Chapter Two
Harry's Namesake
by azrael-abbadon-delphinus
August 1, 1002A.D. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Salazar Samena Slytherin had just returned to her room at Hogwarts after signing up five people to be students at Hogwarts. Like the other founders, she was required to sign up children. She didn't mind too much. In fact she even occasionally enjoyed it from time to time. She preferred getting well respected wizarding children to sign up for school at Hogwarts, as their parents were easier to convince, as opposed to poor children with often snotty parents.
The school was new.
Out of her, Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Helga Hufflepuff, she was the youngest, just 12. The others were all in their thirties. But just because she was a child, that didn't make her weak or dumb. She considered herself to be the smartest of all of them. She also considered herself the kindest of them all as well. Her mother had hated muggles and mudbloods, but Salazar didn't. She hated her mother.
But she also loved her, for a very special reason.
Her mother was a lamia. A magical creature that, once fully mature, could change its form from a snake, to a half-human-half-snake creature. A lamia could kill with its eyes, which were yellow, and slit-shaped. Lamia had three sets of eyelids, so that they didn't kill everything they met eyes with. The first was not see through. The second and third set of eyelids were. Lamia had normal vision AND thermal vision. Lamia had scales of varying shades of green covering a human-shaped body. Most of the scales were small, soft, and flexible. The ones running down the spine weren't. Those scales were thick, large, and sturdy, while still remaining flexible. Male lamia had a red stripe of hair in the middle of their head. Females didn't. Lamia had hard, bone-like claws on their hands, and their upper and lower jaws were lined with a single row of razor sharp teeth. Their teeth, every single one, even the small ones, were actually fangs. Lamia had extremely corrosive, acidic venom. Their jaws were double-hinged, enabling them to swallow food many times the size of their head, and to swallow it whole. Lamia also had forked tongues.
She loved her mother, because her mother had turned her into a lamia.
Salazar Slytherin had laid the foundation for the school, as well as other parts. It had been tough work, made even tougher by the fact that she was, after all, a child, and that she had chosen to incorporate secret chambers in the foundation, which had been VERY difficult to do without getting caught, and the Room of requirement from her own mansion, bigger than even this castle, though it didn't look like it. The space-altering spell she had used to put her room of requirement in the castle had been very difficult, but well worth the effort. She had also incorporated secret chambers in the foundation. She had called it the Chamber of Secrets. It had two rooms. The lesser, easily accessible one, holding the basilisk, and the larger one behind it, holding an enormous room filled mostly with books. She had even hung a self-updating family tree in it. It was almost completely blank, as it only had her mother, father, and her so far. But a long time from now it would be enormous. It would grow longer to accommodate all of her descendants.
She sat down in a chair, which was in a patch of sunlight, and closed her eyes, getting ready to fall asleep, when she was startled awake by someone pounding on her door. She got up, walked over, and opened the door.
Standing before her was none other than Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Helga Hufflepuff. They all wore angry looks on their faces. Seeing the goo covering their clothes, she assumed they were mad about her prank. She couldn't help herself. She doubled over and burst out laughing. Anti-magic goo. It had been such a great idea! She finally managed to compose herself, and straightened up and stopped laughing. She had made a spell to clean it, and it was the only exception to the anti-magic part of it. She pointed her wand at the three of them, and said, "Offerre mundus." The goo flew off of all of them and, using her wand, Salazar directed it into a glass container. She looked back at them. "All better?"
Helga glared at her. "No, it is NOT all better. This is the last straw! We warned you if you did something like this again you wouldn't like the consequences. Well here they are. We have voted to banish you from the grounds for your foolish, inappropriate, embarrassing, and VERY rude pranks."
Salazar stood there for a few seconds, absorbing what they had just said. "You… you can't banish me. I'm a founder. I helped make this school. IT WAS JUST A PRANK!"
Godric Gryffindor spoke up. "We can and we have. It's three against one. You're outvoted. Leave as soon as possible. We've put up with your foolishness for so long because of your skill in magick and your help building the castle, but no longer will we tolerate you and your childish tricks. We'll give you time to pack your things."
Rowena Ravenclaw looked at Salazar in a sad way. "I'm sorry dear, but that's just the way it is."
They all left, Rowena Ravenclaw shutting the door behind her. "I won't leave. They can't make me. This is my HOME! It was just a prank. I'll just go into stasis for a week, and ask them if I can stay. It should all blow over by then."
She packed up all of her things, and used a charm to make them follow her. She walked over to the circle of sinks in her bathroom, walked around it, and found the one with a snake on the tap. "Open," she said. The sink slid back, revealing an open pipe. She jumped in, and slid down the pipe, twisting every which way, until she finally slid out onto the ground in the Chamber of Secrets. Her things from her room had followed her. She walked past the basilisk and over to the giant statue of herself. She stared straight ahead at the mouth, and said, "Speak to me Slytherin, Greatest of the Hogwarts Four." The mouth slid open, and she walked forward, the mouth closing behind her. "Lumos maxima." Bright white light shot out of her wand, lighting the corridor before her. She walked forward until she was in front of an S-shaped door. She said, "Lamia." The door swung open, and Salazar walked forward, into a vast room, filled with books and artifacts. She pointed one of her wands at a ridge running around the room in a spiral pattern, all the way to the ceiling, and said "Incendio. Nox." The liquid burst into flames, lighting the room, and the light cast by her main wand went out. Salazar walked to the bed beneath the self-updating family tree, and laid down in it. Using her main wand, she cast a stasis spell. "Stasiso mille annosi pro." But little did she know she had accidentally set herself to be in stasis for one thousand years, instead of one week. As she was slowly falling asleep, her last thought was: I'll show them all. To new beginnings.