The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 231 Slytherin's Heir
In the common room of Gryffindor, the members of Dawn did not go back to the dormitory to rest, but sat around in front of the fireplace that had not been extinguished, and they were waiting for Ada to come back.

The attack happened so suddenly that although everyone didn't like Filch, they were still disturbed by what happened to Mrs. Norris, and the attack happened very close to the classroom where they were active.

It was past eleven o'clock at night when Ada returned to the common room.

As soon as she entered the lounge, she saw the members in front of the fireplace, and she walked over to sit next to Fred and George.

"How?" asked Fred. "Has Dumbledore found anything?"

Fred's question represents the voice of everyone. Everyone wants to know the truth about the attack and who the murderer is.

Ada shook her head, and she said: "Mrs. Norris has been petrified, and when the mandrake matures, it can jump up and down in the castle and stare at the students again. However, Dumbledore didn't know that Lori How Madam Si was petrified."

"Is the Chamber of Secrets really open?" George thought for a while and continued, "I remember I heard Bill once say that Hogwarts has such a Chamber of Secrets."

"Does anyone know what's going on with this so-called 'secret chamber'?" Angelina asked, "Who is the heir?"

Everyone was shaking their heads. No one knew what the Chamber of Secrets was like, or even whether it really existed.

The record about the Chamber of Secrets has never appeared in any books related to the history of magic, only some unofficial histories and legends will record it. These few words only say "Hogwarts has a Chamber of Secrets", that's all, for searching The Chamber of Secrets does nothing.

The secret room is like a school legend or a school myth, which is passed on by word of mouth, but no one has ever found it, let alone announced it to the public.

"Regardless of the Chamber of Secrets, I think if we want to continue our activities, we probably need a new place," Ada said.

The classroom for dawn activities is on the third floor, very close to the place where Mrs. Norris was attacked. No one knows if the murderer has any special hobbies, whether he likes to review his crime process, likes to relive his crimes on site.

In order to ensure everyone's safety, the classroom on the third floor should not be used for the time being.

"Well, leave this matter to us." Fred said, "We will find a more secluded place as soon as possible, where we will not be threatened by the heir and will not be disturbed by Filch."

"Let's suspend the activities until we find a new place." George also said, "It happens that everyone is very tired during this time, so we just need to take a rest."

The attack was not forgotten by the students with the arrival of dawn. In the next few days, all the students were talking about Mrs. Norris, looking for clues about the secret room.

Filch was always wandering around the place where Mrs. Norris happened, trying to catch the murderer who dared to hurt Mrs. Norris. His temper became much more irritable, and many innocent students were "killed" by him.

If there was anything that surprised Ada, it was that Ginny had overreacted to what happened to Mrs. Norris.Ada knew that Ginny had always liked small animals, but she hadn't seen Filch's cat much in the first two months since she came to school. How could she have such deep affection for this cat?
Since August, Ginny has become weird, and Ida finds that she can't understand Ginny more and more.

Recently, the number of students in the library has also increased. Books about Hogwarts, such as "Hogwarts, a School History", have been borrowed by the students, and those who have registered to borrow have already been queued up. Half a month later.

Ada also plunged into the library, but she went to the restricted section.

But even in the restricted area, there are not many records about the secret room. After spending several days in the library, Ada just figured out the origin of the secret room.

Hogwarts school was founded more than 1000 years ago by the four greatest wizards of the time.Four houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin.

Together they built the castle, away from the prying eyes of Muggles, for in those days the common people were afraid of magic and wizards were persecuted a lot.

Slowly, however, there was a rift between them, a growing rift between Slytherin and the others.Slytherin wished Hogwarts had been more selective in its admissions.He believed that magical education should be confined to pure wizarding families only.He was reluctant to accept Muggle-born children, considering them unreliable.

Some days later, Slytherin and Gryffindor had a violent argument over this issue, and Slytherin left the school.

Before leaving school, Slytherin secretly constructed a Chamber of Secrets.Leaving the school he sealed the chamber so that no one could open it until his true heir came to the school.

Only the heir can open the secret chamber, release the horror inside, let it purify the school, and remove all those who are not worthy of learning magic.

That's all Ada found, not very useful, but better than nothing.All the legends about the Chamber of Secrets do not mention where the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is, nor what the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets are.

The investigation of the secret room seemed to be at a bottleneck, and Ada couldn't find any more detailed content.

For centuries, school authorities have investigated the existence of the Chamber of Secrets, but found nothing.It took hundreds of years for a group of top wizards to find it, and it was even more impossible for Ada to find it within a few days.

Now that the clue of "secret room" is broken, Ada can only shift her focus to another clue, who is the "heir".

Slytherin's enrollment standards and educational philosophy set a limit for Ada, and Ada felt that the heir should be a pure-blood.

So Ada began to consult books such as "Born Noble, The Family Tree of Wizards", hoping to find the heir hidden in the dark through the family tree of wizards.

Although these genealogy books are not as detailed as those compiled by the pure-blood families themselves, there are still a lot of names waiting for Ada.

Ada wanted to ask: Why are there so many people with the same name and surname?Why do you like to use the names of the predecessors to name the descendants?Can't there be another way to commemorate it?

Looking at those so-and-so lives, so-and-so's second life...even so-and-so's several lives, Ada wanted to curse.She always looked at it and wondered: Isn't this person dead? Why did he appear again?

In addition, Ada also discovered the intricate relationship between the various pure-blood families. She discovered that the Weasley family and the Malfoy family, and the Potter family and the Malfoy family were actually related.

Although I knew that the pure-blood family would marry close relatives to maintain their so-called purity in order to ensure the purity of their blood, but Ada really didn't expect that the relationship between relatives could be so complicated.

Sure enough, I was still too young and had too little experience.

We all know the dangers of close relative marriage, which will greatly increase the probability of recessive genetic diseases and the probability of deformity in babies.

But even so, the pure-blood family still ignored this harm (or they never knew it?), and showed everyone the harm of inbreeding marriage.

But I have to admit that the marriage of close relatives can still be passed on for so many years, and the pure-blood family really has something.

The hard work paid off, and when Ida was full of "incest marriage" and "so-and-so", she finally found some clues, and she found what she thought was the "heir of Slytherin".

Morfin Gaunt, the last person of the Gaunt family to appear at Hogwarts, a person who was imprisoned in Azkaban after killing Muggles, and the last clearly recorded descendant of Slytherin.

With the death of Marvolo Gunter at home and the death of Morfin Gunter in Azkaban, the Gunter family disappeared, and there was no student named Gunter in Hogwarts.

The descendants of Slytherin are gone, who is the heir of Slytherin now?
Wait, Ada suddenly remembered a name, a name that had long been forgotten——Tom Marvolo Riddle.

(End of this chapter)