Originally Posted by Zebragirl

"Oh sorry" Emily turned slightly red again, coughed, then pulled out her copy of Hogwarts: A History she had took into the common room to read before.
She turned to the chapter she was looking for and cleared her throut.
"The chamber of secrets. Well, Hogwarts was founded by 4 of the greatest witches and wizards: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. They build this school and for a few years, worked in harmony together, teaching students. But then disagreements sprung up between them. Especially Slytherin and the others. Eventually they argued so bad that he left. Slytherin wanted to be more... selective about the students addmitted to Hogwarts. He wanted to keep magical learning within all-magic families, not ones born of muggle parentage..."
Emily stopped and frowned.
"Uh, of course, these silly 'pro pure-blood' traditions havn't been around for 50 or so years. So don't worry about being muggle-born and don't worry about the slytherins! We have a nice school unity now, no-one will be mean like they used to..."
She was rambling again
"Em... should I go on?"