Head of Teaching at Hogwarts

"My ancestor is a Slytherin? This is-impossible!"

Time goes back to three hours ago.

In the Gryffindor lounge, Hermione told Harry and Ron everything Russell said and the inferences she got from reading the book. She immediately encountered strong opposition from Harry himself!

Harry firmly refused to admit any relationship with Slytherin!

It has been more than a month since school started, and Harry Potter's second-year life is not ideal.

He felt that his life was terrible ever since he failed to catch the Hogwarts Express due to some special reasons at the beginning of the school year, and had to drive to school with Ron in a speed car and be detained by Professor McGonagall.

Coupled with being chased by Lockhart and followed by Colin, his fanatical follower, he was in an awkward social death scene almost every second.

Even the favorite game of Quidditch was starting to get a little boring after Slytherin House failed to get a new broomstick sponsored by Malfoy's dad.

Fortunately, the new principal's special teaching methods made him feel the long-lost vitality again.

However, this vitality did not last long, and he was frightened back by the terrifying sounds that came from time to time in his ears.

"Killing...death...devouring...tearing..." He could hear this sound almost every day from the first confinement to now.

This morning, he finally plucked up the courage to tell Hermione and Ron about this. However, after Hermione volunteered to go to the library to search for books, the answer she got was completely unacceptable to him.

Hermione met their new principal, Professor Russell, in the library, and then she analyzed it based on Professor Russell's tips and the two books she brought back, "Slytherin's Past" and "The Secret of Parseltongue."

He actually came to a terrifying conclusion: his descendants of Slytherin have great similarities.

"I didn't say that you are a descendant of Slytherin, I just said that you may have the ability to understand animal speech, and the descendants of the Slytherin family also have this ability. They are called Parseltongues." Hermione said to Harry was dissatisfied with this misinterpretation of his meaning.

"Parseltongue?" Ron asked like a robot that had captured the key words: "Hermione, do you think Harry might be a Parseltongue?"

Hermione suddenly felt helpless at Ron's question. She couldn't figure out why her two partners couldn't seem to explain what an analogy was.

Sighing, Hermione patiently explained again: "I mean, just like the descendants of Slytherin can understand snake language, Harry may have a similar talent, but we don't know what Harry can say yet. "

Ron said "Oh", and then turned his eyes to Harry with Hermione.

"I think I know." Harry felt uncomfortable for a while and swallowed before saying with difficulty: "I mean, maybe I can indeed talk to snakes."

"What, are you sure you can understand the snake's speech?" Ron suddenly stood up from his chair excitedly.

Hermione also calmed down immediately and looked at Harry with an unexpected look, with a strange expression. She originally thought that Harry might be a similar animal whisperer and just made an analogy with Slytherin.

Under their gaze, Harry recounted his experience of visiting the zoo when he was ten years old and talking to a Brazilian tree python inside.

"A snake told you it had never been to Brazil?" Ron concluded Harry's story in a weak voice.

"What's wrong?" Harry looked at the two companions with strange expressions and said, "Maybe you can do it too. I often feel that Scabbers can understand Ron's words!"

"No, I can't!" Ron fell into silence after saying this.

Hermione explained in a low voice: "Harry, as we said before, being able to talk to snakes is the symbol of Salazar Slytherin. This is why Slytherin House uses snakes as its symbol."

Harry suddenly fell silent, and Hermione continued to add: "According to the book "The Past of Slytherin Blood", all the Parselmouths that have appeared so far have been confirmed to have Slytherin blood."

"My ancestor is Slytherin? This is impossible! The Sorting Hat put me in Gryffindor!" Harry wanted to say something more, but suddenly stopped.

He suddenly remembered that in the first grade, the Sorting Hat first said that he was a "born Slytherin", which made him suddenly lose all the strength to refute.

"Harry, blood and house don't mean anything," Hermione comforted.

Ron was no longer silent, came over and patted Harry on the shoulder and said: "In fact, pure-blood wizard families often marry each other. After all, they only have 28 families. If they don't marry each other, they may not be able to continue. For example, I am actually Malfoy's cousin."

"Are you Malfoy's cousin?" Harry was completely shocked. He thought of Dudley.

Ron shrugged his shoulders and explained, as if to divert Harry's attention, Ron spoke in great detail.

"My mother's uncle, my grandpa's brother, is called Ignatius Prewett. He is a pure-blood wizard, and his wife, my great-aunt, is named Lucretia Prewett.

Lucretia Prewett is also my great-aunt. Her real name is Lucretia Black, and she comes from the Black family, a famous British pure-blood family. Malfoy's mother also comes from the Black family, and she is my great-aunt's niece.

In other words, my great-uncle is Malfoy's great-uncle.Percy's middle name came from my great-uncle Ignatius, and to be honest we had a pretty good relationship. "

After hearing another piece of news that surprised him equally, Harry finally calmed down for the time being.

"Well don't worry, Harry, we will help you keep the secret." Hermione suggested.

Harry nodded, this was what he wanted most, and he didn't want to have anything to do with Slytherin.

This made Harry feel very strange. He hated Voldemort, the Dark Lord who carried out massacres because of racism, but he also hated the Slytherin bloodline.

Fortunately, Hermione brought the topic back on track in time, "Since you are a Parselmouth, it is possible that you just heard a little snake talking in the cracks in the wall."

In her concept, a snake is no more than the thickness of an arm, and if it can be hidden in the gaps in the walls of Hogwarts Castle, it should be even smaller.

"But I heard it saying horrible words like 'Kill, die, tear to pieces, devour'."

"This should be the snake preying on it. After all, doesn't preying on animals mean killing, causing death, then tearing it into pieces and finally devouring it?" Ron guessed.

Harry nodded, accepting the statement.

"By the way, Hermione, how did you read that book?" Harry tried hard to change the subject and stop himself from thinking about those terrible things.

"what!"

Hermione suddenly let out a scream and ran out of the Gryffindor common room like flying, leaving only a gust of wind and Harry and Ron looking at each other in a daze.

"What's happened to Hermione recently?" Ron asked.

"Maybe he really wants to be Professor Russell's assistant. When I took a nap in the History of Magic class today, I found that Hermione was not listening to the class, but reading Professor Russell's book."

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