Was Salazar Slytherin a dark wizard?

No, he isn't a Dark Wizard. There is no evidence that Salazar Slytherin was a Dark wizard, nor was he interested in the Dark Arts. He built the Chamber of Secrets and hid the Basilisk in there to rid Hogwarts of muggle-borns and half-bloods, because blood-purity was very important to him.
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Was Salazar Slytherin a good wizard?

He was regarded as one of the greatest wizards of the age, respectively as a Parselmouth and as a skilled Legilimens. Slytherin was one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry along with Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw. He was also the namesake of the Slytherin House.
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Who is the darkest wizard in Harry Potter?

In recent history, two Dark Wizards of particular notoriety were Gellert Grindelwald and Lord Voldemort. Both were considered the most powerful Dark Wizards of their time, with Voldemort considered to be the most powerful Dark Wizard of all time.
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Is Salazar Slytherin a villain?

Type of Villain

Salazar Slytherin is the posthumous overarching antagonist of the Harry Potter franchise. He is one of the four founders of Hogwarts who founded the House of Slytherin and the ancestor of Lord Voldemort.
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Who is stronger Salazar Slytherin or Godric Gryffindor?

They are both undoubtedly, two of the greatest wizards who ever lived and it would be nigh impossible to predict who'd come out on top, in a duel. There is no scale of comparison between the two's magical prowess, in the books, so the answer is inconclusive. That's all. That's everything.
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How did Salazar Slytherin get a basilisk?

Salazar Slytherin's basilisk was born in the chamber, as revealed by Aragog. Slytherin, in his spite of the his fellow founders' acceptance of muggle-borns into the school, left a basilisk deep in the chamber, in hopes that one day his true heir will unleash her to purge all they deem unworthy to study magic.
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Is Salazar Slytherin related to Tom Riddle?

Through his mother's family, he is the last descendant of the wizard Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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How are basilisks born?

The basilisk is alleged to be hatched by a cockerel from the egg of a serpent or toad (the reverse of the cockatrice, which was hatched from a cockerel's "egg" incubated by a serpent or toad). In Medieval Europe, the description of the creature began taking on features from cockerels.
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Was there a dark wizard before Voldemort?

The villain in the "Fantastic Beasts" movies is Gellert Grindelwald, who played a small but crucial role in the "Harry Potter" series. He was the wizarding world's biggest villain before Voldemort came along. In his youth, Grindelwald was friends with Albus Dumbledore, who was in love with him.
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Are there any dark wizards from Hufflepuff?

Hufflepuff has produced the least amount of Dark wizards

Although Hufflepuff is not exactly known for its glorious victories in the Hogwarts House Cup, it gets points for not producing that many evil wizards, Death Eaters, and Lord Voldemort-types.
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Who was the most powerful dark wizard before Voldemort?

Here are The 20 Most Powerful Dark Wizards In Harry Potter Ranked From Weakest to Strongest.
  1. 1 Delphini Riddle.
  2. 2 Tom Riddle. ...
  3. 3 Gellert Grindelwald. ...
  4. 4 Gormlaith Gaunt. ...
  5. 5 Salazar Slytherin. ...
  6. 6 Severus Snape. ...
  7. 7 Corvinus Gaunt. ...
  8. 8 Bartemius Crouch Jr. ...
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Is Harry related to Godric Gryffindor?

Harry is descended from both Salazar Slytherin (through his mother) and Godric Gryffindor (through his father).
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Did any Slytherins fight in the Battle of Hogwarts?

Nope. When they were "locked up in the dungeons", that was only in the movie. The book shows that the Slytherin's were evacuated with the rest of houses, since none of their "of age" members wanted to stay and fight.
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Who is Salazar Slytherin heir?

Voldemort was Salazar's heir, and as far as it is explained, he is taking up the mission in the way he believes Salazar had intended, with the Chamber and the Basilisk.
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Is nagini a basilisk?

Nagini is one of many snakes featured in the series

After all, the great Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets was a huge snake, bred with Salazar Slytherin's intent to murder Muggle-borns. The Dark Mark, Lord Voldemort's 'sign', was a skull with a snake tongue.
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Why do spiders fear basilisk?

It has been theorised that spiders fear Basilisks because arachnids can see nearly 360-degrees around them and cannot shut their eyes, leaving them extremely vulnerable to the monster's killing gaze.
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Can Voldemort look at the basilisk?

Conclusion; neither Tom Riddle, Harry Potter, or any other person who can talk Parseltongue is immune to the stare of a Basilisk.
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Who is the true heir of Ravenclaw?

Andrea Deanisi as Wiglaf Sigurdsson, the Heir of Rowena Ravenclaw.
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Who is the true heir of Hufflepuff?

The Heir of Hufflepuff was none other than Cedric Diggory, who was well on his way to fulfilling the prophecy of the Heir of Hufflepuff when he was tragically murdered by Peter Pettigrew.
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Is Tom Riddle half-blood?

Tom Riddle has a witch mother and a Muggle father, making him a half-blood wizard.
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What was the password used to get into the Slytherin common room?

The entry password was "Pure-blood" when Draco Malfoy let them in.
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Who created the first basilisk?

One of the earliest accounts of the basilisk comes from Pliny the Elder's Natural History, written in roughly 79 C.E. He describes the catoblepas, a monstrous cow-like creature.
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Why did Salazar create the Chamber of Secrets?

Why did Salazar Slytherin arm the Chamber of Secrets with a Basilisk? If the main reason was, as the legend says, to "let his heir purge those who were unworthy to study magic" (i.e., kill Muggles) it seems woefully inefficient and needlessly complicated. There had to be a better way than that!
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