Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 184 Are you also a “fifth-year senior”?
Mayor Lewis's attention was attracted by the gem. To be precise, he was stunned because he saw some dynamic images in the gem.

He saw himself die in a green light, his eyes widening - the point was that he was dead.

But revealing itself now was obviously not what the Chimera wanted, and they reacted immediately.

The lion's gaze swept over everyone present, and his originally golden eyes suddenly became as dark as the abyss.

The mayor, Tom and Jerry were all stared at by this magical gaze.

Their expressions gradually became dull, confused, and then they closed their eyes.

After a moment, they opened their eyes.

The mayor held the three people's hands and shook his head.

He always felt like he had forgotten something, but...

Maybe I'm a little dizzy because I just finished it.

Only Cohen was unaffected—this Obliviate-like magic had no effect on Cohen.

The Chimera was still following Cohen, but now the lion's head stopped licking Cohen - it must have been because the goat's head had hit the lion's head just now, which caused a series of chain reactions, and finally the long-horned water snake that served as the tail could not maintain its invisibility.

Why are the three heads still fighting?

"What are you doing?" the mayor asked again, as if he had forgotten that he had asked it once before.

"Something is following us!" Jerry said fearfully.

"Then you'd better hope it can save you," the mayor said viciously. "Behave yourself, or you'll suffer more!"

Then, the mayor dragged them into the farm. After entering, Cohen found that this place had been completely transformed into a research site by Silver Key.

The space that was originally used as a living room was now filled with rows of shelves, which were neatly lined with small labeled bottles containing some silver liquid substance that was slowly swirling inside the bottles.

At first glance, it looked a bit like the memory extracted by Legilimency, but it was also a bit different - it was much darker than the memory, as if it had deteriorated.

But Cohen could feel a familiar feeling—he could eat it...

Not memory—Cohen doesn’t feed on memory.

So it can only be the soul, or... emotions? Is Silver Key here studying emotions?
The book "The Power of Sorrow" that Cohen had read before pointed out a point that emotions are the source of magic. This group of Silver Keys seemed to be studying the essence of magic.

If you're so interested in research, why would you join a cult? Wouldn't it be better to do advanced research in the Department of Mysteries?

Or maybe they were forced to find other ways to continue their research because their NEWT scores didn't meet the admission requirements...

"Why are you here so late?"

A displeased male voice sounded from above the stairs. It belonged to a bald wizard wearing a gray robe, who looked like he was doing research.

But the bald wizard now looks listless, maybe he is just about to go to sleep.

"We're not short of experimental subjects anymore. Five of them will be enough for a long time—yawn—if we catch any more, it will attract the attention of the Ministry of Magic—"

[Soul Strength: 30]

Another food delivery guy.

But it seems that he is the only one here - so it seems that this Silver Key group is not even a "group", there is only one person causing trouble.

"Rupert, these kids must have discovered something. We can't let them go." Mayor Lewis wiped the sweat from his forehead nervously. "And one of them is the child of a prosecutor's friend. He will definitely leak the secret. Can you use your... magic? Clear his memory?" Mayor Lewis pointed at Cohen.

"Oh." The bald wizard Rupert glanced at the three children perfunctorily. "Prosecutor? A Muggle?"

"I think so..." Mayor Lewis said uncertainly, "Sent by the county..."

"Where are the remaining two?"

"Where is our daddy!" Tom and Jerry asked loudly with courage.

"Shut up!" The bald wizard Rupert waved his wand, and Tom and Jerry's mouths were immediately shut. "Now I know these two children have no relatives. Those people who checked have been here, right?"

"Of course, of course!" Mayor Lewis nodded quickly. "No one has noticed what we're doing! They probably won't come back again—this is a very common disappearance case..."

“Hmm…” The bald wizard Rupert squinted and looked at Lewis.

"Or if you're willing to keep your promise..." Lewis hinted, "If I can use magic myself... you won't have to do this kind of thing yourself in the future..."

"You?" Bald Rupert looked as if he had heard some ridiculous joke. "Hahahahahahaha!!! You? You want to use magic?"

"But you promised me that if I help you, you can let me use that magical magic - to make countless money and control others..." Lewis said anxiously with his eyes wide open.

"Muggles can't learn magic," Rupert sneered. "Not in this lifetime—no, not in any number of lifetimes. A lowly creature thinking of learning magic? Don't even think about it."

"But you clearly, you..."

Lewis felt his veins flooded with anger.

"He lied to you. Isn't it obvious?" Cohen blew away the tape covering his mouth and looked at the mayor, who seemed a little slow-witted at the moment, with disdain. "He even kidnapped the residents of his own town to learn magic. Even the Dementors couldn't stand it."

"Superior anger..."

Rupert looked at the mayor with satisfaction, and with a wave of his wand, a dim silver substance emerged from Lewis' chest and floated steadily in the air.

This scene looked familiar - Cohen felt that it was a bit like the scene of extracting emotions in ancient magic. There was a similar CG in "Hogwarts Legacy" that he played in his previous life.

But this Rupert shouldn't know any ancient magic, otherwise those emotions shouldn't be bottled up, but should be absorbed directly by him.

Rupert casually produced an empty bottle and put the emotions he took from Lewis into it.

"what did you do to me……"

Lewis felt his heart was empty, as if he had run for thousands of meters without stopping, and his body was empty - nothing was left.

"Let me show you the most powerful magic." Rupert said with a smile:
"Avada Kedavra!"

A dazzling green light hit Lewis's heart, and in the second before death, his memory came back - the chaotic monster, the horned snake, and the gem on the snake's forehead.

What he saw was actually the moment of his own death.

Tom and Jerry stared blankly at Mayor Lewis who died instantly after a spell. This was too scary for the two children.

"You scared them."

Cohen strongly condemned Rupert's actions:
"At least avoid the kids when you kill someone. We're only thirteen or fourteen!"

(End of this chapter)