Much of what we know of the Founder's time is shrouded in mystery, but there is no doubt Slytherin House has been a hostile place for Muggleborns, with overall fewer Muggleborns sorted there than any other house. However, there have been periods of history where Muggleborns were tolerated and sometimes even embraced. Nobby Leach, the first and thus far only Muggleborn Minister of Magic, serving between 1962 and 1968, was a member of Slytherin House. Muggleborn Slytherin Sir Ignatius Calvin Kendall, one of the most premiere epidemiologists of the magical world, discovered a smallpox vaccine two years before the Muggles and is believed to have worked behind the scenes to accelerate the invention of the Muggle vaccine.
In the past millennia, Slytherin has been noted for zigging where others expected it to zag. Just when people think they've gotten a handle on Slytherin House, that is when the Sorting Hat changes everything around. Cunning and ambition are traits that are universal and constant. Not every ambition, however, is particularly grand. Harry Potter's ambition, much to the surprise of this reporter, is to run a fish and chips shop.
"That's it?" this reporter asked him incredulously. "You don't want to be, like, Minister of Magic? Or slay dragons? Or discover even more uses of dragon's blood?"
"What the heck have dragons ever done to me?" Harry demanded. "Do you have some sort of grudge against them? Did a dragon kill your sister and now you've sworn a blood oath against the entire draconic community? Cause if that's the case, then my condolences, but dragons are awesome, so I really can't help you."
This reporter coughed and tried to direct Harry discreetly back onto the track of the actual question at hand. This happens quite a lot, this reporter has found. Harry believes he has what the muggles refer to as ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, meaning he has, among other things, problems on focusing not enough and sometimes too much.
"Look, I'm just a normal kid," Harry said, seemingly ignoring the fact he survived a Killing Curse when such a thing was widely considered to be impossible. "I have normal dreams. I'm sorry if that's a disappointment. I'm sorry if you were expecting some sort of titanic battle of good versus evil. But that's not going to happen. I'm not a child of prophecy or a chosen one. I'm not the lord of multiple houses or heir to Merlin or whatever Chemtrailsarereal style ridiculousness people come up with next. I'm just Harry Potter."
"And what do you say to people who think you're insulting the memory of your parents by not being sorted into Gryffindor house?"
At this point, Harry swung his arms, with clenched fists, from the back of his body to the front on each side in a movement several of this reporter's Muggleborn contemporaries referred to as a "floss" and announced that "haters" could "get rekt" [sic]. Then he gave a rude gesture and backflipped away.
Not everyone is so pleased at having Harry in Slytherin as he is. Headmaster Dumbledore expressed grave concerns about Harry being placed in a house "subsumed by darkness." He lamented that such an action did not serve the "greater good" and when asked what that meant, he just looked at this reporter with pure puzzlement, called her by a completely different name and said, "It is for the greater good that the greater good not be defined."
Far be it from this reporter to speculate on the headmaster's mental state, but things are not looking good for him. Or greater good.
When asked about what she expected to see from Harry in the future, Divination professor Sybill Trelawney levitated into the air, smoke came out of her mouth, and she said in a portentous tone "WHEN THE MOON IS IN THE SEVENTH HOUSE AND JUPITER ALIGNS WITH MARS, THEN PEACE WILL GUIDE THE PLANETS AND LOVE WILL STEER THE STARS." Then she floated away. We can only assume Professor Trelawney either is foreseeing an age of prosperity brought upon by the return of Muggleborns to Slytherin or she has completely lost whatever scant marbles she previously possessed.
Though these are not the only options. When asked his opinion about which of these options he considered to be correct, newly appointed Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Quirinus Quirrell said, "Both. Both is good."
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