Stepfather of HP

"Is there any danger?" Harry felt that what his father was busy with might have something to do with the lost notebook.

"No, there's no danger." Snape shook his head, "I'll be back before Halloween." Snape added that he remembered that the Basilisk first appeared on Halloween night in his last life.

Harry observed his father carefully, seeing that his expression and posture were normal, he was relieved.

Hundreds of adolescent boys and girls were forced to go back to their dormitories at 09:30, which is no different from going to jail. The portraits, who are usually easy to talk, suddenly became hard to talk. No matter how hard they begged, they refused to open the door to let them out. After some people tried a few times and failed, everyone ended up nesting in the common room.

Ron was delighted, because his oft-missing brother Harry was back, and it was nice for the two of them to play chess and chat in the common room.

Hermione was still holding on to Lockhart's book, not wanting to hear Harry say anything bad about Lockhart to Ron, Harry couldn't help but sigh, no matter how wise and powerful a girl can't pass the beauty test one day.

Another thing that bothers Hogwarts students is the flu that comes with the cold and wet weather in October. Although Madam Pomfrey has a special cold potion, the potion is extremely bad, and it lasts for several hours. There will be smoke in the ears.

For a while, no matter whether it is the classroom, the common room, or the dormitory, it is full of smoke. Whether it is a teacher or a student, they are not in a good mood.

The heavy rain also added to the chaos, and it didn't stop for several days. The disturbers had no peace day and night. For the players of the Quidditch team, such ghostly weather was even more difficult. Wood insisted on taking the players with them. Training in the rain will not reduce the training time for 1 minute.

Harry was wearing a soaked cloak, his shoes were filled with water, his body was covered in mud and he stepped on the ground, and the twins kept talking beside him, "Nimbus 2001 is really So fast, the Slytherins were flying like six green shadows," said George.

"But I think Malfoy is dying, he looks like he's out of spirits," Fred said.

"Yeah." Do you want to ask your father to buy a Nimbus 2001 for each of the Gryffindor Quidditch team?Harry himself denied this idea, and his father would not do such a thing of betting on opponents. Thinking of his father and his father's mysterious whereabouts, he frowned and was full of worries.

"You don't have to do that, Quidditch can't be done with a broom alone." The twins comforted him a few words, thinking that they still had unfinished experiments, they left in a hurry.

Harry stood in front of the window, wanting to try his luck to see if he could meet his father. Unexpectedly, he met Nick, who was almost headless. He also seemed preoccupied.

"Just half an inch...just half an inch..." Nick kept muttering.

"Hello, Nick." Harry greeted him.

"Hello, Harry Potter, you seem to have something on your mind."

"you too."

The two chatted for a while, and Harry remembered something, "Nick, can a soul be bound to something?"

"Yes, with the correct spell."

"Will that thing become indestructible because of this, or can it be restored if it is destroyed?"

"That requires a special spell. Of course, it is said that some wraiths can also do this. There have been legends that there are ghosts living in mirrors or ancient paintings, but I have never seen it."

"The bound soul...is it supposed to be what he looked like before he died?" From the description of the twins, they were quite sure that the ghost was wearing a Hogwarts student uniform, but Riddle had successfully returned from Hogwarts. graduated.

"Exactly." Nick confirmed, "By the way, Harry, Halloween is the anniversary of my death. I am going to hold a banquet for the 500th anniversary of my death. Would you like to participate?"

"He doesn't want to." Putting his hands on Harry's shoulders, Harry turned around in surprise, and hugged his father involuntarily.

"You're back! Father."

"Yeah." Snape's expression was still light, but there was tenderness in his eyes.

"Are you done?"

"We're done, let's go, let's go to the cellar." Snape waved his wand, cleaned up the water and mud on Harry's body, and led him to the cellar.

Harry ignored Nearly Headless Nick, and happily followed his father back to the cellar.

Snape first asked Harry if anything strange happened at Hogwarts when he was away, and after getting a negative answer, he asked Harry about his homework, and let Harry go, while he himself went to into the principal's office.

Because of his identity as a spy in the previous life, Dumbledore did not tell him many things, such as the specific life experience of that person, but generally said that Voldemort's biological father was a Muggle and abandoned their mother and child. The curse in Te’s old house, so he took the task of investigating that person’s life experience, went to Gunter’s old house, and after checking that there was a very powerful black magic protection there, he withdrew, and he checked Riddle again. At home, I found out that Tom Riddle, the master of the Riddle family, was abducted by a witch when he was young, and he finally escaped back a year later. He also knew that the Riddle family had died mysteriously many years ago, and only one The old servant guards the old house.

He went to the orphanage where Voldemort lived again, and many questions were finally answered, such as why Voldemort chose that cliff as the place to hide the Horcrux. That cliff turned out to be the place where Voldemort killed his first man.

The entire wizarding world fell into chaos because of a witch's desperate gamble on hopeless love. Snape couldn't help but smile wryly when he thought about his life experience.

"There are traces of black magic in the old house of Gaunt's house? The cliff where Tom killed his first man is also weird?" Dumbledore was silent, and Snape's story about Horcruxes gave answers to many things, such as why Voldemort was cursed. Backbiting and not dying, why Voldemort is so weak, but the Dark Mark on the Death Eater's arm just fades, "Do you know about how many Horcruxes there are?" Dumbledore knew that Snape knew more than he said .

"The twins said that the soul piece in the notebook was dressed as a student. I think he was already studying Horcruxes when he was at Hogwarts. If I remember correctly, Professor Slughorn was the head of Slytherin at that time. I believe that due to his excellence, he should also be a member of his club, and he should know something, but this requires the principal to come forward."

"Yeah." Dumbledore nodded, "Let's enjoy Halloween when you come back, Harry has been very unhappy when you're not around."

When Ron saw Harry go out with a depressed face and come back happily, he knew that there was something happy about it. "Today's training went well?" He scratched his head and smiled, because the weather was so bad that he didn't Went to see Harry train as usual.

"My father is back." Harry grinned from ear to ear, "I'll stay with him tonight." The curfew is so strict, you have to go back to the dormitory at 09:30, how long can you stay with your father? Come on, he said and took his schoolbag and left. He had pajamas and school uniforms in the cabinet in the cellar bedroom, so he just needed to take the schoolbag.

Ron sent him out, only to see Hermione enter the Gryffindor common room, her face was full of excitement, "Nearly Headless Nick invited me to the Deathday party, what a chance to observe England's ghost customs ah."

"But the twins said that the principal invited the skeleton band to perform this year. I really don't understand why these ghosts celebrate the day they die."

"Hermione, you'd better not go. Nearly Headless Nick also wanted to invite me, but my father stopped him." His father was so determined not to let him go, Harry wondered if Deathday Night would be something to make people Happy banquet.

"I have already agreed to his invitation, and I must keep my promise." Hermione said righteously.

On Halloween, Harry and Ron enjoyed delicious food, enjoyed the performance of the skeleton band, and at the same time missed Hermione who insisted on going to the appointment alone.

"Let's go with her." Ron regretted that he didn't go with Hermione, because he couldn't eat the Halloween dinner.

"I'll pick her up after we finish eating." Harry comforted him, but when he looked up, he saw his father had been looking at the Slytherin table, following his father's gaze, Harry found that Draco didn't know When to disappear in its place.

Father also noticed this, put down the knife and fork in his hand and got up and left. Before leaving, he gave Harry a warning look. Harry understood that this was to let him keep his own place and not cause trouble. It seems that what happened on Halloween last year scared his father up.

Harry and Ron, who were thinking about Hermione, ate something random and walked out of the magnificent hall. They couldn't understand why someone could give up the Halloween dinner and go to the Deathday Party. When we got there, we met Hermione with a pale face, "Why are you here?"

"We're here to pick you up, sorry, we should have come with you," said Ron.

"How about the death day party?" Harry asked Hermione, but he knew it was not very good by the look on her face.

"Next time if I insist on doing stupid things like going to the Deathday Party, remember to knock me out." Hermione said with a pale face, "Is there anything to eat? I'm starving to death."

"The banquet in the hall was not over when we left, there should be a lot of food." Harry said, he suddenly heard a strange voice.

"Kill...kill..."

"Did you hear that?" He took Ron's hand.

"What?" Ron and Hermione looked at each other, "Don't scare us, today is Halloween."

"Kill...kill all...blood...I want blood..." The voice was getting closer and clearer, the voice was cold and creepy.

"Didn't you hear it?" The voice came from inside the wall, and Harry leaned his face against the wall to listen carefully, and the voice seemed to get further away...

He ran after the voice, "Harry!" Ron and Hermione ran after him.

"Tear...tear you..."

"I've been hungry for a long time..."

"Harry, what happened?" Ron grabbed him.

"Quiet, listen!" Harry listened carefully, the voice seemed to be moving upwards, moving towards the direction of the hall.

Harry was excited for a while, he instinctively felt that he had discovered something extraordinary, and he ran towards the hall after the voice.

Harry pricked up his ears.Far away, from the upper floor, the voice came again, and it became weaker: "..I smell blood...I smell blood! ,, Harry's stomach twitched violently "It's going to kill!" he yelled, and, ignoring the bewildered looks on Ron's and Hermione's faces, he climbed up a flight of stairs, listening to the sound of his heavy footsteps.

[Harry ran around the third floor, followed by Ron and Hermione panting, the three of them non-stop, and finally turned a corner and came to the last empty corridor.

"Harry, what the hell is going on here," said Ron, wiping sweat from his face. "I can't hear anything..."

Hermione gasped suddenly and pointed down the corridor.

"Look!"

Something was shining on the wall in front of them.They approached slowly, squinting to make out in the dark.Between the two windows, on the wall a foot above the ground, some writing was scribbled, and the emblem shone in the light of the burning torches.

The chamber of secrets was opened.

Those who are enemies of the heir, be vigilant.

"What's that - hanging down there," said Ron, his voice trembling.

As they approached cautiously, Harry almost slipped: there was a large puddle of water on the ground.Ron and Hermione grabbed him, and they inched closer to the sign, their eyes fixed on the black shadow below.The three of them saw what it was at the same time, and jumped back in fright, splashing a splash of water.

It was Mrs. Norris, the janitor's cat, with its tail hanging from the torch-bracket, its body stiff as a plank, and its eyes wide open and staring.The three of them stood motionless for a good few seconds, and then Ron said, "Let's get out of here." "Should we try to save them—" said Harry, not very fluently. "Listen," said Ron, "we don't want to be found out here."

However, it was too late.A muffled din, like distant thunder, told them that the feast had just ended.From the ends of the corridor in which they stood there came the sound of hundreds of feet ascending the stairs, and the cheerful chatter and laughter of people who had eaten their fill.Then, the students crowded into the aisle from both ends.

When the people in front saw the upside-down cat, the buzzing and chattering suddenly disappeared.Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood alone in the middle of the corridor, and the students fell silent, crowding forward to see the horrific scene.

In the silence, someone spoke loudly.

"Those who make enemies of the heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudblood!" It was Draco Malfoy.He had squeezed to the front of the crowd, his cold eyes were alive, and his usually bloodless face was flushed red.He looked at the still, stiff cat hanging there with a grin on his face. 】

Snape, who appeared at the same place at about the same time as his last life and looked at the same scene, suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, as if no matter how hard he tried, many things that should happen would still happen on time... Could this be the so-called destiny?Fate can't bear the fiddle with his little reborn soul, trying to bring everything back to the "right track"?

"Father!" Harry, who was at a loss, smiled reassuringly when he saw his father.

Snape laughed, no matter how good the bitch Fate was at playing her dirty tricks, everything was different after all.

51、Confession

"My cat!" exclaimed Filch, screaming even more unbearably than usual. "My cat! Mrs. Norris, what's the matter with you?" The conspicuous Harry said, "It was you! You killed Mrs. Norris!"

"Filch, think it through before you speak." Snape stopped him, stood behind Harry, and put his hands on Harry's shoulders.

"It's him! It must be him! There is no one else at the scene but him! So many people are blocking him, do you still want to protect him?" Filch's accusing voice didn't get quieter because of Snape's stop, On the contrary, it was bigger. In his eyes, Snape was no longer an amiable colleague and a fair teacher. He was obviously on Harry's side, and he knew Harry's preference for Hogwarts mice.

"Filch!" Dumbledore stopped him, "Mrs. Norris is not dead." He asked several teachers to put Mrs. Norris down. "Let's talk somewhere else." He looked around, the students They also fell silent.

"My office is very close to here, why not..." Lockhart stood up and said with excitement in his eyes. He originally thought that the experience of teaching at Hogwarts was just a proof of his ability. It's just that the resume looks better. I didn't expect such a weird incident to happen at Hogwarts. For a novelist like him, it's like a bee seeing nectar. Maybe he will leave Hogwarts in a year. , He can write another classic handed down from generation to generation.

The group of them came to Lockhart's office. This was Harry's first visit to Lockhart's office. What impressed him most was the photo albums that hung on the four walls. The characters in the albums saw them coming in. They all ran away, and Harry vaguely saw that they all had curlers on their heads.

Lockhart's desk was very tidy, and Dumbledore put Mrs. Norris on it, "Yes, it's not dead, it's just petrified."

"It was him! Only he could have done it! He's heard I'm a Squib!" Filch accused Harry.

Harry froze, Mr. Filch was a Squib?This also explains a lot of things, such as his particular hatred of Hogwarts students. "Nobody ever told me I didn't know you were a Squib..."

"Harry's headmaster at a Muggle primary school was a Squib named Wood, and Harry respected him very much," Snape said.

"Yes, Principal Wood is a good principal with both ability and integrity. He is a person I respect very much in the Muggle world. Whether he has magic or what kind of blood he has cannot be the standard for judging a person. I personally think that the words written on the wall It’s very disrespectful, not to mention that one of my best friends is a hemp seed.” When Harry said this, he glanced at Hermione, and with his father’s support, Harry quickly recovered Calm down and speak with eloquence.

Filch froze. He never thought that a Squib could lead to anything good, let alone be respected. "But why are you there?"

Hermione stood up, "It's me. I was invited by Sir Nicholas to attend his death anniversary party. Harry and Ron left the Halloween banquet early to pick me up."

"Yes, we've been with Harry." Ron also testified.

"Well, if that's the case...everyone is innocent until the charges are determined and shouldn't be punished, Harry, you go back." Dumbledore concluded.

"But Mrs. Norris has become like this! No one has been punished!" Filch roared unwillingly.

"Don't worry Filch," said Mrs. Sprout, who had recently acquired some mandrakes.Once they're big enough, I have a drug that will bring Mrs. Norris back to life. "

"I'll dispense the medicine. I've dispensed this medicine hundreds of times..." Lockhart said, but no one paid any attention to him.

Harry and the three of them quickly left Lockhart's office after getting Dumbledore's permission. The three of them ran quickly until Harry stopped at the door of an empty classroom and pulled the two of them in.

"You two go back first, and I'll go to my father."

"Harry, are you going to tell him about the strange noise you heard?" Ron asked him.

"Even in the wizarding world, it's not a good thing to hear strange voices. I suggest you not hide it from your father," Hermione said.

"Well, I already have an idea about this matter. I have a big secret to tell you tomorrow, but I have to tell my father first."

Snape and the others didn't stay in Professor Lockhart's office for a long time before they separated. Dumbledore hinted that he and McGonagall would go to the principal's office with him. The three of them met again. First, the notebook disappeared mysteriously, and then The secret room was opened, and it would be too coincidental to say that there is no connection between these two events.

Dumbledore pulled out a memory from his mind with a serious face, and handed it to Snape and McGonagall. After reading the memory, the two people's faces became more serious.

When the Chamber of Secrets was opened 50 years ago, Tom Riddle betrayed Hagrid and received a special contribution award. Tom Riddle's diary reappeared at Hogwarts 50 years later, and the Chamber of Secrets was reopened...

"At that time, Tom was meek and courteous, with excellent grades, and handsome. Everyone, including the principal and ordinary students, liked him. When the Chamber of Secrets incident happened, although I suspected him, I didn't have any evidence. Just when I wanted to arrest him When it came to him, he reported Hagrid to the principal, and Hagrid and his spider were kicked out of Hogwarts. Everything really stopped. I was too careless." Dumbledore still defends himself to Tom He was the first to discover what was wrong with Tom, but he did not stand up to expose him. Instead, he felt sorry for his loneliness because of his benevolence. He will change a little bit. Although he secretly pays attention to Tom and knows that his intentions are quite unhealthy, he always cherishes the luck that he will improve, and also cherishes his talent because of his magical talent. As a result...

"Even if it's the headmaster, you know that he will become the Dark Lord later, but you didn't have the evidence at the time, so what can you do to him?" Snape sometimes laughed at the headmaster's kindness, but the world is changing It's because of the presumption of innocence, and everyone's life and freedom are valued. Only such rules can run smoothly. You can't give up eating because of choking. For the sake of a Dark Lord, let's break the rules that the whole world follows. Such a person is worse than the Dark Lord.

If Dumbledore found a way to get rid of the Dark Lord because he found something wrong with his student days, then Dumbledore would not be Dumbledore anymore. With his magical power and prestige, he would become a more terrifying person than the Dark Lord. indefinite.

"The most urgent thing now is to find the notebook." Professor McGonagall said, her eyes kept falling on Snape's shoulder when she spoke, and Harry was the first to appear at the petrification site of Mrs. Norris, and Snape said that Knowing who the suspect is, anyway, this matter has nothing to do with Snape, and several Gryffindor students are involved, so Professor McGonagall can't stay out of it.

"Until I find the notebook, I suggest that Quidditch games be discontinued."

"If you are in constant fear and unable to live a normal life because of terrorist threats, then the purpose of the terrorists will be achieved. They are just spreading fear. You must know that what is really scary is fear itself." Dumbledore insisted that the daily work of the school cannot Stop, let alone a game like Quidditch that can appease the students and teachers.

When Snape returned to the office, he saw Harry sitting in a daze in front of the glass box that kept the green snake.

"Harry?"

"Father." Harry had already made up his mind to tell his father that he could speak Parseltongue, but when things came to an end, he wondered if his father would hate him if he knew that he could speak Parseltongue.

"Harry, do you have something to tell me?" Snape asked him softly, Harry realized that he was crying unknowingly, it was shameful, Harry wiped the tears from his face vigorously.

"Little Bamboo," Harry said to the snake, staring at the glass box, and the snake raised its head, "What are you doing?"

"Climb on my arm." He opened the lid and reached into the glass case.

"I want to sleep."

"I'll give you a mouse to eat."

"Two?"

"Well, yes." Xiao Zhu moved slowly and climbed onto Harry's arm.

He communicated with Xiao Zhu in snake language, Snape looked at him silently, he had seen that person communicate with the snake named Nagini countless times before, and he was also familiar with the cold and strange tone of snake language, but When Harry really communicated with the snake in front of him, Snape's heart still sank. After seeing Harry's expectant and timid eyes, his heart couldn't be softer anymore. The child of my son has been in fear because he can speak Parseltongue.

"Let it return to its place." Snape tried to keep his tone as calm as possible.

"Aren't you angry?" Harry still used the snarky snake language, and after realizing this, he asked again, "Aren't you angry?"

"I'm just a little shocked." Snape smiled, putting his arm around Harry's shoulders, "Is this what's been on your mind lately?"

"But everyone knows that the closest Parsel whisperer was Voldemort."

"Yes." Snape caressed the lightning-shaped scar on Harry's head, "I think he left something on you before he escaped with a fatal backlash from the Killing Curse."

"what?"

"No one has ever been able to escape under the Killing Curse, let alone under the backlash of the Killing Curse, so we can only guess." Snape decided not to tell Harry about the Horcrux. It's too big, he can handle it alone.

"What about my strange dream? Is it also related to these?"

"I've checked the books and asked some people about your strange dream, but I don't know what caused it..." Snape also once doubted Harry's strange dream, and also wondered whether Harry was with you. He is also reborn, but Harry's dream seems to be just growing up with Harry, and the content is only about major events that happened on the same day in the previous life. If it was just a trivial matter, Harry would not even dream about it.

"Then it doesn't rule out that it has something to do with the so-called things Voldemort left in my body?" Harry naturally noticed his father's complicated expression.

"Leave this matter to me." Snape rubbed Harry's head, "How long have you discovered that you can speak Parseltongue?"

"I found it when I was buying Xiaozhu." Harry smiled sheepishly.

"Then why are you telling me today?"

"I was led to that place by a voice today... but Ron and Hermione didn't hear anything."

"You suspect that voice is a snake?" Snape felt proud of Harry's intelligence, the child he raised was smarter than Harry in the previous life by 01:30.

"Yes, but if it's a snake, who wrote the bloody words? Mrs. Norris was not bitten by a snake." This is also what he couldn't understand.

"You can tell Ron and Hermione about these doubts." Why don't they let them do something, if they didn't find the notebook, killing the basilisk in the secret room is nothing more than killing the basilisk, the most important thing is not to let the notebook Absorb Draco's life force and revive him.

"Are you giving us permission to investigate the matter?"

"Will you not check if I stop?" Snape squinted at him.

2. Secret room one

Hermione and Ron both opened their mouths wide enough to stuff an egg in after hearing about Harry's secret.

"You...you...you...you can speak Parseltongue? That means you might be the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Salazar Slytherin? Are you a distant relative with that person?" Ron was completely dizzy. .

"It all happened more than 1000 years ago. Maybe someone in the Potter family married the daughter of the Slytherin family, so Harry inherited this talent from another generation. What's the big deal." Hermione rolled her eyes at him, completely confused. I forgot how big my mouth was just now. She is Muggle-born, and she once saw a black couple in the news who gave birth to a child with blond hair, blue eyes, and white skin. After identification, it was indeed the birth of the couple.

"At a time like this, the fact that you can speak the Parseltongue cannot be known to others. Everyone is spreading the word about the descendants of Slytherin." As soon as the rumors about Harry's ability to speak the Parseltongue spread, the rumors were confirmed. Come on, Ron Looking at the pure-blood family, he has a better understanding of the taboos in the magical world.

"Yeah, so I just told my father and you two." Harry was happy to have two friends who were so assertive and wouldn't alienate him because he could speak Parseltongue, "Remember I said I heard Can't you hear the voice?"

"You mean the sound you heard was the sound of a snake?" Hermione quickly connected the two things together, "But Mrs. Norris was not bitten by a poisonous snake, but petrified?"

"That's exactly what we're going to investigate."

As soon as Hermione heard that there was going to be an investigation, Hermione immediately regained her spirits, and she began to read silently where there were books about snakes in the school library.

"Then I'd better deal with the secret room." Ron said timidly, Hermione who entered the investigation mode was unreasonable.

"Let's investigate together, um... first investigate the Chamber of Secrets." Hermione arranged the order of investigation in this way.

The whole of Hogwarts was talking about Mrs. Norris, and they looked at Harry and the three of them with more scrutiny, and some people asked them what happened at that time, after hearing a little bit of news Immediately tell the others that various versions of the rumors are circulating at Hogwarts.

Filch often wandered in the corridor where the accident happened, and he would jump out of nowhere to scare the students. Someone once saw him use "Mrs. , but not even a corner of the writing on the wall is missing.

The rumors about the Chamber of Secrets became more and more widespread, and they became more and more bizarre. Hermione wanted to borrow "A Piece of Hogwarts School History" to investigate what the Chamber of Secrets meant, but was angrily found that all the books had been borrowed.

What disturbed them even more was that Malfoy began to walk around the school like a ghost, as if hiding from someone, or as if he was addicted to jumping out of nowhere, even Clark and Goyle I don’t care anymore, I often walk alone, sometimes I suddenly become very happy and gregarious, chatting and laughing with a bunch of Slytherins, and generously presenting Slater in front of everyone I'm getting some expensive gifts.

You must know that pure blood does not mean wealth, insisting that pure blood does not mean wealth for generations, after the downfall of Voldemort more than ten years ago, Slytherin was hit hard, and several powerful families fell one after another. All that was left was the Malfoy family.

Slytherins, especially those from aristocratic families, must pay attention to decency and maintain the pride of pure blood. They are all glamorous on the outside and difficult on the inside. Even the Malfoy family would not be where it is today if it weren’t for Lucius Malfoy’s well-managed management and the purchase of a large number of properties from the rest of the fallen families after Voldemort’s downfall. So Draco Money diplomacy works very well.

Some people who secretly disliked him because he was too proud and looked down on others also changed their opinion of him.

What Harry didn't expect was that the most accurate news about the Chamber of Secrets incident, which was spread wildly by students all over the school, was heard in the history of magic. Looking out the window in a daze, Neville had already fallen asleep, Hermione suddenly raised her hand and asked, "I'm Granger, Professor, do you know what the Chamber of Secrets is?"

Hermione's question made everyone wake up as if they had been filled with a bottle of refreshment at the same time, and they all turned their eyes to Professor Binns.

"This is a History of Magic class." Professor Binns seemed frightened, and wanted to bring the class back to the topic. "I study facts, not myths or legends."

[He stammers and stops.Hermione waved her hand in the air again.

"Miss Granger"

"I would like to ask, sir, legends are based on facts, don't they?"Professor Binns looked at her in astonishment.Harry believed that no student had ever interrupted Professor Binns in this way, whether alive or dead. "Well," Professor Binns said slowly, "yeah, I suppose, you could say that." He looked at -86-Hermione hard, as if he'd never looked at a student properly before. "However, the legend you mentioned is a very sensational, even ridiculous story..."

Now the whole class was listening intently to every word Professor Binns said.He watched them blindly, every face turned towards him.Harry could see that Mr. Binns was being too embarrassed by the unusual interest shown.

"Oh, well then," he said slowly, "let me see... Chamber of Secrets..." As you all know, Hogwarts school was founded over 1000 years ago—the exact date is uncertain— The founders were the four greatest wizards and wizards of the time.Four houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin.Together they built the castle, away from the prying eyes of the Muggles, for in those days the common people were afraid of magic and wizards and wizards were persecuted a lot. "

Professor Binns paused, looked around the classroom with blurred vision, and continued: "In the first few years, the founders worked harmoniously together, looking for young people who showed signs of magic, and bringing them to the castle. Nurture well. Slowly, however, there is a divide between them. The rift between Slytherin and the others is growing. Slytherin wants Hogwarts to be more selective in recruiting students. He believes that magical education It should only be restricted to purely magical families. He would not accept Muggle-born children, thinking they were