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• PRIDE. AMBITION. CUNNING.
• Emblem: the serpent, the wisest of creatures.
• Colours: emerald green and silver.
• You've got the potential to be great.

Slytherin is a house made up of people who want something or someone or some goal desperately or are made up of a myriad of little wants.

• Slytherins are tied to wanting, craving, and not necessarily in a bad way or in a way that’s ambitious.
• Slytherins also struggle with the idea of worth and whether or not they have done enough to deserve the things they want.
• Sometimes, these wants are secret.
• Slytherins are often caught up in this wanting and this worth, and cannot see that they are already loved, completely and wholly, for who they are.

When Slytherins care for someone, they care for that person with everything they have in them.

• Slytherins are linked to identity, changing themselves to meet their needs and the wants of the world around them.
• They have specific people that are theirs, and their circle of actual trust may be rather small, even if their friend/associates/resources group is a wide network.
• They are inherently a protective house like Hufflepuffs for those that they care about most, and for all their wanting.

Advice for the Slytherins:

• Recognize that for all the shapeshifting of the self you do, you can be exactly who you want to be if you just give yourself permission. Who would you be in a dark room without any mirrors? How would you dance? How would you dress, for just yourself? Of course, that doesn’t mean you have to change your life tomorrow. It just means, sometimes, starting in little ways, take back a little bit of ground from the world. "This part is me. This part is mine. You aren’t allowed to have it." It can be quiet. But you are worth so much, and you are yours. You are just as much of a person as anyone else, and you have already earned love because you never had to earn it in the first place.