Salazar's retirement career

[sunnyskywalker]

It's interesting that we never hear what happened to Salazar Slytherin after he "departed" that fateful morning. Jodel suggested a couple of possibilities (included below). As a slightly tongue-in-cheek exercise, here's a quiz on his possible post-Hogwarts activities.

(a) He founded Durmstrang.
(b) He founded the Department of Mysteries (whatever it was called pre-Ministry).
(c) He started a war (maybe with pureblood supremacist ideology, maybe something else).
(d) He retired and lived a quiet life of scholarship and contemplation.
(e) He served on the Wizards' Council.
(f) He started a pet shop specializing in exotic snakes.
(g) He accidentally got killed by his own basilisk. The other Founders covered it up out of respect for his memory.
(h) The other Founders killed him and buried him under the foundations of their new Astronomy Tower.
(i) Other, explained in comments.

Comments

[chantaldormand]

Salazar's retirement plan? Alright let's take a crack on this.
Well considering that he was petty and skilled enough to secretly build CoS under existing castle without weakening it's structural integrity he most probably stayed in UK a few more years creating a political body that was precursor to the Ministry (I'll have the last word, Godric!) while on side starting his own business: designing and building magical buildings! Quickly Salazar became very popular among purebloods. Rowena became jealous. The rivalry between two old colleagues resulted in A)Hogwarts becoming Murder Castle TM and B)Salazar being covered in so much of political mud that he had to emigrate back to his homeland: Iberian peninsula.
Sadly that didn't end well for Sal. A few years after he came back he was murdered to death by good Allah fearing Saracen.

[sunnyskywalker]

Ah, dueling magical architects! That would be hilarious.

I wonder just how far under the castle the CoS is in the first place? And how much of the castle had they built when he built his chamber? What kind of soil and stone was he digging into? Where's the water table? So many questions.

Someone who helped found an international (at the time) pan-British magical school sounds like a good candidate for also starting a pan-British magical government.

If he did go back to the Iberian Peninsula, he could have gotten killed in one of the many little civil wars and Reconquista-related fights.