Chapter Eighty-Four: Salazar Slytherin (Asking for a Monthly Pass!) )
Egg swore that he had been at Hogwarts for two years, and that he knew most of the portraits in the castle, but had never seen the boy.
"You... Who is it? Iger looked at the portrait on the wall with his eyelids down, and if I remember correctly, it was a landscape painting, and occasionally one or two of the women in the painting came to have a picnic here.
"It doesn't matter who I am, what matters is that you're a little too shameful, Moriss... Professor? The boy's voice was a little funny, and it sounded a little lazy.
"Shall I burn a portrait of an unknown origin like this?" Egg pinched his chin and muttered to himself.
"Don't say such terrible things to yourself, I don't have any malicious intent..."The boy hurriedly waved his hand: "Besides, I can go to any portrait in the castle, what's the use of burning this one..."
"Oh......?" Egg muttered, "This reminds me that I've been wanting to throw these portraits out for a long time..."
"Hey, you're a bastard—" The boy looked annoyed.
"You... Who is it? Egg turned his head to look at the boy on the portrait, his expression was a little serious, the world of Hogwarts portraits was like a local area network, and few people's portraits could come in except for people who had their portraits elsewhere.
"Huh...?" The boy looked at Egger with a smirk: "Egger Morissus... Having occupied the castle we left behind, killed my baby snake, and even tried to capture the last of my bloodline, and now you even ask who I am? ”
"Salazar Slytherin?" Egger stared at the boy in front of him in surprise, and after looking carefully for a long time, Egger pouted slightly: "Tsk... Not as handsome as me..."
"I knew you were a bastard, but I didn't expect you to be such a bastard..."The corners of Slytherin's mouth twitched.
Iger looked at the portrait in front of him in disbelief, hissing in his mouth, and blurted out in an obscure parseltongue: "Really? Lie......"
"It's like a fake!" The answer to him was also a parseltongue...
It turned out to be true!
"You... What is it? Iger looked curiously at the boy in the portrait.
"As you can see, I am a portrait." Slytherin bowed slightly, looking like a little gentleman.
I have to say that Slytherin is really good-looking, but there are some feminine femininity, and if it is a student, it is estimated that it can fascinate a large group of girls.
Portraits in the wizarding world are a very magical thing, as long as you draw a portrait of the magic, then it will form a part of the whole portrait world, they can connect with each other, and even have independent thinking.
Of course, this is not something that everyone can draw, and only those who have enough strength to imprint their own personality and memory are qualified to paint their own portraits, and not all portraits can be connected.
But at least the only Eternals Iger has ever seen since he entered the wizarding world are these portraits...
"I will only show up in the castle when my name is signed on the title deed of Hogwarts, which is a little trick I played." Slytherin looked at Egg with a grin.
"Dumbledore has seen you?" Egg looked curiously at the boy in the portrait in front of him.
"No, the point I'm going to tell you is that, out of respect for our founder, no one else's name has ever been signed on the title deed of Hogwarts, and successive headmasters have chosen to retain the management of Hogwarts instead of ownership, and this is the first time I've met you so shameless..."The corners of Slytherin's mouth curled slightly: "But that old man did realize my existence, he was one of the best people I had ever met, just like Godric." ”
Is that so? Egger blinked, that's why Dumbledore gave the castle to himself so indifferently?
Feelings come to the title deed without his name at all? As long as you have the management of Hogwarts, the school is the same for everyone!
"So... Do you have something to do with me? Egg poked at the portrait, and Slytherin frowned as she dodged Egg's cheap paws, looking at Egg with some displeasure.
"I'm just curious, curious about you." Slytherin looked at Egg with interest, "Since the contract on the title deed has created some soul contact between the two of us, of course, I'm just a personality without a soul... I've never seen a soul as strong as yours, it's like... Twice as powerful as others..."
Egger's heart tightened, and then he relaxed slightly.
He didn't care if Slytherin knew about his time travel, anyway, he had already hinted at Dumbledore almost, so he almost told Dumbledore face to face that he had traveled outside the story.
As for the Slytherin in front of you, do you know what it matters?
"Here you are... That's what you're trying to say about it? Egg asked inexplicably as he looked at Slytherin, a little confused.
"Of course not, I'm just sorry that you should be in our Slytherin..."Slytherin muttered, looking a little worried about Egger's Sorting House: "Sleek, smart, intelligent, understanding, talented, and brave, there is no better Slytherin than you, but unfortunately, for a Muggle-born girl..."
"You... Isn't he a racist? I don't even know who my parents are. The corners of Egger's mouth twitched, and it was hard to imagine that the typical adolescent boy in front of him could be one of the legendary Hogwarts Four thousands of years ago.
"Who said I was a racist?" Slytherin scoffed, "Helga, Godric, Rowena, which of them doesn't have Muggle blood?" It is said that I am pure-blood, but what era was it thousands of years ago? At that time, Muggles massacre wizards on a large scale, capture wizards, and the whole of Europe was shrouded in the strange theory of Muggles, wizards were all in danger, and once a child in a Muggle family found a talent for magic, they would be sent out by Muggles as undercover agents, hoping to find the wizarding world by the way, in exchange for you, would you like to recruit those children? ”
"Besides, in our time, Muggle-born children meant excellent, and Muggle-born children have proven to be excellent," Slytherin whispered.
Egg nodded thoughtfully, Slytherin was right, according to history, the situation of a thousand years ago was worse than he said.
"But as long as it's my student, I'll treat them equally, and that's something I can't doubt as a Hogwarts teacher and founder." Slytherin raised his chin a little proudly, and stood with a noble demeanor, and Egg vaguely saw a trace of Malfoy's shadow, but the difference was that the nobility of the two was one in the form and the other in the bone.
"The basilisk—" Egg frowned at Slytherin.
"I did put it there, of course, at first I was just thinking about getting a pet, but you know, my reputation has never been good..."Slytherin smiled awkwardly: "Even a thousand years ago, basilisks were very rare, and I'm a parseltongue, Egg, you should understand me, no one can resist the temptation to talk to a pet, even a basilisk, even if it's crooked now..."
Iger nodded approvingly...
"Coincidentally, that period was the time of the Cold War between me and them, so... The misunderstanding arose..."Slytherin sighed slightly, squinting slightly and looking at Egger seriously: "I want to emphasize that this castle has my share, this school is also our founder, I-Salazar Slytherin poured all my heart and soul into it, and I will never tolerate such things as endangering students, regardless of that student's pedigree..."
Egg looked at Slytherin a little dazed, could he be a Gryffindor fake?
This kind of righteous style of painting really doesn't suit Slytherin...
“emmm… You're better than me... Imagine being young. Egg looked at Slytherin and nodded awkwardly, the boy in front of him looked like he was only eighteen or nineteen years old, and it was a bit of a joke to say that he was a Slytherin.
"Who but a narcissistic teenager would sit idly and draw a portrait of himself—" Slytherin nodded stiffly, apparently reluctant to bring up the subject.
Iger remembered the old monkey-like statue in the chamber and looked at Slytherin with suspicion.
He couldn't have used a beautiful face, right? Anyway, it's a painting, and it's not up to him to decide what it looks like...
However, judging by the history that Egg knew so far, what Slytherin had just said should not have deceived him.
For Slytherin, whether it is the history of the school or the history of magic, the evaluation of him has always been that of a person who is responsible for the students, serious, and has a sense of justice, if it is really the kind of person in the legend, then the history will not be so high about him.
Therefore, the point of leaving the basilisk to kill Muggle-born students should be a false rumor for later generations.
Although he did leave a basilisk behind...
If the legend is true, then this should also be the case:
Not long after the argument, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff: "You racist, we don't play with you!" ”
"Huh, I'm obviously for your good, but you still exclude me, dogs bite good people's hearts, you don't know Lu Dongbin! "Slytherin rubbed his eyes and cried, "Wow... I'm running away from home! I'm telling you, I've raised a big monster, and sooner or later I'm going to let it bite and wash you, and I'll take the students you recruited to bite and wash together, and I'm going to bite and wash it..."
With that, Slytherin ran away crying with his luggage on his back.
Running out two miles, Slytherin crouched at the entrance of the village and looked at the gates of Hogwarts, snorting and gritting his teeth in hatred.
Why didn't that Godric bastard come to me yet?
Half an hour later, Slytherin looked at the doors of Hogwarts with tears in her eyes, woo woo, they didn't come to me, wow... I'm running away from home...
Then on the other side, the Gryffindors ran around the world on the fireplace: "Where did that kid go?" ”
The picture is inexplicably happy, Egger shook his head, and threw these unreliable brains out of his brain, but I don't know why, if according to the reasonableness of things, Egger feels that what he thinks is likely to be very real...
It's embarrassing...
Slytherin is a dead tsundere, which history has proven, whether it is Phineas who is 'indifferent' to Sirius, Professor Slughorn who is subtle and tactful for favor, Draco Malfoy who hates Harry for dying but refuses to identify Harry, or Snape who is a fool of love and pretends to be a human licker.
History will always silently record their second-hand behavior, so that future generations can look at the stories of their predecessors and hold the watermelon and say that it is really fragrant...
"I regret that we were here—" Slytherin looked at the field in the portrait behind him with a distant look, "If I had taken a step back, I wouldn't have lost my most precious treasure..."
"I have a hunch that I should run away when I hear this...", Iger looked at the portrait in front of him with strange eyes and muttered quietly.
"I'd like to ask you something, Egger—" Sure enough, a Slytherin voice rang out.
"I don't listen, I don't listen!" Egg covered his ears and swished away, and Slytherin stood in the portrait looking at Egger's back with a disheveled expression.
Fools have to listen, if you guess correctly, you must do something for him yourself, and it will definitely not be so easy...
Still, Egger underestimated Slytherin's persistence, and the young man hurried through the portraits looking for Egg, who scurried up the ever-changing staircase.
There was no staircase that would let his master step on it without opening his eyes, so that Egger went all the way unimpeded, and unconsciously ran to the door of the room that answered the need.
Hurriedly circling the doorway, Egg looked at the slowly emerging door on the wall and plunged his head in.
"You can't find me this time, right?" Egger looked at the slowly disappearing gate behind him with a relaxed expression.
"Egger, I need your help—" Slytherin's voice rang out, and Egger turned around with a wide range of eyes, and in a somewhat broken picture frame behind him, Slytherin looked at Egg with soft eyes.
"How did you get in?" Egg stared at Slytherin.
"I'm part of the castle, or the real manager of the castle." Slytherin chuckled softly: "I am a personality left by Salazar Slytherin, a long-cherished wish, a remorse, I have all his emotions, unfortunately I have no soul, I am just a portrait of his youth, a carrier of memories and a manifestation of his personality." ”
"You exist in the title deed, so to speak... Is the castle yours? Egg looked at Slytherin quizzically.
"The castle was created by the four of us, but the title deed is mine," Slytherin looked at Egg with a smile, "You know, Godric was an alcoholic and a poor man, Rowena was greedy for money like a female dragon, and Helga was not from a prominent background. ”
All right...
With a somewhat melancholy sigh, Egg also accepted his fate, as long as he was still in this castle, he would inevitably be entangled by him.
"What do you want me to do for you?" Iger looked at the helpless stall of the boy in the dilapidated portrait in front of him.
"Any capable wizard will preserve his living personality for posterity, even Godric, and while they are not afraid of death, they still have some vanity, I think... Goodbye to them for once......" Slytherin looked at Egger with some pleadingness, "I've been waiting for a thousand years, Egg... Hogwarts doesn't become someone's property, and the title deed is only for you while you're alive, which means that if you pass away one day, I may have to wait a long, long time..."
"You mean, maybe the other three founders will have portraits like you or some other object?" Egg pinched his chin and looked at Slytherin.
"Yes," Slytherin looked at Egg and nodded.
"Don't make a fuss, it's been a thousand years, brother, how do you let me find it?" Egger looked at the portrait in front of him crookedly: "This is not realistic at all, and the crown left by Ravenclaw that is most likely to have her personality attached to it has been made into a horcrux by your good descendants, I have seen the sword of Gryffindor, there is nothing surprising about the fairy craft, it is just a little sharper, and as for the Hufflepuff Gold Cup, it has also been harmed by your good descendants, what do you want me to find?" The bones are rotten, okay..."