From Karma Taj to Hogwarts

Hogwarts was named after four great wizards from the early Middle Ages and four founders of the school of magic. Naturally, it is not unreasonable.

The four founders all have their own unique qualities, and each has his or her own favorite student character.

Gryffindor is known for bravery, courage and extraordinary courage; Ravenclaw is known for wisdom, knowledge and extraordinary intelligence; Hufflepuff is known for hard work, tolerance and loyalty; and Slytherin is known for ambition. , shrewd and calm.

However, these are not completely corresponding. For example, some young wizards have different personality traits from different colleges. This is also the reason why the phenomenon of hat embarrassment occurs.

In addition, a person's personality traits are very changeable throughout his life.

Maybe the Sorting Hat will assign a little wizard to Gryffindor when he is eleven years old, but when he grows up, that little wizard gradually loses the courage and courage he had as a child, so if there is a chance to be sorted again, he said Maybe they will be sorted into Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff or even Slytherin.

It is precisely because of this that the four founders of Hogwarts injected their thoughts into the Sorting Hat to ensure that each house can recruit the most suitable students.

As one of the Big Four at the time, Salazar Slytherin had been with Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and especially Godric Gryffindor for a long time. Duo has irreversible feelings, and his pursuit of shrewdness, ambition, and calm thoughts have always been recognized by the other three founders.

Therefore, unlike the rumors often circulated among the other three houses, Salazar Slytherin has never been an extreme pure-bloodist who only values ​​the interests of pure-blood wizards. He is just a person who has slightly different ideas from the other Big Three. Just a teacher.

The most important reason why he had conflicts with the other three founders was not because of the dark magic he had been studying in depth or his weird personality, but definitely because of whether to admit a young wizard of Muggle origin to Hogwarts. dispute!

Different from the rumors that have been circulating for hundreds of years, the reason why Salazar Slytherin refused to accept Muggle wizards was not because he looked down on wizards of mixed blood, but because accepting the children of those wizards would expose Hogwarts to Muggles. Danger in sight.

At that time, the promulgation of the International Statute of Secrecy of the International Federation of Wizards was still far away, and the life trajectories of wizards and Muggles overlapped considerably. Witch hunts and movements against wizards are prevalent. In addition, wizards have few systematic teachings and are few in number, seriously lacking combat effectiveness.

Therefore, many wizards at that time were persecuted by Muggles and were chased by the guards of various regional lords and were driven into hiding.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was established against this background.

There are many movable staircases in Hogwarts, numerous armors that can be used to defend the castle, and multiple protection spells. Most of these defensive measures were created to deal with Muggle attacks.

Therefore, if Hogwarts chooses to recruit Muggle-born students to go to school here, there may be some Muggle parents who are fanatically opposed to wizards. If the young wizards who enroll reveal the secrets of Hogwarts to their parents, Location and conditions, then Hogwarts is likely to be in great danger.

This was the biggest reason why Salazar Slytherin opposed recruiting marrow wizards.

So deep down in his heart, he was actually worried about Hogwarts. After all, he was once a great wizard who was willing to fight for the common ideals of the four founders for his whole life!

Therefore, in Sivan's view, the more important reason for leaving a basilisk in the secret room deep under Hogwarts is not to eliminate the Muggle wizards in Hogwarts, but to defend against Muggle invasion and This school where he dedicated his youth has a trump card that no one knows about.

In other words, Riddle may have misunderstood what Salazar Slytherin meant.

Sivan looked up at Riddle and saw that he was leading the way forward, turning a familiar dark bend in the tunnel.

Behind the curve, out of sight of Riddle, Sivan quietly opened a dimensional door, leading to the girls' bathroom where Phoenix Fox and Basilisk were.

Behind the golden halo, a huge green basilisk glowed with the unique bright light of poisonous snakes. Its body was as thick as an oak tree trunk, and it looked particularly ferocious.

However, at this time, it stretched its upper body high into the air, and its big flat head wandered randomly between the stone pillars, as if it was drunk. Fox was hovering around its head, and the basilisk lunged at the phoenix angrily, its fangs as thin and long as sabers exposed in its mouth.

Fox dodged deftly and swooped down. Its long golden beak pierced the basilisk's head, and suddenly, a stream of black blood splashed to the ground, like a shower.

The basilisk's tail swung wildly, smashing the many baffles in the girls' bathroom to pieces. Only the bathroom stall where Myrtle was located remained intact under the care of the phoenix.

Seeing that Fox had the upper hand, Sivan breathed a sigh of relief and whispered in a voice that Riddle could not hear: "If you can, leave it alive, Fox."

Fox turned his face away, seeming a little confused, but he still nodded his head covered with golden and red feathers and continued to fight the basilisk.

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Xiven, who had retracted the dimension door, turned the previous corner, and the silhouette of a huge creature lay motionless on the other side of the tunnel.

That is the snake skin shed by the basilisk.

The light from the Advanced Wand Illuminating Charm shines on the huge snake skin, which is green and very bright. At first glance, it looks like the skin of a venomous snake. It lay coiled on the floor of the tunnel, empty inside, like a large tunnel.

Riddle walked around the basilisk's skin without being surprised, and walked behind the skin step by step. Behind that stood a solid wall, carved with two intertwined snakes. Their eyes were set with large, shining emeralds, just like real snakes!

"Open." Riddle stood in front of the wall and said in a low, hoarse "hiss" voice.

Under the influence of Riddle's Parselmouth, the two intertwined snakes slowly separated, and a gap opened in the middle of the stone wall. Then the gap gradually expanded, slowly slid to both sides, and disappeared.

It turns out that behind this is Salazar Slytherin’s real secret room!

Riddle walked into Slytherin's secret room first, looked back at Sivan, and said to him: "Come in and take a look, Rozier."

Entering the secret room, Sivan and Riddle stood side by side on one side of a long, dimly lit room. Many stone pillars carved with entangled snakes towered up to support the ceiling that melted into the darkness above, casting long, strange black shadows on the entire room that was filled with green and mysterious mist.

When the two of them walked parallel to the last pair of stone pillars, a statue as tall as the room itself suddenly appeared in front of them, clinging to the dark wall behind.

Xiwen raised his neck and saw the huge face on the statue: it was an old, monkey-like face, with a sparse long beard that almost reached the hem of the stone wizard's robe, with two A gray bigfoot stood on the smooth floor of the room.

Riddle also raised his head and looked at the tall statue.

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