Slytherin

[sroni]

Imagine that you’re at Hogwarts for the first time, and the Hat goes on your head. “I’m so sorry,” it whispers to you, before saying loudly, “Slytherin!”

It’ s your first year. You’ve won the House Cup and you’re getting ready to celebrate.

And then Professor Dumbledore awards just enough points to take the win away from you, with no warning to

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[draconin]

Yes indeed. Albus & his stupid policies have a great deal to answer for on both sides of the fence. Nicely portrayed.

[sroni]

Honestly, the Slytherins have always fascinated me. I know that we're told that Snape cheats so the Slytherins can win, but we hear it mostly from Gryffindors. It occurred to me that maybe he's simply trying to even the playing field, giving his House points that were unfairly taken away from them, giving them points they're not allowed to get anywhere else.

Dumbledore had a lot to worry about. I don't think that any of his actions were maliciously intended. But I don't think he ever really stopped to think about how things like Harry's first end of school feast would effect the Slytherins who'd had no warning.

[snogged]

This was a really excellent portrayal. Nicely done.

[sroni]

Thank you very much. :D

I've always wanted to know more about the Slytherins that weren't bad. I think that there should be quite a few of them.

One of my favourite head canons is that Moody was a Slytherin.

[snogged]

I've always felt connected to the Slytherin house and I love that the sorting hat placed me there when I joined Pottermore.

[sroni]

I'm really more of a Ravenclaw than anything else, but I took a really in depth "Which House do you belong to" quiz about a week ago and I'm actually pretty evenly across the board (I think I wound up with 28% Ravenclaw, 25% Gryffindor, 24% Hufflepuff, and 23% Slytherin; maybe not exactly that but it was really damn close everywhere). But In always felt like the Slytherins got the raw end of a deal, tbh, in the books and the movies.

As much as I love the books, and am gkad that JK wrote them, I can't help but wonder how they would have been if a more experienced writer wrote them. Or even if she herself went and wrote them again now.

[ozma914]

Well done! My wife the Slytherin would approve.

[sroni]

Thank you very much! In actually started writing a thing on Tumblr and it turned into this.