Admiral of Hogwarts

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"Then what? What is that terrifying thing?" Hermione asked after hearing Veneto finish talking about the heir opening the secret room.

"Rather than the causes and consequences, I am more concerned about what the so-called terrifying thing Slytherin hides in the secret room is."

"Sorry, I don't know either." Listening to Hermione's questioning, Veneto showed a helpless expression and shrugged.

"Because that's all the records in the book contain, and after the section about the Chamber of Secrets, the author of "Hogwarts: A School History" devoted two full lines of text to express that this was just a conjecture. There is no evidence to prove it.”

"This is simply -" Hermione shook her head helplessly, and then said as if she suddenly thought of something.

"You just said that the biggest difference between Slytherin and the other three founders is whether to recruit Mock wizards like me, and you also think that Mock wizards are unreliable." "Then why would he think so? Could it be that Does he, like most of the students in Slytherin House, think that wizards from non-wizard families are dirty?"

"I can understand him." Hugo waved his hand and said, "In that era, people were afraid of magic, and wizards and witches were persecuted a lot. The reason why the Four Giants chose to establish a magic school at Hogwarts was to avoid those The unfriendly looks from ordinary people.”

"We also said in our primary school history class that more than a thousand years ago was the most fanatical era for religion in Europe. The First Crusade even broke out during that time."

"Under such a historical background, young wizards born into non-wizarding families are likely to be affected by the environment and become filled with malice towards wizards, which may pose a serious threat to Hogwarts and even the entire wizarding world."

In fact, Hugo realized the difference between Eastern and Western civilizations when he read novels in his previous life. At least there is basically no witch-hunting movement that is obviously stupid in the Eastern world.

It's no wonder that there is a thick barrier between the wizarding world in the West and the world of ordinary people, and there is a very tense relationship.

To give the simplest example, after reading Harry Potter, Hugo became interested in some Western cultures related to occultism, so he specifically looked for books on this subject. As a result, I borrowed a book that was quite famous at that time: "The Witch's Hammer".

After reading the content in the book, Hugo also realized how cruel the ancient Western people were in this regard. For example, the book states that if you want to determine whether a person is a witch, you can throw the person into the river. If he floats, he is guilty, and if he sinks, he is innocent. As a result, anyone who is accused is 100% guaranteed to die.

This history that lasted for hundreds of years has naturally become a knife between wizards and ordinary people in the Western world. For this reason, there are people like Grindelwald or Voldemort on the wizard side who hope to rule ordinary people, and anti-wizard organizations like Second Salem also appear among ordinary people.

Yes, Second Salem. Although at the beginning this organization was just the revenge of the Purifiers and their descendants who were purged from the wizarding world, after a few generations, this organization basically transformed into a powerful Muggle organization against magic.

"If you put it that way, Slytherin's thoughts at that time are not incomprehensible." Hermione said with a somewhat troubled expression after thinking for more than ten seconds.

"But what exactly is the so-called terrifying existence in the secret room? Is it really what he hoped to prepare in order to eliminate the useless wizards from his family in the school? Also, if this thing is true, Will those hybrid wizards be attacked?"

"Let me answer these questions one by one." Veneto waved his hand gently and said. "It is not yet certain whether the terrifying things in the so-called secret room exist, so it is not yet certain how the other party can determine the bloodline of the target."

"As for the issue of mixed races, I think Slytherin probably didn't consider them back then. After all, given the relationship between Muggles and wizards at that time, there should be basically no such mixed families."

"So that's it!" After listening to Hugo and Veneto's explanations, Hermione nodded thoughtfully.

However, in the History of Magic class the next day, she asked Professor Binns the same question in the hope of getting some additional information. But to her surprise, Professor Binns' final answer was not as detailed as Hugo and Veneto's answers combined.

"It seems that this thing is really a secret." Hermione said to Hugo when everyone returned to the common room after class, "At least there should be no real secret about the Chamber of Secrets in the public information. , otherwise a ghost like Professor Binns should know."

"Yes, but I think we'd better search the small library in the common room." Hugo suggested at this time. "If I remember correctly, there is a bookshelf in the small library that contains a lot of internal private records about the school. If you look for them, you might be able to find something useful."

Apparently Hermione took Hugo's suggestion into consideration. So in the next few days, Hermione would go to the library in the common room to look for various information whenever she had free time.

On this day, just as Hugo was preparing to take the time-wasting Defense Against the Dark Arts class with a bitter look on his face, Hermione suddenly ran out of the small library, then came to Hugo and said: "Hugo, look Look at this. I found documents that confirm the existence of the chamber."

"What?" Hugo and Veneto both looked at Hermione curiously, and saw Hermione take out a very old-looking notebook and put it in front of them.

"This book is the Charms class notes of a Ravenclaw student more than three hundred years ago, but I found that while recording the notes, the senior also recorded some of what happened to them at the time. For example, here -" said Then Hermione turned the book to a certain page and pointed to the content on it.

"This is a record from March 1665. It states that a marrow wizard died inexplicably at the school at that time - and later records from May show that the matter was settled after the school's intervention, but at that time Ravenclaw All the students thought it was the monster in the secret room that caused this death."

"The record is still too vague." After reading the passages pointed out by Hermione, Hugo shook his head and said.

"Because this record does not say how the victim died, and you see in the end they only suspected that the monster in the secret room caused the death, but there was no conclusive evidence."

"That's right." Veneto also nodded, "Not to mention that this record does not mention the specific circumstances of the death of the deceased at all, and it is impossible to analyze the cause of death of the deceased."

"More importantly, that time happened to be the epidemic period of the Black Death in the Muggle world. So there were so many deaths that the death of this deceased was simply ignored by these wizards."