The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 114: Message from Thousands of Years Ago
As the mouse wheel turned, Slytherin's message in the Chamber of Secrets appeared in front of Ryan. Unlike Ryan's imagination of a full page of magical knowledge left for future generations, Slytherin only introduced his own ideas and the reason for leaving Hogwarts at the beginning.

From these self-narrative texts, Slytherin is not the dark wizard that Ryan had imagined before. Because he declared at the beginning that his principle of doing things is to do no harm to others and do whatever he wants. It is obvious that a powerful wizard like Slytherin simply disdains to lie, so this principle should be true.

So what is the reason that makes people in later generations think that Slytherin is a dark wizard? Ryan continued to read with doubts in his heart.

Sure enough, the following paragraph described why Slytherin left Hogwarts, because from the beginning of the school, he and the other three founders had irreparable differences in teaching methods.

When they founded Hogwarts, Europe was in the Dark Ages. Wars and conflicts dominated Europe at that time. The magic world was also full of dark wizards. After all, in this environment where the strong prey on the weak, dark magic that can quickly improve strength is more popular among wizards.

When the four wizards founded Hogwarts School, they wanted to pass on the magical knowledge they had accumulated from fighting against dark wizards to the next generation, and in this way slowly reverse the current situation of the proliferation of dark wizards and re-create order. After all, when dark wizards dominate, a long war will break out, and eventually everything in the magic world will be destroyed.

Under such circumstances, Slytherin proposed to recruit only descendants of pure-blood wizards, because Muggle-born wizards are likely to be influenced by their relatives (because their relatives do not have enough self-protection ability like wizards) and do something that harms Hogwarts School.

Not to mention that there were huge differences between Muggles and wizards at that time. For example, many Muggle-born wizard apprentices could not even read and write, and the study of magic was based on a lot of knowledge. At the same time, Muggle-born wizards who lacked sufficient resources were more likely to become dark wizards who plundered others.

Slytherin, from an absolutely calm perspective, pointed out why not focus resources on young wizards from reliable wizard families. This way, resources can be used most efficiently, and as many excellent wizards as possible can be cultivated with limited resources. (Due to the underdeveloped productivity in that era, it was much more difficult to obtain resources than in modern times. For example, many herbs can be grown now, but in that era, they could only be collected by entering dangerous magical forests.)
However, this view was refuted by the other three founders, who believed that Slytherin's view could indeed maximize resource utilization, but it lacked the human side.

This was also the first time that the four founding masters disagreed, and Slytherin chose to give in. He did not interfere with the choices of the other three wizards, but only implemented this idea in his own college.

Later, something happened that suddenly widened the differences. In the early days, Hogwarts did not have as much magical protection as it does now. Because the school gathered a lot of resources, it also attracted the attention of dark wizards.

Once Hogwarts was attacked by dark wizards. Unfortunately, some Slytherin students were killed in the attack, and Slytherin himself killed these dark wizards in anger.

The killing of dark wizards did not cause any objection from the other three founders, and the righteous Gryffindor only said that they needed to be tried before being dealt with. After all, it was a dark era, and even the kindest and most amiable Witches were killed by dark wizards, werewolves, and vampires.

However, from then on, Slytherin began to teach dark magic to his students, because he believed that if students wanted to truly defeat dark wizards, they must understand the methods of dark wizards.

This is why later generations believe that Slytherin is a dark wizard: he taught dark magic at Hogwarts, and those who listened to his courses agreed that he was very proficient in dark magic. After thousands of years, it became a popular saying that Slytherin was a dark wizard. Naturally, this approach aroused opposition from the other three founders. Because when they founded the school, they vowed to build a magic school that had never existed before, a place to teach magic that could truly compete with dark magic.

Now Slytherin's behavior makes them worried, because the students are young and inexperienced. In this case, they are likely to go astray under the Slytherin professor.

But Slytherin believes that every student is a prepared warrior ready to fight against dark wizards. So they need to know clearly what the enemy looks like from the beginning. Only in this way can they have enough ability to change the world after graduation.

Because the two sides argued for a long time about this matter, Slytherin felt that if he continued to stay in the school, it might lead to the division of the school.

Out of love for the school, he chose to leave the school and spend the rest of his life hunting down dark wizards, removing the thorns in the school's future.

Unlike the legend, Slytherin had a full communication with the other three founders before leaving the school. However, in order to ensure Slytherin's safety and avoid alerting the dark wizards, the other three school founders said in unison that Slytherin left because of a quarrel.

Later, because of the killing of dark wizards, rumors that Slytherin was a dark wizard worse than the dark wizards spread widely in the wizarding world. Eventually, the rumors created the reputation of Slytherin as a dark wizard until today.

This chamber of secrets was the last thing Slytherin did for the school before he left. In his vision, the wizarding world would continue to improve over time. His descendants would pick up his vision and turn it into reality, which would then benefit the entire wizarding world.

The basilisk was just a temporary guard for Slytherin, as Herpo had just bred it at that time. The basilisk at Hogwarts was a trophy obtained by Slytherin after he killed a dark wizard.

He originally planned to use this basilisk as one of the school's trump cards to help Hogwarts survive the most difficult and weakest time when the school was first established. But he did not expect it to survive for more than a thousand years.

After reading these introductions, Ryan couldn't help but sigh. A thousand years could turn a great wizard who had devoted his life to school and his dreams into an evil dark wizard through word of mouth. The students in the academy named after him and even his descendants worshipped dark magic and were proud to be dark wizards.

If Slytherin, whose lifelong goal is to eliminate dark wizards, knew this, he would be so angry that he would run back from hell to deal with these disciples.

(End of this chapter)