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Chapter 72 Slytherin Descendants
The whole classroom exploded.

This class is shared by Gryffindor and Slytherin students. When Harry speaks Parseltongue, basically all Slytherin students know what it means.

"Parseltongue!"

"Potter is a Parseltongue!"

"The person who opened the secret room must be him!"

"No wonder Draco was attacked! He's taking revenge!"

Even on Gryffindor's side, except for those who were born in Muggle families, everyone else looked at Harry with strange eyes.

Seamus, who shared the bedroom with Harry, muttered to himself.

"No wonder you wanted to run out of the auditorium that night. It turned out that you really opened the secret room!"

Harry looked blankly at these people who accused him. He still didn't understand why he was suddenly accused by thousands of people.

"what are you guys saying?"

Even Ron beside him looked at Harry with a serious face, but there was no fear or suspicion in his eyes, which made Harry feel a little relieved.

"Everyone shut up!"

Sherlock's indifferent voice instantly quieted down the classroom that was originally chaotic like a vegetable market.

But there were still Slytherin students, who raised their hands boldly and said.

"Professor, Potter is a Parseltongue! This proves that he is the one who opened the secret chamber!"

Sherlock, who has searched a lot of information about snake-like magical creatures, naturally knows what Parseltongue represents.

Almost every Parseltongue is a dark wizard, and Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders who founded Hogwarts, is also a Parseltongue, which is also a member of Slytherin College. One of the reasons why the representative animal is a snake.

And the Parseltongue can be inherited along with the family blood. In the current Hogwarts, whoever shows the ability of the Parseltongue is very likely to be the descendant of Slytherin.

"In the whole world, Slytherin is not the only one who has a Parseltongue, Mr. Nelson." Sherlock said lightly, "If you rely on this alone, you will accuse Potter of crimes. Mo, the Chief Wizard will also acquit Potter."

"But the person with the Parseltongue is indeed the biggest suspect in the heir of Slytherin! I think at least Potter should be locked up just in case!" Slytherin said insistently.

Sherlock's tone had begun to turn cold.

"Whoever advocates will provide evidence. If you have conclusive evidence, needless to say, temporarily lock Potter up, I can take him to the Auror Command of the Ministry of Magic right now! But only with the plausible evidence of Parseltongue, with Why limit Potter's personal freedom."

"And are all of you Headmasters of Hogwarts?"

He glanced coldly at the students who wanted to say something more.

"After this class is over, I will truthfully tell Dumbledore everything that happened just now. How he will deal with this matter will naturally have his own choice, and what you have to do now is just tell me Sit down and go to class honestly!"

The majesty that Sherlock usually accumulated among the students played a role at this time, and no one dared to continue to say anything, but they obviously couldn't listen to the rest of the class.

After class, Sherlock was about to leave the classroom with the cage containing the rune snake, when Harry hesitated to find him.

"Thank you for helping me out, Professor."

Sherlock waved his hand nonchalantly.

"I'm just doing my job."

"Professor, what is Parseltongue?" Harry asked confused.

"You can think of it as a kind of talent that is born with no way to learn it, but people with this kind of talent are generally dark wizards."

Sherlock said calmly.

"But I always think this is a prejudice. Parseltongue is just an ability to talk to snakes. It is not black magic. After using it, it can change the user's mentality. Most of them have the talent of Parseltongue Most of the wizards are dark wizards, probably because of family problems, and some people have prejudice against it."

Harry asked puzzled.

"Then what does that have to do with their suspicion that I'm a descendant of Slytherin?"

"Because of Salazar Slytherin, he is a Parseltongue. Modern wizards with a Parseltongue are generally awakened from the inheritance of their ancestors. Slytherin's secret room was opened by his descendants. At this time, you happen to Showing a talent for Parseltongue, what do you think the other students think?"

Harry understood now, but he still didn't understand why he was the one to blame just because of a Parseltongue problem.

Sherlock saw his struggle and sadness, and he patted his shoulder.

"So many things happened this semester, those students have been tense, they just use you as an outlet. But the professors are all adults, no one will just because you have the talent of Parseltongue identify you as the murderer."

As he spoke, he rarely showed his true feelings in front of the students, and leaned down to speak seriously.

"I believe that the matter of the Chamber of Secrets has nothing to do with you, Harry, and I also believe that you will prove it to others by yourself."

A smile appeared on Harry's lonely face.

"Thank you for your trust, Professor."

"Okay, I've said so much, I should go." Sherlock's face returned to that indifferent face, "There is still a first grade class to attend, you little brats, it's really exciting. Headache."

He left the classroom with the cage in his hand. The three heads of the rune snakes in the cage had been staring at Harry all the time. When Sherlock led them away, the three heads made a sound at the same time.

"Goodbye, wizard's cub."

Resisting the urge to reply in another language, Harry waved them goodbye.

After only three of them were left, Ron said worriedly again.

"It is estimated that your life in school will be difficult in the future."

Harry crossed his face.

"It's not my fault. How did I know that just talking to the snake would cause such a big trouble."

Ron suddenly looked him up and down strangely.

"If you have time to inquire about your family's genealogy, maybe you might actually have something to do with Slytherin. After all, when you were not talking about sorting, the sorting hat actually wanted to sort you into Slytherin Is it?"

Harry glared at him.

"You also suspect that I am the murderer who opened the secret room?"

"I am different from them. There may be more than one descendant of Slytherin. There is a bad one, and there is a good one like you."

The two of them chatted for a long time, only to find that Hermione on the side remained silent, and couldn't help but look at her curiously.

"what are you thinking about?"

Hermione said thoughtfully.

"You said, Professor Forrest said that he believed in the Chamber of Secrets and had nothing to do with Harry, did he really mean it?"

"Of course!" Harry said with absolute certainty.

Hermione's eyes turned to Harry, suspiciously sharp.

"Then looking at it the other way around, the opening of the secret room must have something to do with you."

"What nonsense are you talking about! Besides, didn't we also do tests before? For some things with extremely high probability, Professor Forrest's crow's mouth is useless."

"That seems to be the case."

"Don't make fun of me anymore. I was unlucky enough today. Fortunately, the professor didn't wish me good luck before leaving, otherwise I wouldn't be able to survive today."

(End of this chapter)