Chapter 185 Slytherin’s dusty past

"Want to hear the details." Dumbledore smiled.

"This story begins with the ruins of an ancient wizard that Salazar accidentally discovered when he was traveling..."

Dracula's mellow voice sounded slowly, as if a heavy curtain on the stage had been opened——

Salazar Slytherin had always loved traveling, and for good reason.

When he was very young, as one of the most talented wizards of that era, he easily surpassed the teacher who taught him magic in a short time. As his strength grew, his ambitions also expanded.

Slytherin was not willing to stay in a corner, so he found a way to get rid of his magic teacher and began to travel around the magic world, hoping to find some like-minded friends and learn more advanced and powerful magic.

It was under such circumstances that he met the other three founders of Hogwarts, Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff.

In addition to these three people, he also met a confused aristocratic young man in Romania during his trip to Romania, that is, Dracula, who had just discovered that his physique had changed.

Later, Slytherin and the other three founders established the oldest magic school in Europe -

Hogwarts.

These four founders, plus Dracula at the time, these five beings with almost the most top magical talents in the world established a very good friendship. It was also the most relaxing and comfortable time in Slytherin's life.

However, he is still a Slytherin after all, possessing all the qualities that the Slytherin Academy values ​​when selecting talents - shrewdness, selfishness, interests first, ambition, and the pursuit of strength...

Unlike Ravenclaw, who stays in the library all day and is passionate about researching knowledge, and different from Hufflepuff, who is content with the status quo and likes to make delicious food and save various magical creatures. Both he and Gryffindor are It is a character that cannot bear loneliness.

But even though they are also restless masters, Gryffindor, who loves to go on adventures everywhere, still has his heart tied to Hogwarts. Whenever an adventure is over, he will return to Hogwarts and feel at ease. Teach students for a period of time.

But Slytherin is different. He didn't want to spend his whole life in Hogwarts, the magic school, teaching students all day long without seeing any room for further improvement in strength.

So he bid farewell to the other three founders alone and embarked on the path of seeking strength and progress.

Until one day, during his travels, Slytherin discovered a ruins left by an ancient wizard.

There is a lot of knowledge left by the owner of the ruins in that ruin, and there are various experiences about black magic. These magics gave him a new perspective on learning magic, allowing him to find a possibility to further improve his strength...

Slytherin later learned that those were the relics left by the despicable Herbo.

Slytherin learned a lot of magical knowledge from the magical experiences left by Halbo, most of which were about black magic.

He even integrated some of the magical creations left by Haierbo into his own bloodline, giving himself the ability to talk to snakes, and hatched a basilisk using toads and eggs.

After returning to Hogwarts, Slytherin no longer paid attention to the academic performance of the students, but devoted almost all his body and mind to the process of studying the dark magic left by Halbo.

Due to the long-term study of the influence of black magic, Slytherin's character became more and more paranoid and irritable. He gradually developed rifts with the other three founders, and there were more and more conflicts between them...

The conflict finally broke out over Hogwarts' admissions issues.

Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff all believe that they can recruit Muggle-born wizards to study at Hogwarts, because these children have magical talents and the magic in their bodies will increase with grade. Large and constantly growing.

If they are not taught to use their magic properly, magic riots and other phenomena are likely to occur, which will have a negative impact on their bodies, and even more serious situations may lead to the emergence of Obscurus.

But Slytherin did not agree with their philosophy.

He believes that young wizards of Muggle origin are basically in the Muggle world. They have Muggle family members, Muggle friends, and Muggle cognition. If they are recruited into the magic world rashly, it is very likely that Huo Huo will be exposed. The existence of Gwarts makes the Muggle organization that specifically opposes wizards pose a threat to Hogwarts Castle.

At that time, an unprecedented conflict broke out among the founders.

Gryffindor believed that Slytherin was crazy about dark magic, so he didn't think about the future development of Hogwarts at all; Hufflepuff also complained that he had lost his compassion and allowed those who could have become a member of the wizarding world. The little wizard who is a member of the Muggle world fends for himself.

After a quarrel with Gryffindor, Slytherin also lost all patience, packed up his things and left the Hogwarts Castle where they had countless memories.

He didn't even take away his most proud student at the time, but entrusted it to Ravenclaw to take care of him... That student later made a very serious mistake and became the current ghost, Bloody Baron.

However, even after Slytherin left, his feelings for Hogwarts still existed.

So he kept the basilisk in the secret room where he secretly conducted experiments in the castle, hoping that his descendants could use this big snake to turn the tide when the Muggles invaded.

He himself entered the Forbidden Forest and built a huge building complex, leaving all the magical heritage left by Haierbo in this building complex. He also set up many snake guards who relied on magic to protect this area. There is room for countless magical lore to remain untouched.

And these snakes are specially prepared for his descendants.

One day, if someone really discovers this extremely hidden area, then he can inherit all the magical knowledge inside this building complex, including the lifelong learning of the despicable Halbo and Slytherin. All the magic!

However, what Slytherin did not expect was that none of his descendants would be able to find this area, so that it was completely reduced to ruins a thousand years later and became the name of Harry, Rolf and other young wizards. Ruins, just like when he discovered the remains of Haierbo.

In fact, Dracula was not very involved in the stories of the four founders of Hogwarts.

At that time, he had gradually accepted his identity from a human to a vampire, so he returned to Romania from Scotland to gather other vampires who had appeared under the influence of the plague-like disaster at that time.

Those vampires transformed by disasters are different from the most common vampires. Most of them still have the consciousness of being human beings, but they are not tolerated by the conservative human society at that time.

In addition, these vampires have just been transformed, and most of them are unable to make full use of their natural abilities. There has never been another vampire with the pure bloodline and the same superb magical talent as Dracula, so most of their lives are in poverty and wandering around. flee.

For this reason, after Dracula returned to Romania, he returned to the castle left by his family and gathered all the vampires in Dracula's castle.

He referred to the Hogwarts model and placed a large number of protective spells around the castle, making the castle a pure land for vampires and vampires.

When Dracula had almost settled everything in Romania, he returned to Hogwarts, but what he saw was a fragmented scene——

Slytherin broke with the other three founders and left Hogwarts; Ravenclaw was heartbroken over the death of his daughter Helena, and eventually fell ill in bed; Gryffindor was a little disheartened, Seclusion in Godric's Hollow...

When Dracula returned to Hogwarts, only Hufflepuff continued to accept house elves into Hogwarts and worked hard to make this magic school in order.

However, at that time, Dracula still looked like a young man, as handsome, handsome and elegant as when the four first met, but Hufflepuff had turned into an old woman.

Since then, Hogwarts has established the position of principal and began to select outstanding graduates from Hogwarts graduates to become principals.

To this day, a statue of the first headmaster is still preserved in Hogwarts Castle to commemorate him.

Dracula also deeply felt the harshness and coldness of time, and left Hogwarts with complicated thoughts. He was the first to discover the buildings left by Slytherin in the Forbidden Forest, and found a large number of them. The black magic knowledge left behind by Haierbo.

In a sense, the remains left behind by Haierbo are the introduction and fuse of all this fragmentation.

So for more than a hundred years, Dracula searched for traces of the despicable Herbo all over the world.

He had already learned from the records left by Slytherin that the despicable Herbo had created a Horcrux, so it was very possible that he had not died like several of the founders of Hogwarts.

It was precisely because of his search for Herbo that Dracula later met the famous wizard in ancient Greece, the invincible Andros.

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"Although he is addicted to black magic, Salazar is still more principled than Herbo and Voldemort." Dracula sighed and said softly, "He did not choose to split his soul until the end of his life, creating A Horcrux that can give people the so-called 'immortality'."

Compared to Voldemort and Herbo, Slytherin was simply more noble.

Most of his black magic experiments were actually just to improve his own strength. They had never interfered with others, let alone used wizards to help him conduct dangerous experiments.

If he had other purposes, it was for the stability of Hogwarts Castle.

Whether it is the basilisk in the secret room or the complex of buildings arranged in the Forbidden Forest and built based on the magic system of Hogwarts Castle, a large part of the reason is to better protect the castle from infringement.

Even for black magic experiments that were considered cruel by the other three founders, Slytherin's experimental materials used animals with little intelligence, and there were very few things that were harmful to nature.

In comparison, Voldemort and Herbo relied on killing people to make Horcruxes just to obtain their own "immortality", which seemed too cruel.

Not only that, even Voldemort's Horcruxes are interested in the relics left by Slytherin.

In the first half of the semester, when Riddle was discovered by Rolf using trapping magic in the Forbidden Forest, it was actually to discover the place left by Slytherin.

He had almost all the memories of Voldemort's time at school. At that time, young Tom Riddle found many secrets about their ancestors in the old house of the Gaunt family. Naturally, he knew that Slytherin had left behind in the Forbidden Forest. A complex of buildings containing a large amount of black magic knowledge, which is a most precious treasure for dark wizards.

Therefore, Riddle wanted to learn where the ruins of Slytherin were by luring the snakes in the Forbidden Forest and communicating with them in their old snake dialect.

But what he didn't expect was that the guardian beasts in Slytherin's ruins were all made of stone. They were not real creatures and would not be affected by the trapping magic.

Because of this, it seems that Riddle is doomed to achieve nothing...

"The four founders are really admirable wizards..." Dumbledore nodded slightly and sighed, "Today I really opened my eyes. I learned from the people who experienced it about the four people who lived in Hogwarts a thousand years ago. The past of a founder.”

"Do you have any idea to go in and take a look? Most of the things Salazar left are here." Dracula asked softly.

"With pleasure," said Dumbledore.

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The next morning, the fog from last night had dissipated, and the weather was bright and fresh.

In the light blue and clear sky, small clouds form white waves, and the water of the black lake sparkles under the breeze, shining like silver.

The intersection of the lake and the hills on the horizon seemed to still have traces of the rosy morning sun. The morning glow faded away like a tide, leaving only a clear and empty sky.

Sunlight streamed in through the cracks in the windows of Gryffindor Tower, shining on the scar on Harry's forehead and on his slightly closed eyes.

Harry woke up from a deep sleep and subconsciously covered his eyes with one hand. He couldn't help but think about last night's adventure.

Thinking about it now, last night seemed like crazy. There was not even a professor in the entire castle, and there was no one to turn to.

And in a flash of his mind, he easily agreed to Rolf and Ginny's request for help, followed them to a forbidden place that no one had ever discovered, and fought with a large group of snakes and a fire dragon.

Fortunately, the end result was good. They successfully found Luna, who had been missing for a whole day, and brought her back to Hogwarts.

Thinking of this, Harry couldn't help but think of Ginny's calm expression in panic when she was attacked by the fire dragon, and of her panic-filled expression when she was worried about her behavior.

"If you think about it, Ginny seems pretty pretty too..." Harry murmured to himself as he lay on the bed.

"What...what's wrong with Ginny?" At this moment, Ron said to the bed confusedly.

He didn't seem to be fully awake yet, but he vaguely heard Harry's beeping, so he asked casually.

But Harry didn't want him to know what he thought of Ginny. This little son who came to Wes's house was very precious to his sister. It would be difficult to explain if he was misunderstood by his best friend.

"It's nothing, just go back to sleep, Ron." Harry said, "Today is Saturday, there are no classes to attend, and the exams will officially start in two days."

"What, today is Saturday?" Ron suddenly jumped up from the bed, "Then why are you still lying here, Harry, there is a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin today!"

"What?!"

After Ron, Harry also jumped out of bed.

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When Harry came to the Quidditch pitch carrying his broom, the game was about to start.

This is the last Quidditch match before the final exam. According to the usual practice in previous years, everyone often comes here to relax and face next week's exam with a more positive attitude.

But today, the little wizards were not in high spirits, and the auditorium at the Quidditch stadium rarely looked empty.

It is true that Gryffindor, the defending champion team, had an unsatisfactory record this year. Harry, last year's best seeker, was in really bad shape. Everyone could basically predict that Sri Lanka would be the best. Trin's victory.

When he walked to the locker room, Harry saw that the team members here looked a little listless. When they saw Harry coming in, most of them squinted their eyes and stopped paying too much attention.

Even captain Wood, who has always been the most enthusiastic, even fanatical, about winning the game is the same.

He didn't even come to remind Harry to get up in time this morning, which was undoubtedly an extremely abnormal thing!

Harry could understand their feelings. After all, he didn't even participate in the last Quidditch training before the game last night, and his performance was really poor, so he couldn't be harsh on these teammates.

Gryffindor has lost the chance to enter the finals this season. He should have finished this game listlessly like his teammates, and then went to prepare for next week's final exam.

But after last night's adventure, a sense of unwillingness to admit defeat suddenly arose in his heart.

"I'm going out." Harry changed into the red Gryffindor uniform and said to his other teammates.

Except for Fred and George who nodded slightly, the other teammates paid no attention to what he was going to do before the game.

Harry sighed, said nothing, mounted his Nimbus 2000 and flew straight to one of the Hufflepuff stands.

This is where the Hufflepuff Quidditch team uses to watch and analyze other teams' games.

"Good morning, Cedric." Harry landed and walked to the tall and handsome fourth-year boy.

He was slightly stunned when he saw a beautiful black-haired little witch in a blue collar sitting among a group of Hufflepuff badgers with yellow collars.

It was the Cho Chang that Harry had thought about day and night.

But when he saw Qiu Zhang sitting next to Cedric today, he rarely felt sad. Instead, he felt relieved and emotionally relaxed. He even had the mood to nod and say hello to Qiu Zhang. .

Qiu Zhang was also stunned for a moment, then smiled and narrowed her eyes, and nodded to Harry as well.

"Harry?" Cedric asked curiously when he saw the Gryffindor Seeker in front of him, "Shouldn't you be warming up before the game now? How come you have time to come to us?"

"Time is running out, Cedric, I need to make sure of one thing." Harry did not answer his question and asked directly, "How much higher is your team's current total score than Slytherin?"

"A total of two hundred and ten points." Cedric said, "Why do you ask?"

He felt a little embarrassed when he said this point difference, because these points differences were basically obtained from the Gryffindor team.

"I know." Harry nodded thoughtfully and said,

"In this case, if we don't let Slytherin score any points in this game, does that basically mean that you can seal the victory?"

Cedric and Qiu Zhang on the opposite side suddenly opened their eyes.

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