Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 174 The Horned Water Serpent's Prophecy and Misunderstanding

But I didn't think it was a hallucination, so I tried to find the direction of the sound while Martha was sleeping. I found a door. But I didn't remember there being a door in the bedroom hallway - it seemed to lead downstairs. Martha's house actually had a basement.

The door is locked. I used the Unlocking Charm, but it didn't work. What kind of magic is protecting it? Isn't Martha also a Muggle-born? Why would there be a magically sealed door in her ancestral home? I didn't use more drastic measures in case Martha said I had turned into an old lunatic - she already thinks so. I'll ask Martha tomorrow.

Cohen turned the page.

A door that suddenly appeared and was locked...

It has the atmosphere of a suspense film. If you add things like "bank" and "time travel", you might be able to join the crew of "Genius Club".

Next day's diary entry.

[Martha said there's no basement in the house, nor is there a strange door in the bedroom hallway. There are only four doors in this hallway, but I clearly saw a fifth door last night. What's wrong is that when I took Martha to the location of the strange wooden door, it was gone.]

I guess it only appears at night, or when I can hear those sounds, like those magical rooms at Hogwarts.

So I decided to stay in the corridor all night. Martha thought I was doing nothing and said that if I believed in hallucinations again, she would take me to St. Mungo's for treatment.

[I'm not sick. I saw the door today, but it only existed for a few seconds. I yelled for Martha to come and see it, but it was like the door was hiding from us. As soon as Martha came, it disappeared again.]

So what's behind the door?

Cohen was curious about what Charleson had seen, so he began to flip through the pages.

The door was always locked, and Charleson could see it from time to time, but Martha always missed it.

And Charleson has not been able to open it. He has tried many methods, blasting spells, crushing spells, dismantling spells... The magic of the door is very powerful, even the wall should have been smashed, but the door did not move at all.

Martha couldn't stand the noise Charleson made in the middle of the night, so she took him to St. Mungo's and recuperated for a month.

Charleson hadn't heard the strange roars of the various beasts for two months, and he thought he was cured.

Until early November.

I went home, the door opened, and I walked in. It was like a cellar, with a narrow staircase leading down to a depth that was impossible to see the bottom.

Charleson's writing no longer had the sharpness of the past; the words began to twist out of tension or fear.

It was pitch black inside, and even spells couldn't dispel it. I walked down the stairs, step by step. In the darkness, I saw the head of a snake. I knew this kind of snake, a horned water snake. It had horns on its head and a mirror-like gem on its forehead. It must have come from America. It was said that the gem could reflect the future.

It crawled towards me, and the gem was right in front of my face, but I shouldn't have seen my reflection because it was dark.

But I saw something else, something terrifying. I saw Edward dead. He was lying alone in the snow, his face pale. Next to him was a twisted, terrifying black monster, and Rose, the woman from the Berk family. She was holding the black monster. She must have killed Edward to feed it.

I also saw other images. Edward and Rose had a child—I memorized that face, but in the gem, I also saw the child transformed into a Dementor. I figured it out: Edward in the future would die at the hands of Rose and this child, and the black monster in the snow was their child.

[Just as I was about to continue watching other future fragments, the image in the gem disappeared, and the snake made a threatening sound towards me - but what terrified me was that the sound that came out of the snake's mouth was not a hissing sound.]

[I heard the roar of a lion. Why does the snake make the sound of a lion?]

Then, I saw a huge, furry black shadow behind the snake. It opened several pairs of shining eyes and glared at me fiercely. It was a monster as big as a house. I couldn't imagine it.

Before I could even register what was happening, the snake opened its mouth and lunged at me, so I quickly turned and rushed out. The basement was filled with the smell of sulfur, and I almost couldn't breathe.

After leaving the basement, the door disappeared, but all I could think of was the scene of Edward dying in the snow. I only have one son, and I couldn't let him be killed by that woman and that child of unknown origin.

[I'm going to Edward's house now. I'm going to stop them.]

Horned water snake...

Cohen certainly remembered this creature; it had once been one of his suspicions about what species his snake relatives might be.

A magical snake with horns. If Charleson's records are correct, this horned water snake with gems on its head is the most famous and precious of all horned water snake species. They also have special abilities such as flight, invisibility and prophecy.

But there certainly couldn't be just one horned water snake in the basement of the house; Charleson mentioned its hairy, large body and many pairs of eyes.

The Chimera is a multi-headed monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail. The Silver Key's prayer has not been wrong so far. Human, nightmare, basilisk, dementor, and Chimera are the components of Cohen's bloodline.

The Chimera escaped from the laboratory and took refuge here, but why? Was it because the blood of one of the experimental subjects, the original Cohen Norton, was present here?

so……

It seems that Edward and Charleson had a huge misunderstanding because of this Chimera beast.

Charleson "saw" a corner of the past and the future, and thought that Edward, who tore open his soul to save Cohen, was dead, so he tried his best to stop Edward and Rose from adopting Cohen.

But in fact, Charleson got the time order of the two scenes wrong. It was not because he adopted Cohen that Edward lay dying in the snow, but Edward tore his soul apart and mended Cohen first, and then the adoption of Cohen occurred.

The snake head of Chimera didn't even let people watch the whole movie. What a bad snake!
He just wanted to save his son, he is a good person!

It's just that this misunderstanding lasted a little too long - Cohen was still considering whether to tell Edward about this, so that he wouldn't hold a grudge against Charleson for the rest of his life. After all, Charleson was so hostile to Cohen because he thought Cohen "would kill Edward in the future."

(End of this chapter)