Chapter 114: A Message from a Thousand Years Ago
With the flip of the mouse wheel, Slytherin's message from the Chamber of Secrets appeared in Ryan's eyes. Unlike Lane's imagination, which was full of magical knowledge for posterity, Slytherin only introduced his thoughts and reasons for leaving Hogwarts at the beginning.
Judging from these self-described texts, Slytherin was not the Dark Wizard that Ryan had imagined before. Because from the very beginning, he declared that his principle of conduct is to be harmless to others and to do as he pleases. It is clear that a wizard as powerful as Slytherin simply does not disdain to lie, so this principle should be true.
So what is it that makes future generations think that Slytherin is a dark wizard?
Sure enough, the latter paragraph describes why Slytherin left Hogwarts, as he had irreparable differences with the other three founders on the course of teaching from the beginning of the school.
When they founded Hogwarts, Europe was in the dark Middle Ages. War and strife dominated Europe at the time. The wizarding world is also full of dark wizards, after all, in this kind of environment where the law of the jungle eats the strong, black magic that can quickly improve its strength is more popular with wizards.
At that time, when the four wizards founded Hogwarts School, they wanted to pass on the magical knowledge they had accumulated from the struggle against dark wizards to the next generation, and slowly reverse the current situation of the proliferation of dark wizards through this method. Reforge the order. After all, when the dark wizards are dominant, a long war will break out, and in the end, everything in the wizarding world will be destroyed.
In this case, Slytherin proposed to only recruit pure-blood wizard descendants. Muggle-born wizards are likely to be influenced by their relatives (because their relatives are not as self-protective as wizards) to do something harmful to Hogwarts school.
Not to mention that there was a world of difference between Muggles and wizards in many places at that time, such as in those days, many Muggle-born wizarding apprentices could not even read and write, and the study of magic was based on a lot of knowledge. At the same time, hemp wizards who lack sufficient resources are more likely to go down the path of dark wizards who plunder others.
From an absolutely calm point of view, Slytherin points out why not concentrate resources on those who come from reliable wizarding families. In this way, the most efficient use of resources can be achieved, and as many excellent wizards as possible can be cultivated with limited resources. (In those days, due to the underdevelopment of productive forces, it was much more difficult to obtain resources than in modern times.) For example, many herbs can be grown now, but in those days they could only be gathered in the dangerous Enchanted Forest. )
But this view was refuted by the other three founders, who argued that Slytherin's view did maximize the use of resources. But it lacks a human side.
It was also the first time that the Big Four had diverged, and Slytherin chose to back down. He didn't interfere with the choices of the other three wizards, but simply implemented the idea in his own academy.
Then one thing suddenly made the divide even bigger, and the early Hogwarts didn't have as much magical protection as it does now. Because of the large number of resources gathered in the school, it has also attracted the prying eyes of dark wizards.
Once Hogwarts was raided by a dark wizard. Unfortunately, some Slytherin students were killed in the attack, and Slytherin himself killed the dark wizards in a fit of rage.
The killing of the Dark Wizard did not cause opposition from the other three founders, and the righteous Gryffindor only said that they would need to be tried before they could be dealt with. After all, it was a dark time, and even the kindest and Chippache had been killed from the dark wizards, werewolves, and vampires.
Since then, however, Slytherin has been teaching dark magic to his students, believing that in order for them to truly defeat the Dark Wizard, they must understand their methods.
This is why Slytherin was considered a dark wizard: he taught dark magic at Hogwarts, and those who listened to his lectures agreed that he was very proficient in the study of dark magic. In this way, it has become a popular saying that Slytherin is a dark wizard for thousands of years.
Naturally, this practice aroused opposition from the other three founders. Because when they founded the school, they vowed to build a magic school that had never existed before, a place where magic could truly compete with black magic.
Now the Slytherin approach worries them, because the students are young and inexperienced. In this case, they are likely to go astray under the Slytherin professor.
But Slytherin believes that every student is a reserve warrior ready to fight the Dark Wizard. So it is necessary to have a clear idea of what the enemy is like from the very beginning. So that they can have enough power to transform the world after graduation.
After a long argument over the matter, Slytherin felt that if he continued to stay at the school, it would probably split the school.
Out of love for the school, he chose to leave the school and spend the rest of his life hunting the Dark Wizard. Removing obstacles from the school's future.
Contrary to legend, Slytherin communicated well with the other three founders before leaving the school. It's just to keep Slytherin safe and avoid alerting the dark wizards. The other three founders of the school said in unison that Slytherin had left because of a quarrel.
Later, rumors spread throughout the wizarding world that Slytherin was a worse Dark Wizard than the Dark Wizard due to the killing of the Dark Wizard. Eventually, rumors made the Slytherin Dark Wizard's reputation to this day.
And this chamber was the last thing Slytherin did for the school before he left it. He envisioned that the wizarding world would continue to evolve over time. His descendants will pick up his vision and turn it into reality, for the benefit of the wizarding world as a whole.
The basilisk was only used by Slytherin as a temporary warden, and Helpo had just bred the basilisk back then. The Basilisk of Hogwarts is a trophy that Slytherin received when he killed a Dark Wizard.
He had planned that the basilisk would be one of the school's hole cards, helping Hogwarts survive the most difficult and weak time in the early days of the school. But I didn't expect it to live for a thousand years.
After reading these introductions, Ryan couldn't help but sigh, a thousand years can make a great wizard who has spent his life for school and dreams become an evil dark wizard in people's word of mouth. The students in the academy that bears his name, and even his descendants, worship the dark magic and are proud to be dark wizards.
If Slytherin, who has been aiming to destroy dark wizards all his life, knows, he will definitely be so angry that he will run back from the underworld to clean up these disciples.