Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 204: Bogut, with a strong desire to survive, finally found "what Cohen feared"

After Potions class on Thursday morning, Coin tossed the packaged tracking potion to Ron.

"I asked the Count to buy it in Diagon Alley, and the shop owner said this flavor is more suitable for mice." Cohen said.

They were rushing to their next class, their first Defense Against the Dark Arts class of the term.

"Thank you so much!" Ron said gratefully. "How much is it—"

Ron was about to ask the price, but when he thought of Cohen's spending standards, he changed his mind.

"Or you can tell me how many years I need to save my pocket money to be able to afford it..."

"Emmmm..." Cohen recalled the production process, the value of the Chimaera materials, and the special guidance from the black goat. "Your monthly allowance for summer vacation is five Sickles, which is only ten Sickles a year... That means... forever... forever... forever and ever..."

"That's enough," Ron said sadly.

"Hey, do you know?" Seamus Finnigan waved the newspaper and approached Coin and others and asked, "Sirius Black was seen -"

"Where?" Harry asked curiously.

"It's not far from here, in a Muggle village—of course, the Muggle thought he was just a common criminal, so he called the hotline. By the time the Ministry of Magic arrived, he was long gone," Seamus said. "The Daily Prophet was pretty quick, reporting what happened yesterday evening this morning."

"News is always about time," Cohen said.

"Not too far from here..." Ron looked at Harry meaningfully.

They had discussed it on the train – Sirius was here to kill Harry.

When they arrived at the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, they found that Lupin was not in the classroom, so they just took out their textbooks, paper and pen and chatted about the fugitive and lunch.

"Good afternoon." Lupin returned to the classroom just as class was about to start. "Please put your textbooks back into your bags. Today's class is a practical one, so you only need your wands."

"Practical class?" Ron was still thinking about the elves from last semester.

"If Lockhart were still the professor now, would he hire a Dementor as a teaching aid?" Cohen was imagining a funny scene - no, in that case, the Dementor would take the initiative to help Cohen open the lids of all the "soda" in the class.

Lupin led them through the corridor and encountered Peeves who was running past at high speed on the way, but Peeves walked away cursing after discovering that Coin was among the crowd.

They made their way to the door of the staffroom, a long room filled with old chairs. It looked like most professors wouldn't stay here for long.

"Okay, come over here and line up." Lupin gestured for the students to go to the inside of the room, where there was an old wardrobe, usually used to store robes.

And the robes don't rattle in the closet.

"Ah!" Parvati cried out in fear.

"Don't worry," said Lupin. "There's a Boggart in there."

"A what?" Harry asked Cohen, who was standing in front of him, in confusion.

"It's a shapeshifter that can transform into whatever it thinks will scare us the most." Cohen turned around and whispered to Harry, "But I wouldn't keep such a thing in a box. It would be dismembered and eaten by Norbert and the others."

"Evil..." Harry felt a little uncomfortable with such a bloody statement.

"Actually, I'm quite curious about what I'm afraid of..." Cohen said.

What was he afraid of? A guardian angel?

It would be too much for a Boggart to transform into various patronuses - and considering that he could block mental probing, it was very likely that a Boggart would do so.

Because Cohen's ingredient list mostly consists of Dementors, many magical creatures can identify them.

By then, Hermione and the others would soon discover that he was a Dementor - Cohen was not sure whether they would accept this.

After all, basilisks, chimeras and the like are animals with physical form, while Dementors are pure negative emotions - no one likes Dementors, except for those whose XP is so strange that they don't even let the black cloaks go.

Cohen intended to leave a gap for the Boggart's mental observation so that it could successfully transform. He must be afraid of something else. The Patronus would only hurt him at most, not to the extent of "fear"...

Soon, the practice began.

The first to bear the brunt was Neville, who became the first warrior to face the Boggart.

"Laughter can kill a Boggart completely. If Neville succeeds, the Boggart will turn its attention to each of us in turn." Lupin said, "I want everyone to think about what you fear most and then imagine how to make it funny..."

After counting down to three, Lupin opened the wardrobe door.

Not surprisingly, the first person the Boggart took was Professor Snape.

"Slip-slip--ridiculous!" squeaked Neville.

Snapped!
"Snape" put on a lace long dress and a huge tall hat with a stuffed vulture on it.

Few people can see this scene without laughing out loud, just like suddenly seeing the usually serious bald head teacher wearing pink and tender women's clothing.

"Parvati, go!" Lupin shouted.

What Parvati feared was a bloodstained mummy.

"Funny!"

The mummy was falling apart all over.

"Seamus!"

Next is a scary female ghost.

……

After Ron's spider started sliding on the floor, it was Cohen's turn.

Lupin was also curious about what Coin was afraid of - he stared at the Boggart's appearance.

The giant spider collapsed to the ground, its many black eyes staring at Cohen, as if trying to find fear in Cohen.

Its body was gradually turning white and transparent - it was obvious that it really wanted to transform into a patronus to scare away the "Dementor" in front of it, just as Cohen had expected.

Cohen left some room in his thoughts so that the Boggart, with its strong desire to survive, could find something even more "terrifying to Cohen."

However, when the Bogut spied on Cohen's "fear," Cohen also saw the image it was locking onto.

It was not appropriate to display it in this classroom, nor was it appropriate for Lupin to see it - because Lupin would definitely tell Dumbledore.

So Cohen changed the "fear" he revealed to Bogut to "anxiety", making Bogut look different.

Snapped!
It became a Dementor—but more than a Dementor, its hand grasped a person...

It's Harry!
【Would you like to eat some of this? 】

The Boggart even mimicked the Dementors' telepathic communication.

[You are really a genius] Cohen replied, with a twitch of his mouth.

"Me?" Harry looked in surprise at his unconscious self caught by the Dementors.

Is this what Cohen is afraid of?
Harry was a little touched.

Lupin looked at Cohen with a complicated look. It seemed that his first impression of Cohen had to be completely overturned and rewritten - Cohen really cared about his friends, which made Lupin see the shadows of his friends.

Cohen himself was indeed worried about this, fearing that the Dementors would find some key people when they were looking for lunch for him - such as Harry, and then Dumbledore would come to angrily to question him.

(End of this chapter)