In the world of Harry Potter, it is well known that Gryffindors and Slytherins are as opposites as the Montagues and Capulets of Romeo and Juliet, the Sharks and Jets of West Side Story, or the O’Timins and O’Hara. Lucky Luke! But where does this antediluvian hatred that still persists among fans of the bespectacled wizard come from?
In the Harry Potter novels and films, it seems clear that Gryffindors and Slytherins hated each other for many years before Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter faced each other in their first year at Hogwarts.
The entire story is narrated by J.K. In Chapter 9 of Rowling’s second novel (“Warning”). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
From Mr. Binns, the ghost and professor of the history of magic, we learn that the houses of Gryffindor and Slytherin have had a very strong rivalry since their founders Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin disagreed to open Hogwarts to everyone.
Salazar supported the need for purity of blood in wizards, believing that Muggle-borns could not be trusted and that magic should be reserved for pure-blood wizards.
Tom Riddle
Purebloods are wizards, there are no muggles between their parents and grandparents. Muggles are people who have no magical powers.
After this disagreement, Salazar left the school. But, according to legend, he would leave the Chamber of Secrets he had created, a mysterious chamber of secrets that only the Heir of Slytherin could open. The rest is told in the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Professor McGonagall’s class
In the feature film, it’s Minerva McGonagall (Maggie Smith) who tells us the “lore” about the founding of Hogwarts and the House, but she takes a shortcut. According to him, Slytherin quarreled with representatives of the other three houses, where in the novel it is clear that the conflict was really between Salazar and Godric.
This left a mark that can be felt in the behavior and thinking of Draco Malfoy, who considers himself superior to most of the other students and does not hesitate to point out Hermione’s lack of purity of blood. Granger insults him in the “Mudblood” Chamber of Secrets, right, then again in the Goblet of Fire.
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