Is Voldemort a descendant of Salazar Slytherin?
Is Voldemort a descendant of Salazar Slytherin? Though Voldemort is a descendant of both Salazar Slytherin and Cadmus Peverell, there is no evidence that Slytherin is an ancestor of Peverell. Slytherin built the Chamber of Secrets to allow his heir to purge the school of Muggle-borns. What was Salazar Slytherin Patronus? His patronus would be a lion, the same symbol as the Hogwarts House which would go on to bear his name. Salazar Slytherin: I think he'd have a basilisk as his patronus. I mean, he liked the beast enough to encase it in a secret chamber under the school...