“Or perhaps in Slytherin You'll make your real friends, Those cunning folks use any means To achieve their ends.” “And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.” “Said Slytherin, ‘We'll teach just those Whose ancestry's purest.’ ” “And at last there came a morning when old Slytherin departed and though the fighting then died out he left us quite downhearted.” The Sorting Hat’s songs (of 1991, 1994, and 1995, respectively) paint a rather negative view of the House of Green and Silver. Though, do the readers of J.K. Rowling’s famed Harry Potter series actually understand the infamous house? Cunning. Slytherins are cunning. The word itself is defined as artfully subtle or shrewd; crafty; sly, although, the informal definition of …show more content…
Need one say more? After a youth of enduring his father (A Muggle who was believed to be abusive to both Eileen Snape, née Prince, and Severus, whilst also possibly an alcoholic or drug addict.) and four Gryffindors dubbed the Marauders, Severus took the Dark Mark and became a Death Eater, despite being a Half-Blood. Though, after overhearing Professor Sybill Trelawney’s prophecy about a certain child born as the seventh month dies, Severus informed his master, the Dark Lord, only to suffer repentance when Voldemort decided that Harry Potter, son of Lily Potter, née Evans, also known as his one true love, was the Chosen One. Severus pleaded to Albus Dumbledore to hide the family and the man agreed, but only if Severus would turn spy for the Order. From then on, Severus Snape spent the rest of his life protecting the Potter child, even while mistrusted by Death Eaters for being so close within the Order and hated within the Order due to his past as a Death Eater. Severus Snape, the man who protected the series’ protagonist throughout said series, was a Slytherin. Harry Potter himself refers to Severus as “the bravest man I ever knew”. Severus used his resourcefulness, cunning, ambition, self-preservation, cleverness, and fraternity to protect Harry Potter and the Order for the greater good, disproving the idea that all Slytherins are evil (even if they may be dour Potions Masters). Under Dumbledore’s instruction, Severus also delivered the Sword of