Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 186 The Stupid Lion, the Proud Snake, and the Wise Old Goat

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The horned water snake taught Cohen a lesson.

[We are just a parent-child relationship, you seem to have crossed the line...]

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"Huh! Huh!"

The lion's head hummed with comfort, and a pile of feces was pulled out.

[Stupid lion, he doesn't mean for you to poop now!] The horned water snake turned its head viciously and cursed at the lion's head in front.

They share the same butt. Although the snake is very close to her butt, she always keeps her body tilted up, so it won't get any dirty things stuck on it because it's too close to her butt.

"I know now—vanish without a trace."

Cohen's curiosity was satisfied, and he threw a spell over because the pile of answers blocked the door.

"Roar!" (A joyful roar)
The lion pounced on Coin and affectionately tried to lick his head off - but Coin briefly transformed into Dementor form and easily dodged the lion's embrace.

"Stop! Don't scare the child," the black goat said, and nudged the lion's head with its horns. "You'll lick his head off."

"Roar..." (whimpering sound)

"That doesn't look very smart." Cohen dodged to the side to avoid the lion-headed man's careless breath of fire on him. Cohen smelled the scent of combustible grease. "You stayed here so long just to wait for me?"

"Of course, child," replied the black goat, who looked like the gentlest and wisest of the three heads—which reminded Coin of the Runespoor. "We slept here for a while, waiting for you to grow up, waiting for you to come back—"

"So you can take us to your place—do you have a box now?" the snakehead asked. "Or is it too early? I've seen so many futures before, my memory isn't very accurate..."

"Roar!" (A roar filled with hunger and hope)
"There's a box." Cohen circled around the giant beast, examining it. "Strangely enough, you're the first magical animal in the lab who doesn't call me 'son' when you meet me..."

The old goat won't let me yell that. The snakehead said, "But I've always felt..."

"Because I know that the family affection among wizards is different from the family affection we see." The black goat said wisely, "We didn't 'raise' you, so I think we should restrain the impulse brought by our nature - even though we do feel the same way about you as our 'offspring'."

"We want a safe place to stay," the black goat continued, "to avoid any trouble that may come our way."

"What trouble? Did you commit a crime?" Cohen asked curiously.

We are fleeing from Greece to Europe, the smuggler said. We are being relentlessly pursued by some wizards—not dangerous, but annoying.

"Wizards are very strange creatures." The black goat said, "They hunt us, and if we fight back, they will send more people to hunt us - even though they know that the end result of doing so will only be their own deaths over and over again. This decision is not beneficial to either side, but it has lasted for decades and no one has given up."

"Roar..." (a dissatisfied roar)
"I think I understand what it means." Cohen pointed at the lion's head and said, "It just said that wizards are not delicious, right?"

It's really not tasty. The snakehead said, "It's tough, with little meat, and not much in quantity." "Indeed," Cohen nodded in understanding. "Wait—decades? You weren't planning on living here decades ago, were you?"

"The plan started eighty years ago," said the black goat. "We saw a wizard's manor in the snake's gem, where we could live a quiet life for a while—"

"But the prophecy is fragmentary, and we don't know where it is, so we can only search all over the world." The snakehead said, "But no matter what, it's better than being watched from afar by a group of wizards in Greece all day long. They're driving the lions crazy, and we can't eat them, but they're hanging around us all day."

"Fortunately, we finally found the manor thirteen years ago. The people there were very easy to talk to. They were willing to provide food and shelter, and helped us hide our whereabouts," said the Black Goat. "Of course, we didn't pay attention to what these wizards were doing at the time - until the basilisk named Sissoko found us. He wanted us to help him find his wife and children."

"Sisoko, I just had a wife and kids a while ago?!" Cohen's eyes widened. "When did he have a wife and kids?"

"Didn't he tell you?" the snakehead asked. "His wife and children were stolen by the wizard, so he followed the scent all the way to the manor, but he couldn't tell exactly where it was."

"So we took him to the depths of the manor, where the wizards were tinkering with strange things," Black Goat said. "That day, what they were working on exploded, and Sissoko discovered the scent of his wife and children, and the destination of those smells..."

"it is me."

Cohen didn't have to think long to guess where the people at Boke Manor had stuffed Sissoko's wife and children.

This may be the reason why Sissoko likes Cohen so much - the same feeling as Herbert, they both feel that their children are not dead yet, but have survived in another way.

After the explosion, many wizards arrived, and the lions were a little uneasy, so we fled invisibly. The snake head said, "But according to a future I saw, the child who survived the laboratory—that is, you—will give us a permanent, safe home."

"But you were still a very small cub at that time." The black goat added, "We wanted to wait until you grew up, so we hid in the home of a wizard who was related to you by blood, slept there, and waited for you to appear."

"Are you waiting here tonight because of the snake's prophecy?" Cohen looked at the gem on the horned water snake's head, but the gem did not show Cohen the future.

Yes. said the horned water snake.

"But prophecies are not always accurate and timely," said the black goat. "We have been wandering around for a month and haven't found you here. But we are lucky tonight. You are here - so..."

"Are you willing to accept us?" The Black Goat looked at Cohen with deep eyes.

"Huh?" (Confused roar)
[I... can sing a lullaby for you] The horned water snake arrogantly and reluctantly tried to exchange the right to reside with her by "singing for you every day".

"I'm past the age of listening to lullabies before bed." Cohen twitched his lips.

The black goat's eyes became lonely, the lion also lay down sadly, and the snake remained silent and coiled behind the goat's head.

It looked as if Cohen had abused them.

"Don't act like I'm abusing animals! I mean you don't have to sing for me to live here."

Cohen felt as if they had misunderstood his meaning.
"I'm not racist. I already have basilisks, fire dragons, nightmares, and unicorns, so raising a chimera won't be a big deal. But in my box, you can only eat sheep and dwarf pig monsters. You can't eat anything else."

"Roar!!!" (Excited roar)

(End of this chapter)