Chapter 231 The Heir of Slytherin

In the Gryffindor common room, the members of Dawn did not return to the dormitory to rest. Instead, they sat around the still-burning fireplace, waiting for Ada to return.

The attack happened too suddenly. Although everyone didn't like Filch, they were still uneasy about what happened to Mrs. Norris, and the attack occurred very close to the classroom where they were active.

It was past eleven o'clock at night when Ada returned to the common room.

As soon as she entered the lounge, she saw the members in front of the fireplace. She walked over and sat next to Fred and George.

"How was it?" Fred asked, "Did Dumbledore discover anything?"

Fred's question represents the voice of everyone. Everyone wants to know the truth about the attack and who the murderer is.

Ada shook her head and said: "Mrs. Lollys has been petrified. When the mandrake matures, it will be able to jump up and down in the castle and stare at the students again. However, Dumbledore didn't know Lolly either. How did Madam Si become petrified?"

"Is the Chamber of Secrets really open?" George thought for a moment and continued, "I remember I once heard Bill say that there is such a secret room in Hogwarts."

"Then does anyone know what is going on in this so-called 'secret room'?" Angelina asked, "Who is the heir?"

Everyone was shaking their heads. No one knew what the secret room was like, or even whether it really existed.

Records about the Chamber of Secrets have never appeared in any books related to the history of magic. There are only some mentions in some unofficial histories and legends. These few words only say "There is a Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts", and that's all. For the search for The secret room serves no purpose.

The secret room is like a campus legend or campus myth. It is passed down by word of mouth, but no one has ever found it, let alone made it public.

"Regardless of the secret room, I think if we want to continue our activities, we probably need a new place." Ada said.

The classroom for dawn activities is on the third floor, very close to the place where Mrs. Norris was attacked. No one knows whether the murderer has any special habits. Whether he likes to look back on his criminal process and relive his crimes. on site.

In order to ensure everyone's safety, the classroom on the third floor is not in use for the time being.

"Well, leave this matter to us." Fred said, "We will find a more secluded place as soon as possible where we will not be threatened by the heirs or disturbed by Filch."

"Before we find a new place, let's suspend our activities." George also said, "Everyone is very tired during this period, so we just need to take a rest."

The attack was not forgotten by the students with the arrival of dawn. In the next few days, all the students were talking about Mrs. Norris, looking for clues about the secret room.

Filch always wandered around the place where Mrs. Norris had an accident, trying to catch the murderer who dared to hurt Mrs. Norris. His temper also became much more violent, and many innocent students were "poisoned" by him.

If there was anything that struck Ada as strange, it was probably that Ginny had overreacted to what had happened to Mrs. Norris. Ada knew that Ginny had always liked small animals, but she had only been at school for two months and had not seen Filch's cat very much. How could she have such a deep affection for this cat?

Since August, Ginny has been acting strangely, and Ada has found that she can't understand Ginny more and more.

There have been more students in the library recently. Books about Hogwarts such as "Hogwarts: A School History" have been borrowed by students, and the number of people who have registered to borrow them has been queued up. Half a month later.

Ada also dove into the library, but she went to the restricted book section.

But even in the forbidden book area, there aren't many records about the secret room. After spending several days in the library, Ada just figured out the origin of the secret room.

Hogwarts School was founded more than a thousand years ago by the four greatest wizards of the time. Four houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin.

They built this castle together, away from the prying eyes of Muggles, because at that time, ordinary people were afraid of magic and wizards were persecuted a lot.

However, slowly there were differences between them, and the rift between Slytherin and others became wider and wider. Slytherin wanted Hogwarts to be more selective in its admissions. He believed that magical education should be limited to pure wizarding families. He was unwilling to accept Muggle-born children, believing them to be unreliable.

Some days later, Slytherin and Gryffindor had a heated argument over this issue, and Slytherin left the school.

Before leaving school, Slytherin secretly built a Chamber of Secrets. After leaving the school, he sealed the secret room so that no one could open it until his true heir came to the school.

Only that heir can open the secret chamber and release the horrors inside, allowing it to purify the school and eliminate all those who are unworthy of learning magic.

That's all Ada found, not much use, but better than nothing. All the legends about the secret room do not mention where the entrance to the secret room is, nor what the monster in the secret room is.

The investigation into the secret room seemed to have hit a bottleneck, and Ada could not find any more detailed content.

For centuries, school officials have been investigating the existence of the Chamber of Secrets, but have found nothing. A group of top wizards spent hundreds of years without finding it, and it was even less likely that Ada would be found within a few days.

Now that the clue of "secret room" is broken and unable to continue the in-depth investigation, Ada can only shift her focus to another clue, who is the "heir".

Slytherin's admissions standards and educational philosophy defined a range for Ada, and Ada felt that the heir should be a pure-blood.

So Ada began to read books such as "Born Noble, Wizard Genealogy", hoping to find the heir hiding in the dark through the wizard family genealogy.

Although these genealogy books are not as detailed as those compiled by each pure-blood family, there are still a lot of names waiting for Ada. These names make Ada look bigger than her head.

Ada just wanted to ask: Why are there so many people with the same name? Why do you like to name your descendants after their predecessors? Can't there be another way to commemorate it?

Looking at those so-and-so lives, so-and-so second lives...or even so-and-so several lives, Ada wanted to curse. She always looked at it and had questions: Isn't this person dead? Why does he appear again?

In addition, Ada also discovered the intricate kinship relationships between various pure-blood families. She discovered that the Weasley family, the Malfoy family, the Potter family and the Malfoy family were all related.

Although she knew that pure-blood families would adopt incest marriage to maintain their so-called purity in order to ensure the purity of their blood, Ada really didn't expect that the relationship could be so complicated.

Sure enough, I was still too young and had too little experience.

Everyone knows the dangers of incest marriage, which will greatly increase the probability of recessive genetic diseases and increase the probability of infant deformities.

But even so, the pure-blood family still ignored this danger (or did they never know about it?) and showed everyone the dangers of incest marriage.

But I have to admit that marriage between close relatives can still be passed down for so many years. There is really something about a pure-blood family.

The hard work paid off. Just when Ada's mind was filled with "consanguineous marriage" and "a certain number of lives", she finally found some clues. She found what she thought was the "heir of Slytherin".

Morfin Gaunt, the last member of the Gaunt family to appear at Hogwarts, a man who was imprisoned in Azkaban after killing Muggles, and the last clearly recorded descendant of Slytherin.

With the death of Marvolo Gaunt at home and the death of Morfin Gaunt in Azkaban, the Gaunt family disappeared, and there was no longer a student named Gaunt in Hogwarts.

The descendants of Slytherin are gone, who is the heir of Slytherin now?

Wait, Ada suddenly remembered a name, a name that had long been forgotten - Tom Marvolo Riddle.