Shawn had no idea how much time had passed before he finished listening to Hufflepuff's final message.
The story was not complicated, but it sorely tested one's resolve in the face of desire and the choices one made between life and death.
After her other companions had either left or died, Hufflepuff continued quietly tending to Hogwarts.
Then, one day, she received a letter from Salazar Slytherin, far away in Northern Europe.
The earliest letters merely described Salazar's records of the Northern Europe Divine Kingdom's culture and the structure of its faith system.
The later letters contained records of the deranged experiments on creatures and human bodies that Salazar and Odin had amicably compared and verified together. All manner of grotesquely malformed fantastic beasts were born.
For reasons unknown, Salazar mailed his Snakewood Wand back along with those records, asking Helga to store them in his Chamber of Secrets.
Helga repeatedly urged her friend to stop these depraved experiments, but one unassailable argument from Salazar left her speechless.
"The world is not at peace. Our enemies are too powerful. If we do not find ways to break through to higher realms and strengthen ourselves, the young wizards you train will end up as nothing more than prey for those evil people."
Helga knew what Salazar meant. Helplessly, she could only compromise and follow her friend's instructions, storing the records in the Chamber of Secrets.
Later, the Double Serpent Society coveted the results of Odin and Slytherin's experiments, and a series of great battles erupted.
Later generations claimed that Odin and Slytherin had turned against each other, but that was merely distorted propaganda spread by the Double Serpent Society to conceal the truth.
Thor, the God of War and Thunder, also died to a sacrificial ultimate attack presented as the giant