Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 157 Am I a failure as a father?
When Cohen entered the room, he saw only a mess, with broken bricks and sticky mud everywhere, because the dust was stuck together into a large area by the water stains on the ground.

The head of the most conspicuous Slytherin statue deep in the Chamber of Secrets had fallen off, and two basilisks were surrounding it.

It looked like Slytherin had been beheaded by a basilisk.

"I know you hate Slytherin now, but not to the point of..."

Cohen looked at the ruins and couldn't help but say.

"Ah?" The old basilisk used its tail to push Slytherin's head towards Cohen. "I don't hate him, do I? He used to be very nice to me..."

"'Good' means he lets you sleep under the toilet," Sissoko pointed out sharply. "And doesn't let you go out - Derek never restricted me like that. Not only did he give me a cow every three days, he also built me ​​a bed."

"You still can't forget him, right?" Cohen asked Sissoko calmly.

"That's about reminiscing about our friendship," Sissoko said with a touch of nostalgia. "Of course, my son is more important..."

"If you don't hate Slytherin, why are you kicking his head like a ball?"

Cohen turned to the old basilisk and asked.

This statue has a scary-sized head, considering what the old basilisk said before about "luggage"...

"This is my nest." The old basilisk wrapped its tail around Slytherin's head, stopping the rolling ball. "I've always slept here—I might not be able to sleep if I suddenly change to another nest..."

"Bed-loving," Sissoko said wisely. "I've heard humans say that."

"Please don't say such girlish things with a body over a thousand years old and an old man's voice." Cohen covered his ears and stopped him. "That's weird."

"I see there's plenty of space in your suitcase," Sissoko said as he moved closer to Cohen. "I think we could give the old man a place to store the statue's head..."

"It's a little rude to put it back after it's already been broken off," Cohen said. "But this can't go in the basement. Find a place for it on the plain inside the box."

The old basilisk nodded to Cohen in gratitude, and the scene felt more like "Cohen and His Animal Friends".

Cohen opened the box and used a levitation spell to help the old basilisk send the huge Slytherin head statue in.

The old basilisk chose to live behind Cohen's wooden house so that he could easily visit Sissoko and the little basilisk. He generously invited Sissoko to live inside the statue ("It's much bigger inside than it looks from the outside"), but Sissoko refused.

"I'm going to live in my son's house," Sissoko said proudly.

Without the uncontrollable death glares, they no longer needed to worry about accidentally killing Cohen's sheep and pigs, so their allowed range of movement expanded to the entire box.

Later, he can introduce them to Hagrid. Hagrid must have never seen a living basilisk, because Cohen thinks there are only these three basilisks left in the whole of England.

No one would try to create a creature that would kill them with its gaze the moment it appeared - except for some Silver Key members who were simply bored and tired of living.

"Don't climb onto my bed. If you want to eat sheep or dwarf pig monsters, don't eat too much at once. Sustainable development is the key." Cohen reminded the three snakes.

"Okay." Sissoko and the old basilisk agreed.

"Hungry!" The little snake monster looked towards the sheep pen eagerly. "I'll take care of it..." Sissoko grabbed the little snake monster that suddenly rushed towards the sheep pen.

"Also, do you want to give it a name?" Cohen remembered Dumbledore's words before leaving. "It's a bit strange to keep calling it a little basilisk."

"But I have never named other snakes." Sissoko said with a headache, and looked at the old basilisk.

"I don't even have a name myself." The old basilisk shook his head. "Salazar never mentioned this, nor did he introduce me to other living things..."

"The first room on the left on the first floor is the study." Cohen pointed inside the wooden house. "Do you speak English?"

"A little bit?" Sissoko said.

"Get a dictionary and pick the word you like best. Then I'll decide on a name for it next time I come." Cohen sighed. "I've only ever named my own dog before, and it was something like 'German Mustache'."

If the little basilisk doesn't want to be a German, the task of naming it will have to be given to Sissoko.

Cohen had more important things to do.

For example, the small amount of remaining school time, Ali who was tinkering with something in the Forbidden Forest, the missing Voldemort, the "Silver Key Gathering" which seemed to be the main storyline during this period, and... Rose and Edward who stayed for the dinner.

At the dinner, Dumbledore gave a speech about how the Basilisk had been destroyed by Harry, Coin, and Ron, and that Hogwarts was now safe.

Everyone was happy that Hogwarts was back to normal.

Parents who came to school today also attended the Hogwarts celebration party. These adult wizards missed life at Hogwarts very much. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were talking about their previous school life with Mr. and Mrs. Norton, and Hermione was introducing the ceiling of Hogwarts to her parents - which was particularly shocking to Muggles ("Will it really not leak on rainy days?" Mr. Granger still couldn't believe it, "It looks like it's open-air...").

Because Dumbledore repaired Coin's wand with the Elder Wand, Coin did not tell Rose that the basilisk had swallowed him.

However, before the end of the party, Edward seemed to have something on his mind and pulled Cohen away on the pretext of going to the restroom.

"If you just want to talk privately, there's no need to actually go to the bathroom..."

Cohen closed the door of the men's restroom on the first floor and turned to Edward.

"Prevent your mother from coming in." Edward grabbed Cohen's shoulders seriously. "Although in principle this matter should be discussed by the whole family - you told me last time that a snake said it was your father..."

"It's not dead. It's not here to break up this family. It's here to join us," Cohen comforted.

"There happens to be another basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts? It hasn't been killed?" Edward asked quickly. "Look me in the eye and tell me you wouldn't keep a basilisk around."

"Sisoko is not dangerous," Cohen comforted.

"You even gave it a name!" Edward said, covering his face. "Merlin's beard, I shouldn't have let you raise that dragon. Now your understanding of dangerous creatures is distorted. The basilisk—"

"Shall I take you to meet it?" Cohen felt that explanation alone would not be enough to correct Edward's first impression - because the basilisk was indeed an extremely dangerous creature.

"Am I a failed father?"

(End of this chapter)