Salazar Slytherin-Mis understood or true evil?

[Saitaina]

No: HPFGUIDX 28065

Okay, in CoS Salazar had a lovely little chamber with a bloody huge snake in
it.  This is now fact.  But did Salazar haver truly evil intentions
regarding it?  Could his 'hatred' of muggle-borns only be a fear of the
times.  In a time when witches and wizzards were pursicuted did he not have
the right idea of saying no to them so that wizzards and witches were
protected?

 I mean in this time they were being burned (not effective), crushed (more
effective), drowned (not as effective) and many other things were done to
them.  Now say you allow a muggleborn into your school.  You think that as a
wizzard or witch themselves they would not give your secrets to the
enemy...but they do.  Suddenly instead of using a fire-freezing charm and
escaping they just stab you.  Thousands more could possibly die.  This is
the fear Salazar lived with.  The fear that increased with each new muggle
born allowed to enter.

So was Salazar so wrong in thinking that they should close their doors to
them?  As it was he didn't go around comitting mass muggleborn murders..he
just requested...constantly and probably loudly that Hogwarts shut it's
doors to the children of the enemy.

As for the basalisk, it is a giant snake that he can talk to...most likely a
pet of his.  Now Salazar's sitting there with that giant snake, knowing that
he's gonna be booted from the school soon.  So he does the one thing he can
do, he seals it in it's chamber and locks the door with a spell that only a
parsalmouth can open.  Remember Parsaltounge is a very rare gift, only three
known parsalmouths have existed so far in the HP world.  Harry, Voldemort
and Salazar.  Could he, in that moment of saying good-bye, used a very rare
gift as a key in order to keep the Basalisk from killing the students in his
absence, thinking he would one day return to it when the others saw his
side?   The basalisk does not go after just muggle borns I'm sure, other
wise dear old Tom would have been the first in line, it goes after those
it's Master tells it to, or in the case of no master, who ever's closest.
Could the legend have come about from a group of muggle borns who knew about
Salazar's chamber (most likely not much of a secret in his days, probably
just a play room he had around) and in their bitterness over him wanting to
kick them out, created the legend about it eating only muggleborns.  Then,
years down the line when Tom heard it, he took whole heartedly to the idea
and sent the thing on it's merry way to kill and maim those in the name of
his grandfather whom never really wanted that, thus enforcing the legend...


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