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Chapter two: A Studious discovery

Ginny walked through the tunnel. She had entered the tunnel ten minutes ago and the light from her wand seemed feeble in the darkness. She continued walking. Water was dripping from the cave walls and she was finding it difficult to keep her nerves at bay in the narrow tunnel when at last she found what she was looking for. A door.

The door was stone and engraved with snakes. She pressed it in hopes that it would open, no such luck. She tried saying open in parsletongue again and the door silently swung open to reveal a dark room. Ginny rolled her eyes. Slytherin chose such obvious passwords.

She entered the room and lit a torch in a bracket out of the wall with her wand. She went around the room lighting the torches until she got back to her starting point when she turned and looked at the room. The walls were almost entirely shelves upon shelves of books and the carpet was a rich green colour. In the room there was a huge desk with a chair and a harpsichord. Slytherin had obviously been a man of music, you would never have guessed from the descriptions of him.

Ginny approached the desk cautiously searching through the drawers, if Slytherin had kept a diary of any kind he would have kept it in his desk. After about ten minutes she found it and settled down to read, discovering it was not a diary but a book informing his descendents how to use his chamber to their best advantage.

To my descendents,

I hope that my life and study will be a mystery to the wizarding world at large although should you read this it will not be to you. This Journal contains knowledge about magic's that are fading fast in my time and will no doubt be lost altogether in yours.

A brief list of these magic's is as follows: Runic magic, elemental magic, animagus magic, wand less magic and warding magic. You may not have heard of elemental magic and know it as the magic of the druids or pagans instead.

Yours

Salazar Slytherin

Ginny began to read and absorb the knowledge into her hungry brain.