Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 105 Rat Blood
Can a basilisk make an appointment to kill someone?
If it is not led by someone, it is easy to accidentally hurt students other than the target during the attack, or even hit the professor - Voldemort would not be so stupid. He rarely hurts pure-blood students. After all, he is not as extreme as Cohen.

And Slytherin must have given the basilisk a strict order, such as prohibiting the indiscriminate killing of students - this old Deng is a pure-blood lunatic, not a murderer.

"What's that noise?!" Harry heard it too—he noticed that Cohen was also looking around. "Cohen? Did you hear it too?"

"I heard it." Cohen did not lie to Harry. He had to make Harry stand on his side regarding the basilisk attack, especially since Voldemort had planned to frame him.

If you encounter an identity that cannot be cleared, you have to drag the protagonist into it as well, so that everyone is safe - Dumbledore will not suspect Harry, and he certainly cannot suspect Cohen.

"What did you hear?" Ron struggled to slap away three elves that were rushing towards him.

"He seems to be looking for something?" Harry said confusedly. "I don't quite understand - the sound is very uncomfortable..."

Cohen wanted to hear where the sound went, but these elves were too noisy—

So Cohen raised his wand and muttered a few words to the ceiling, pretending that it was the effect of a spell, but in fact Cohen was sucking the souls of the elves around him.

They fell to the ground one by one, crawling around in confusion.

"What kind of spell is this?!" Hermione asked in surprise, showing great curiosity about it.

"The spell Lockhart just said," Cohen made up. "Special attack on elves."

As he spoke, Cohen used a levitation spell to throw all the soulless elves into the cage and kindly covered them with a shroud.

"Give it back to him later—" Cohen said.

[Leave a mark...Leave a mark...]

The sound of the basilisk was moving to the other end, which was another corridor on the third floor.

Harry, standing by, also held his breath as he listened to the strange voice, his eyes following the movement of the voice.

"Are you possessed?" Ron looked at Cohen and Harry worriedly - it was quiet here, but Cohen and Harry were listening to something with their ears perked up.

"Wait a minute—" Harry rejected Ron's request to talk, "Listen carefully..."

[Blood... Just use blood... Where can I get blood...?]

"Blood?" Harry's eyes widened in horror.

"go!"

Cohen grabbed Harry, pushed the door open and ran out - if he went alone, he would definitely be suspected, but it would be different if he took Harry with him.

Harry had his mother's sacrificial protection spell, so it wasn't a big problem.

Drag them all into the water!
"You two wait for us!" Ron and Hermione didn't have time to pack their bags - they rushed out behind Cohen and Harry.

The sound of the basilisk traveled through the walls, leading to a deserted corridor - it seemed to be avoiding people, and the snake could identify the location of students by temperature.

It chose a place where there was no one.

Cohen and his companions came to a corner with a heavy door - it would take time to open the door, and the basilisk seemed to have left the wall.

Blood…blood…

Besides the basilisk's muttering, there was also the rustling sound of something rubbing against the wall.

"Oh!"

Cohen was too lazy to knock on the door, so he just cast a spell and the door burst open with a loud bang.

Cohen saw a snake's tail drilling into the wall - and Harry was a step too slow, and he was almost pulled over by Cohen who was running very fast.

The place where the basilisk left was a solid wall, which means that the walls of Hogwarts are movable - no wonder the basilisk can come out of the pipe at any time.

Cohen took Harry to the place where the basilisk disappeared, and they saw "blood." "Rat?"

Harry looked at the two dead gray mice on the ground with some confusion. Their blood had formed a pool on the ground, and there were long and thin marks around it - as if someone had dipped a quill in the blood to write something...

"Here." Cohen looked up and saw the words on the wall - the basilisk could actually write, it was worthy of being a Slytherin's pet.

Where are you?

"What do you mean?" Harry's heartbeat, which had just stopped, resumed—it even felt a little absurd.

After such a tense series of events...someone just wrote "Where are you" in the blood of two rats?
"You guys are running too fast!"

Hermione and Ron just managed to get here:
"what happens?"

Hermione patted her chest and gasped. She also saw the dead rat in the corner and the words on the wall.

"Don't tell me you guys ran so fast just to kill a couple of rats and write on the wall with their blood... That's childish."

"Rat?!" Ron looked at the dead rat in panic—he almost thought it was Scabbers.

"It wasn't Scabbers, and it wasn't us," Harry explained to Ron and Hermione. "Coin and I heard a noise in the wall—no, didn't you hear it?"

"What's that noise?" Hermione asked in confusion. "Ron and I didn't hear anything. We just saw you suddenly run out like crazy -"

"The voice said 'where' and 'blood'..." Harry recalled, "I thought someone was going to attack someone - Coin should think so too, right?"

"Yes," Cohen said, "but..."

His eyes fell on the two fat rats.

"We didn't expect the victims were two rats."

"Maybe it's someone's prank," Hermione guessed. "But it's a bit too bloody. Filch will definitely be furious if he finds out - we -"

"You should have known... what the consequences of dirtying the corridor floor were, right?" Filch appeared behind the four people with a gloomy look. His cat, Mrs. Norris, saw the dead mice on the ground and swooped over to pick them up.

Not surprisingly, they were all given solitary confinement.

"We already have a detention!" Ron said angrily as they walked back to the common room.

"He has no evidence at all." Hermione was also a little unhappy - it was the first time she was put in detention, and for a reason that was not true at all.

"Twice is no different than once," Harry answered carelessly, still thinking about the voice and the bloody words on the wall.

"I want to go to bed." Cohen said goodbye to the three people.

"But it's only half past three!" Ron asked, puzzled. "We could go see Hagrid – isn't it too early to go to bed now?"

"No." Cohen shook his head. "I'm sleepy. I'm going to sleep for a while. See you at the dinner."

Cohen had to go to Lockhart to see what was going on.

The basilisk's behavior doesn't seem to be Voldemort's plan - why would Voldemort kill mice?

And the words that the basilisk left on the wall...

"Where are you?"

Cohen muttered to himself.

Who is the basilisk looking for?

It can't be you, right?

(End of this chapter)