Hogwarts Architect
I'm intrigued by the fact that he seems to have placed statues of himself all over Hogwarts.
He can be found in front of the entrance hall, in Hesperius hall and in front of the charms classroom.
You can clearly see that all these statues are of the same man. He is very recognizable with his super snazzy, tripartite beard and the rolled up papers representing the plans to Hogwarts that he holds in one of his hands.
In the other hand, he always hold something different: a miniature version of Hogwarts in front of the entrance hall, a star in hesperius hall, which makes sense because Hesperius means evening star, and a globle in front of the charms classroom. Not sure why he is holding the globle there but it might be to represent a planet since the Astronomy tower is just behind where this statue is.
Anyway, all of this makes sense. Then there is this:
There is a huge statue of him in the Slytherin common room, in the place of honor in the middle of this huge staircase to the prefect's bedroom. Why?
I mean, there is no statue of him in any of the other common rooms. And it's not like he was a Slytherin himself. He build the castle, so he was already an accomplished wizard before Hogwarts was created. He couldn't have been sorted into Slytherin. So why place a statue of himself in this common room in particular and not the others?
Also, why is he holding a skull? He could have just been holding a snake to represent Slytherin, but no. Why hold a symbol representing death?
It's also the fact that this statue is huge and placed at this point of focus for the entire common room. You litterally can't miss it. I've seen many videos of people doing tours of the slytherin common room and they usually say this is a statue of Merlin or of Salazar Slytherin and that's what you would expect, right? They are both super famous Slytherins. But instead there is a statue of a man that wasn't even sorted into this house.
I'm just saying, it is intriguing...
