Nine: Bellatrix

Slytherin is the most infamous of the Houses. It always has been, and it always will be. Slytherin was a pureblood, a true pureblood; he was the one that paved the way for my master's creed and beliefs.

Slytherin is the best of the four Houses; it was – and still is – my House… my master's House… the House of my forefathers and of many more great purebloods besides. All the wizards and witches who are worth mentioning are Slytherins; that is a fact, not a matter of opinion. (Well, all bar Merlin and Morgana, both of whom lived before Hogwarts began.)

There is a reason that Slytherin is so infamous and yet so revered; we are ambitious and we are cunning: we are sly and we are opinionated: we know what we want and we know how to get it; and, of course, we are elitist. Slytherin has always been the smallest of the Houses, partially because of their fear of us, partially because of our founder's wish for only the elite to become part of his House.

Grindlewald was a Slytherin, did you know that? He didn't go to Hogwarts; he went to Durmstrang. Our founder founded not only our House at Hogwarts but another House at Durmstrang also. None of the other founders did that, did they? No, they did not, and so that stands as another monument to the greatness of Lord Salazar Serpens Slytherin.

But back to the topic of Grindlewald: he too was a Slytherin, and he had enough sense to do away with mudbloods and muggles. But of course that mudblood lover Albus Dumbledore had to step in a kill him.

Grindlewald was not the only Dark Lord to come from the noble House of Slytherin. Lord Voldemort Gaunt Slytherin too came from Slytherin's noble, pure House. He is the most powerful Wizard to walk this earth since Merlin himself, so far as we all know. The Dark Lord too is trying to rid the world of mudbloods, and he, unlike Grindlewald, is succeeding. Albus Dumbledore tried to stop the Dark Lord in the way that he defeated Grindlewald, but he did not win that time. That mudblood-loving fool is now dead.

You see, we of Slytherin are proud. We are elitist and we are pure. Yes, I am a Slytherin, and I know that I will be rejoicing when we have rid this world of mudbloods, when we have trounced the other Houses, when we have won this war. And I know that we will win, because we are Slytherins.


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