Chapter 299 Statute of Secrecy That Changed the Times

"But the situation has changed now."

Jon looked at the Slytherin and said very seriously.

"Allow me to introduce myself first, Mr Slytherin, my name is Jon Green, and I am a third-year student under Professor Dumbledore at Hogwarts."

"Of course, I know Dumbledore." Slytherin interrupted in a loud voice, "Tom told me, he was the last headmaster of Hogwarts, despite being a descendant of a pureblood Dumbledore family, he was extremely biased towards Muggle students and even had collusion with the Muggle state, persecuting purebloods and half-bloods even more cruelly, a treacherous villain!"

Hearing his words, Jon's mind was instantly clear.

He had guessed correctly, Voldemort hadn't been telling the truth to his ancestors at all and was doing his best to smear Dumbledore.

It couldn't be more normal.

From what Slytherin had just said, Jon could tell that the old man, although not as reputable in Hogwarts history as the other three founders, he had also left behind his presence in Hogwarts castle in the form of the Chamber of Secrets and the Basilisk with the intention of cleansing the entire castle and slaughtering the muggle students.

But considering the kind of era he lived in, what he did was understandable.

Moreover, even though he had built the chamber and put the basilisk in it, he did not immediately start the purge. Rather, he left a legend behind, leaving the option of opening the door to his heir, in a way to patch up the approaches of the other three founders.

If in the future, as he thought, all the endeavours made to establish Hogwarts would be in vain, then there would be a pureblood student who would heed the legends he left behind, open that chamber and then do the cleansing of the muggle wizards.

It is clear from his actions that although this old man is a bit radical, his heart has always been good, otherwise he would not have founded Hogwarts together with the other three founders and worked hard to save the children who were constantly suppressing their magic and thus becoming Obscurial.

The odds of Voldemort recognising this too were high, so he couldn't tell all those cruel ambitions he had inside him, and even more so, he had to desperately belittle his opponents as a way to gain the goodwill of his ancestor, to achieve a goal that Jon didn't know about yet.

Jon took a deep breath and instead of immediately explaining anything, he blinked and continued to look at the Slytherin and asked.

"And did he tell you what his own situation is now?"

Slytherin narrowed his eyes as he said faintly.

"Tom told me that the witch hunt is intensifying, that the muggle-borns have joined forces with the muggles to rule the world completely, and that the descendants of wizards with ancient bloodlines are left to languish. He led the wrecked purebloods and half-bloods of Hogwarts to form another Hogwarts, teaching the children magic to fight back while in exile under Dumbledore's persecution."

Jon's face turned incredibly strange as if he had heard the funniest joke in the whole world, yet he didn't know how to laugh at this pathetic lie at all.

Voldemort was leading the purebloods and fighting in exile?

That would be a travesty if word got out.

Before Jon could say anything else, Slytherin went on.

"I can guess what that Dumbledore had you come here to see me for, you know about his previous visits to see me and want help from me to help you defeat my own offspring?"

His tone was full of sarcasm like he was mocking Jon's delusions on his part.

"I don't know how you found this place, or how those who sent you here could be sure that you would have my approval to enter this door, but I would actually like to know just what kind of lies you could make up to get me to believe you?"

Jon didn't speak up for a second, knowing full well that Slytherin was right.

One is a descendant of his own bloodline and the other is a stranger who he is meeting for the first time and from a different position, especially when Voldemort came here first, there is no way anyone could easily believe the latter.

Jon began to rummage through the pockets of his robes; knowing that the journey would not be a short one, he had brought with him a number of magical books that he could normally read, and among these is a book on the history of magic.

To be precise, it is a 'forbidden' book on the history of Hogwarts - Hogwarts: A History.

In no time at all, he rummaged through the book, holding it up in front of the Slytherin and flipping open the title page.

"I won't say much to explain, sir, but I do have a book in my hands on the history of Hogwarts School, which records all the recorded history of the school from the founding of Hogwarts until the time the author of this book created it, including the story of you and the other three founders who built Hogwarts Castle, and also records about the Chamber of Secrets legends which you left behind. The books that record the history are the best answer and proof than anything that I can say."

Jon didn't waste time as he flipped straight to the most crucial part of that school's history and held it up to Slytherin's eyes.

"The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy - The then newly formed British Ministry of Magic had sent a special delegation to liaise with the Muggle monarchs, William III and Mary II, in the hope that Muggle law would recognise and protect wizards, but eventually this plan fell apart, thus forcing wizards to reform themselves and create their own law designed to safeguard and conceal the wizarding society within Muggle society. It was signed in 1689, and enforced and passed in 1692. Almost every magical government in the world endorsed this Statute of Secrecy, keeping all information about wizards and magic hidden, buried and secret."

"This law was enforced and had to be followed by all wizards regardless of their bloodline, and it was from this time onwards that the magical world was completely cut off from the muggle world. From that point on there were no more wizards that crossed paths with the Muggle government, except when every new Muggle leader came to power, the Ministry of Magic would send someone to brief him on the existence of wizards in order to facilitate communication and coordination between the two societies to some extent."

"It was from that time onwards that almost no children with magical talent were subject to persecution, Obscurial became rare, and the witch hunts became history, as long as children with magical talent were enrolled in wizarding schools, after which even if they graduated they would remain in the magical world to earn a living, rather than return to muggle society."

"So the dilemmas and problems you encountered in your era were solved three hundred years ago. I don't think that Tom Riddle, that scion of yours, would have told you this."

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