The Dark Lord's Guide to Employment at Hogwarts

Li Weide recalled the battle just now and finally thought of what was wrong.

Just now, he was in the center of the two fierce flames. Although he felt the heat, he didn't feel any discomfort...

Moreover, even though Slytherin's magic in the illusion seemed very powerful, he always felt that it was not as powerful as he had imagined.

"Boy, are you from Gryffindor? Your swordsmanship is terrible. If it were Godric, I wouldn't be able to break his sword so easily." Slytherin suddenly said.

Li Weide pulled out the intact long sword from his pocket, feeling awe-inspiring.

The illusion just now was overlaid on my own illusion, and it was so realistic...

"No... I'm not from Gryffindor." Levid pulled open his battle suit, revealing a Slytherin house badge underneath.

"What!? You are from Slytherin? How can a Slytherin student use Gryffindor's fighting style! And... after I left, those three guys actually started to stuff Muggle-born idiots into my college?" Slytherin was furious.

"Do you think I'm weak?" Li Weide asked coldly.

Slytherin immediately stopped cursing, "Objectively speaking, you are not weak..."

"So, do you still think that a wizard's strength is related to his bloodline?" Li Weide asked.

"Of course! You're just an exception!" Slytherin said angrily, clearly still furious. "Those Muggle-borns... I've never seen such stupid students! They can't even spell a complete sentence! What's the difference between them and trolls?"

"I have a different opinion on this point," Levid said. "In your time, only a few people could read. Muggle-born wizards and wizards, and even fewer of them from aristocratic families who could read, so most Muggle-born students were illiterate commoners. If you treat them with the same standards as you treat people of aristocratic birth, you will naturally think they are stupid. So, rather than saying that Muggle-born students are stupid, it's better to say that you don't teach students according to their aptitude."

Slytherin frowned, suppressing his disgust for the stupid. Thinking back to those Muggle-born students in school, he suddenly felt that what Levitra said made some sense...

"Wait... you just said, 'in your time', what did you mean? I just died..."

"Just died? You've been dead for thousands of years!"

Chapter 235: Is human experimentation taboo? When I did experiments before, I always dismembered a few people.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I've been dead for thousands of years? That doesn't make sense at all!" Slytherin looked incredulous.

"How is it impossible?" Li Weide suddenly frowned. "In fact, your appearance is the most unreasonable thing! Hogwarts has been established for thousands of years, and there are many ghosts in the castle. But...how can a ghost appear after being dead for thousands of years?"

"You're really not lying to me?" The Slytherin ghost stopped stirring.

"I have no need to lie to you, and I can't lie to you. As long as you go out and take a look, you will understand that this is no longer your era. What's the point of me lying to you? Besides, don't you think that there are many things wrong with your appearance this time?" Li Weide asked back.

The Slytherin ghost fell silent, for he had indeed noticed a great many things wrong with it.

"First, after death, if a person still has attachment to the human world, they will wander in a hazy illusion, eventually returning to the human world and becoming a ghost. They appear almost immediately after death. Since you've been dead for thousands of years, if you really turned into a ghost directly, how could you appear only now?"

"Secondly, once a wizard becomes a ghost, even if they were extremely powerful in life, they can no longer use even a fraction of their magic power after death. But what about you just now? Although the duel just now was not real, you were able to pull me into the illusion! This is also unreasonable!"

"Finally, why did you appear at this moment, and... why did you appear in this place? There are so many things that are wrong!"

The whole matter was shrouded in doubts, and even Levitra couldn't list all the problems, but he believed that with Slytherin's wisdom, what he said was enough to make him calm down and think.

As expected, Slytherin calmed down and began to recall his memories. "That day, I was conducting an experiment to verify the various possibilities of the blood curse... Then I felt a little sleepy and fell asleep unknowingly. It's strange, I clearly drank the energy potion..."

Slytherin looked at Levid. "I remember now. I felt a sudden palpitation for no apparent reason before, and then I woke up. However, when I woke up, I found you fiddling with my basilisk... I was very angry, so I planned to ask you who you were and why you wanted to kill my basilisk. However, I was surprised to find that my hand that wanted to pat your shoulder went straight through your body!"

The Slytherin ghost took a deep breath of non-existent air, "I found myself turned into a ghost!"

Livid suddenly understood why he had felt the chill for the first time. It turned out to be the Slytherin ghost patting his shoulder...

"But even if it's a ghost, I shouldn't be unable to see it! Could it be that the ghost was invisible when it first appeared?"

"I don't know either." Slytherin shook his head.

"How could you not know?" Li Weide didn't quite believe it.

"I don't know much about what happens after death!" Slytherin said angrily, "Because I never thought I would die! If you give me a little more time, I will definitely find a way to achieve eternal life! But... now I'm... dead?"

Levid now somewhat understood why Slytherin was still studying the curse of blood before his death. The first difficulty in studying immortality is always how to resist the aging of the body, followed by the decay of the soul.

"Well... Professor Binns, our professor of History of Magic, forgot to bring his body with him when he got up for class one day... Yes, he didn't know that he was dead, and still went to teach his students as usual. Your situation should be somewhat similar to his. Maybe when you fell asleep that time, you were not just sleeping, but... dead." Li Weide said thoughtfully.

"Who? Professor Binns? Could it be Cuthbert? Cuthbert Binns?" Slytherin asked in surprise.

"Yes. Professor Binns, he's still the History of Magic professor at Hogwarts. In his ghostly state... to be honest, he probably didn't even notice he was dead..."

Slytherin was silent for a long moment before he sighed and said, "Cuthbert, it was Godric and I who went together to invite him to teach at the castle. I've rarely seen a wizard with such a sharp mind. I never thought that thousands of years would pass..."

Professor Binns joined Hogwarts as a professor at the beginning of the school. Slytherin admired this quick-witted and knowledgeable wizard very much at that time.

But I didn't expect that it would be a thousand years before I heard Professor Binns' name again after leaving Hogwarts.

"So, you just took a nap, and when you woke up, you appeared here? Or were you awakened by the magical fluctuations of the basilisk's corpse?" Li Weide brought the subject back.

"I did come here after waking up, and I became a ghost... but... I'm not sure if I was awakened by the basilisk's corpse!" Slytherin frowned and said, "Even if the basilisk I raised was dead, it wouldn't make me feel palpitations! But when I woke up, I actually felt palpitations! This is very unusual! Ever since I became one of the Four Giants, no one has given me palpitations!"

Levid looked at Slytherin and for a moment didn't know how to solve the current problem.

There were many doubts about many things, and there were many things he wanted to get answers from Slytherin.

But... Li Weide's cautious character made him feel that killing the ghost in front of him directly was the safest option.

Even if the Slytherin ghost said that he had just awakened, he might not have seen his experiments.

But...is what the Slytherin ghost said necessarily true?

Besides, he attacked me as soon as he appeared!

"Oh, boy, I see murderous intent in your eyes." Slytherin sneered.

"You may have seen it wrong." Li Weide said calmly.

"I'm not wrong... Do you know what the world was like thousands of years ago? When we four giants established the school, do you know how many wizards felt threatened and wanted to destroy our castle? Do you know how many people we killed in order to build the castle? Compared with those vicious wizards, your murderous aura is still immature." A trace of reminiscence flashed in Slytherin's eyes.

Before the founding of Hogwarts, wizarding education and inheritance were mostly family-based.

The father teaches his son, and the son teaches his grandson. This means that the strength of a wizard is closely related to his family heritage.

A powerful wizard family can generally continue to be powerful, while a weak wizard family will always be weak no matter how much it inherits, because they do not have a powerful magical heritage in their family.

But the establishment of Hogwarts broke this balance!

This allowed all young wizards to receive an education, even those of Muggle-born origin. This broke the monopoly on knowledge and gave weak wizard families the possibility of turning their fortunes around!

How could those powerful wizard families allow this to happen?

So when the school was first established, many powerful wizards came to attack the school...

In that chaotic dark age where there was not even a Ministry of Magic, every battle was a fight for life and it was extremely cruel!

Otherwise, how could a school like Hogwarts have so many combat puppets left to defend against foreign enemies?

Even though magic may be more advanced now than before, the so-called wizard duels today do feel a bit like playing house compared to that era.

Slytherin looked around the lab again. "If I'm not mistaken, this is your lab, right? It's really shabby... Even my worst student's lab is better than yours..."

"I have to make sure you don't tell anyone what happens here," said Li Weide.

"Everything here?" Slytherin was a little confused. "Could it be that... you don't want others to know about your laboratory? Why?"

"This is my secret laboratory. I don't want anyone else to know about it. Also, I don't know if you really just woke up today. If you witnessed my experiments..."

"Wait? Even a student like you doesn't deserve to have your own laboratory? You even have to set up a secret laboratory... Are Hogwarts students so powerful now?" Slytherin was shocked.

Although Slytherin saw the fact that Levid was of Muggle origin, he also recognized Levid's strength.

After all, even back then, there were few students of Li Weide's age who had such abilities!

In his time, a student as talented as Li Weide was a treasure! Not to mention one laboratory, he would approve even eight or ten! Even if there was no laboratory, he would be willing to build it himself!

Moreover, he would never care what his students were researching unless they asked for help!

Because if I interfere recklessly, it will limit the students' creative thinking in magic...

And now, such students can't even have a laboratory? They have to build it secretly? Conduct experiments in secret?

Are all the other students better than Li Weide?

Li Weide knew that Slytherin might have misunderstood something.

"Not really... I did some not-so-good experiments here, so..."

"Not a very good experiment?" Slytherin frowned. "Are you researching a plague curse that could destroy a nation?"

"That's not true..."

"So...it's about researching how to quickly exterminate Muggles?"

"I'm not that cruel!"

"Hiss... So you're researching how to summon demon servants? Back then, I couldn't prove the existence of demons... Has it been proven now?"

"It's not..."

"Then what kind of things that are so hated by God and man are you researching here? Why are you so afraid of others finding out?" Slytherin asked in confusion.

"I conducted human experiments here! I dismembered two people alive!" Li Weide said fiercely.

"Ah? That's it?" Slytherin looked confused.

Li Weide closed his mouth, he knew...

When Slytherin asked him the question just now, Levid had already reacted.

Times have changed...

The so-called "dark magic research" that he was doing now might not even be considered as childish play if it were placed in the dark and chaotic era of Slytherin.

Especially when he thought of Slytherin's experimental manuscripts... Which experiment didn't involve several people?

Chapter 236 Congratulations, you no longer have any pure-blood descendants!

Levid spent some time talking to Slytherin about the current situation.

Slytherin frowned, looking unhappy.

"What a boring time this is!"

In his time, there was no Ministry of Magic, not even an organization that could be called a government agency, and people were used to being free and undisciplined.

But in this day and age, there are so many rules and regulations that make Slytherin feel uncomfortable all over.

"It's really hard to understand. How could anyone be willing to deliberately set rules and regulations for themselves to restrict their own behavior? Laws and such...isn't this just a Muggle trick?"

"These rules and regulations are a protection for the weak and a deterrent to the powerful. Times have changed," Li Weide concluded.

"You quite advocate this approach? Even if it means that you are afraid of being discovered even if you use dark wizards for experiments?" Slytherin sneered.

"No matter who you are, there will be some friends or relatives who care about you but are still very weak. I hope that the existence of the law can give them protection. And I violate the law in order to make myself stronger. As long as I am not discovered, is there anything wrong with that?" Li Weide answered calmly.

"Ha! You are quite shameless!" Levid's double standards made the Slytherins laugh out loud.

"You are the least qualified person in this world to laugh at me, aren't you? I've read your manuscripts. If you were to carry out those experiments today, you would be imprisoned in Azkaban for life!"

"Times have changed, kid, that's what you said. In my time, if you weren't cruel, people wouldn't be afraid of you. Only if you don't take human life seriously will others be afraid of you, and no one will dare to mess with you."

Slytherin paused, then continued, "Well, now it's my turn to ask you questions. Even if you want to destroy me in the end, I still hope you can answer my questions. After all, I am powerless now, right?"

When Slytherin first woke up, he was still able to pull Levitra into the illusion, but now, as the time he spent as a ghost grew longer and longer, Slytherin felt that the remaining magic power in his body was slowly dissipating...

"You shouldn't have revealed this to me. Now, your only threat to me is gone." Levid frowned and looked at Slytherin, not quite understanding why he would expose his weakness.

"With your ability as a sage, you will find out sooner or later that I am bluffing. There is no point in delaying any further." Slytherin said as he simply sat down on the chair next to him.

"I heard you talking just now... What exactly is a sage? What do you know about this ability of mine?" Li Weide asked immediately.

"You don't know?" Slytherin was a little surprised.

"I really don't know..."

"Oh... that's not surprising. A thousand years is enough time for many things to change, enough time for a lot of history to disappear..." Slytherin pulled out a transparent pipe from somewhere and started lighting himself. "Tsk... After becoming a ghost, everything tastes bland..."

"You haven't answered my question yet." Li Weide urged.

Li Weide was not polite at all to Lao Deng, who wanted to kill him right from the start, even though this was the ghost of one of the four giants.

Besides, Li Weide actually still has doubts about his identity! He can even pull himself directly into the illusion, who knows if this guy's identity is also fake?

However, Slytherin simply glanced up at him and took another leisurely puff.

"You have to understand what a deal is, kid. You have to answer my questions before I can continue to answer yours."

"Okay. You ask first." Li Weide also pulled over a chair and sat down.

Even though Li Weide has many ways to make a ghost disappear, if he wants to get words out of the ghost's mouth, tough measures are not the first choice.