Hogwarts Homecoming

"Spit it out--"

Amosta's indifferent gaze fell on the basilisk and he said calmly.

Hiss——

The ferocious basilisk spat out a snake message, and the hissing sound sounded a little aggrieved.

Salazar Slytherin is the creator of this basilisk. To it, Slytherin is like a father. It obeys Slytherin's instructions and stays in the Chamber of Secrets for thousands of years. , only occasionally when Slytherin's descendants return to Hogwarts, can it briefly release its true nature.

In Wright's simple mind, since Slytherin hid the family crest in its fangs, then this was a gift from its father, and the powerful wizard in front of him wanted to force it to teach it A gift from my father.

The blazing fire collar floated slightly up and down, but it brought a biting chill to the basilisk. It knew very well that the wizard in front of it was not afraid of destroying it.

"Amosta--"

Seeing that the ill-tempered Wright looked weak in front of Amosta after getting along for a long time, Newt couldn't bear it.

"That badge is the only thing that Wright misses about Salazar Slytherin. I can persuade it to spit it out, but can you please not take it away?"

"Sorry, Newt, I can't guarantee you that."

Amosta didn't want to lie to Newt, he said calmly,

"Although I can't prove it, I am very confident that Salazar Slytherin left this badge with a high probability that it was left to me, so I must take it."

Amosta's words made Newt frown.

He didn't quite understand what Amosta meant. Salazar Slytherin a thousand years ago left a family crest for him, and even used it in such a hidden way. What Amosta wanted to say, he was Slater. A direct descendant of Lin?

This is unlikely. Everyone knows that Amosta Brain is born as a Muggle, and the descendants of Slytherin recognized by the British magical academic community are the Gaunt family.

Although he had only met Amosta twice and spent less than half a day together, Newt thought he had a certain understanding of this young man through hearsay and brief exchanges. He faced those calm lavender eyes and knew that he could not persuade Amosta to change his mind.

Newt gave up the persuasion, sighed heavily, and remained silent. Amosta once again set his sights on the basilisk.

"Spit out the badge."

Amosta said again,

"Don't make me repeat it a third time."

What can the 'weak' Dilight do?

It had only two choices, either to spit out the badge left to it by its father, or to be forced to hand over the badge after being burned to ashes by the gray-haired wizard.

As a result, Wright's huge body began to tremble, his abdomen close to the ground slowly squirmed, and the badge swallowed by it was slowly pushed to the snake's mouth.

puff--

A badge wrapped in light green gastric juice, but still shining with metallic luster, spurted out of the basilisk's mouth. Amosta blinked and let the badge hover in front of him.

Amosta raised his fingers, and as a breeze passed over the badge, the metal sign, which was the size of a palm and about an inch thick, suddenly looked as clean as new.

As Newt said earlier.

The body of the badge is a piece of mithril.

In today's magic world, this extremely precious magic metal is rarely used to create any artifacts. Only those sophisticated and expensive alchemy tools use mithril to carve magic corridors at their core.

The lines of the Slytherin family emblem on the front and back of the thick badge are made of gold, just like the locket. The vivid 'S' in the center of the pattern is embellished with pure emeralds, and the badge The side profile is engraved with exquisite patterns.

Looking at the Slytherin family crest spinning slowly in front of him, Amosta's eyes flashed with thought.

Unlike the locket, there are obvious traces of magic on the badge, but for a while, Amosta couldn't say exactly what the magic attached to it was, but one thing that was certain was that this one belonged to Slytherin. The emblem is not like the sword, crown, gold cup and locket and the resurrection stone ring, which can be traced in some documents.

Slytherin must have had a deep meaning in keeping it, there was no doubt about it.

Amosta hesitated for a moment. He glanced at the basilisk, which was showing a faint expression of depression. Not only did he not loosen the fire ring around its neck, but instead tightened it tighter. Before Newt could cry out nervously, Amosta held out his hand.

snap——

Under Amosta's slightly nervous gaze, the cold and heavy clan emblem fell into his hand.

There was no brilliance, no flickering light and shadow, everything was as usual in the cellar, only Newt's serious voice of restraint.

Staring at the clan emblem, Amosta frowned quietly.

The four great founders of Hogwarts, so far, he has seen Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff with his own eyes. He and Gryffindor have even had one-sided conversations across time and space. The only person he interacted with was Salazar Slytherin, and Amosta has never met him face to face.

He had always been vaguely looking forward to it. After all, he graduated from Salazar Slytherin's college. But maybe it was because the great founder looked down on himself as a Muggle-born, Slytherin never came to the school. appeared before him.

His closest contact with this unique founder was the sculpture of Slytherin himself in front of the Chamber of Secrets, the door that Gryffindor called the door that hid all secrets.

Amosta originally thought that this family emblem would be an opportunity for him to meet Slytherin, but the reality was not what he expected.

The heavy clan emblem lying in the palm of Amosta's hand was like a valuable work of art. There was no movement except for the radiance.

"What do you think it is?"

Rubbing the pattern on the family emblem back and forth with his fingertips, Amosta looked over it for several minutes, but still found no clues. He unconsciously asked Newt.

Newt had already understood that Amosta tightened the ring of fire just to prevent Wright from causing trouble when he was studying the family crest left by Slytherin. He sighed slightly and stood quietly beside Amosta, accompanying him. Watch him gaze at Slytherin's legacy.

Hearing Amosta's question, Newt tilted his head. When he first got the clan emblem, he had been studying it for a short period of time, but he didn't gain much.

"Unfortunately, Amosta, I am not a historian or emblem scholar. I did go through some records about Salazar Slytherin, but I did not find any information about the use of this emblem. Any record that appeared thousands of years ago, I can only tell that it was probably the handiwork of goblins."

"Probably from goblins--"

Amosta repeated in a low voice.

This is not difficult to judge. The creations of goblins have a very unique style. The fine and exquisite lines on the border of this family emblem are proof that it came from the hands of goblins. And this is not a novel thing. The four Those things left by the founder were all made by fairies, but some of them were later given magical powers by wizards.

Amosta turned the thick family crest side up and stared at the wide pattern.

When he was investigating Hermione's attack, Amosta learned from a goblin named Enge at Gringotts World Bank in Paris that these patterns were not just decorations, but actually were remote goblin writings. .

Turning the clan emblem back and forth and looking at the patterns, Amosta narrowed his eyes slightly.

Gringotts. Goblin Slytherin key?

Gradually, a vague guess emerged in Amosta's mind.

"I need to take this clan emblem away--"

After taking a long breath, Amosta looked at Newt.

"I kind of know what it does, but I need to confirm."

Newt nodded, hesitated, and looked at Wright, who was lying on the ground.

"If one day this Slytherin emblem no longer works for you, can you return it to Wright, Amosta?"