[HP] The Elegance of the Night

It was already late at night, and there was no one in the long and narrow Slytherin common room. The beautifully carved fireplace was still burning, bringing some warmth to the perennially cold basement.

Yigil raised his wand to the fireplace, hissing Parseltongue from his mouth.

"The noble and greatest Salazar Slytherin." The corner of Igil's mouth twitched. Since he was born in the noble and oldest Black family that has been passed down for thousands of years, the snake ancestor thousands of years ago is indeed worthy of this title.But getting this kind of password from the deity still broke Igil's heart, and the glorious image of Slytherin collapsed even more.

The flame of the fireplace changed from scorching red to cold green, and Yigil stepped into it without hesitation, and a door with a snake-shaped copper handle appeared in front of him...

"Basilisk is not in the bedroom." Nagini swam out of Igil's pocket.Inside the door is a spacious room, the floor is covered with a black velvet carpet, and in a corner of the room, a huge, neat and soft cotton pad is carefully placed.

"Baslisk will make his own bed?" Igil asked in surprise, he didn't feel the magic wave on the huge cotton pad, and the permanent dust-proof spell would only be used on precious portraits.

[Hiss... the house elf will come to tidy up... Basilisk has a special elf to serve him] Nagini rolled on the ground enviously, when will the master improve her treatment?

"..." Iggy looked at the sky speechlessly, Dumbledore!You really failed as a principal...

[Hiss... the great Slytherin] Nagini hissed towards the end of the room, and the stone wall opened with a cold Parseltongue.A dazzling white light burst from the tip of Igil's wand, and a ball of light rose into the air, illuminating another long, dimly lit chamber beyond the stone wall.

His current position was close to the ceiling of another secret room, a high distance from the ground.

[Basilisk... hiss... I brought the little master here...] Nagini shouted cheerfully, a huge green basilisk quickly swam over from a corner of the secret room, the very bright snake skin You can tell it's full of poison at a glance.

In just a short while, Baslisk's two huge yellow eyes like light bulbs appeared in front of Igil. It could control the eyes very well, and only aimed at those who needed to attack.

The basilisk's head retracted again, this time parallel to the stone wall.Nagini unceremoniously swam to the top of its head, and Igil also stepped on it.

Basilisk sent them to the ground smoothly, and Igil looked around, and the ball of light also descended.

This secret room is full of dust, many stone pillars engraved with coiled and entangled serpents stand tall and support the ceiling that melted into the darkness above, casting long and treacherous waves on the entire room filled with dark green mystery. shadow.

Yigil raised his neck high, and the intersection they came down was the open mouth of a statue, and the old, monkey-like face of the statue also had a long sparse beard that dragged almost all the way to the stone carving. From the hem of the wizard's robe, two bare, gray feet peeped out from the hem, standing on the smooth stone floor of the room.

This statue was completely different from the Slytherin in the portrait, and Igil twitched the corner of his mouth again.He touched the metal frame in Nagini's bowknot pocket, and pulled out the portrait of Snake Zu.

Now, the huge portrait is facing Basilisk two by two.

Salazar Slytherin dozed off in the frame, and Baslisk saw the red-eyed handsome man in the frame and the familiar magical waves on the frame, big yellow eyes glistening tears.

Yigil took a few steps back holding the portrait, and the tears of the basilisk had merged into a stream at his feet.

[Basilisk——] Salazar Slytherin said with emotion, [I didn't expect to meet again after a thousand years, if I had brought you with me—wouldn't be so lonely] The red eyes on the portrait The man lowered his eyes sadly, he left Basilisk behind due to selfish motives.

Seeing things and thinking about people, I thought that person would go to him, but I didn't expect that Gryffindor, who is known for his bravery, didn't even have the courage to meet him after all.

They founded Hogwarts together, and fought together for the future of wizards, but because of this reason, they never communicated with each other.To this day, he still insists on his point of view—only the combination of equally powerful wizards can continue the future of the wizarding world, and Muggle blood will only weaken the magic power of wizards.

【Baslisk, this is my great-great-great-great-great-grandson, Igil Black Slytherin! ! ! ] (In British and American countries, some people use the surname of the person whose mother's surname is closely related to the family as the second name.)

The red-eyed handsome man in the portrait gritted his teeth. He noticed that Igil's hand holding the picture frame froze when he pronounced the noble surname Slytherin. Can't he accept it?His unworthy grandson Tom Slytherin is such an idiot, fool, idiot, scum... and still hasn't performed the ceremony!

It was because Merlin didn't approve that his descendants only recognized the mother's surname!This is a disgrace to the Slytherin family.If it wasn't just this bloodline left...

[Baslisk, from now on he is your master] The red-eyed handsome man in the portrait raised his mouth, [So Baslisk, you have to treat Igil like me] Salazar Slytherin As soon as the words fell, Baslisk had already shifted his gaze from the portrait to Igil.It swam over with its huge eyes open, and its agile tail swiftly and skillfully surrounded Igil in circles. The wet and cold snake letter licked and wiped the black-haired boy's cheek, and its huge head rested on Igil. , intimate dawdling.

[Woo...stop! ] Igil struggled uncomfortably. Now he knew why Salazar Slytherin left his pet in the Chamber of Secrets!

Opening his huge yellow eyes innocently, Baslisk let go of Igil, circling his long tail under him, hissing coquettishly.

Igil caressed its beautiful green snakeskin, and Basilisk wagged his tail and hissed more...

"Oh, damn Godric Gryffindor, who actually used Transfiguration to make my statue so ugly, does he think that I will look like this when I am old! This damn bastard, who wants to talk to him Becoming an old man..." The red-eyed handsome man in the portrait finally discovered the abnormality of the statue, he growled violently, and the red in his eyes became more gorgeous.

Thousands of years have passed, and the bones of those two ambitious and ambitious men have been turned into ashes, and the portraits that have inherited all the memories carry nostalgia or despair?

Godric Gryffindor, this is your curse... You damn man, now there is nothing left, haha...

"My statue, Igil—this ugly thing—"

Igil lightly hung the portrait in an imperceptible dark corner of the room, rejecting the unreasonable request of the beautiful man with red eyes who was a little depressed.

If Tom's father's Horcrux finds that the old man statue in the secret room has become younger, he will definitely run away from the door.

He can't do this kind of thing.

"Dear Salazar Slytherin, I leave everything to you—" Igil performed a standard aristocratic etiquette, and asked Baslisk to lift him up to the exit of the statue.

When he returned the same way, through the green flames, the boy with platinum hair was curled up in a huge armchair near the fireplace with a pillow in his arms.

"Igil—" Draco watched the black-haired boy come out of the fireplace, his lips trembled, but he didn't ask, "Let's go back, Igil—"

He had long felt that Igil was hiding something from him, but he wouldn't ask, everyone had some secrets they didn't want to tell, and he wouldn't be greedy enough to share them.

He won't trouble Igil...

The dark-haired boy showed a gentle smile, and the wand that he had been holding in his hand hung down to his side.If his roommate had asked him just now, he would have given him "everything is empty", right?Regarding his father's Horcrux, he had to be more cautious, and this was also for Draco's safety.

If you know too much, you will be involved, just like him, and he doesn't want accidents to happen to anyone around him.

In the pet room, a portrait of Salazar Slytherin stares wide-eyed with his basilisk.

Basilisk - when he saw it again, he was even happier than he imagined, he was really old...

[Baslisk, do you like this new owner? ] The basilisk answered him with a hiss, its tail slapping the floor happily.

[Dear Salazar Slytherin, hehehe, in fact, I want him to call me ancestor, just like Tom that stinky boy...] On the morning of the second day after the Quidditch match was cancelled, the secret room was opened News of the suspect being taken away spread throughout the school. Yesterday afternoon, the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, came in person and took away the half-blood giant Hagrid—he opened the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago, and one of them died. girl.

At the same time that Hagrid was taken away by the Ministry of Magic, Dumbledore also left the school.Mr. Lucius Malfoy brought a removal order signed by all twelve directors of Hogwarts.

Because of this series of accidents, they decided that Dumbledore was no longer fit to be headmaster.

"Daddy is here, I didn't know it!" Draco Malfoy said in surprise when he learned about it, this was the first time this had happened.The boy with platinum-blond hair keenly smelled something unusual in it.

His father has always hated Dumbledore, and this is indeed a good time to remove him, but with Dumbledore gone, who can guarantee that the following attack will not happen?

Dumbledore is the greatest white mage of this century.

Summer came quietly, the sky around the castle, like the lake surface, turned into a purple light blue, and the days after that were extremely calm, the students went to and from classes as usual, the only difference was that after six o’clock in the evening, everyone Must stay in the common room.

There were no attacks in the months after Hagrid was taken away, Dumbledore's departure did not have any impact, Gilderoy Lockhart tried different tricks to please Professor Snape, and the little wizards got used to hiding in the Watching a play in the corner.Of course, this was risky. If a young wizard was caught by a bad mood Snape, he would be locked up in his office for a whole week.Professor Snape would punish them to squeeze the slug's bodily fluids with their hands. The pungent smell was hard to wash off, and even the people around them refused to approach them.

Of course, for the safety of the confinement students, Professor Snape will use powerful pressure to escort the students all the way to the office and back all the way.

Gilderoy Lockhart wished that he was the student who was locked up. Once he asked Snape why he didn't apply for the position of headmaster. The Slytherins were very supportive of their headmaster.

Snape glanced at him, only said a word lightly, and Lockhart never dared to mention it again.

The principal, but he has the right to remove all teachers at will...

In late May, the examination subject list was posted on the bulletin boards in the lounges of various colleges. The examination will be held on June [-]st, and there is only one week left from now.

Three days later, Professor Sprout sent good news—the mandrake can be harvested, which means that the petrified students can go home for the summer vacation by themselves.

The attack seemed to be getting farther and farther away from them, and when the little wizards were busy reviewing, a terrible thing happened.Before the get out of class bell rang at noon, Professor McGonagall's voice, amplified many times by magic, echoed in the corridor.

"All students return to the dormitories of their respective colleges immediately. All teachers return to the staff lounge. Please act immediately. Repeat, all..."

Yigil gently closed the book in his hand, is he finally about to act...

Different from his composure, the little wizards in the Snake Court became panic-this time the accident happened to a student of Slytherin College, a pure-blood wizard.She was kidnapped by the monster and brought directly into the secret room.

Below the Halloween text, a new line of text appeared:

"Her bones will remain in the Chamber of Secrets forever."

Ginny Weasley...