Dressed as a Hogwarts portrait

"What did you say?"

"Hermione, keep your voice down!" Harry and Ron looked at Professor Binns floating on the podium with a pale face, looking here suspiciously, Gryffindor and Hufflepuff who were sleepy in the whole classroom Qi was still snoring under the silencing spells they each cast.

"You suspect that Salazar Slytherin put the Death Eater Sirius into the castle... Heck, are you still dreaming? Salazar, well, according to what Harry just said, he is a portrait ! All Hogwarts portraits must obey the headmaster, because they belong to the castle!"

"Hermione, that's not the case, the map..."

"map?"

"No, what I'm saying is, he's still alive, because there's a map that only shows the names of the living people, that's how we found him, you know what I mean, the whole Hogwarts portrait isn't shown there On the picture, except for..." the savior said awkwardly.

"God! No, Merlin, this is just your imagination! Salazar Slytherin is..."

"Yes, we know, he was a person from 1000 years ago!" Ron finally got impatient, "We went back to get the textbooks this morning, you didn't miss it, a snake! Merlin, now it's a strange snake for Gryffin Keep guard, if it weren't for Harry, we wouldn't be able to get in!"

"That snake is called Hercules, and it was drawn by Slytherin 1000 years ago." Harry hurried on.

Hermione Granger looked at the savior, then at the red-haired boy, and whispered, "I thought you should be more concerned about the fact that Sirius is a friend of Harry's parents..."

"Miss Milan, what are you talking about?"

Professor Binns on the stage raised his head from his book and raised his voice to ask.

"Oh, here it is again." Hermione covered her head unbearably, and whispered, "He never called my name correctly." Pushing the textbook, under the surprised eyes of several little wizards who woke up, Stand up: "Professor Binns, Halloween, I mean I'm very interested in that song that the Sorting Hat sang yesterday morning."

Harry and Ron groaned at the same time—Merlin, I haven't had time to tell her this...

Fortunately, Hermione just wanted to change the topic, and in a blink of an eye, the direction of the question changed again.

"I've always wondered, Professor, I don't know why wizards celebrate Christmas! I mean, only Muggles who believe in God celebrate Christmas, and wizards believe in Merlin? Does this have anything to do with the history of wizarding in the Middle Ages?" relation?"

Ron looked at Harry dumbfounded, who was trying to smile with the corners of his mouth pulled.

Professor Binns, who was floating, said in a soft and undulating voice: "Miss Milan thinks a lot. It has something to do with it. In the past, Muggles were in awe of wizards, but later they were afraid of expelling wizards. The wizarding world at that time was not as perfect as it is today. There is no school for children to go to school, and many wizards have to live with Muggles. How to conceal their differences from Muggles is the most important thing—of course, this is still important today. The social circle of the Gua nobles is even together, and we cannot avoid this festival, which has created our habit today..."

"But Professor, not all wizards believe in Merlin, do they?"

All the students in the classroom woke up, looking at Hermione who suddenly had a seizure in surprise.

Professor Binns' floating body froze, but Hermione seemed to see nothing and continued to ask: "Merlin is a great magician, but before Merlin, what did wizards believe in? I was in the library a few days ago. In this battered chronicle, I saw a date like this, 'the seventh year after the disappearance of the family that did not believe in Merlin'... there is such a wizarding family, right?"

"Yes, but Miss Milan, this has nothing to do with my History of Magic class."

"Professor, isn't the thesis you assigned last time 'The Influence of Medieval Muggle Beliefs on Wizards'? Professor, of course wizards' beliefs have a greater influence on wizards, and it is real. It is different from the rumors about the Chamber of Secrets last semester." , and the chamber of secrets really exists.”

Professor Binns stared at this side for a long time with pearly white eyes, and then slowly said: "The Nyx family, they believe in Nyx, the goddess of the night, instead of Merlin. As early as 1000 years ago, this family did not exist. Now we continue Attend class!"

"Suddenly disappeared?"

"Yes, Albus, the Duke of Slytherin disappeared in Hercules' painting!" Forsk wiped the sweat from his red nose, bewildered in his frame Beard, "Hogwarts will close all the magical passages in the portrait of the gatekeeper..."

Dumbledore, who was eating a rose finger cake behind the desk, nodded solemnly: "There are loopholes in any contract in the world, and Hogwarts is no exception."

"But Albus, I don't understand—"

"Amando, you can think about Myrtle, that poor girl 50 years ago."

Armando Dippet frowned suddenly.

"Poor child, there was nothing we could do to save her life. We didn't know what caused her death until last year, because there was not a trace of scars or magic on the child's body to prove the cause of her death. It's just that the heart stopped suddenly."

The portrait of the headmaster on the wall changed completely.

After a long time, Dai Lisi Devante said in a low voice:

"Albus, you can always find details that no one pays attention to."

Salazar Slytherin saw the eyes of the basilisk before he died, because dead people cannot be petrified.

People are not dead, so where do portraits come from?

Why not sooner or later, after the Chamber of Secrets was opened, to be precise, after the basilisk fully awakened, the portrait of Salazar Slytherin, who has never appeared in Hogwarts for 1000 years——

"A Horcrux?"

"Yes, Phineas, I can't think of a second possibility."

"Albus, stop Snape from brewing the refreshment water."

"No, my opinion is exactly the opposite of yours." Dumbledore swallowed the last piece of syrup pie and said happily, "If the painting is just a Horcrux, then how did the founder of Slytherin die? He doesn't know about the rest of the time."

"That's not a good idea!"

Bringing Salazar Slytherin back to life - well, people who haven't died can't be resurrected - couldn't have been a more horrific, grotesque, or bad idea.

"Hogwarts is still honoring its contract, Albus."

"Yes, I already had doubts on the first night of school. The stairs in Hogwarts have fixed and special changes, but because of him he made an exception. This time the portrait of the gatekeeper is also the same. Salazar Slytherin is still alive, His spirit is still there, so Hogwarts changes at his will."

"but--"

"Thank you for your reminder, Fodsk, I've said it before. A quarter of Hogwarts' blood contracts come from Slytherin, and he will not do anything to destroy this castle."

"What if it's a magical world?"

What if he was like Voldemort?Horcruxes are the most evil black magic, and they can't believe it easily.

Dumbledore's deep blue eyes flickered behind the half-moon glasses: "Then he won't die in his bedroom."