A/N: Suffice it to say that Nell wanted me to use "raised by the friendly fiefdom basilisk" in a fic, and I decided to put it as the title instead.
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: I don't own them, Rowling does.
Summary: Written for hp100. All mothers are the same on the inside. Even this one. Founderfic.
There was one fact about Salazar Slytherin that was never advertised to the history books or the general public—it was the reason that he could speak Parseltongue, that he loved snakes as much as he did. But to let such a secret loose would be disastrous. Nobody, even those of Pureblood families, would want their children around someone who was raised in such a feral manner. A man who had been taught from childhood to steal and to cheat to live his life? He was barely tolerated as it was. Nobody need know that his "mother" was a basilisk.