The Admiral of Hogwarts

"And then? What exactly was that terrifying thing?" Hermione asked, pressing for more details after Venetto finished recounting the story of the heir opening the Chamber.

"Compared to all that background information, I'm more concerned about what exactly is that so-called terrifying thing that Slytherin hid in the Chamber."

"Sorry, I don't know either." Venetto gave a helpless expression and shrugged at Hermione's questioning.

"Because the records in that book only mentioned these things. Moreover, after that part about the Chamber, the author of 'Hogwarts, A History' even dedicated two whole lines to state that it was just a guess, and there was no evidence to prove it."

"This is simply—" Hermione shook her head helplessly, then suddenly seemed to think of something and said.

"You just said that Slytherin's biggest disagreement with the other three founders was whether to recruit Muggle-born wizards like me, and also believed that Muggle-born wizards were unreliable."

"Then why would he think that way? Does he, like most students in Slytherin House now, think that wizards from non-wizarding families are all filthy?"

"I can understand him on this point." Hugo waved his hand at this moment and said, "In that era, ordinary people were afraid of magic, and witches and wizards suffered a lot of persecution. The reason why the four founders chose to establish Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was also to avoid the unfriendly gazes of those ordinary people."

"Our elementary school history class also said that more than a thousand years ago was the most fanatical era of religion in the entire Europe. Even the First Crusade broke out during that period."

"Under such a historical background, young wizards born into non-wizarding families were likely to be influenced by the environment, causing their hearts to be filled with malice towards wizards, which could then pose a serious threat to Hogwarts and even the entire wizarding world."

In fact, Hugo realized the differences between Eastern and Western civilizations when he read novels in his previous life. At least, the Eastern world basically never had those obviously brain-dead witch hunts.

No wonder there is a thick barrier between the Western wizarding world and the world of ordinary people, and there is a very tense relationship.

To give a simplest example, in his previous life, after reading Harry Potter, Hugo became interested in some Western cultures related to the occult, so he specifically looked for books on this subject. As a result, he borrowed a rather famous book from that era: 'Malleus Maleficarum'.

After reading the contents of the book, Hugo also realized how cruel those people in ancient Western were in this regard. For example, the book stated that if you wanted to judge whether a person was a witch, you could throw them into the river. If they floated, they were guilty; if they sank, they were innocent. In this way, anyone who was accused would 100% be unable to escape death.

This history that lasted for hundreds of years naturally became a knife stuck between wizards and ordinary people in the Western world. Because of this reason, there appeared people like Grindelwald or Voldemort on the wizarding side who hoped to rule ordinary people, and there also appeared anti-wizard organizations like the Second Salem among ordinary people.

Yes, the Second Salem. Although at the beginning this organization was only the revenge of those Squibs and descendants who were purged from the magical world against the magical world, after several generations, this organization basically transformed into a powerful Muggle organization against magic.

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

"But what exactly is the terrifying existence in the so-called Chamber? Could it really be what he prepared back then in order to eliminate those useless wizards from Muggle families in the school? Also, if this is true, will those half-blood wizards be attacked?"

"Let me answer these questions one by one." Venetto waved his hand gently and said. "It is temporarily impossible to determine whether the so-called terrifying thing in the Chamber exists, so it is temporarily impossible to determine how the other party judges the target's bloodline."

"As for the issue of half-bloods, I think Slytherin shouldn't have considered them back then. After all, given the relationship between Muggles and wizards in that era, there should have been basically no mixed families."

"So that's how it is!" After listening to the explanations of Hugo and Venetto, Hermione nodded thoughtfully.

However, in the Magical History class the next day, she still asked Professor Binns the same question, hoping to find out some extra information. But to her surprise, Professor Binns' final answer was not even as detailed as the combined answers of Hugo and Venetto.

"It seems that this thing is really a secret." Hermione said to Hugo when everyone returned to the common room after class, "At least, the real secret about the Chamber should not be found in public information, otherwise ghosts like Professor Binns should know about it."

"That's right, 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 that small library that contains many internal private records about the school. If we search carefully, we might be able to find something useful."

Obviously, Hermione listened to Hugo's suggestion. So, in the next few days, as long as she had time, Hermione would run to the library in the common room to search for various materials.

On this day, just as Hugo was about to go to the time-wasting Defense Against the Dark Arts class with a bitter face, Hermione suddenly ran out of the small library, then came to Hugo's side and said: "Hugo, look at this. I found a document that can confirm the existence of the Chamber."

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

"This book is a spell note of a Ravenclaw student more than three hundred years ago, but I found that this senior also recorded some things that happened at the time while recording notes. For example, here—" Saying that, Hermione turned the book to a certain page and pointed to the content on it.

"This is a record from March 1665, saying that a Muggle-born wizard in the school died inexplicably—and the record in May shows that the matter was dropped under the intervention of the school, but the Ravenclaw students at the time felt that the monster in the Chamber should have caused this death."

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

"Because this record doesn't say how the victim died, and you see, in the end, they only suspected that the monster in the Chamber caused this death, but there is no definite evidence."

"That's right." Venetto also nodded, "Not to mention that this record doesn't say anything about the specific circumstances of the deceased's death, and in this case, it is impossible to analyze the cause of death at all."

"More importantly, that time happened to be the period of the plague in the Muggle world outside. So, too many deaths made the death of this deceased very simply ignored by these wizards."