Hello. You may be thinking to yourself, "but aren't slytherins sick, manipulative, lying bastards?" but I am here to tell you that you are wrong (and why). First of all, if you have gone thus far in life believing that all slytherins are inherently evil then I assume you are not very familiar with what it means to be a Slytherin, and that you didn't pay too much close attention when reading the bools, if you read them at all. Some values of slytherin house include ambition (which is necessary for advancement in your own life and the collective life of our planet), resourcefulness, cunning (not a bad trait), determination, and cleverness. Now, rather than analyzing a bunch of characters that you probably didn't pay attention to who are canonically good slytherins, instead, imma tell you about my mom. My beautiful mother, whom I am actually convinced is a God sent angel, is a slytherin. Without a shadow of a doubt. She checks all of the boxes. She was raised in a religious cult, was mentally and physically abused every day, was spanked for minute "transgressions" from the age of 3 MONTHS onwards. She graduated highschool at 16 and began working to save money so that she could get away from her home. She raised enough money to get a car but then her parents took it to pay off their debt. She married my dad when she was 18 so that she could get away. It quickly became evident that my dad was abusive and mentally unstable. My older sister, my twin brother and I had already been born so she stayed in the marriage. She had no college education and was a stay at home mom. We had one car that my dad took to work all day so we had to get around on trolleys and buses and by foot. We lived in a 2 bed house that was falling to pieces as more babies were born. (5 of us in total). The water and electricity were always getting turned off so we would walk to the laundromat, my mom with 5 little babies. During the summer we would haul water that was left in the above ground pool and boil it on the stove so we could wash the dishes. We grew a lot of vegetables and kept chickens because food was cheaper that way. My mom would sew us clothes and dolls and knit too. My dad refused to help around the house most of the time so my mom would be the one fixing the leaks and anything else that broke. She did the cleaning too, all by herself. Then, when I was like 9 ish, she decided she needed to get a job so that she could by the things we needed instead of begging my dad for $20 dollars to buy groceries. She began teaching at a preschool and taking child development classes at the community college. She cleaned houses, nannied, and taught at the preschool while going back to school. She finally began to divorce my dad when I was 12 but she couldn't take us lids with her because she didn't have enough money or a place to stay. She would come back every day to get us ready for school, to clean the house, to take us to the beach. She began taking care of a quadriplegic man and pursuing a degree in nursing. She was finally able to take me with her when I was 14, and got the rest of my siblings the following year. She found a condo and was able to rent it by telling the landlord she had 2 kids, there were 5 of us. She had to go to court and prove that she and my dad had been married under common law because there had been an error in the initial paperwork and technically they weren't legally married. She struggled with alcoholism and had a stroke, forcing her to quit all of her jobs and school, she had finished all of the general sciences and was ready to begin the rn training. Ad her alcoholism worsened, she checked herself into rehab and quit, she's now over a year sober. Both of my sisters attempted suicide (at different parts of this long story) and had been checked into rehab, my brothers both have awful anger issues. My mom got us food stamps and into government housing so that she could stay home and take care of everyone and make sure no one tried to kill themself. We get $30,000 a year in child support for a family of 6, that puts us under the poverty line in the US. (We live in socal so everything is super expensive.) Her fiance is the only thing keeping us afloat. She does love him, it's not just for the money, but we all know we wouldn't even be able to pay a month's rent without him. My mom has worked hard her entire life to get out of the awful situations that she has been placed in. She is resourceful. She is ambitious. She is determined, she is clever. And she is a slytherin. Anyone should be happy, ecstatic, HONORED to be placed in the same house as my mother. And there are plenty more slytherins just like her. Don't you dare say that slytherins are evil or I will fucking fight you with my bare fists of fury, I swear to god, you will feel pain. Sincerely, a VERY angry Hufflepuff
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