The Golden Proposal - dramione fanfiction

Chapter 17 - Chamber

"Salazar Slytherin, greatest of the four" Harry said in the snake language

And the statue opened.

Behind the statue of Salazar Slytherin, there was a stone wall with the portrait of Salazar Slytherin himself, the founder in the portrait was obviously asleep in his frame. I couldn't help but think that this man really loves himself. I mean a statue of yourself, a portrait of yourself and a password about yourself but I guess, it is his chamber and he does what he wants with it.

"Hello." The chosen one tried saying at the sleeping frame, eliciting no reaction whatsoever

"Sir" I spoke hoping for a stir

"Lord Slytherin, could you please wake yourself" Narcissa said firmly to the founder

The man in the portrait rose from his chair, still in the portrait. He looked to be in a study with many books, Salazar Slytherin of the portrait was a young version of the founder.

He was dressed in wizard robes in acromantula silk of a magnificent deep green color with silver trimmings. The man wore black slacks with an silk button-down shirt, the same colors of his robes and shiny black with a green tinge basilisk leather dress shoes. On his neck was the proudly displayed Slytherin locked and he had multiple rings on his fingers.

The ancient wizard had pale but healthy looking skin that shone in the moonlight, he bore high cheekbones and sharp but soft aristocratic features, he had rose velvet lips, dark but elegantly shaped eyebrows, shoulder-length straight raven black hair and shocking eyes that were a beautiful deep green color like his robes with flecks of silver and red in them.

The handsome magician looked at the new guests in his chamber with a wide smirk but otherwise stoic features.

He saw a black haired man and a blonde man harvesting his dead basilisk, for potions he thought. He also wondered who had killed his female snake named Viridia. In front of his portrait was standing a wizard with raven hair and emerald green eyes and two witches. One was young with long curly brown hair and soft chocolate brown eyes, the other one was older but had black hair with platinum blond stripes and blue-grey eyes. The one who had properly talked to him as a lord.

The founder was curious of their arrival, the last visitor he had that had talked to his portrait was his half-blood descendant with red eyes and that was fifty years ago, Tom Marvolo Riddle, his name was, he remembered. He decided to respond to the visitor.

"Who dares to awaken my slumber" The founder said sharply

"Sorry, lord Slytherin, we came here today to take a look at your study" The young witch said

"How did you descend here, the last visitor that discovered my portrait was a young man with red yes. Are you one of my descendants" The man asked the group

"I speak the tongue of snakes and I discovered the chamber in my second year but I haven't come ever since today, None of us are you're descendants. We are 3 Slytherins and 2 Gryffindors, just members of the Hogwarts houses. Your last descendant was the dark lord Voldemort, the man with red eyes and he died like two years ago" The emerald-eyed wizard said

"No wizards of my noble blood live anymore, godric would be horrified to find his griffins in my chamber, if my descendant was a dark lord, thank Hogwarts he is no more. You speak parseltongue, how? and what are you going to do in my study and I would like to know you're names " the ancient wizard smirked

The visitors appeared shocked and in awe even the ones who were harvesting the remains of my pet.

"My name is Narcissa Black, at my left is Hermione Granger, at my right is Harry Potter, the 2 wizards near the king of snakes are, my son, Draco Malfoy and potions master and Ex-Hogwarts Professor, Severus Snape." The older witch said