Chamber of Secrets

Here I stood, before the sink that leads to the Chamber of Secrets. I decided I should just deal with this now while the teachers are focused on finding out how the troll got into the castle. So that night I walked through the shadows to Moanin Myrtles bathroom.

~Open~ I say in Parseltongue causing the entrance to open then to test another fan made theory ~Stairs?~ And stairs leading down into the chamber appeared. Seriously how many fan made theories are right in this universe? I really hope my Dumbles isn't some Dark Puppeteer like in some fanfics.

I then make my way down into the Chamber. At the bottom was very large snake skins and a carpet of bones. I made sure to take the snake skins with me as they might have some effect in potions or alchemy.

~Open~ I say to the large door causing it to open revealing a long hall with snake motifs on either side and down at the end a large stone head. I go down almost all the way to the head before dropping a cow carcass down onto the ground. I managed to get it from the house elves in the kitchen for some recipes I knew of.

I go up to the head and speak ~Hey if you are in there I brought you an offering!~ Because I didn't want to say that cringey password. I quickly make my way beyond the cow and wait. It takes a minute but the mouth piece starts to lower so I close my eyes and focus only on my hearing

~Offering?~

~Uh yea I brought you a cow~ I gesture to in front of me where the carcass was. I hear the scrapping getting closer and after another minute or two the Basilisk speaks again

~You may open your eyes Young Speaker. I shall not harm you~

I do so very slowly and see the cow is gone and before me was a very large grey/black serpent. The movie did not do the basilisk justice. The basilisk looked regal with scales that glistened like obsidian. Honestly the whole snake looks more like a giant Eastern Indigo snake but with four red horns on it's head that have a dark red color. "Gorgeous"

~Why thank you~ The basilisk was happy with the praise

~You understand English?~

~Of course I do youngling. My master was an Englishmen after all~

"Alright then. Let me introduce myself. I am Alexander Black Heir of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black and Heir of the Ancient and Most Noble house of Slytherin." The basilisk it's rather large tongue towards me

~Yes you do have the smell of my masters bloodline. It has been so long since one of my masters blood came to speak to me, My name is Amorta (Ah-Mor-Sha)~

"Pleasure to met you Amorta. Didn't a student speak to you 50 years ago?"

~Regretfully yes but he was not of my masters blood~

Oh now isn't that an interesting fact. "I don't mean to upset you but that boy went around claiming he was a descendant of Slytherin. He was born to the Gaunts."

~Hmph the Gaunts were a a vassal family that served my Masters family. How dare this boy claim to be of my Masters Blood!~

"But isn't parseltongue a Slytherin family ability?"

~Youngling, wizards can speak parseltongue on two conditions. One is to have a Snake ancestor. My masters family had blood ties to the Lamia and Naga tribes. Another is through the use of a ritual that binds a serpents essence to a wizards blood but it is not as effective as the first method. The ritual will allow one to speak with snakes but a descendant can speak to all manner of reptiles and have control over lesser species~

"Wow" who know talking to a thousand year old snake that can literally kill you with a look could be so educational. "Can you tell me more about your master? What is known about him now is very little."

~If you want child. But perhaps we can discuss this in my masters rooms. Follow me~ Seeing as the basilisk didn't intend to harm me I put the mirror I was hiding behind me back into my inventory and follow it into the statues mouth. The other side was more corridor but I followed along through the passages til we came across a very large room as bigger than even the Great Hall. The walls were covered with shelves and cabinets. Some having jars and items on them and more with books. There were also various doors that led to what I assume would be other rooms, but you never know with wizards.

~This is my masters private area. He would spend his nights here with me when he was done hanging out with his three friends or teaching the younglings under his care. Come sit~ The basilisk gesture to a large chair by a fireplace before it curled up

~My master was a great wizard. He was a master in the art of alchemy and enchanting. He was the first wizard student of a man known as Merlin Embrys~

"Merlin?! THE Merlin?!"

~Yes Youngling THE Merlin~ The basilisk let off a few hisses that I believe was it chuckling

"But in our books it said that Merlin was a student of Slytherin so how could Slytherin be his student?"

~AH that was a prank done on my master. Merlin used a potion to deage himself and joined the school under the name Myrddin Ambrosius. He was in my masters House.~

"Ah." I mean what do you say when you find out that Wizard Jesus basically went to school just to prank his student

~Yes after that my master enchanted a hat to look into the students on the chance other wizards and witches tried to sneak in among the younglings~ So Slytherin was the one who made the sorting hat.

"Did Slytherin really hate muggle borns?"

~No youngling he did not. He was merely worried about their safety and the safety of the school. It was in a time where the religious ones would use the children to find more wizards and witches to purge by offering fake promises. He even left me here to help guard his beloved school on the chance the religious ones invaded~

So Slytherin wasn't a pure blood supremacist who wanted all mud bloods to be killed off.

"Is it true he only let pure bloods into his house?"

~Yes that is true. He was the only pure blood among his friends. He was in charge of teaching his students about proper wizard etiquette, Pure Blood history, and what it means for them to be pure blood.~

I am starting to think there is some conspiracy against Salazar Slytherin. His familiar is discussing a completely different Slytherin than the one the Wizarding populace knows. I spoke with Amorta for a bit longer before I had to go back to my room for sleep. I promised her, yes turns out Amorta is a female, that I would come back soon to learn more.