c-has-a-blog:

I wonder how many kids are Slytherin by necessity. Like, they grew up in a house where they always had to be clever and cunning to figure out the right thing to say, the right way to act that day to not set their parents off, to figure out how to quickly diffuse bad situations, to find quick ways to escape an escalating argument. Kids that became ambitious in wanting to get away and be better than their parents as their drive. Give me THOSE Slytherins stories.