Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 162 We are also playing the spy game
"What can Headmaster Dumbledore do to me... Wait, wait? Are you telling the truth or not?"

Von Braun frowned, but then he found that he seemed to be misled by Cohen's inexplicable and weird remarks again.

Is this the contaminating nature of the Great Being? Just the slightest contact will control it...

"Don't get into those Lovecraftian fantasies. You just have a little curiosity about Dumbledore's dark past," Cohen said.

"How do you know what I'm thinking?" Von Braun frowned, realizing that things were not simple, and took a step back away from Cohen.

"Because you whispered it yourself!" Cohen said angrily, "Do all of you Silver Key people have the mental illness that makes you go crazy when you meet Cohen?!"

"You even know that I belong to the Silver Key..."

Von Braun nodded as if with certainty.

"Don't be so sure of yourself fantasizing about something that doesn't exist, old man!" Cohen gritted his teeth. "You were so normal a few days ago, and shouldn't you continue to be your villain now? Keep playing your role as a stealth spy, provoke me—or kidnap me, or something like that, and then let me find a reason to kill you right under Dumbledore's nose!"

"They succeeded." Von Braun narrowed his eyes. "You have now become cruel, bloodthirsty, and have a strong desire for destruction—"

"I will destroy you, Lao Mu."

Cohen gave up on talking to this lunatic who had given up pretending and pulled out his wand in a pretentious manner. He wouldn't actually use the Cruciatus Curse on a professor in Hogwarts, it was just a small threat.

"Now I've had enough of this red tape. It's something that could be done with a simple Cruciatus Curse and Legilimency..."

"Wait!" Cohen's threat worked, and von Braun quickly raised his hand to stop him. "Let me make it clear first, I'm not afraid of torture or death - it's just that my ultimate goal in sneaking into Hogwarts was to stop you, or rather, to stop those radicals from waking you up..."

"Ah, you're not a radical?"

Somehow, Cohen felt a little disappointed. He had thought he could have a fight with the professor. Even though he was just a temporary worker, it was still a life experience that he could brag about to his children.
"I thought you were one of the Silver Key members hiding in the cave. Why didn't you tell me earlier..."

"Did I tell you that?" Von Braun remembered saying he was here to protect Cohen from the radicals.

"You didn't elaborate!" Cohen said. "You looked like a villain about to take off his mask. Everyone would think you were a mentally retarded villain! Dumbledore is the only one who can be the Riddler here. If anyone else plays the Riddler, I would just label them a villain."

"..."

"..."

After a brief silence, von Braun looked away awkwardly.

"Are you the son of that Tucker von Braun?" Cohen asked suddenly.

"Yes...why do you suddenly mention my father?" von Braun asked puzzledly.

"I've met him before when I was taking a ride," Cohen said. "His memory isn't very good, and he has some Alzheimer's, but he seems to be a good guy."

"uh-huh?"

Von Braun still didn't quite understand why Cohen suddenly asked this question. Weren't they discussing the Silver Key? "And you keep family photos on your desk, with lots of fingerprints on them, which shows you look at them often. You love your family very much," Cohen said. "Of course, I'm not cosplaying Sherlock Holmes right now. I just think that someone who cares about their family wouldn't wish for the world to end. So... why did you join the Silver Key?"

"Because my own brother joined that organization." Von Braun glanced at the photo on the table. "He's an Auror. He shouldn't have anything to do with cults. That group of people brainwashed him. I want to save him, and my father has been worried about him."

"Are there any radicals who consider 'killing Cohen' as their ultimate goal?"

Cohen thought of the tall and thin Auror who was killed by Ali's headbutt in the first year.

As soon as he saw Cohen, he looked like he wanted to kill him, but now it seems... it's not out of "justice".

Such justice is too stupid. Even the Ministry of Magic, which has always been known for its "stupidity", did not choose to continue to provoke Cohen. There is no reason for someone who can meet the requirements for Auror employment to be so stupid.

The only reason could be that von Braun's brother's purpose was not to eliminate Cohen, but to awaken Cohen.

As Professor von Braun now said, they wanted to make "Cohen" cruel, bloodthirsty, and full of the desire to destroy the world.

Just like the effects of dark magic on ordinary wizards.

"Yes, unfortunately, he is one of them." Von Braun lowered his eyebrows and said, "And I think he may have been planning something even more terrible. He disappeared on Christmas Day two years ago."

"Maybe..." Cohen said tacitly.

It would be fine if this person just disappeared forever...

You can't just say "Hey, I killed your brother, are you happy or surprised?"

"My brother's name is Joshua," von Braun said. "If you see him later... be careful..."

"I'll keep an eye on it - if you're not a radical, then where did that student who sent me the letter in January come from?" Cohen suddenly thought of a question.

After returning to school at Christmas, a senior girl gave Hermione a letter with a silver key and asked Hermione to pass it on to her.

So if it wasn't von Braun who ordered that girl...

What on earth is Dumbledore, the headmaster, protecting? (annoyed)
Can anyone get into the school at will? Or are students involved in cults not subject to any action?

"Did a student send you a letter?" von Braun asked warily. "A letter from the Silver Key?"

"Then you just don't know," Cohen said disappointedly. "Go on, double agent, why did you wait until three months after I was 'kidnapped' to come to me?"

"Because I heard that another faction of the Silver Key has ideas about you," von Braun said. "I have to remind you that they plan to take action against you during the summer vacation and may start tracking you at King's Cross Station - I have their list of names, but they are all fugitives now..."

"The point of being a fugitive is that you can't easily find them in advance," Cohen said. "I understand. This can prolong the plot, but I choose to wait for them to take the bait themselves—"

"They don't want to hurt you," said von Braun, "because they know they can't. They want to 'drive' you out of the wizarding world."

(End of this chapter)