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"I, I, I don't know what to say."

Facing the three professors, Harry stuttered nervously.

"You can speak slowly, Harry."

Dumbledore said calmly, "As long as you have done nothing wrong, I can guarantee that no one can punish you."

After receiving Dumbledore's assurance, Harry also regained some strength.

"On the day I was in solitary confinement, when I was writing a reply to Professor Lockhart, I heard a strange voice. It was a bone-chilling, breathless, cold and vicious voice. It

I said 'Come...come...let me tear you...tear you...kill you...', I remember it very clearly, but Professor Lockhart, who was with me at the time, said he heard nothing.

"

"You should at least report this to your dean."

Snape said viciously, "Otherwise, don't you think it's too late to tell you now?"

"Professor Snape, Harry is still a second-year child. Naturally, he won't think too much when he hears sounds that others can't hear."

Luo Cheng helped smooth things over.

"Well, hearing voices that no one else can hear is really not a good sign in the wizarding world. Is there anything else you can tell us?"

Dumbledore nodded. He knew that it was probably the roar of the basilisk as it passed through the pipe, but the basilisk had been killed, so this matter was no longer important. What was important was Harry's honest attitude now.

"I never heard that sound after that. That time at the Duel Club, it was Malfoy who conjured a snake. The snake wanted to attack Justin. I wanted to stop it, but for some reason I started talking to the snake, but

Everyone else seemed to suspect that I was instigating the snake to attack Justin! I came out this time to find Justin and explain all this, and you all know what happened next."

Looking at Harry who was restless, Dumbledore said calmly.

"Harry, I can understand your uneasiness. Have your friends told you that being able to talk to snakes is a sign of a dark wizard? It's not the case. I can also talk to snakes. Of course, I learned it through learning.

, but it is true that some wizards are born with the ability to communicate with snakes, which is the so-called Parselmouth. The most famous one is Salazar Slytherin and his descendants."

"Then I am a Parselmouth, does that mean I am a descendant of Slytherin?" Harry asked anxiously.

"Harry, I'm afraid not."

Dumbledore said calmly: "Although pure-blood wizards often intermarry with each other, the last person who can truly be called a descendant of Slytherin is Voldemort. He is a Parselmouth. If I am not mistaken, you can marry a snake

The conversation is because he transferred some of his own spells to you on the night he left the scar on you. He didn't do it intentionally, I'm sure..."

"Voldemort transferred part of himself into my body?" Harry was stunned with surprise.

"Apparently so."

"So I should be in Slytherin," Harry said, staring desperately at Dumbledore's face. "The Sorting Hat may have seen some of Slytherin's abilities in me, and it proposed to let me go into Slytherin."

Slytherin.”

"But the Sorting Hat ended up putting you in Gryffindor."

Dumbledore said calmly, "Listen to me, Harry. You happen to have many of the qualities that Salazar Slytherin valued when he carefully selected his students. Some of his own rare talents, Parseltongue."

Elegant... resourceful... strong-willed... and a certain contempt for the rules of the law."

He said, his silver beard trembling slightly again, "But the Sorting Hat put you in Gryffindor. Do you know why this happened? Think about it carefully."

"The reason it puts me in Gryffindor,"

Harry said in a frustrated tone, "It's because I proposed not to go to Slytherin..."

"That's exactly it," Dumbledore said, smiling again. "That makes you very different from Voldemort. Harry, it is our choice to express our true selves, which is better than what we have."

Ability is more important. If you choose Gryffindor, then you must be a Gryffindor."