Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 128 I'm going home to spend Christmas with my parents, Xiaofu, don't cause trouble

"I didn't adjust my position properly at that time—I was in such a hurry, you know, the feeling of finally getting revenge after enduring five hundred years of ridicule—" Nick said. "But I didn't have time to turn the neck over last time—I forgot how people eat, I thought they cut it with a knife and fork—"

"Who would use a knife and fork to cut a chicken leg?" Cohen exclaimed in surprise.

"I never dared to look closely at the students' eating habits. It would make me even more depressed..." Nick said sadly, "I regretted it then, very much... Of course, I will do my best to compensate you this time. Anything is fine..."

"None of that matters." Cohen stopped laughing. "By the way, do you really want to abandon your uniqueness for the sake of other people's opinions?"

"What?" Nick's eyes were full of confusion.

"What I mean is, if you become a ghost with your head and body completely separated, wouldn't you lose all your distinctiveness?" Cohen said earnestly. "You'd become 'Sir Nicholas without a prefix,' 'a member of the Headless Horseman,' 'that ghost whose identity is unknown.' People always remember particularly interesting or unique ghosts, not particularly sociable ones."

"You mean... I'm special... and very likable?" Nick's eyes widened.

"If you don't believe me, just ask the students. Even many first-year students know 'Almost Headless Nick,' but if you ask them who are the 'Headless Hunters,' they won't know anyone," Cohen said.

Cohen was trying to persuade Nick, not because Nick had a poor appetite due to the broken neck and because Nick's request was a bit strange.

"So have you decided yet, will you be one of those headless ghosts with their heads and necks completely detached, or will you be the one and only 'Nearly Headless Nick' at Hogwarts?"

Cohen posed the fatal question to Nick.

Nick was silent.

He was wondering if he had really made up his mind.

"Because it's easy to bite the heads off, but it's hard to put them back together," Cohen added.

"Remember..." Nick murmured. "'A man is not truly dead until he is completely forgotten.'"

What about you? Cohen Norton.

"Thank you, Cohen—I've thought about it... let's keep it this way..." Nick figured it out, or perhaps he was afraid of that kind of featureless, forgotten, terrible future. "You're right, I think I've gotten used to the name 'Almost Headless Nick'—if you need any help in the future, just come to me, if I can be of any help."

Nick floated away, but Cohen didn't move.

Did I just hear some strange words?

Wait a moment——

Cohen suddenly looked behind him alertly.

There was a soul strength label on the outside of the classroom wall that had never been seen before.

[Soul Strength: 31]

The professor is not so low, the student is not so high, this is an outsider - hiding behind the wall, and behind the wall...

Cohen immediately ran to the window of the wall that faced the forbidden forest. The wall was very thin and had no pipes.

That is to say, there is someone outside, outside the fourth floor.

Is someone following you? And you're doing these Riddler-like villainous things? Are you tired of living?
But the soul suddenly fell rapidly downwards, and Cohen only saw a vague shadow. It flew away along the road and quickly disappeared into the forbidden forest.

Who or what animal could it be?
No, this kind of movement speed most likely belongs to a wizard who uses magic.

The words he left behind -

What about you? Cohen Norton.

What means?
Then what about Nick's line, "A person is truly dead only when he is completely forgotten"?
Two people died in Cohen's body, one was Herbert's child and the other was Rose's child, but they were not forgotten, at least Herbert, Rose and Edward still remembered them.

……

"That's a brain-wrecking ball. I'm not going to think about it anymore. If someone really wants to mess with me, just go for it and slide it into my stomach."

After sending away the three people who were scared away by Norbert's "intimate rubbing", Cohen took the box to the Room of Requirement and discussed the strange things that had just happened with the Earl.

"He must be unable to defeat you, so he's resorting to all this nonsense," the Earl reasoned. "What about you, Cohen Norton?"

"Repeating it doesn't remind me of anything."

Cohen said calmly. "No, what I meant by repeating it is that he called your name and knew something about you—" The Earl tilted his head and said, "That's already quite telling. Knowing your name means he's either from the school, the Ministry, or the manor—and since he said this right after the discussion about 'life and death', it sounds like he knows some of your hidden characteristics..."

"That means he could only be from the manor." Cohen frowned. "Indeed, the Ministry of Magic only knows that I'm a 'monster', but they don't know what exactly I am. Only the guys at Burke Manor would study me - but weren't they all dead at the time?"

Only what is forgotten is truly dead.

wrong……

Cohen's birth process was not forgotten at all. It was recorded in the experimental reports at Bock Manor!

"You, go and get Mundungus for me."

Cohen said to the Count.

"what?"

The Count's eyes widened.
"What the hell are you talking about? I'm a fucking bird!"

"But you're a bird with a magic wand. You can only use it for a moment, even if you raise it for a thousand days. My sense of security depends on you, Count." Cohen entrusted him. "You know, I still have to go to school and be careful that the basilisk really kills people. Be careful, don't let it kill me, I want to live."

"Ha." The Earl laughed dryly, "You may have a slight misunderstanding of the owl's abilities."

"You're better than him. At least you know the Patronus Charm," Cohen said. "I can hand Mick over to you temporarily. If you really can't handle it, let Mick take over."

"Oh, it's the Dementors. I'm saved—thank you."

The Count thanked him sarcastically.

But no matter how you look at it, it is most convenient for the Earl to catch him.

Owls have marking magic that allows them to easily find wizards, so the Count with his wand in his claw pocket can almost be regarded as a missile with automatic guidance.

Now there's also a little Dementor Mick.

"Don't be afraid, I'll be back soon."

Cohen comforted the little Dementor Mick, who was stuffed into the pocket of the Earl's claw that was cast with the Untraceable Extension Charm. It seemed a little unhappy about the separation.

"Will it not eat me in a rage?" said the count anxiously.

"No Dementor would eat a bird's soul," Coin repeated. "I'd be the only one who would do that."

"It doesn't seem to be much better..." the count sighed.

Since they wanted to capture an adult wizard, the Earl had to take Mick with him even if he was reluctant, to prevent them from being killed.

"Use Petrify All to pin him down and put him in your paw pocket," Cohen instructed the Earl. "Also, be careful not to be seen by other wizards. Non-human species cannot carry wands. If you end up in jail..."

"You will save me, won't you?" the Count asked hopefully.

"I can arrange the best cell for you."

Cohen patted his chest and assured,
"I've gotten to know all the Dementors in Azkaban—just kidding. It's okay if they really get caught. How am I supposed to send letters to Edward and Rose if you're gone?"

The mission to capture Mundungus lasted for many days, and the Earl would come back every few days to report the intelligence, because Mundungus seemed to be entangled with some people from the Office of the Prohibition of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts and was on the run.

The owl's unique location marking magic always has some delay, making it difficult to catch a person who is fleeing all over Britain.

But Cohen is not in a hurry. It doesn't matter whether he catches him early or late.

In the second week of December, after discovering that Malfoy was planning to go home, Coin also bought a ticket home.

Coin also asked about Voldemort.

Voldemort also said that no more attacks could be carried out during this period - Dumbledore seemed to be investigating the school walls.

"Then I'm going home. Don't make any mistakes. I don't want to come back and find that Dumbledore has driven you away again." Cohen reminded Voldemort before leaving. The other party looked a little unhappy.

I just like this kind of situation where I can’t stand it but can’t do anything to it.

(End of this chapter)