Became good friends with the Boy Who Lived

Hearing the young man's self-introduction, Harry involuntarily took a step back, but Aries greeted the young man naturally:

"It is an honor to meet you, Mr. Slytherin..."

"Just call me Salazar," Salazar waved his hand nonchalantly, "The name is just a code name."

"Oh..." Aris said unnaturally, "Hello... uh... Salazar... My name is: Aris Grindelwald, a student of... Gryffindor College..."

"Huh! So you're the student of that bastard Gordie..." Salazar looked at Aris suspiciously for a while, "That's not right... I can feel that you have Helga's heritage. Are you sure you're not a student of Hufflepuff?"

"I met Helga in the Forbidden Forest," said Aeris. "She... admired me..."

"Did Helga make the same choice?" Salazar said with some sadness, "Integrating her own magic power into this castle and becoming a part of it..."

"What about you?" Salazar calmed down and looked at Harry and asked, "Are you a student of Slytherin?"

"No!" Harry reacted violently, and he quickly retorted: "I'm also from Gryffindor College..."

"Why would my descendants go to that bastard Gordy's academy?" Salazar sounded somewhat dissatisfied.

"I'm not your descendant..." Harry said excitedly.

"Harry," said Aris, "Whether you are willing to admit it or not, the color of your pupils is exactly the same as Salazar's. This is just my guess. Your mother's family should have the invisible blood of Lord Slytherin. The reason why your mother became a wizard is probably because the magical blood of Lord Slytherin hidden in her blood was awakened."

Harry was silent, and Salazar said, "It seems that I have a very bad reputation in your time."

"Not only bad," Aeris said with a wry smile, "your name has become synonymous with dark wizards. As long as you are a snake speaker, many wizards who are devoted to light will definitely give up."

"Superficial!" Salazar said, "In our time, dark wizards and dark magic are just nouns. No matter what kind of magic it is, it is just a means to achieve a goal. When you summoned me, the magic you used to draw the summoning array was a kind of dark magic, wasn't it?"

Harry said excitedly, "But you built this Chamber of Secrets, and you expelled students from Muggle families from Hogwarts. You even kept a basilisk in captivity, and you predicted that your descendant would come back and kill those students you thought were unworthy of learning magic. You even said that some students had died under the gaze of the basilisk. It was your descendant who summoned the basilisk and did a good thing..."

"This is a false accusation!" Salazar said sadly, "The era we lived in was not peaceful. The evilness of human beings is beyond the imagination of underage wizards like you. The weak will admire the strong, the strong will admire the strongest, and the strongest will hate those who are different. Unfortunately, we wizards are the different in the eyes of the Muggle strongest..."

Salazar paused and continued, "In the eyes of the Muggle Church, we wizards are pagans with special powers. The wizards who helped the Muggles were betrayed to the Church by those Muggles. In the Muggle witch-hunting movement, do you know how many of my students I buried? Countless... Countless..."

Salazar stared at his hands in a daze, as if his favorite students were in his hands. He murmured, "Tweel, my youngest student, the one who always called me father from time to time, was comforting me and telling me not to be sad before he died in my arms. He was also apologizing to me, saying that he could not be with me to learn magic from me. He also said thank you to me, thank you for giving him a home when he was once an orphan. When he died, he was even younger than you. What did he do wrong? What did he do wrong? Just because he was a wizard?"

Salazar calmed himself down and continued to narrate slowly: "At that time, Hogwarts became a refuge for most underage wizards, but Hogwarts was not absolutely safe. The Church would bribe some children of school age from Muggle families with magical talents to enter Hogwarts as undercover agents. Can you imagine the losses this brought to Hogwarts? Hogwarts was almost destroyed by those undercover agents and traitors..."

"I have never targeted students from Muggle families," Salazar said, "I have always targeted those traitors who betrayed Hogwarts, and there are no such traitors among children from wizard families. This is the real reason why I am close to students of wizard blood. As for the basilisk, it is just a means to protect the castle after I leave. The last order I gave it was: stay here and protect the castle at all costs when the castle is in danger. Otherwise, do you think that only one student has died in the past thousand years?"

"Each college has a character," Salazar said after a moment's silence. "That bastard Gryffindor represents bravery. Hufflepuff represents hard work. Ravenclaw represents wisdom. But you have to know that these alone are not enough for Hogwarts to survive in the gap between the Muggle world and the wizarding world. At this time, we need Slytherin's cunning. This world cannot be simply judged by good and evil. My original expectation was to turn the students of Slytherin College into tough scales and sharp snake fangs to protect Hogwarts. However, judging from your attitude towards Slytherin College, my small expectation has obviously failed."

Salazar was silent for a long time, and Aeris and Harry didn't know what to say to comfort this ancestor who was one of the four giants a thousand years ago and was deeply misunderstood by the world.

Until the green light began to dissipate from Salazar's body, and Salazar's figure began to become illusory, Salazar's two big hands touched Aeris and Harry's heads respectively, and the pleasant voice became ethereal:

"My inheritance is divided between the two of you. The man named Tom Riddle split his soul many times and made many Horcruxes. Tell this news to the person you trust the most. Stop Tom Riddle and stop him from harming the wizarding world that I love..."

It seemed that he hadn't finished speaking yet, and Salazar Slytherin disappeared completely.