouths]], an accomplished [[Legilimency|Legilimens]], and a notorious champion of [[pure-blood]] supremacy".
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*His dislike of wizards and witches with Muggle parentage may have stemmed from the political climate he lived in, where magic users were persecuted and actively hunted by Muggles.
 
*His dislike of wizards and witches with Muggle parentage may have stemmed from the political climate he lived in, where magic users were persecuted and actively hunted by Muggles.
 
*Since snakewood is not naturally found in what Muggles call the Old World,<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakewood Wikipedia - Snakewood]</ref> it is likely that Slytherin travelled to [[North America|North]] or [[South America]] or to [[Australia]] to acquire the wood for his wand. Given that travel between the continents at the time being exclusive to the wizarding world and the vikings of the muggle world, this is not an implausible scenario.
 
*Since snakewood is not naturally found in what Muggles call the Old World,<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakewood Wikipedia - Snakewood]</ref> it is likely that Slytherin travelled to [[North America|North]] or [[South America]] or to [[Australia]] to acquire the wood for his wand. Given that travel between the continents at the time being exclusive to the wizarding world and the vikings of the muggle world, this is not an implausible scenario.
 
==See also==
 
*[[Rowena Ravenclaw]]
 
*[[Helga Hufflepuff]]
 
*[[Godric Gryffindor]]
 
*[[Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk]]
 
*[[Salazar Slytherin's Locket]]
 
*[[Tom Riddle]]
 
*[[Chamber of Secrets]]
 
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==
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"We’ll teach just those whose ancestry’s purest."
— Slytherin's opinion regarding the running of Hogwarts[src]

Salazar Slytherin (fl. c. 993) was a pure-blood wizard, noted for his cunning and determination. He was regarded as one of the greatest wizards of the age, respectively as a Parselmouth and as a skilled Legilimens. Slytherin was one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry along with Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw, as well as the namesake of the Slytherin House.

He mistrusted Muggle-born students to the point of proposing that they should not be accepted at Hogwarts. However, when he expressed his opinion to the other Hogwarts founders, they did not agree with him. In response, he left the school, never to return. Slytherin died sometime near the eleventh century, after creating the Chamber of Secrets, concealing a basilisk, ready to have the Chamber reopened to purge the school of those who, in Slytherin's view, were unworthy to study magic.

Biography

Early life

The Sorting Hat described him as "power hungry Slytherin" and that he came "from fen."[8] This could be the reason why he and his family have the rare gift of speaking Parseltongue. It is also said that anyone who can speak Parseltongue is somehow related to Salazar Slytherin. The fens of Eastern England are in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and adjoining counties, although it is not established that Slytherin actually came from that particular region.

At some point, Slytherin created his own wand, made of snakewood with a core of basilisk horn. He taught it the unique ability to "sleep" when commanded in parseltongue.[7]

Hogwarts founder

Said to be one of "the four most brilliant witches and wizards of the time"[5], Salazar Slytherin founded Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in his adulthood, with friends Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw, though he later severed ties with Gryffindor. He even appears to have carefully selected members of his own House.

According to Albus Dumbledore, the qualities which Slytherin prized in his "handpicked students" included resourcefulness, determination, and a certain disregard for the rules, along with the ability to speak Parseltongue. He also selected his students according to their cunning, ambition, and blood purity. His House within Hogwarts is symbolised by a serpent, with House colours of green and silver.

Leaving Hogwarts

"I always knew Salazar Slytherin was a twisted old loony, but I never knew he started all this pure-blood stuff. I wouldn't be in his house if you paid me. Honestly, if the Sorting Hat had tried to put me in Slytherin, I'd've got the train straight back home...."
Ron Weasley expressing his disdain for Slytherin's views[src]

After founding Hogwarts and co-existing for years, a rift eventually began to grow between Slytherin and the other founders. Slytherin disliked taking students from Muggle families, seeing them as untrustworthy and unworthy of being taught magic, and tried to persuade the other founders to only take students from pure-blood families. However, the other founders didn't agree with Slytherin, particularly Gryffindor. Eventually, Slytherin and Gryffindor had a bitter and possibly even violent argument over the subject, (according to the Sorting Hat it is possible that they duelled, or that a civil war of sorts broke out between the houses). Slytherin chose to leave the school eventually, but he had left the Chamber of Secrets and his Basilisk behind.[5] It is unknown when he died.

Post-mortem

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The statue of Salazar Slytherin and the hiding-place of Slytherin's basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets

According to ancient legend, as told by History of Magic Professor Cuthbert Binns, Salazar Slytherin was responsible for the construction of the Chamber of Secrets beneath Hogwarts dungeons. It was specifically created for the purpose of purging the school of all Muggle-born students. The Chamber contained a basilisk which could be controlled only by his own "true heir", and use it to purge the school of all Muggle-borns. At least part of the legend was revealed to be true in 1943, when Tom Marvolo Riddle, the heir of Slytherin, opened the Chamber and used the Basilisk to attack Muggle-borns.

One girl the Basilisk actually killed is now a ghost known by the name of Moaning Myrtle. The opening to the Chamber of Secrets is located in the bathroom she now haunts, and can only be opened by speaking Parseltongue, as Slytherin could. Riddle opened the Chamber again in 1993 through the use of one of his seven Horcruxes, his diary. Using the bit of his soul encompassed by the diary, he possessed Ginny Weasley and forced her to do his bidding. While he still attacked Muggle-born students, his ultimate goal was to lure Harry Potter into the Chamber and kill him.

Salazar Slytherin owned a locket emblazoned with the letter S that became an heirloom of his last known line of descendants, the Gaunts. Merope Gaunt sold the locket to Caractacus Burke. It was then bought up by Hepzibah Smith, who had a love for antiques. It was subsequently stolen from her by Tom Marvolo Riddle. Riddle would later turn the locket into a Horcrux, and conceal it in a seaside cave he had visited in his youth. The same locket was later removed from the cave by Regulus Black with aid from his house-elf, Kreacher. Kreacher was ordered to destroy the locket, but was unable to do so.

It was later stolen from the Black family home at 12 Grimmauld Place by Mundungus Fletcher, and eventually found its way into the hands of the Ministry of Magic employee, Dolores Umbridge. Umbridge used it as a credential by wearing it and claiming the S stood for Selwyn, a pure-blood family line. She either did not know better or wanted to conceal its real meaning from the public.

The locket was recovered by Harry Potter, and was later destroyed by Ron Weasley with Godric Gryffindor's sword. This act of destruction removed all of the Horcrux's power.

There were also portraits of Slytherin hung at Hogwarts Castle, one guarding a secret shortcut between the dungeon's antechamber and the Entrance Hall side room. The password required to gain access to said shortcut was Mortal Dread[9]. The other was hung at the Headmaster's office, part of the Headmaster portraits gallery[10].

In the 1997–1998 school year, Slytherin's heir, Riddle (now known as Lord Voldemort), realised his ancestor's wish of purging the school of Muggle-borns via another method: by taking over the Ministry of Magic and using falsified propaganda. Voldemort managed to have Muggle-borns evicted from the wizarding world, and at the end of the year, Voldemort even claimed that Hogwarts no longer needed Sorting, and that Slytherin's symbols, shields and colours would suffice. After Voldemort's death, all of this was repealed, and Slytherin's ultimate desire ended in failure.

However, even after Voldemort's death, Salazar Slytherin's bloodline survived through Voldemort's secret daugther Delphini, whom he concived with Bellatrix Lestrange. As of 2021, Delphini is the last known survivor of the Slytherin bloodline.

Physical description

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Salazar Slytherin

"Then, as Harry drew level with the last pair of pillars, a statue high as the Chamber itself loomed into view, standing against the back wall... It was ancient and monkeyish, with a long, thin beard that fell almost to the bottom of the wizard's sweeping stone robes, where two enormous grey feet stood on the smooth Chamber floor."
— Description of the Statue of Slytherin[src]

The statue of Salazar Slytherin in the Chamber of Secrets depicts an "ancient and monkey-like" man with a "long thin beard that fell almost to the bottom of his sweeping robes." His beard was white in colour. Marvolo Gaunt, a blood relative, is similarly described as being monkey-like in appearance.

Personality and traits

Salazar Slytherin was known to possess great cunning and determination, qualities he prized in students of Slytherin House. At one point, the Sorting Hat refers to him as "power-hungry Slytherin". He seemed to stop at nothing to get what he wanted; this was proven when he constructed the Chamber of Secrets to purge Muggle-borns, despite the fact that the other founders disagreed with his beliefs. This unrepentant ruthlessness mixed with pure-blood supremacist views would later be adopted by numerous descendants of his, the infamous Voldemort not least of all.  

Slytherin was also quite proud and vain, as he went to the trouble of immortalising his image in the Chamber of Secrets in the form of a titanic statue standing several dozen feet tall, something that the other three founders were never known to have done. An effigy of such proportions would certainly reflect a grandiose image of oneself.  

Slytherin is said to be one of the greatest wizards of his age, with extensive abilities, particularly in Legilimency. When considering Sorting a student into Slytherin, the Sorting Hat looks for Slytherin's traits in the student, including cunning, determination, ambition, and resourcefulness. 

Magical abilities and skills

  • Parseltongue: Salazar Slytherin was one of the earliest recorded Parselmouths and used this ability to control a basilisk. His house's symbol is a serpent due to this, and he passed this trait on to his descendants.
  • Legilimency: Slytherin was said to have been a skilled Legilimens.
  • Dark Arts: There are rumours that he originally built the Chamber of Secrets as a place to teach students dark magic as an academic class. Indeed, he was capable of casting the Killing Curse and the Imperius Curse, which were not unforgivable during his lifetime, and was skilled in the handling of cursed objects, showing him to have been an exceptionally powerful Dark Wizard with a proficiency for malevolent magic.[11] He was also highly likely to have been skilled in the casting of various other dark charms and spells.  
  • Wandlore/Wandmaking: Slytherin created his own wand of snakewood and basilisk horn. He also taught it the unique ability to "sleep" when instructed.[7]
  • Basilisk breeding: Slytherin managed to breed a basilisk and kept it alive in the Chamber of Secrets for over one thousand years, surpassing its average nine-hundred year lifespan.
  • Charms: With the combined abilities of the other founders, he helped to bewitch the Sorting Hat into a sentient and talking magical object with personality, to sort students well after their lifetime. This implies that Slytherin was highly proficient and talented in charm-work, along with the other founders.  

Possessions

  • Wand: Slytherin owned a wand made of Snakewood with a Basilisk horn core. It was passed down through the generations until it was stolen from Gormlaith Gaunt by her niece Isolt Sayre, and later buried on the grounds of Ilvermorny School in North America.[7]
  • Locket: Slytherin owned a locket which he passed down to his descendants. It was later turned into a Horcrux by his descendant Tom Riddle.
  • Basilisk: Slytherin owned a basilisk and kept it in the Chamber of Secrets.

See also

Etymology

The name Salazar is originally a Portuguese family name. António de Oliveira Salazar was a fascist dictator of Portugal (where Rowling lived for several years) from 1932 to 1968. Rowling stated that the name "Salazar Slytherin" was chosen after the Portuguese dictator's name.[12]

Meanwhile, Slytherin may refer to the words "sly" as well as "slithering", which is the form of locomotion of snakes, possibly referring to his rare ability to talk to snakes called parseltongue. Salazar, sometimes spelled as Salasar, is a Basque surname meaning old hall (from Castilian Sala (hall) and Basque zahar (old)). The name originates from the town of the same name: Salazar, in northern Burgos, Castile.

Alonso de Salazar Frías was a 16th-17th century Spanish inquisitor who is famous for convincing the Spanish Inquisition that most of the witchcraft cases were based on insanity and confessions made to stop torture, rather than accurate cases of people associating with the devil. He was able to stop convictions based solely on testimony.

Behind the scenes

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A Portrait of Salazar Slytherin as seen in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite

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Salazar Slytherin as a LEGO mini-figure

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Salazar Slytherin in LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7

  • Despite the quote attributed to him of Slytherin "only teaching those whose ancestry is purest", Slytherin has long accepted Half-blood witches and wizards into its ranks (most famously Severus Snape and Tom Riddle).
    • However, the above is likely done as a matter of necessity, as there are presently no longer enough Pure Blood families in existence for Slytherin to sustain itself on just them (something even the genocidal Voldemort and Death Eaters understood, if only begrudgingly).
  • Slytherin was the featured "Wizard of the Month" for June 2007 on J. K. Rowling's website, where he was profiled thus: "One of the four celebrated Founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Salazar Slytherin was one of the first recorded Parselmouths, an accomplished Legilimens, and a notorious champion of pure-blood supremacy".
  • In the film, the statue of Salazar Slytherin only covers his head, compared to the book where it was full-body. It was revealed in Page to Screen that the Chamber is flooded so that the rest of the statue below his head is submerged beneath the water.
  • Both pictures of Slytherin in the Wizard of the Month and at the Famous Cards depict Slytherin with steepled fingers.
  • Salazar Slytherin appears as a portrait in the "Forbidden Journey" ride at Universal Orlando, where he expresses his dislike for Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore. He is also the only one of the four Founders to appear in behind the scenes footage of the ride. A DVD extra shows the actor being dressed up on set.
  • Although it was briefly speculated in The Chamber of Secrets, Harry is not, in fact, a direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin, though he is still distantly related to him; Voldemort is descended from Slytherin and the second Peverell brother, while Harry is a descendant of the third.
  • Though Voldemort is a descendant of both Salazar Slytherin and Cadmus Peverell, there is no evidence that Slytherin is an ancestor of Peverell.
  • The depiction of Salazar on his Chocolate Frog Card bears a striking resemblance to Verminous Skumm, an antagonist from Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
  • Slytherin built the Chamber of Secrets to allow his heir to purge the school of Muggle-borns. However, after the chamber's failure, Voldemort accomplished Slytherin's wishes with another method: by taking over the Ministry of Magic and creating the Muggle-Born Registration Commission.
  • Although it is widely accepted that Salazar Slytherin was from the Fens in eastern England, it is not confirmed. It would make sense if Slytherin came from Ireland, as that would mean that the four founders of Hogwarts would have originated from the four main countries that make up a vast majority of Hogwarts students. Scotland (Ravenclaw), Wales (Hufflepuff), England (Gryffindor) and Ireland. Ireland does not have snakes, It is unknown when and where Slytherin discovered his Parselmouth abilities, and the Gaunt family, his descendants, have lived in both England and Ireland.
  • He is played by actor Ken Bones in Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey.[13]
  • His dislike of wizards and witches with Muggle parentage may have stemmed from the political climate he lived in, where magic users were persecuted and actively hunted by Muggles.
  • Since snakewood is not naturally found in what Muggles call the Old World,[14] it is likely that Slytherin travelled to North or South America or to Australia to acquire the wood for his wand. Given that travel between the continents at the time being exclusive to the wizarding world and the vikings of the muggle world, this is not an implausible scenario.

Appearances

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Notes and references

  1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 9 (The Writing on the Wall) - "You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago - the precise date is uncertain - by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age." Binns says this late in the year 1992. Given that Slytherin would be of age by the school's founding, the latest he could be born is 976.
  2. In 1994, the sorting hat says, ''Shrewd Slytherin, from fen.'' Ireland is known for several fen-land areas; therefore, some have suggested Slytherin might be from Ireland, as that would represent all four kingoms Hogwarts students come from.
  3. "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," South West News Service, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
  4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 11 (The Duelling Club)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 9 (The Writing on the Wall)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 J. K. Rowling's official site
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" at Wizarding World
  8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 12 (The Triwizard Tournament)
  9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - PC version
  10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) DVD (Disc 2 - Dumbledore's Office)
  11. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
  12. I did indeed take his name from António Salazar, the Portuguese dictator. J. K. Rowling on Twitter
  13. Ken Bones's profile on IMDb
  14. Wikipedia - Snakewood
  15. Slytherin is available in the Nintendo DS version of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7. For other devices, he is available in the "Downloadable Character Pack" DLC for the game.
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