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"What?" Neville asked.

Ryan turned around and looked at all the names and lines that were drawn into the floor.

"Salazar Slytherin's descendants are all here carved in stone." Ryan told them.

"That is extraodinary!" Orion exclaimed.

The other three walked over to Ryan just as the lines and names stopped near the middle of the chamber of secrets.

"That's a lot of descendants." Neville whistled.

"Yeah." Ginny agreed.

"Why would he put this here?" Harry asked. "What was the point?"

"I dunno." Ryan said. "But that is a lot of people on here."

"I bet all the purebloods in the country are on this." Neville said as Ryan walked around and inspected the names.

"Look." Harry pointed to the family tree from the first of Salazar Slytherin's children. "That side has less than this one does."

"Yeah." Ryan nodded. "Weird. With all the incest that went on wizard history, it's weird that the two bloodlines never met."

"He's right." James nodded.

Ryan was looking toward Harry and Neville as he walked backward and observed the family tree.

"They do meet." Ginny said. She was walked forward and when she was next to Ryan she pointed ahead toward the near end of the tree. "See? At the end?"

The four of them walked over and looked at the names that Ginny pointed to. When they got there, the intials were three generations before the end.

"F.H.P and E.A.B." Harry said. "I wonder who they were."

"Where have I seen those before?" James looked deep in thought. "IS it someone I know?"

Cathy turned to her father. "Dad? Isn't that your initials?"

"Ryan's right." Neville said. "It's very strange that the two bloodlines only met once in over a thousand years."

"They had two children." Ginny noted. "J.F.P and C.E.P. The eldest only had one child and the other one had three."

"Wait a minute!" James immediately realized.

"That's strange, look." Neville pointed to the area under C.E.P. "The family tree at this one is open."

"Wonder why that is." Harry said.

Ryan was looking at the intials C.E.P very closely. He knelt down and touched the letters. When he did, the screen flashed a bright white light.

When the light subsided, it showed Salazar Slytherin's face on the screen. The face changed to one of a young woman and than it changed again this time to that of a man with a beard. The face changed again and again. Some many faces flashed across the screen, with each face the next one came faster until they just flew through the screen rapid.

Finally the screen flashed one last face that Ryan recognized. Cathy's. The screen flashed white again and Ryan was seen gasping and pulling his hand off the intials.

"Are you okay?" Neville asked as Ryan stood back up. "What happened?"

"That's my mum." Ryan told them.

"C.E.P is my mum. It stands for 'Catherine Euphemia Potter'."

The entire audience watched with silence.

"So the only time that a chaos castor was born was when the two bloodlines of Salazar Slytherin reunited." Walburga murmured.

"Than..." Harry looked at the names on the floor. "...this is our family tree