Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 50: I have a unicorn at home that can drink butterbeer. Do you want to see it?
Seeing Cohen's confident look, Quirrell chose to believe him.

Choose Cohen, choose success, there is no doubt about it.

So Cohen and Quirrell quickly arranged the plan for tonight - the sooner the dragon egg transaction was completed, the better. The Christmas holiday was one of the few times in Quirrell's life that he could leave the castle. There were too many teaching activities on weekdays.

There was only one teacher, Quirrell, for the Defense Against the Dark Arts courses in all grades of the entire school. If Dumbledore had not evaluated the performance of the teachers, Quirrell would have collapsed long ago.

After finishing the plan discussion, Cohen returned to the Room of Requirement and planned to inform Ali - they would take it to Hagrid to trick him later, so they needed to rehearse in advance.

But as soon as Cohen entered the Room of Requirement, he heard the Count's roaring voice.

But the Count was not speaking to Cohen.

The Count and Ali were both in the "fake outdoor" room assigned to Ali. The door was half-open, and Cohen could only see a corner of the fake grass and fake starry sky inside.

"Goo-goo-goo—you're gesturing with your head? What exactly are you trying to say?"

"Squeak!" Ali made an impatient huffing sound.

"What are you gesturing at—a tree? No, a rock?"

The Count seemed to be trying to communicate with Yali:
"Oh my god... isn't that a stone? That's a big jellyfish? No, is there a jellyfish this big?!"

“Squeaky!!!!”

It sounded like a mixture of the sound of hooves scraping the ground and the flapping of wings.

"What are you doing?"

Cohen felt it was time for him to go in.

After pushing open the door, I saw the Count hovering in the sky, and Ali was blowing cold air at the Count with her nostrils - the temperature in the Room of Requirement was much higher than the cold winter outside, even in this "fake outdoor lawn".

"Guaigu, this dumb bitch is crazy, you take care of it!"

The Count swooped down behind Cohen and hooted from the owl stand inside the house.

[I was just about to ask it where you went. Your departure makes me very uneasy. I feel like I am trapped in another cage.]

Yali's voice explained to Cohen.

But it didn't understand me.

"I went to help a minor villain research an evil plan. You know, all Hogwarts students are like that."

Cohen simply replied that the unicorn seemed to be having a maternal outburst—but it wasn't a big deal.

"I need your help with something..."

Then, Cohen explained the plan to Yali.

"You mean, you're going to take a black, strange-looking unicorn to a half-giant's hut and tell him that the unicorn likes butterbeer, and specifically wants butterbeer from the filthiest and lousiest Hog's Head Inn in Hogsmeade..."

The Count calmly repeated Cohen's plan.

"Hmm? Any problem?" Cohen tilted his head and looked at the earl.

"Don't you know much about humans?" The count also tilted his head and looked at Cohen.

"No, you don't understand Hagrid."
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Inside Hagrid's hut, at the edge of the Forbidden Forest covered in thick snow.

Cohen released Yali from his magic pocket.

"Merlin's beard!"

Hagrid looked at the unicorn with jet-black mane, and a fire seemed to burn in his eyes.

"This is... the child of a unicorn and a thestral? Merlin's beard! I can't even imagine—where... how did you do this..."

"I met her on the way home. Her name is Alexia, and I call her Yali." Cohen lied, "She said she liked me and insisted on following me. I couldn't get rid of her."

Yali denied what Cohen said.

"What a beautiful unicorn..." Hagrid didn't listen to what Cohen said at all. His mind was now full of thinking about how to take good care of this new magical creature. "Look at this mane, this horn... and these hooves and tail..."

[You are also against the sky]

Yali's voice was only audible to Coin, but it was clearly speaking of Hagrid.

Hagrid didn't know that Ali had already thought he was a pervert. He wiped away his tears of excitement and began to rummage through the drawers in the cabin.

"What does she like to eat? I have plenty of food here. Unicorns like fresh grass... No, she's so special, maybe she likes other foods - ant eggs, frog liver... or flobberworms?"

"She told me she liked Butterbeer at the Hog's Head," Cohen reminded him.

"?"

Hagrid turned his furry head to look at Cohen, then at the unicorn Ali.

"Butterbeer?"

Yali nodded to Hagrid according to Cohen's plan, but now she also began to think that what the earl said was correct - no normal person would believe that a unicorn likes to drink butter beer in a shabby bar...

[This explanation is too stupid. If he doesn’t believe it, it’s not my problem.]

Yali gave Cohen a heads-up in advance.

But Cohen just gave it a "wait" look.

"I knew it!"

Hagrid looked even happier than Cohen, whose plan had succeeded. He excitedly said in a loud voice:

"Glarin and Rune Pony also like a drink - can she stay with me for a while? I'll take good care of her - I'll buy her a Butterbeer tonight - did she say the Hog's Head or the Three Broomsticks?"

"Which bar's butterbeer do you like?" Cohen asked Ali in a pretentious manner.

【…】

"From the Hog's Head, she said," Cohen replied to Hagrid, who looked expectant.

Ali nodded in agreement to this answer in front of Hagrid, then looked at Cohen suspiciously:
"Are you sure you want to keep me with this giant? You won't sell me out, will you?"

"Don't worry, Hagrid will take good care of you. He takes care of half of the creatures in the Forbidden Forest. He is very experienced."

What Cohen said to Ali made Hagrid almost cry - it was the first time he met a student with the same taste as himself.

"By the way, Hagrid, I checked in the library - it seems that it is illegal to keep the species of Ali." Cohen reminded.

"It's okay. If no one finds out, it's not illegal."

Hagrid assured, patting his chest.

There is absolutely no legal awareness when it comes to raising animals - or rather, in Hagrid's mind, "cute" magical animals are far more important than those cruel laws.

The plan goes through!
Cohen left Hagrid's hut alone with satisfaction, and on his way back to the eighth floor of the castle, he stopped by Quirrell's office.

After learning that Coin had dealt with Hagrid in less than an hour, Quirrell was scolded by Voldemort again - Coin overheard some of the conversation through his soul through the wall, saying that children can work more efficiently than you, and other PUA tactics...

People's joys and sorrows are not shared, Cohen just thinks they are noisy.

He had to go back and continue practicing the Patronus Charm to see what went wrong - as long as he could create smoke, it would prove that Cohen could definitely cast this spell.

It's like if the engine can run, then it can definitely run if you put some wheels on it...

(End of this chapter)