Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 124 Your chance to be exempted from the final exam is here!
At a quarter to ten, Cohen, who had brutally killed another vole, came to the corner of the corridor outside the school hospital in invisible form.

Myrtle's bathroom is not far from here.

It's unclear whether Colin can still use the camera to block the view, so Cohen has to come forward to protect him to ensure that no one actually dies in this series of plans.

Otherwise, no one could save the old basilisk - if Harry didn't kill it, Dumbledore would come to kill it. Dumbledore would not allow a basilisk that had just killed someone to continue living in Hogwarts Castle.

The potion that Cohen researched to make it resist Parseltongue commands was still secondary. The most important thing was to find a way to block its death glare.

……

Cohen heard footsteps coming up the stairs, and when he turned the corner he saw Colin holding a camera carefully. The child was also holding a large bag of snacks in his hand.

What a great fan! I’m so touched.

The old basilisk was also in place, and Cohen saw its soul wandering in the pipes through the wall.

Malfoy did not have the courage and ability that Voldemort had when he was young, so he did not dare to lead the basilisk with him.

"Click——"

Just before Colin was about to reach the school hospital, the wall behind him opened.

The bricks rotated regularly like the wall at the entrance of Diagon Alley, expanding from a crack into a large hole, with dark green scales sliding inside.

"What--?"

Colin heard a strange noise behind him, exclaimed and quickly turned around to see what was going on.

Cohen, who had already leaned next to Colin, quickly "helped" him raise the camera at the moment when he was about to turn around and see the old basilisk - the posture was a bit intimate, but not a big problem.

Colin made eye contact with the basilisk through the camera, and that glance was...

Kids, here's your chance to be exempted from the final exam!
[Ding! Goodwill value +100]

"His-"

A burning hissing sound came from the camera. The old basilisk did not leave, but slowly crawled towards Colin, who was as stiff as a stone.

"Sissoko's child...are you here?"

The old basilisk hissed at Colin behind him. It couldn't see, but it could smell with its forked tongue.

"Go back!" Cohen whispered, "We'll talk about it next time. Someone will be here soon!"

The old snake monster obediently crawled back into the wall, and the bricks and stones were pieced back to their original appearance.

Cohen heard footsteps and immediately ran to the other side of the sound.

"Mr. Creevey, why—"

Cohen heard Professor McGonagall's scolding from halfway across the corridor, but the scolding had to be interrupted before it was finished - because Professor McGonagall found that Colin was motionless, exactly the same as Filch.

After an exclamation, Professor McGonagall whispered some spell, probably to inform Dumbledore.

Cohen didn't look back. He was still invisible and had already turned a corner, so he wouldn't be discovered.

The Chamber of Secrets incident was the beginning - Cohen saw Harry's soul and... another elf soul of about ten or so through the wall on the side of the school hospital.

Dobby should be confessing the truth to Harry. Coin secretly put the soul halfway into the wall so that he could eavesdrop on how Dobby told Harry about the "horrible and deadly evil plan" this time.

"You mean, there are students helping Voldemort?"

Harry was sitting on the bed, looking pale as he asked Dobby,

"Want to resurrect him?" "Dobby can't say..."

Dobby said, trembling all over.

"Dobby is a bad elf! Dobby is a bad elf!"

As he spoke, Dobby began to look around for tools to punish himself.

"Stop!" Harry grabbed Dobby with his good left arm. "Who wants to resurrect him? And what does this have to do with the Chamber of Secrets? Tell me—"

The door of the school hospital was opened. Harry quickly let go of Dobby's hand, climbed back to his own bed and covered himself with the quilt.

Dobby disappeared with a dull thud; the Hogwarts spell that prohibited Apparition had no effect on the elf.

Due to its master's orders, it was still unable to reveal any useful information. It seemed that Cohen didn't need to bother explaining this to Harry.

Professors McGonagall and Dumbledore placed the stoned Colin on the bed next to Harry, who was pretending to sleep.

"Another attack..."

Dumbledore said,
"This time it's students..."

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After returning to the dormitory, Cohen had a good sleep.

One student adds 100 goodwill points, and one hundred students adds !
Students get the chance to avoid final exams, and Cohen gets a reward. It's actually a win-win plan, but it's destined not to go smoothly - because the school will stop operating when the number of people exceeds three.

The following Sunday, everything was still calm. The news of Colin's disappearance was only circulated in Gryffindor Tower. Harry told Cohen, Ron and Hermione everything he heard from Dobby last night.

"Are you saying that someone wants to resurrect Voldemort?"

Cohen asked simply,

"Why does Voldemort come here every year? Is this some kind of Hogwarts tradition?"

"Who in school would want to help revive him?" Hermione frowned. "That elf, Dobby, who's been pestering you, has been trying to stop you from going back to school since the summer vacation, hasn't he?"

"Don't even think about it," Ron insisted. "It's definitely Malfoy—the last time Fred and I took Harry home, we guessed the elf was from the Malfoy family. Their family has always been close to dark wizards. My dad seemed to have mentioned that the Malfoys were followers of the You-Know-Who."

"I was wondering why Malfoy seemed so withdrawn this semester..." Harry seemed to agree that Ron was right. "He didn't come to annoy us much—"

"Do you really want to be disgusted?" Cohen's mouth twitched a few times.

However, the discussion about the suspect did not suspect Cohen. Cohen's "desperate" act of saving Harry last semester was still too dazzling. It was hard to imagine what Harry would look like when he saw Cohen in the Chamber of Secrets next time.

Why is it always you?

"Cohen, where are you going?" Harry asked when he noticed Cohen got up to leave the lounge.

"Let's go find Hagrid and see Norbert," said Cohen. "And renovate my trunk. I've decided to hide in it when I'm in danger. That way, at least I have a dragon to protect me."

"Genius!" Ron said enviously, "Can I follow you in the future? If I encounter the monster in the secret room, I'll have a place to escape..."

"You have to be careful about whether the danger comes from another monster, Ron," Hermione said. "Have you forgotten? Norbert is almost an adult. A dragon is also a dangerous creature. It won't turn you to stone, but it will burn you."

Ron insisted that dragons were safer than Gorgons (Gorgons in Greek mythology whose faces turned anyone who saw them to stone), but Hermione thought he simply hadn't faced a full-grown, ferocious dragon yet.

But they still wanted to go with Cohen to take a look. After all, Cohen had raised Norbert for so long and nothing happened. Maybe the fire dragon was not as scary as they imagined... probably.

(End of this chapter)