bioinnovel Chapter 103 Why Professor Black Did That
Chapter 103 Why Professor Black Did That
Chapter 103 Why Professor Black Did That
The students in the classroom began to ponder the question the professor had posed, a question they had never considered before.
Salazar Slytherin was nothing but a mad, twisted old man. And look at his disciples and their descendants. Students from other houses hate Slytherin more than they can think about what he's thinking.
Furthermore, Slytherin House is a cradle of dark wizards, practically a direct route to Azkaban. Some even believe that everyone who joins Slytherin is a bad person.
Prejudice is a mountain in people's hearts, and this is true of Slytherin House for non-pure-blood wizards, as well as for other people's prejudice against Slytherin.
Just as the students in the classroom were about to rack their brains, Belvina finally spoke up again. Her answer was not a standard answer, but merely her own superficial opinion, which Belvina Black had already made clear beforehand.
"To understand this issue, we must first go back to the era in which the four giants lived," Belvina said. "We need to put on their shoes and walk around in order to get closer to them and understand them."
She continued, "Muggles of that era were terrified of magic, and because of this fear, many wizards were persecuted, and many lost their lives. Hogwarts was established against this backdrop of a great era."
With that, Belvina shrugged and continued, "Now, can you understand Salazar Slytherin's narrow-minded and extreme thinking a little better?"
Given the prevailing premise of Muggles persecuting wizards, it's understandable that Salazar Slytherin disliked and couldn't trust Muggle-born wizards.
No one is perfect, so who can guarantee the inclinations of these Muggle-born wizards? Will they choose to join their fellow wizards, or will they choose to return to life among Muggles?
Muggle-born wizards receive magical education and learn magic, but what if they turn around and betray their fellow wizards?
Relatively speaking, pure-blood wizards are more trustworthy because their parents and relatives are wizards.
Of course, pure-blood wizards are simply more trustworthy, not entirely trustworthy. Whether Muggles or wizards, betraying others for personal gain is commonplace.
"Salazar Slytherin believed that Muggle-born students were unreliable and untrustworthy, and he tried to persuade the other three," Belvina said. "But the other three founders did not agree with this idea, and Gryffindor even had a very heated argument with Slytherin."
Belvina paused her conversation, her gaze sweeping over the students in the classroom, taking in their faces—some youthful and innocent, others growing increasingly mature.
She continued, "So Slytherin angrily left, leaving behind the legend of the Chamber of Secrets. Legend has it that Slytherin secretly built a Chamber of Secrets, where a terrifying monster was hidden. When his successor returned to Hogwarts, the Chamber of Secrets would open and purge all those unworthy to learn magic."
The classroom fell silent. Who was worthy of learning magic? And who was unworthy?
Everyone has a different answer, but Salazar Slytherin's answer is clear: Muggle-born wizards are not worthy of learning magic, and these "Mudbloods" should be exterminated.
"Professor, what is the monster in the locked room?" someone asked.
"Professor Black, the monster in the Chamber of Secrets attacked Filch's cat, didn't it?" another person asked.
After a brief silence came a flood of questions. The students had so many questions that the school's millennia-long fascination with the locked room seemed to erupt all at once today, in the Muggle Studies class.
Belvina raised her hand to signal for silence, then said, "The secret chamber has not been found for centuries."
"I'm not Salazar Slytherin, how could I possibly know what monster lurks in the Chamber of Secrets? I'm just like you, I can only imagine."
Each of the four houses has its own representative animal: Gryffindor is represented by the lion, Hufflepuff by the harpoon, Ravenclaw by the eagle, and Slytherin by the snake.
Slytherin House is symbolized by the snake, and Salazar Slytherin himself is known to speak Parsleyan, so the terrifying monster hidden in the Chamber of Secrets is very likely related to snakes. This hypothesis sounds quite plausible.
"And who is the heir, Professor? Who is Slytherin's heir?"
"Yes, has the heir to Slytherin returned to school? Was it the one who attacked Mrs. Norris?"
Seeing that they couldn't get any more information about the Chamber of Secrets monster, the students turned their attention to the Slytherin heir, the real culprit who opened the Chamber and attacked Mrs. Lorris.
"Has anyone here read the Pureblood Register?" Belvina asked. "Raise your hand if you have."
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The entire army was wiped out; not a single hand was raised. The Pureblood Register was published in the 1930s, and is widely believed to have been written by Cantankerus Nott.
It's now the 1990s, so it's normal that students haven't read "The Pureblood Register." That's an old book from sixty years ago, and few people would be interested in it.
"And what about 'Born Noble: The Wizarding Genealogy'? Has anyone read that book?" Belvina asked again. "Well, not many people have read it."
Once again, they were completely wiped out. As I said before, who would bother flipping through someone's family tree for fun? Only those who have nothing to boast about besides their surname would pitifully and pathetically use these two books to show off their supposed superiority and uniqueness.
Belvina sighed and continued, "If you had read these two books, you wouldn't be asking me this question."
Because these two books record things very clearly.
As she spoke, Belvina picked up a pen and wrote a surname on the blackboard, a surname that the students in the classroom had never heard of before.
"The Gaunt family," she continued. "Sounds unfamiliar, doesn't it? That's right, because the Gaunt family is gone. The last male member of the family died in Azkaban."
Why would Professor Black bring up a vanished family? Could it be that Gaunt is the heir to Slytherin?
The students whispered among themselves for a few moments, and soon realized that there must be some connection between Gaunt and Slytherin, otherwise there would be no need to bring up the Gaunt family in class.
"Both the registers and the wizarding genealogies clearly state that the Gaunt family are descendants of Salazar Slytherin."
The family members inherited Slytherin's special ability: Parsleyan.
Belvina continued, "The last known male member of the Gaunt family was Morfin Gaunt, who was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a Muggle and resisting arrest. After his release, he was imprisoned again for murdering a Muggle, and this time he did not leave Azkaban."
These things can be found simply by looking through wizarding genealogies and the Ministry of Magic's old files; they're hardly secrets. It's just that students are unwilling to delve into tedious genealogies, nor are they entitled to access the Ministry of Magic's old case files.
"That means Salazar Slytherin has no male descendants left," Belvina said. From others to themselves, the Black family is walking down the same dead end that the Gaunt family walked down, with the last male members imprisoned in Azkaban.
Since Slytherin has no male descendants, who is the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets now? Didn't he claim to be the heir?
The students in the classroom were buzzing with discussion, debating whether the Slytherin heir was an imposter or using the Slytherin name to cause trouble on campus.
What happened to Mrs. Lorris being petrified? So many days have passed, and the caretaker Filch still looks like he's lost his wife, and Mrs. Lorris hasn't recovered.
Belvina stood on the podium with her hands in her pockets, quietly watching the students' heated discussion in the classroom. This was exactly the effect she wanted to achieve: to make the students doubt the authenticity of the Slytherin successor and not be intimidated by the name of Slytherin.
To deny the legitimacy of the Slytherin heirs on a bloodline level, and to redefine the attacks that occurred at the school as not inheriting Slytherin's legacy and eliminating all those unworthy of learning magic, but rather as lawbreakers causing trouble at the school, and as conspirators with ulterior motives.
As for the female members of the Gaunt family who married out, whether they continued the Gaunt bloodline, Belvina didn't mention it at all, insisting that if she didn't say it, then no.
He placed great trust in his students, believing they wouldn't bother to look up "Born Noble: Wizarding Genealogies" and "Pure-Blood Register," nor would they have the patience to search through rows of names to find the Gaunt family's married-out daughters.
Another point is that, in order to maintain the purity of their bloodline and ensure that Parsleyan speech could be fully inherited, the Gaunt family tended to engage in inbreeding. Moreover, the Gaunt family was notoriously violent and mentally unstable, and this was precisely the drawback of inbreeding.
As the bell rang at the opportune moment, Belvina immediately announced the end of get out of class. She knew that her theory had many problems, so she politely asked all the students to leave so that they could spread this problematic theory as soon as possible.
In the process of disseminating a theory, errors and omissions are inevitable, and appropriate supplementation is necessary. This process gradually refines the theory.
It becomes more easily accepted by students.
Denying the legitimacy and correctness of the Slytherin heir is intended to soothe the students' panic caused by the appearance of the Chamber of Secrets and calm their restless hearts.
If this could force out Slytherin's heir, all the better; then we wouldn't even need to search for that hidden Chamber of Secrets.