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Sixth Years: Lesson 2; *Archived* All Houses
Topic Started: Mar 5 2014, 08:50 PM (172 Views)
Jonathan Spenser
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As the sixth years filed in to the History of Magic classroom, Jonathan decided it would be better to start the lesson sooner rather than later. They had a fair bit to learn, and he wanted to make sure they had everything committed to knowledge. "Be ready to take notes, please, students," he muttered absently, as he took a sip of tea. He was going to be doing a fair bit of talking this lesson.

"Slytherin," Jonathan intoned, his light blue eyes scanning the students, to ensure they were all prepared to take notes. They were going to need them. "It is a name that some treat with great honour; while others approach it with fear. Sporting colors of green and silver and resembled by the forever ominous serpent it is a house that has gained both reverence and hate to its name. Many Dark Wizards have heralded under this house; but I do not encourage you to fear. Rather, let us delve into the story of its founder."

Jonathan smiled gently as he paced the front of the room slowly, looking to his students. The only sound that could be heard was the clicking of his shoes on the floor. He regarded the classroom, hoping no Slytherins would be offended by his description of the house. Jonathan certainly had no problem with Slytherins. He had met several in his time at Hogwarts who had been good friends to his. But he couldn't avoid the truth - many Dark Wizards had been in Slytherin. In fact, there was rarely a Dark Wizard educated at Hogwarts who wasn't in Slytherin.

Pausing before speaking again, he stated, "Salazar Slytherin is recorded in history to have grown up in the fen, which is usually used to refer to the Eastern Portion of England. Even as a young boy he was destined for great things. He was gifted with the ability of being a Parselmouth, otherwise the ability to converse with snakes. He also grew into an accomplished Leglimens."

"Now, Salazar shared a dream with four others- to create a school where young wizards and witches could be trained to become full fledged members of the magical community. This dream was accomplished, and he eventually became one of the Hogwarts Four, the rest of whom we will be learning about throughout the rest of the semester. However, a rift between himself and Godric Gryffindor soon split the Hogwarts Four. Salazar believed that those of pure lineage should be allowed to attend the school, and Godric disagreed with him. This caused Salazar to leave the school."

"However - although this was not discovered until the most recent of years, with the attendance of Harry Potter at Hogwarts Scotland - there had been a legend that Salazar had constructed a secret chamber within the confines of the school and that only his true heir would be able to open. 'The Chamber of Secrets,' as it is aptly, although perhaps a little unoriginally named, contained a beast that was supposed to fulfil the purpose of killing off all muggleborn students at the school. Tom Riddle, Salazar's long detached descendant was able to open this Chamber. Some of you may know Riddle to have been Voldemort."

"In recorded history twice the monster within the chamber, a basilisk, had stricken the school- once, in the fairly early twentieth century and then again in the 1990s. The basilisk killed a young student upon its first round, Tom Riddle framing another boy. Thus, he was able to get away with his crime, leaving the Chamber to be opened for another time."

"It was not until Harry Potter attended the school that the basilisk began to strike again. After petrifying a large number of students Harry was able to defeat the basilisk with the help of Fawkes the Phoenix and the Sword of Gryffindor."
Jonathan paused, taking a deep breath and gazing at the students, who were still writing notes. "But perhaps that story is for another time," he said slowly, eyes sparkling with mirth.

Jonathan looked at his watch, smiling back at his students. His lecture had been long but hopefully informative. "I won't keep you any longer, students. See you next week."
Homework Assignment:
Rp taking notes and/or incorporate the information you have learned into your lesson.
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Ai Nightray
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2037 'Puff Head Girl | Every Piece - Thorns and All | ❤ Jai and Tiziano ❤

Ai entered the History of Magic classroom for her second lesson. In all honesty, ever since her fifth year, she had slowly begun to appreciate studying History, quite after they had stopped memorizing dates, years and tonnes of names which she really can't handle. Now, they were quite studying events which she was more fond of dealing and she couldn't help but be excited for the future lessons. The last lesson had involved them doing essays about their houses and she couldn't help but wonder if they were going to study them because she thought of the whole idea as cool. The prefect shook her thoughts out of her head as Professor Spenser announced the start of the class. And as instructed, the Hufflepuff brought out her quill, ink and parchment to take notes for the class lecture.

Surely enough, Ai had been attentive during class. This time the facts made sense to her since every detail only contained events instead of just names and years that she had to remember. And also, the names were familiar to her, after all who would not know the Hogwarts Four when they were studying in Hogwarts New Zealand? And so, thankfully, Ai had understood the majority of the lesson as she scribbled various notes on her parchment. It was quite amazing that she was finding out if not everything, a lot of things about Hogwarts and the wizarding community after all, part of the history they were talking about had happened only twenty to thirty years ago and so if she asked the right people, she would be able to get some more information. The young girl kept her things as soon as Professor Spenser had announced the lesson over and she had decided to go to the library to read.

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SLYTHERIN and SALAZAR SLYTHERIN
  • Colors ---> Green and silver
  • Ensemble ---> Serpent
  • Reverence and hate
  • Founder ---> Salazar Slytherin

  • Grew up in the FEN ---> Eastern portion of England
  • Parselmouth and Legilimen
  • Part of the Hogwarts Four
  • Only of pure lineage should attend Hogwarts ---> Had a rift with Godric Gryffindor ---> Disagreed
  • Left the school
  • Constructed the "Chamber of Secrets" ---> can only be opened by his true heir ---> Tom Riddle (Voldemort)
    • Had a monster sealed ---> Basilisk
    • To kill off muggleborns
    • Opened in the early 20th century ---> someone died ---> Riddle framed another boy
    • Opened in the 1990s ---> petrified students ---> Mr. Potter defeated the basilisk ---> help from Fawkes the Phoenix and Sword of Gryffindor
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Conan Edogawa
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Conan entered the History of Magic classroom for his second lesson for the year. He was mostly glad that his workload had lessened in his Sixth Year. Well, he did pretty much not pay enough attention to all his subjects and so, there he was instead of taking four regular subjects, he was down to taking two. He actually expected his aunts to not take it so lightly like what they did to Ai before, but then it was the complete opposite. In fact, they even comforted him and told him that he could do better this time around. He could only snort at the memory. It was obvious that they were playing favorites and Ai was just unlucky to be the one chosen to be taken out anger upon and him being the lucky one to get all the care and attention. Perhaps, he was the one unfair all this time? Conan shook his head at the thought and instead decided that he should at least pay attention to Professor Spenser's discussion.

Conan listened as Professor Spenser went on about his discussion. It was rare that Conan was paying attention even in History, which used to be his favorite subject. But then again, maybe things were changing? He knew not if it was true. The lesson was mostly about Salazar Slytherin and his house and he knew that most of those information could be found in books within the library, but then again, it had been ages since he last went there. In fact, he could not remember when he went last. The Hufflepuff's mind was drifting between listening to the lecture and going back in his memories and it went on until class was over. Conan merely stood up and went back to his room to sleep.
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