The Slytherin living room resembles a palace. Fanfic. New Golden Trinity of Hogwarts! Slytherin common room

Students hold court there, discuss their ambitions and scandals. But upon returning to that regal setting, each of them realizes that beyond those walls - beyond that dignified, fierce shield protecting the Slytherin family - there is an ugly, cruel real world that is going to tear them apart. But there is no fear: the Slytherins will be reputed there for their experience and cunning, which they honed in their own fortress to glide through the storm, calm, cold and untouched
. These students love each other endlessly, and their living room is where they prepare each other for the world beyond the walls.

Attention! Only if the Slytherins have a palace, then the Hufflepuff living room is like a cozy house. Somehow, their pillows are fluffier, their fireplaces are warmer, their sofas are softer, and their atmosphere is cozier than all the faculties combined. They readily welcome all guests. The interior is bright, cheerful and open. You can feel love and support in this room. The Hufflepuff lounge is a refuge in a storm, where you can rest from your tiring journey, get all the food you need and endless comfort. HP Harrypotter.

1. Hogwarts Castle: history and location
Hogwarts is a school of witchcraft and wizardry, founded more than a thousand years ago - the exact date is not known - by two great wizards - Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, and two great sorceresses Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw. They built Hogwarts Castle away from places inhabited by Muggles, since At that time, ordinary people were afraid of magic. To this day, the castle is hidden from the eyes of Muggles. It is enchanted so that if a Muggle looks at it, all he will see are the ruins of an old castle, with a sign above the entrance: "Danger! Stay away!" Muggle-repellent charms are in effect around Hogwarts and Hogsmeade - when approaching the area of ​​their effect, a Muggle remembers some important matter (for example, that he forgot to turn off the iron) and quickly leaves this place.

Hogwarts Castle is huge, has many towers and is surrounded by a battlement. Like the Weasley house, it has little in common with a building that a Muggle might build, because the entire structure is supported by magic.
Hogwarts Castle is located on a hill that slopes steeply down to the lake. The lake is located to the south of the castle, and the façade faces west. A road leads to it from Hogsmeade along the shore of the lake, going around it. There is another way to the castle - directly by water, across the lake. Thickets of ivy hide a cleft in the cliff, after swimming through which you find yourself in an underground tunnel that ends with a stone pier right under the castle. From here a large stone staircase leads up to its foot. This is how first-year students get to school.
There is no direct indication in the book in which part of Great Britain Hogwards is located. But based on the descriptions of the landscapes, the fact that the Hogwarts Express moves north, and the time this journey takes (approximately 8 hours), we can assume that Hogwarts is most likely located in Scotland.
The surroundings of the castle are quite extensive, including a large forest and many lawns scattered around the school. The size of the Hogwarts grounds can be inferred from the fact that none of the inhabitants of the castle noticed the fiery breathing and roar of a group of four angry dragons, temporarily detained for the Travisad Tournament in a pen near the forest.
The area surrounding the castle is separated by a wall or fence, this is implied by the fact that there is also a Main Gate - which is guarded by statues of winged boars.

2. In the vicinity of the Castle
Greenhouses- the possession of the head of the Hufflepuff house Pomona Sprout. Herbology classes are held here, where young wizards study the properties and learn to grow various magical plants on their own, such as mandrakes. These plants are then used to prepare Madam Pomfrey's medicinal potions and for Potions lessons.

Hagrid's Hut- Located at the very entrance to the Forbidden Forest. The path into the forest begins right behind the hut. The hut itself is a small wooden house. There is only one room in the house - it is a living room, it is also a bedroom, it is also a kitchen. Hams and gutted pheasants hang from the ceiling, a huge copper kettle sits on the open hearth, and in the corner is the owner's massive bed covered with a patchwork blanket. Hagrid shares his home with a huge dog named Fang, he himself does not know what breed it is, but he knows that he uses such dogs to hunt wild boars. Behind the house is Hagrid's vegetable garden. There, among other things, he grows pumpkins especially for Halloween. They grow to incredible sizes and are especially separated from other beds by a wooden fence.

Flight area- a large flat clearing, located under a hill at the point farthest from the Forbidden Forest. Such precautions have been taken to ensure that beginners who are just learning to fly do not accidentally end up there, since the forest is considered very dangerous.

Forbidden Forest- Students are prohibited from visiting the forest because of the great danger that lurks in it. It is inhabited by such creatures as the giant spider Aragog and his family, centaurs who treat people without much warmth, unicorns, thestrals, and the feral Ford England. According to rumors, werewolves and many other creatures dangerous for inexperienced sorcerers live there.

Lake- Located south of the castle, under the hill. The lake is approximately half a mile in diameter. The lake is inhabited by a giant squid, a merfolk, and at the bottom there is a whole settlement of grindylows (it was seen by participants in the Triwizard tournament).

Quidditch pitch- Located to the west of the castle, opposite the Forbidden Forest. Matches and training are held there. This is a whole stadium, only the rows of seats are much higher there than in a usual one, so that the audience can better see what is happening in the air. The field itself has an oval shape. At opposite ends of the field there are three golden poles with rings at the ends. These poles resemble the wands that Muggle children use to blow soap bubbles.

Whomping Willow- grows near the castle walls. Beneath this aggressive tree is another underground passage that ends right at the Shrieking Shack. A tree can be calmed by pressing on a twig at its roots. But this is difficult to do, even knowing about this secret, since she does not let anyone get close to her. It was “turned off” by pressing a knot with his paw, Crookshanks, Hermione’s cat for Sirius Black, and Lupine using a long stick. The willow tree was planted to guard the secret passage the year Remus Lupin entered school. According to it, in the days preceding the full moon, Remus, then still a schoolboy, accompanied by Poppy Pomfrey, left the castle unnoticed and remained in the hut until its end. The Ford Anglia, in which Harry and Ron once flew to school, was damaged by the blows of its branches, and Harry Potter's pride, the Nimbus 2000 broom, was completely destroyed.

3. Hogwarts: a look from the inside.
Hogwarts Castle is unusual - and how can such an ancient place, created by four of the most powerful magicians in history, be ordinary? It is completely saturated with magic, shrouded in secrets and legends. One of the legends about the Chamber of Secrets turned out to be true. And this is probably only a small fraction of what the castle still hides for the time being. Even Albus Dumbledore himself admits that although he knows about everything that happens at Hogwarts, he does not know the entire castle, and sometimes wanders through the corridors for a long time, not knowing how and where he ended up.
Like every self-respecting old castle, Hogwarts is inhabited by its own ghosts, and they coexist peacefully next to the wizards, unlike the only poltergeist in the castle, who constantly strives to annoy one of the students, or simply play a mischief.
One of the features of the castle, among others, which will be discussed below, is its corridors and stairs.

Castle corridors- long and confusing galleries. Tapestries and paintings hang on the walls, and residents constantly visit each other. There are statues and armor. At Christmas, armor is enchanted so that it sings Christmas carols.

Hogwarts stairs- There are 142 stairs in Hogwarts. Some are wide and spacious, others are narrow and rickety. Their main feature is their constantly changing direction. For example, on Friday the stairs may lead to a completely different place than where they led on Thursday. It is difficult for beginners to get used to this, and they are often late for classes because of them. There are stairs from which several steps suddenly disappear, so that you cannot walk on them in the usual way, but only by jumping over the steps. Another feature of these magical staircases is the trap steps. The students have learned them by heart, but sometimes they still forget and then the step falls through, pinching the unlucky person’s leg.

Now let's move on to a more detailed look at the structure of the lock by floor.

I. Castle Dungeons
Potions Auditorium- a large room adapted for double lessons (about 20 boilers). Along the walls there are racks filled with jars and vessels with various preserved drugs. Some banks are seeing strange movements. In the corner of the office there is a small fountain in the shape of a gargoyle, with ice water pouring out of her mouth. The classroom itself is cold, colder than other rooms of the castle located on a higher level. In winter, the temperature in the office is such that clouds of steam rise from your breath, just like outside.

Professor Snape's office and private rooms- Rooms adjacent to the auditorium. There the professor keeps his personal collection of potion ingredients.

Slytherin Common Room- a dungeon-like room with a low ceiling, the interior is made in the colors of the faculty. Located underground, under the lake. The door is hidden in a stone wall and can be opened with a password.

Chamber of Secrets- the room itself and the passage leading to it are located very deep under the school and very deep under the lake. The room was created by one of the founders of the school, Salazar Slytherin, and concealed a terrible monster - a basilisk, which has now been destroyed by Harry Potter.

Hogwarts kitchen- It is located directly under the Great Hall. The entrance to the corridor is located in the same place as in the Hufflepuff dungeon. Unlike the Slytherin dungeon, the corridor is not so gloomy, it is brightly lit with torches and cheerful paintings of food hang on the walls. In order to get into the kitchen you need to tickle the green pear in the picture with fruit, and the pear turns into a door handle. The kitchen is the same size as the Great Hall. Towers of pots and pans, polished to a shine, line the stone walls. At the end of the kitchen there is a gigantic brick fireplace. The owners of the kitchen are elves. Students, with rare exceptions, never go there. Those who come there are given food and delicacies by the good-natured elves with great joy. In the depths of the kitchen there are 4 tables, exactly under the tables of the Houses in the BZ; food is placed on them and delivered to the tables in the Hall through the ceiling.

Hufflepuff's living room and bedrooms- located down the stairs to the right of the Main Entrance.

II. Ground Castle Floor
Main entrance- double oak doors opening to the west. The large cavernous room is lit by torches; the ceiling is so high that we can barely see. A wide marble staircase opposite the entrance doors leads to the second floor. On both sides of the stairs there are two doors. To the left of the stairs is a door leading to the descent into the Dungeon. On the right - to the stairs going down to the Hufflepuff living room and the castle kitchen.
The double doors to the right of the entrance are the doors to the Great Hall. On the left (opposite the entrance to the knowledge base) there is a door leading to a small hall where first-year students are waiting for the sorting procedure into faculties.

Big hall- the place where students and teachers of the school have meals every day. Holidays and balls are held right there. At Halloween, the hall is decorated with pumpkins floating in the air, at Christmas - with fir trees and falling dry and warm magical snow. On ordinary days, the hall is illuminated by candles floating in the air above the tables. The ceiling of the hall is enchanted so that it reflects the state of the sky at the moment. Morning mail and newspapers are delivered by owl to the Great Hall. There is a table for teachers on a small dais, and the school director sits in the center. Perpendicular to it and parallel to each other are four large tables with long benches for the School Houses. On special occasions - like a dinner to celebrate the beginning of the year - the cutlery is gold. The house elves prepare food for the castle's inhabitants, but no one ever sees them setting the table. The students sit down at an empty table, and food appears by itself. Also after the meal everything disappears.
Behind the teacher's desk there is a door that leads to a small room with a fireplace and many portraits. School Champions passed into this room when their name was chosen by the Goblet of Fire.

Small Hall- opposite the BIZ, where first-year students are awaiting the sorting procedure by faculty.

Broom closet- located in the hall at the main entrance. (In the second year, Harry and Ron locked Crabbe and Goyle in it when they took on their appearance; in the third, Harry and Hermione used a time turner in this closet to hide from themselves).

Teacher's room- Entrance to it is from the hall at the Main Entrance. There are stone gargoyles on both sides of the door. It is a long room lined with wood paneling. Furnished with large dark wood chairs and a closet where teachers keep their robes for lessons.

Corridor Opposite the entrance to the Great Hall, there is at least one classroom, No. 11. A side door in this hallway leads to the courtyard where students gather during breaks.
Classroom No. 11 one of the few unused classrooms. The first lesson since Harry Potter entered Hogwarts was held after the centaur Ferenc accepted the post of professor of divination. He took this class because it was not convenient for him to walk up the stairs, and he arranged it like a forest clearing, with a starry sky instead of a ceiling.

Filch's castle keeper's office- the main attraction of the office is a systematic file cabinet with reports on the “crimes” of students and the penalties imposed on them for this. There is a separate box provided for the Weasley twins. On the wall hang shackles with chains (currently banned from use, but kept and lovingly polished by Filch just in case). The office contains a storage area for confiscated items that are prohibited for use at school. The furniture includes chairs and a table, in the depths of which the Squib owner keeps a “Tutorial on Magic.” On the table are cards prepared for recording offenses.

III. First Floor of the Castle
Defense Against the Dark Arts Cabinet

Professor McGonagall's office- up the marble stairs and straight through the hall on the first floor.

Hospital Wing- is at the disposal of the strict healer Madame Pomfrey. The entire room is filled with beds covered with snow-white linens. Screens are placed between the beds. It is also known that the Hospital Wing has a sufficient supply of such delicate items as bedpans, and Ron Weasley was once punished to clean them without the help of magic.

Cabinet of Muggle Studies

Cabinet of the History of Magic- the only interesting fact about the otherwise boring office is that Professor of the History of Magic Beans is known to be a ghost, and comes to his lessons through a black chalkboard.

IV. Second Floor of the Castle
Moaning Myrtle's toilet- not used. Rarely does anyone enter it, since the pipes often leak there and, in addition, a very annoying and whiny ghost lives in it. This is the ghost of a Hufflepuff girl, the same age as Tom Riddle, who was killed by a basilisk when the Chamber of Secrets was opened. The entrance to the dungeon leading to the passage to the Room is located in this toilet.

Empty corridor with stone gargoyle statue- leads to the school principal's office.

Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor's Office- The office windows overlook the Quidditch field. At different times I was involved in:
X for the 1991-92 academic year - Quirrell. What the office looked like in his presence is unknown.
1992-1993 academic year - Gilderoy Lockhart. The office was decorated with portraits of the owner.
1993-1994 school year - Remus Lupin. When he was in his office, there were always creatures that he demonstrated in class, for example, a grindalow in an aquarium. And also everything for tea drinking.
1994-1995 academic year - Alastor Moody (or rather Barty Crouch Jr. in his guise). The office was full of harmful scopes, developers of enemies, and a huge chest with seven locks and seven compartments, where Moody himself spent the whole year.
1995-1996 school year - Dolores Umbridge decorated the office with wall plates with pictures of kittens, knitted napkins, miniature tea cups with drawings, the splendor of the style was completed by a flowered tablecloth on the table.

Vanishing wardrobe- miraculously makes an object placed in it disappear, but not forever. Although where and when he will appear again is unknown. Fred and George put Montague there, and he was found only a week later in the toilet on the 5th floor with signs of mental confusion. As we learn from the 6th book, the cabinet is connected to the exact same cabinet from Borgin’s store in Diagon Alley, but this function did not work due to a breakdown, which Malfoy Jr. subsequently repaired.

IV. Third Floor of the Castle
Cabinet of Spells

Hunchback Witch Statue- in her hump there is a secret entrance to the tunnel leading to Hogsmidt.

Forbidden Corridor- in Harry Potter's first year of study, he was guarded by a three-headed giant dog, Fluffy.

Gallery of Armor- leads to the Trophy Hall

Trophy Hall- a hall where all award and commemorative cups, shields with coats of arms, plaques, figurines, etc. are collected, indicating the year, the name of the awardee and the name of the award. Peeves likes to misbehave not far from here, which causes Filch extreme irritation. By the way, one of the caretaker’s favorite punishments is to force the offending student to clean the trophies after lights out. The Trophy Hall is popular among students as a place for secret magical duels.

VI. Fourth Floor of the Castle
Library- Hundreds of thousands of books on tightly packed shelves. The restricted section is fenced off with ropes. You can get a book from there only with the written permission of the teacher. The librarian Madame Pince strictly monitors the students. Eating chocolate is strictly prohibited in the library.

Yenialezh Mirror Room- It is located near the library. Before it became another obstacle on the way to the philosopher's stone, the mirror showing what you want to see, Yenialezh, was here. Harry Potter found it by accident, hiding from Filch and Snape during a night foray into the Forbidden Section of the library. Harry Potter spent many nights here, looking into it. But after Dumbledore found him here, the mirror was removed the next day.

Fourth Floor Corridor- here is a painting depicting the landscape where the Fat Lady was hiding after Sirius Black attacked her. Also somewhere here there is a secret passage from the castle, hidden behind a mirror, but there, according to Fred and George, the ceiling collapsed and is now completely blocked.

VII. Fifth Floor of the Castle
Statue of Gregory the Flattering- in the East wing of the castle, where Fred and George created a magical swamp before leaving Hogwarts forever.

Statue of Boris Bestolkovy- the expression on his face is perplexed, the gloves are on the wrong hand.

Bathroom for prefects- the fourth door to the left of the statue of Boris Bestolkovy. The password is "Pine Freshness". Spacious room lined with white marble. A large, magnificent chandelier with burning candles hangs from the ceiling. In the middle of the room there is a rectangular rather deep pool, also made of white marble, at the edge closest to the entrance there is a small diving board. The pool is surrounded by hundreds of taps decorated with precious stones, from which foam flows: from one - pink and blue bubbles the size of a soccer ball, from the other - thick, elastic foam, from the third - purple clouds spreading over the very surface of the water, from another - a light stream, all of bubbles, which, barely touching the water, flew into the air and froze for a moment in a high arch. There are floor-length linen curtains on the windows, and a stack of fluffy white towels in the corner. There is only one picture on the wall of the bathroom - a blonde mermaid on a cliff; if she is not sleeping, she laughs, beats her tail and sings songs, attracting whoever is present in the bathroom at the moment. Whether this applies only to young prefects is not known.

VIII. Sixth Floor of the Castle
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IX. Seventh Floor of the Castle
Gryffindor common room- the entrance to the living room is located behind a large portrait of the Fat Lady in a pink silk dress. If you know the correct password and call it Lady, the portrait will swing open like a door and reveal a circular passage in the wall. The main colors of Gryffindor are red and gold, and the living room is furnished in these colors. There are many soft chairs, a large fireplace and tables for studying. The Floo is connected to the Floo Network, but since it is an extremely public place where students constantly socialize, study, and fool around late into the night, Gryffidors usually use owls rather than the Floo to communicate with their families. There is a notice board in the living room. It's posted as public notices, like the date of the next Hogsmeade weekend, but it's also used for private notices for students to buy or sell used books, or trade cards from Chocolate Frogs, or anything like that, like at any school.
There are two staircases leading upstairs from the living room: one to the boys' bedrooms, the second to the girls' bedrooms. The girls' staircase is under such a spell that if a boy steps on it and takes a few steps up towards the bedrooms, a sound reminiscent of a siren is heard, and the staircase is temporarily modified into something like a slide - everyone on it slides down. According to A History of Hogwarts, the founders believed that girls were more trustworthy than boys. Therefore, the girls' staircase is enchanted to prevent boys from entering the girls' bedrooms, but the boys' staircase is not. Therefore, girls can enter them without hindrance, as Hermione does, for example.
Each bedroom is a round room with four-poster beds - one bedroom for boys and one for girls of each course, making a total of fourteen bedrooms. The bedroom windows overlook the Hogwarts surroundings.

Divination Class- located in the North Tower, it does not look like a classroom, but rather something between an attic and an old-fashioned tea room. The entrance to the auditorium is through a round hatch in the ceiling of the tower platform, from which a silver rope ladder descends. The windows here are always curtained, and the lamps are draped with dark red silk, so a reddish twilight reigns in the room. There are approximately 20 round tables for students, around which there are soft ottomans and armchairs with colorful upholstery. The fireplace here never goes out, and spreads a heavy, intoxicating aroma. All sorts of strange things are placed on the mantelpiece and shelves surrounding the room: dusty bird feathers, candle stubs, plump, battered decks of cards, magic crystals and just hordes of tea cups.

Professor Flitwick's office- thirteenth window to the right of the West Tower.

Corridor- The statue of Desmond the Long to the right of the stairs leading to the seventh floor, not far from the portrait of the Fat Lady. Another of the works of art in this corridor is a moth-eaten tapestry depicting Barnabas the Twisted, fulfilling his original idea - teaching the trolls ballet, and the trolls respond by bludgeoning their teacher with clubs. The tapestry serves as a guide when searching for the Room of Help.

Room of Requirement- a magical room that opens only when someone really needs it. For Albus Dumbledore, in a moment of dire need, it was full of chamber pots; for Fred and George, hiding from Filch, it turned out to be a broom closet where they successfully hid; for Dobby, who needed a place to hide Winky, who had drunk too much butterbeer, there was a bed corresponding to the size of an elf; and for Harry and his friends, when they began to study ZOTS on their own, the room was equipped as an office with all the necessary books and equipment.

X. Towers of Hogwarts Castle
Office and personal apartments of the School Director- This is a round room with windows. The entrance to the office is located behind the statue of a stone gargoyle on the second floor of the castle, which opens with the password “lemon drop” - the favorite delicacy of the current owner of the office. Behind the passage that opens behind the statue is a spiral wooden staircase, which, like an elevator, slowly lifts the visitor to the office. On the walls of the room hang portraits of previous school leaders, who are often quietly dozing. Portraits, despite their relationship to whoever is the director at the moment, are obliged to show solidarity and provide all possible assistance, having such an opportunity as moving between their images located in various places not only of the school, but of all magical buildings and institutions. In the director's office there are a lot of silvery instruments, the purpose of which the owner himself has probably already forgotten. On the shelf lies the Sorting Hat, which once belonged to Godric Gryffindor, and hides his own sword - which only a true Gryffindor can remove from the hat. Myslesliv is hidden in one of the lockers - where the director stores his thoughts and memories. In a place of honor is a perch where Dumbledore's favorite phoenix, Fawkes, lives, a bird with enormous magical potential. The office is furnished with a massive desk and armchairs.

West Tower- this upper part of this tower is completely given over to owls; both school barn owls and students’ pets live here. This is where the Hogwarts Owlery is located.

North Tower- an auditorium for divination and the personal apartments of Sybil Trelawney.

Gryffindor Tower- students' bedrooms, living room.

Astronomy Tower- the tallest tower, located somewhere in the area of ​​the Central Entrance to the castle. Astronomy lessons are held on the tower site every Wednesday at midnight. In his first year at Hogwarts, Harry sent the dragon Norbert to Romania with Bill Weasley's friends from this tower.

Ravenclaw Tower- located in the western part of the castle. There, with approximately the same arrangement as in Gryffindor, the living room and bedrooms of the faculty are located.

There was no curfew yet and not everyone was in the living rooms. Olga followed one of the late Slytherins. He was a tall, stern boy, with delicate features, a sharp long nose and cold, black eyes. He walked with a sharp, precise gait, like a military man. So they went down the stairs into the dungeon, where an elderly bat was sitting at the door. She asked for the password, to which she received the answer: “Green mask,” and the door opened by itself. The fireplace was burning inside. It was gloomy and strict. And on the green leather sofa, sitting behind a book, was a boy already familiar to us.

Olga quietly sat down next to him. The springs of the sofa next to Fred could be seen lowering, but he did not see it himself. Meanwhile, the all-clear sounded and everyone went to their rooms. Fred hesitated a little, as something invisible pressed his robe to the sofa.

Hey hello. - Olga whispered to him. Fred shuddered and froze in the “okay, let’s figure it out” position.

Olga, is that you? - Fred asked quietly.

Yes. - she whispered.

What are you doing here?

I came to you.

W-to me? - Fred hesitated, and bewilderment froze on his face. -W-Where are you anyway?

Cloak. Invisibility cloak.

The same one?

Yes. - Olga quickly answered and looked around to see if anyone was there.

You can't go here.

So what? I am Olga Potter...!

Let's not talk about this. - she added embarrassedly.

They started talking about something else. They talked for a long time. Whisper. Sometimes Fred hid with Olga under the cloak from the prefects.

But suddenly their conversation turned to the past of Hogwarts, about the battle for Hogwarts, about their parents. Fred told Olga everything that had been hidden in his heart for so many years. All the pain, melancholy, despair and sadness poured out in just half an hour.

Slytherin doesn't like me. At Hogwarts too. In general, why am I in the world if no one needs me? - Fred said, looking at the moon with sad eyes.

Do not say that.

I ended up in Slytherin, Olga, in the worst house in all of Hogwarts!

Look at your robe, Fred, it has the Hogwarts symbol embroidered on it, not Slytherin. You are a wizard, you are one of us. We are with you. I'm with you. - Olga said, looking briskly into Fred’s gray eyes. Suddenly she jerked and hugged him, pressing him tightly to her. Fred was confused, his hand hovered over Olga's shoulder. Nobody ever hugged him. He was touched and hugged Olga back, closing his eyes and feeling warmth and gratitude in his soul.

It was night outside the window. Numerous bright stars were burning in the sky, reflected in the dark lake, illuminating the tops of the Forbidden Forest, falling beyond the edge where good old Hagrid’s hut stood. There was peace, quiet and silence all around. And soon everything plunged into oblivion and sleep, succumbing to the influence of a quiet starry night...

Slytherin is one of the houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Those students who were prone to intrigue and had a cunning and resourceful mind ended up there. And, of course, most of the students were purebred wizards. Although there were exceptions. Therefore, the so-called “purity of blood” was not a prerequisite for selection.

Brief overview of the faculty

It was founded by one of the creators of Hogwarts. However, unlike others, he believed that the secrets of magic should only be taught to wizards. Therefore, the most purebred magicians studied at this faculty. The Slytherins were not inferior to the Ravenclaws in intelligence (it was in Ravenclaw that the most inquisitive and smart students were), but study was not their priority.

Slytherins stood out for their ambition and often disregard for moral principles. Therefore, it is believed that most dark wizards studied in their faculty. The coat of arms of their faculty depicts a snake, which personifies cunning and resourcefulness. And the colors of Slytherin are green and silver. The Dark Lord and all the Death Eaters studied in this faculty, and this further complicated relations with other faculties. During Harry Potter's time, the heads of Slytherin were Severus Snape and Horace Slughorn, who taught Potions.

Features of the living room location

All faculties had common living rooms - this is where all the students gathered and discussed the news of school life. But getting into the territory of another faculty was not so easy: you had to know the entrance and password.

The Slytherin common room and all other house rooms are located in the Hogwarts dungeons. Students rarely descended into these dungeons except for potions classes. But even if someone wanted to take a walk there, they would not be able to get into the faculty: the corridor was a dead end.

But behind this dead end there is a secret door that led to the Slytherin living room. To get there, you had to know the password. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley visited the Slytherin common room in the second part thanks to Polyjuice Potion. And the password was the phrase "Pure Blood", which emphasized the importance of the student being a pure blood wizard.

Brief Description of the Slytherin Common Room

All rooms are located under the Black Lake, so the light in the rooms is greenish. The rooms have low ceilings and are decorated in green tones, because this is one of the colors of the faculty. In the photo of the Slytherin living room you can see that it is a tastefully furnished room.

The walls are decorated with tapestries depicting the exploits of Slytherins during the Middle Ages. Along the walls there are cupboards made of dark wood. But despite the fact that there are fireplaces in the Slytherin living room, the atmosphere itself is cold and uncomfortable. Magic lamps illuminate the room with a cold greenish light.

All the furniture in the Slytherin common room is upholstered in green fabric. The sofas are black leather and are also upholstered in dark green fabric. The Slytherin common room in Harry Potter appears in the second and seventh parts - when the boy himself finds himself in it along with Ron Weasley with the help of Polyjuice Potion. In the seventh part, when he was caught by Fenrir Greyback, he pretended to be a Slytherin. To be believed, Harry described the living room and gave the password to enter the faculty.

Special warming spell

Since all Slytherin rooms are located in the dungeons, they are constantly cold. Therefore, all Slytherins use a special warming spell, thanks to which they create and retain heat in various objects. This makes students feel more comfortable. Some believe that it was created by Salazar Slytherin. Although he believed that students should be kept strict. Therefore, most likely the students themselves came up with it.

The Slytherin living room, like all other rooms, has its own distinctive features from other faculties. Of course, gloomy dungeons do not add coziness and comfort to the environment. But at the same time, the greenish glow and splashing water (the rooms are located under the Black Lake) create a calming effect and allow you to concentrate on your studies. And through the windows overlooking the underground lakes of the castle, you can observe amazing creatures, for example, giant squids and other underwater inhabitants. Like other houses, Slytherin had its famous alumni of whom it was proud, and they are depicted in the tapestries that adorn the walls.