Slytherin common room. The Slytherin common room is like a palace. Special warming spell

Students hold court there, discussing their ambitions and scandals. But upon returning to that regal setting, each of them realizes that behind these walls - beyond this dignified, furious shield that protects the Slytherin family - is an ugly, cruel real world that is going to separate them. But there is no fear: the Slytherins will be known there for their experience and cunning, which they have 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 the place where they prepare each other for the world beyond the walls.

Attention! Only if the Slytherins have a palace, then the Hufflepuff's living room is like a cozy house. Somehow, their pillows are fluffier, their fireplaces warmer, the sofas softer, and the atmosphere cozier than all the departments put together. They readily welcome all guests. The interior is bright, cheerful and open. In this room you can feel love and support. The Hufflepuff Lounge is a haven in the storm, where you can take a break from the tiring journey, get all the food you need and endless comfort. HP Harrypotter.

1. Hogwarts Castle: history and location
Hogwarts - a school of witchcraft and wizardry, founded over a thousand years ago - the exact date is not known - by two great magicians - 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 Muggle eyes. He is enchanted so that if a Muggle looks at him, all he sees is the ruins of an old castle, with an inscription above the entrance: "Danger! Do not approach!". There are Muggle-repellent charms around Hogwarts and Hogsmeade - when approaching the zone of their action, the Muggle remembers some important matter (for example, that he forgot to turn off the iron) and leaves this place in a hurry.

Hogwarts Castle is huge, has many towers and is surrounded by battlements. Like the Weasley house, it has little in common with a building that a Muggle would 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 facade faces west. A road along the lake shore leads to it from Hogsmeade, skirting it. There is another way to the castle - straight across the water, across the lake. Thickets of ivy hide a crevice in the cliff, swimming through which you find yourself in underground tunnel, which ends with a stone pier right under the castle. From here upward, to its foot, a large stone staircase leads. In this way, first-year students get to school.
In which part of the UK is Hogwarts located in the book there is no direct indication. But based on the description of the landscape, the fact that the Hogwarts Express is moving north, and the time that this journey takes (approximately 8 hours), it can be assumed 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 breath and the roar of a group of four angry dragons, temporarily sent for the Trivisad Tournament in a paddock near the forest.
The territory surrounding the castle is separated by a wall or fence, which 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- Pomona Sprout, dean of the Hufflepuff house. 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 healing potions and for Potions lessons.

Hagrid's hut- Located at the very entrance to the Forbidden Forest. The path to the forest starts 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 a bedroom, it is also a kitchen. Hams and gutted pheasants hang from the ceiling, a huge copper kettle stands on an open hearth, and in the corner is a massive bed of the owner covered with a patchwork quilt. Hagrid shares his home with a huge dog named Fang, he himself does not know what breed she is, but he knows that he uses such dogs to hunt wild boars. Behind the house is Hagrid's 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.

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

Forbidden Forest- The forest is forbidden for students to visit 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, the feral fordik 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 about half a mile in diameter. They live in the lake: a giant squid, merfolk, at the bottom there is a whole settlement of grindylow (it was seen by participants in the Triwizard tournament).

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

Whooping Willow- grows near the walls of the castle. Under this aggressive tree is another underground passage, ending right at the Shrieking Shack. A tree can be pacified by clicking on the twig at its roots. But this is difficult to do, even knowing about this secret, since she does not let anyone close to her. She was "turned off" by pressing a twig with her paw Crookshanks, Hermione's cat for Sirius Black, Lupine - with a long stick. The willow was planted to guard the secret passage the same year Remus Lupin entered the school. According to him, 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 it ended. From the blows of its branches, the Ford "England" suffered, on which one day Harry and Ron flew to school, and the pride of Harry Potter - the Nimbus 2000 broom - completely died.

3. Hogwarts: inside view.
Hogwarts Castle is unusual - and how can such an ancient place, created by the four strongest magicians in history, be ordinary? It is all 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 hides for the time being. Even Albus Dumbledore himself admits that although he knows everything that happens at Hogwarts, he does not know the whole castle, and it happens that he wanders along 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 ghosts, and they peacefully coexist next to the wizards, unlike the only poltergeist in the castle, who constantly strives to annoy one of the students, or just to play a dirty trick.
One of the features of the castle, among others, which will be discussed later, is its corridors and stairs.

Castle corridors- long and intricate galleries. Tapestries and paintings hang on the walls, the inhabitants of which constantly go to visit each other. There are statues and armor. Armor at Christmas is bewitched so that they sing Christmas carols.

Hogwarts stairs There are 142 stairs in Hogwarts. Some are wide and spacious, others are narrow and rickety. Their main feature is a constantly changing direction. For example, on Friday, the stairs may not lead to 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 in the usual way one cannot walk on them, but only by jumping over the steps. Another feature of these magical stairs is the trap steps. The students learned them by heart, but sometimes they still forget and then the step falls through, pinching the unlucky one's leg.

Now let's move on to a more detailed consideration of the castle device by floors.

I. Dungeons of the Castle
Potionmaking Auditorium- a large room adapted for double lessons (for about 20 boilers). Along the walls are racks filled with jars and vessels with various canned drugs. There is a strange movement in some banks. In the corner of the office there is a small fountain in the form of a gargoyle, ice water pours from its mouth. The class itself is cold, colder than other rooms of the castle located above the level. In winter, the temperature in the office is such that clouds of steam rise from breathing, 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 in the dungeon, under the lake. The door is hidden in a stone wall, opens with a password.

Chamber of Secrets- the room itself and the passage leading to it is 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 hid a terrible monster - the basilisk, which is currently destroyed by Harry Potter.

Hogwarts kitchen- Located directly under the Great Hall. The entrance to the corridor is in the same place as in the Hufflepuff dungeon. Unlike the Slytherin dungeon, the corridor is not so gloomy, brightly lit by torches and cheerful pictures of food hang on the walls. In order to get into the kitchen, you need to tickle the green pear in the fruit picture, and the pear turns into a doorknob. The kitchen is equal in size to the Great Hall. Towers of polished pots and pans line the stone walls. At the end of the kitchen is a gigantic brick hearth. The masters in the kitchen are elves. Students, with rare exceptions, never go there. For those who come there, good-natured elves with great joy give food and treats. In the back of the kitchen there are 4 tables, exactly under the tables of the Houses in the BC, on them the food is placed, delivered to the tables in the Hall through the ceiling.

Living room and bedrooms of Hufflepuff- located down the stairs to the right of the Main Entrance.

II. Ground Floor of the Castle
Main entrance- double oak doors opening to the west. A large room resembling a cave is lit by torches; the ceiling is so high you can barely see it. A wide marble staircase opposite the entrance doors leads to the second floor. There are two doors on both sides of the stairs. To the left of the stairs is a door leading to the descent into the Dungeon. On the right - to the stairs descending 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 BZ) is a door leading to a small hall where the first years are waiting for the sorting procedure into faculties.

Big hall- a place where meals are held daily for students and teachers of the school. Holidays and balls are held right there. On Halloween, the hall is decorated with pumpkins floating in the air, on Christmas - with Christmas trees and falling dry and warm magical snow. On ordinary days, the hall is lit by candles hovering above the tables in the air. The ceiling of the hall is enchanted in such a way that it reflects the state of the sky at the moment. Morning mail and newspapers are delivered by owls to the Great Hall. On a small elevation there is a table for teachers, in the center sits the director of the school. 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 in honor of the beginning of the year - the cutlery is gold. House elves prepare food for the inhabitants of the castle, but no one ever sees how they set the table. Students sit at an empty table, food appears by itself. It also disappears after eating.
Behind the teacher's table is a door that leads to a small room with a fireplace and many portraits. It was into this room that School Champions passed when the Goblet of Fire chose their name.

small hall- Opposite the BZ, where first-year students are waiting for the sorting procedure by faculties.

Broom closet- located in the lobby at the main entrance. (In their second year, Harry and Ron locked Crabbe and Goyle in it when they assumed their guise; in their third year, Harry and Hermione hid from themselves using the time-turner in this closet).

teacher's room- Entrance to it from the hall at the Main Entrance. Stone gargoyles stand 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.

The corridor opposite the entrance to the Great Hall, there is at least one classroom, number 11. A side door in this hallway leads to the courtyard where students gather during recess.
Classroom #11 one of the few unused classrooms. The first lesson since Harry Potter entered Hogwarts took place after the centaur Ferenc entered the position of professor of divination. He took this class because it was not convenient for him to walk up the stairs, and 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 - a systematized card file with reports on the "crimes" of students and penalties imposed on them for this. There is a separate box for the Weasley twins. There are shackles with chains hanging on the wall (now banned from use, but preserved and lovingly polished just in case by Filch). In the office there is a repository of confiscated items prohibited from use at school. From the furniture there are chairs and a table, in the bowels of which the owner-squib keeps the "Self-Tutorial on Magic". On the table are cards prepared for recording offenses.

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

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

hospital wing- is at the disposal of the strict healer Madam Pomfrey. The entire room is lined with beds covered in crisp white linens. Screens are placed between the beds. It is also known that in the Hospital Wing there is an abundance of such a delicate item as bedpans, and once Ron Weasley received the punishment to clean them without the help of magic.

Office of Muggle Studies

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

IV. Second Floor of the Castle
Moaning Myrtle Toilet- not used. It is rarely visited by anyone, as pipes often leak there, and besides, a very annoying and whining ghost lives in it. This is the ghost of a girl from Hufflepuff, 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 in this toilet.

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

Office of the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor- office windows look out onto the Quidditch field. AT different time did:
X to 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 academic year - Remus Lupin. During his stay in the office there were constantly creatures that he demonstrated in the lessons, for example, grindalow in an aquarium. As well as 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, in fact, Moody himself spent a whole year.
1995-1996 school year - Dolores Umbridge decorated the study with wall plates with pictures of kittens, knitted napkins, miniature tea cups with drawings, the magnificence of style was completed by a flowered tablecloth on the table.

vanishing closet- miraculously causes the object placed in it to disappear, but not forever. Although where and when he will appear again is unknown. Fred and George put Montagu in there, and he was found only a week later in the toilet on the 5th floor with signs of clouding his mind. As we learn in Book 6, the closet is connected to the exact same closet in Borgin's store in Diagon Alley, but this function of it didn't work due to a breakdown that Malfoy Jr. later fixed.

IV. Third Floor of the Castle
Spell Cabinet

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

forbidden corridor- in the first year of Harry Potter, he was guarded by a three-headed giant dog Fluffy.

Armor Gallery- leads to the Trophy Hall

Hall of Trophies- a hall where all award and commemorative cups, shields with coats of arms, tablets, figurines, etc. are collected, indicating the year, the name of the recipient and the name of the award. Peeves likes to mess around around here, which irritates Filch to the extreme. By the way, one of the favorite punishments of the caretaker is to force a delinquent student to polish trophies after lights out. Among students, the Hall of Trophies is popular 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. It is strictly forbidden to eat chocolate in the library.

Enialež Mirror Room- Located near the library. Before becoming yet another obstacle to the Philosopher's Stone, the mirror that showed what you want to see, Enialej, was here. Harry Potter found it by accident while hiding during a night out into the Restricted Section of the library from Filch and Snape. Harry Potter had 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 is a secret passage from the castle, hidden behind a mirror, but there, according to Fred and George, the ceiling collapsed and now it is completely blocked.

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

Statue of Boris Stolkovy- facial expression - bewildered, gloves are worn on the wrong hand.

Headmen's bathroom- the fourth door to the left from the statue of Boris Stolkovy. Password - "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 springboard. The pool is surrounded by a hundred 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 jet, all of bubbles, which, barely touching the water, flew up into the air and for a moment froze in a high arch. There are floor-length linen curtains at the windows, and a pile of fluffy white towels in the corner. There is only one picture on the bathroom wall - a blonde mermaid on a cliff, if she is not sleeping, she laughs, beats her tail and sings songs, enticing whoever is present in the bathroom at the moment. Whether this applies only to young elders 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 name it Lady, then the portrait swings open like a door and reveals a round 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 classes. The fireplace is connected to the Fireplace Network, but since it is an extremely public place where students constantly socialize, study and fool around, until late at night, Gryffidors usually use owls to communicate with their families, not a fireplace. There is a bulletin board in the living room. They are posted there as public announcements, such as the date of next weekend in Hogsmeade, but also used for private announcements by students to buy or sell used books, or exchange cards from the Chocolate Frogs, or something like that - like at any school.
Two staircases lead up 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 resembling a siren is heard, and the stairs temporarily change into a kind of slide - everyone on it slides down. According to the Hogwarts History, the founders believed that girls were more trustworthy than boys. Therefore, the girls' stairs are enchanted to prevent the boys from entering the girls' bedrooms, but the boys' stairs are not. Therefore, girls can enter them freely, 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, for a total of fourteen bedrooms. The windows of the bedrooms overlook the Hogwarts neighborhood.

Divination class- located in the North Tower, it does not look like a classroom, but rather something in 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 are always drawn here, and the lamps are draped in dark red silk, so the room is filled with a reddish twilight. Approximately 20 round tables are intended for students, around which soft ottomans and armchairs with colorful upholstery are placed. The gamine here never goes out, and spreads a heavy, intoxicating aroma. All sorts of strange little things are placed on the mantelpiece and shelves encircling the room: dusty bird feathers, candle stubs, plump, shabby decks of cards, magic crystals and just hordes of tea cups.

Professor Flitwick's office- the thirteenth window to the right of the Western tower.

The corridor- The statue of Desmond Lanky is 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 Vzdryuchenny, performing his original idea - teaching trolls to ballet, the trolls in return bludgeon their teacher with clubs. The tapestry serves as a guide when searching for the Help-room.

Room of Requirement- a magical room that only opens 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 drank 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 OTTS on their own, the room was equipped as an office with all the necessary books and devices.

X. Towers of Hogwarts Castle
Office and personal apartments of the Director of the School is a round room with windows. The entrance to the study is located behind the statue of a stone gargoyle on the second floor of the castle, which opens with the password "lemon slice" - a favorite delicacy of the current owner of the study. 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 are portraits of the previous leaders of the school, who often doze quietly. Portraits, despite their attitude to who 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 placed 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 some kind of silvery devices, 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 in itself his own sword - which only a true Gryffindor can extract from the hat. In one of the lockers, the Mindspill is hidden - where the director keeps his thoughts and memories. In a place of honor there is a perch where Dumbledore's favorite lives - a phoenix named Fawkes, a bird with colossal 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 pupils' pets live here. Here is the Hogwarts Owlery.

north tower- an auditorium for divination and Sibyl Trelawney's private quarters.

Gryffindor Tower- students' bedrooms, living room.

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

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 still no lights out and not everyone was in the living rooms. Olga followed one of the belated Slytherins. He was a tall, stern boy, with delicate features, a sharp, long nose, and cold, black eyes. He walked with a sharp, clear gait, like a military man. So they went down the stairs to the dungeon, where an elderly bat was sitting at the door. She asked for the password, to which she received in response: "Green Mask", and the door opened by itself. A fireplace was burning inside. It was dark and austere. And on the green leather sofa, one boy, already familiar to us, was sitting at a book.

Olga quietly sat down beside him. You could see the sofa springs lower next to Fred, but he didn't see it himself. Meanwhile, the all-clear sounded and everyone went to their rooms. Fred hesitated a little, as something invisible pressed his robes to the sofa.

Hey hello. Olga whispered to him. Fred shuddered and froze in the "so, let's figure it out" position.

Olga, is that you? Fred asked quietly.

Yes. she whispered.

What are you doing here?

Came to you.

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

Cloak. Invisibility cloak.

The one?

Yes. - Olga answered quickly 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 it. she added embarrassedly.

They talked about something else. They talked for a long time. Whispers. Sometimes Fred hid with Olga under a cloak from the elders.

But suddenly they were talking about 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, longing, despair and sadness poured out in just half an hour.

Slytherin doesn't like me. At Hogwarts too. In general, why do I exist in the world if no one needs me? said Fred, 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's embroidered with the badge of Hogwarts, not Slytherin. You are a wizard, you are one of us. We are with you. I'm with you. said Olga, looking briskly into Fred's gray eyes. Suddenly she twitched and hugged him, holding him tightly to her. Fred was confused, his hand hung over Olga's shoulder. Nobody ever hugged him. He was touched and hugged Olga back, closing his eyes and feeling warm and grateful in his soul.

It was night outside the window. Numerous bright stars burned in the sky, reflected in the dark lake, illuminating the tops of the Forbidden Forest, falling behind the edge on which stood the good old Hagrid's hut. All around was peace, calm and silence. And soon everything plunged into oblivion and sleep, succumbing to the influence of a quiet starry night...

Slytherin is one of the faculties of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Those students who were prone to intrigues, possessed a cunning and dodgy mind, got there. And, of course, most of the students were pure-blood wizards. Although there were exceptions. Therefore, the so-called "purity of blood" was not a prerequisite for selection.

Faculty Overview

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

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

Features of the location of the living room

All faculties had common living rooms - it was there that 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 rooms of the faculty are located in the dungeons of Hogwarts. These dungeons were rarely visited by students, except for Potions classes. But even if someone wanted to take a walk there, they could not get to the faculty: the corridor was a dead end.

But behind this dead end there is a secret door that led to the Slytherin common room. To get there, you had to know the password. Harry Potter, along with Ron Weasley, visited the Slytherin common room in the second part thanks to the Polyjuice Potion. And the password was "Pure Blood", which emphasized the importance of a student being a pureblood 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 are low ceilinged and decorated in green tones, because it 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, which depict the exploits of the Slytherins, committed in the Middle Ages. Against the walls are sideboards made of dark wood. But despite the fact that there are fireplaces in the Slytherin common room, the very atmosphere in it is cold and uncomfortable. Magic lamps illuminate the room with a cold greenish light.

All 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 is in it with Ron Weasley using a 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 for the entrance to 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 the students feel more comfortable. Some believe that Salazar Slytherin created him. Although he believed that students should be kept in strictness. Therefore, most likely it was invented by the students themselves.

The Slytherin common 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 atmosphere. But at the same time, the greenish glow and the splash of water (after all, the rooms are located under the Black Lake) create a calming effect and allow you to focus on your studies. And through the windows overlooking the underground lakes of the castle, you can watch amazing creatures, for example, giant squids and other underwater inhabitants. Like other houses, Slytherin had its famous alumni that it was proud of, and they are depicted on the tapestries that adorn the walls.