Hogwarts: Who made her a professor?

Chapter 102 begins with the locked room and extends the discussion.

Chapter 102 begins with the locked room and extends the discussion.

For several days in a row, the students talked about nothing else but the attack on Mrs. Lorris.

The giant monster that appeared on Halloween last year didn't cause any real harm to anyone. The students were scared at the time, but they turned around and went about their business without any problems.

But this year's Halloween Eve is different. Mrs. Lorris is petrified. Although the one being attacked now is a cat, who can guarantee that the next target will be a pet?

The recent behavior of the castle keeper, Filch, serves as a constant reminder; he is always seen loitering on the second floor of the castle, seemingly believing that the attackers will return to the scene of the crime.

If Filch wasn't seen on the second floor of the castle, he must be hiding in some corner, his eyes bloodshot, ready to pounce on the unsuspecting student and do everything he could to make things difficult for him.

Filch, who was originally a family member of the victim, gradually eroded the students' sympathy for him. Now everyone wished that Filch was the one who was attacked, since Mrs. Lorris wouldn't suddenly jump out and lock someone up.

In November, when exams were still a long way off, the library suddenly became packed with people. Students could be seen searching on every shelf, looking for anything related to the escape room.

"Hogwarts: A History" has become a hot commodity, with the library's registration line already stretching for two weeks.

If there were a black market among students, anyone who had a copy of "Hogwarts: A History of the School" could definitely make a fortune and earn a few Galleons to spend.

However, every student who received this thick, over a thousand-page school history book felt cheated. The book did indeed record the secret room, but that was all.

The book makes no mention of where Salazar Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets is or what the monster inside is. Perhaps the author didn't want to talk about it, or more likely, the author didn't know either.

For example, the Sorting Ceremony is not mentioned in this book, not even the crumpled Sorting Hat; and the Room of Requirement, which many people don't know about, is also not mentioned at all.

Desperate, the students turned their attention to the professor, choosing someone who seemed knowledgeable and easy to talk to—not quite right, Professor Binns had been a ghost for many, many years.

During a dull and tedious history of magic class, Professor Binns successfully lulled most of the students to sleep, but Hermione Granger raised her arm high and asked him about the Chamber of Secrets.

After some pushing and pulling, the professor of magic history, unable to outmaneuver Miss Know-It-All, had no choice but to reveal what he knew. This immediately woke up all the drowsy students, their eyes widening in surprise.

Out of professional rigor, Professor Binns spoke with great restraint. He slowly recounted the origins of the Locked Room, the reasons for its construction, and the results of the school's investigations into the Locked Room over the centuries in a dry, panting voice.

Every sentence has reliable historical data as a reference, and you can find similar content in "Hogwarts: A History of the School". Asking is as good as not asking, and talking is as good as talking for nothing.

Finally, Professor Binns concluded with the statement: "There is no locked room, and there are no monsters."

This wasn't what the students wanted to hear; they were more interested in something wilder, like whether Salazar Slytherin had any little-known hobbies, or his complicated relationship with Godric Gryffindor.

For example, is the secret chamber really just for eliminating all those unworthy of learning magic? And what kind of monster is hidden in the secret chamber? ...and so on.

After a history of magic class, Professor Binns, who was in ghost form, was almost brought back to life by anger. The students' animosity towards Slytherin intensified, with some even calling the great Salazar Slytherin a "perverted old madman."

Both questions concern the Chamber of Secrets, both involve professors and students, and both are part of a regular Hogwarts course. However, in the History of Magic course, neither the professor nor the student is happy or satisfied. On the other hand, the Muggle Studies course presents a completely different picture.

The number of students in the Muggle Studies classroom was higher than usual. These extra students shared the same goal as Hermione Granger: if they couldn't find it in the book, they would ask the professor.

Unlike Hermione, they didn't choose the ghostly professor Binns, but instead chose a young female professor. This choice seemed a bit unconventional, but it turned out to be quite reliable.

In class, Belvina was still the same as always, standing on the podium with her hand on the lectern, a sly glint in her bright eyes hidden behind her silver-rimmed glasses.

She said, "The Chamber of Secrets in Slytherin? Headmasters have investigated for centuries, countless investigation teams have been formed, and each time the most capable wizards of the time have been invited, yet they have still found nothing. Therefore, the Chamber of Secrets does not exist."

Suddenly, one of the students in the classroom shouted, "Professor, stop talking about this! This is Hogwarts, not London!"

The anonymous student's complaints immediately resonated with others, as these contents were all in "Hogwarts: A History of the School." Why don't they just read the book? What they want to hear is content that isn't in the book.

It has a somewhat adult theme, and in fact it does have an adult theme. Salazar Slytherin and his monster pets, as well as his plan to eliminate those unworthy of learning magic, just sound like something taboo and bloody and violent.

Belvina feigned reluctance for a while, then said helplessly, "Fine, I really can't do anything with you guys. I'll just share my personal opinion. Just listen and that's it, but please don't tell anyone else."

The final admonition was better left unsaid. The students' true understanding of "Don't tell anyone" was: You absolutely must tell anyone!

Moreover, Hogwarts can never keep a secret. The ancient castle, which has stood for thousands of years, has endured countless storms, but its rough stone walls are thinner than parchment and cannot block the spread of sound.

"As we all know, Hogwarts was founded a thousand years ago by the four great masters: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin," Belvina said, not listing Slytherin first, but rather using alphabetical order by surname.

"The four giants named their houses after their surnames and admitted students they liked—" Professor! We know all that, tell us something we don't!" a mischievous boy interjected. "The Chamber of Secrets, and monsters!"

Belvina glared at her, annoyed, and continued, "The school was established around 990 AD, firstly to better educate young wizards, and secondly to stay away from the spying of Muggles and avoid being persecuted by them."

Even while telling her students about the Chamber of Secrets in Slytherin, Belvina didn't forget that her primary job was to teach Muggle Studies, and she unknowingly brought Muggles along as well.

"Hogsmeade, established around the same time, was also founded to avoid persecution by Muggles; it was essentially a form of mutual support," Belvina continued. "However, due to differences in personal views and ideologies, the disagreements among the four leaders grew increasingly pronounced."

Belvina turned around and began writing on the blackboard. The content was similar to the lyrics of the Sorting Hat, briefly outlining the admission standards of the four houses.

"Here I want to focus on Slytherin House, and analyze Salazar Slytherin's reasons for doing what he did from my perspective." Belvina snapped her fingers, and a piece of chalk accurately hit a grinning student. "Mr. Scott, please tone down your smile. Thank you for your cooperation."

The students immediately glared at them angrily. What were they laughing at? Couldn't they have waited until after class to laugh? What if the petty Professor Black refused to talk about the Chamber of Secrets?

"As you all know, when the Sorting Hat selects students for Slytherin, it looks for qualities such as shrewdness and ambition, a thirst for power, and a disdain for outdated dogma," Belvina said. "And of course, lineage."

Suppressing laughter is often as unbearable as urinating, especially when it's a group laugh. The students in the classroom had only just begun to make some suggestive associations when one or two of them couldn't hold it in any longer. It's just that the Slytherin students they knew were hardly shrewd or ambitious.

"Quiet!" Belvina emphasized classroom discipline. "Many Slytherin wizards also exhibit a fanatical pursuit of pure-bloods and discriminate against non-pure-blood wizards, because the great Salazar Slytherin did just that."

This time, the students couldn't laugh anymore. Most of the students who chose Muggle electives were not pure-blooded, and even if both their parents were wizards, none of the Twenty-Eight families had their surnames.

The so-called Holy Twenty-Eight Families are actually quite funny. The Malfoy family, which allows marriage between half-blood wizards, is on the list, as is the Ollivander family, which has been making wands for a thousand years. Yet, the wand masters are still noble pure-bloods.

It seems that the concept of "pure bloodline" is quite flexible.

“Indeed, Salazar Slytherin despised students from Muggle families, only wanting to admit pure-blood students,” Belvina said. “So later generations began to practice pure-blood superiority, but did they really consider why Slytherin did it this way?”

Belvina posed the first question, a very serious and important question, comparable to a Muggle bombshell.