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Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory.

Today we'll be discussing five famous Slytherin witches and wizards who went on to make history.

Within the wizarding world, anyone referred to as simply a Slytherin, is a current or former

student of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, who assaulted into Sutheran House

upon their arrival at the school.

The House of Sutherin is representative of one of the four founding members of Hogwarts,

Salazar Sutherin, a powerful wizard who believed in magical blood purity and argued that

only pure blood families should be offered enrollment at the school.

As such, many people associate Sutherans with cruel, dark, or simply prejudiced witches or

wizards.

Unfortunately, this view of Sutherans is further supported by the sheer number of graduates

who went on to become entangled with dark magic.

But it's important to note that that's not always the case.

There are lots of good witches and wizards who have been former Slytherin students, some

of which will touch on in today's video.

So with that in mind, let's take a look at five famous Sutherans who made history.

5. The Bloody Baron.

Today the Bloody Baron is likely more well known as the apparition version of himself, the

Sutheran ghost that currently haunts the halls of version of himself, the Slytherin ghost that currently haunts

the halls of Hogwarts. However, the Bloody Baron, whose real name is unknown, was once a student

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