Chapter 299: The Witch Hunt Launched by Wizards (2 in 1)

Chapter 299: The Witch Hunt Launched by Wizards (2 in 1)

Jon's skin was proving to be getting thicker. The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))

Once he had shown some shame in Grindelwald's headmaster's office when he had proposed the "win-win" plan to Grindelwald and Dumbledore.

But now that he had stolen something from someone else's house and had been complimented on it by the owner, whether it was sincere or sarcastic, he was able to clear his throat as if nothing had happened.

"Well, Mr Slytherin, so does the fact that I can come through this door represent some special implication?"

Slytherin's face was calm, to the point where Jon felt it was actually an unidentified indifference.

The co-founder of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry spoke with an expressionless face.

"It only proves that that fool Godric was wrong about what he thought I was saying, and that the selection of characteristics that he thought I wanted for my students was not at all what I wanted."

Hearing these words from the Slytherin, Jon's heart sank slightly.

This portrait old man's words were clearly not kind, and as for the reason for the unkindness, Jon could actually figure it out quite plainly.

A man who had once fallen out with even his best friend over the issue of bloodline and left the wizarding school he had founded with his own hands without a word all alone; Salazar Slytherin is a person who absolutely loathes Muggle students.

Even if he could have pushed through the bronze door and walked up to him with the character traits that were supposedly necessary for a Slytherin, he would not have been able to gain his approval.

Jon had been prepared for this, but he had thought that the old man would give him at least a bit of recognition for the fact that he could open the door and walk in, but as it turned out, he was just a portrait, and if he were a real person, he might have done something to Jon.

But even though he had sensed the Slytherin's rejection and hostility, Jon had no intention of ending the conversation like that.

And since there was no longer any possibility of the two sides getting along amicably, he was even less mentally burdened about stealing the candelabra.

"So the person you really approve of is one of your descendants who came here a decade or so ago and possesses your own bloodline?"

Jon shrugged, asking the question unabashedly, and in a tone of uncertainty that feigned doubt.

"But according to rumours, which I've heard that I don't know if they're true or not, that descendant of yours doesn't seem to be Pureblood either? Has he ever told you that his real family name is Riddle?"

Slytherin, who had shown his disgust for Jon didn't look like he was going to keep his mouth shut.

After all, as a portrait kept in a room that equated to a sealed cell, he probably had very little interaction with people, and even if he didn't like him much, Jon was at least someone who could possibly talk.

"That was his mother's fault for being immature and had nothing to do with him personally. I never considered that a noble bloodline could be diluted by something like that, nor do I actually think that someone with the so-called pureblood wizard bloodline would really be much better than someone without such a bloodline."

Slytherin didn't seem angered by Jon's words, nor did he seem half upset or feel provoked, instead his words were tinged with a faint sneer, that felt like a taunt to Jon's ignorance.

"The reason I have been so adamant that only pureblood children are qualified to learn magic does not stem from my recognition that those with purebloods will be better, but that only children born to wizards are worthy of the trust of wizards as a group, and as for muggle-borns. Heh, history has proven that even after learning noble magic, this part of the population will never be able to escape their own inferior roots as commoners."

The disdain in his words was obvious, and it wasn't as if he was explaining anything by saying this to Jon, but simply answering the rhetorical question Jon had just asked regarding the impurity of Voldemort's blood.

Jon frowned, not that he was angry at the Slytherin's disdain.

Only after the 'Statute of Secrecy' had been implemented throughout the world, which had completely cut off the normal world's access to wizards and magic, did the survival of wizards truly improve.

The two populations became parallel worlds that did not intersect, and the memories of all Muggles who knew that magic existed were erased, except for the Muggle Lords at that time and Muggle families with wizards.

The implementation of the Statute of Secrecy has completely changed a situation that was once incredibly difficult for wizards, and because of this magical governments around the world will do everything they can to keep this law stable, and the moment someone like Grindelwald tries to completely subvert this protection, they will be antagonised by everyone.

Voldemort, who was more brutal in comparison, didn't encounter as much resistance because he never publicly expressed his intention to abolish or his discontent with the Statute of Secrecy, which gave other magical governments reason to be ambiguous.

But today was the first time Jon had heard the true story of the witch-hunting movement, which had never been written about in the history of magic, apart from when he had been lurking in Hogwarts Castle, looking through the history of the Mudbloods, there was a lot of information about ancient muggle wizards joining forces with muggles to brutally kill pure and half-bloods.

But Jon had always thought that Voldemort had made all that stuff up, but to his surprise, it seemed to be true!

There was no reason for Slytherin to lie to Jon, and it was the only explanation that could explain why wizards, who had mastered such powerful magic at that time, had been persecuted and turned into rats in the witch hunt.

Only the combination of fellow wizards with an extremely large number of Muggles could they have caused such a terrible suppression in the magical world.

And this was entirely possible before the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was founded.

At that time, there was no Statute of Secrecy, and the first thing Muggles who developed their magical talents wanted to do was to use this power to gain benefits for themselves.

It all made sense and explains why most people in the Middle Ages were convinced of the existence of witches because the people who started the witch hunts were witches themselves!

Even Nick, who is now on Jon's back, is the best proof of this; Nick was a court mage during his lifetime, a courtier in the court of King Henry VII, and this was even though he had completed seven years of studies in the school at the end of the fifteenth century when Hogwarts had been established for hundreds of years.

Slytherin's had some justification for his aversion to the muggle-born wizards, and even the exclusion of those of non-wizarding ancestry from the House he founded possessed a justifiable reason.

But it was a perception that was limited to his era, now the situation was completely reversed.

Jon heard something odd in his words, what would Voldemort have said to Slytherin if he had come here and met his ancestor a decade or so ago?

Would he have told the truth about what he was doing, and the current state of the wizarding world, all of it?

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[Author:]

The witch hunts were started by ancient muggle wizards is my hypothesis, and it makes a little more sense as to why wizards who knew all sorts of spells were persecuted in the Middle Ages when ignorance prevailed and warfare means were quite crude, and why Slytherin was so adamant about admitting only pureblood students.

Anyone who has doubts or disagrees with this explanation is free to comment and express it, but please don't insult me to death.

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