Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 90: Twelve Years Old, But Becoming a Father
And a pastry chef?!
Cohen stared at the "little Dementor" in front of him with some confusion.

In theory, Dementors do not reproduce in the same way as normal organisms - their numbers increase in a manner similar to that of fungi, growing in dark, decaying, and hopeless places.

But the author of "The Origin of Evil Life" certainly couldn't conduct an in-depth study of the Dementor group, so there might be some deviations - but the fact that a little Dementor called Cohen "Dad" is too weird no matter how you look at it...

"what?"

Cohen expressed his bewilderment at it.

【dad! 】

The link to Cohen's consciousness seemed to allow it to confirm Cohen's identity, and it immediately struggled to surge towards Cohen - Cohen saw the emotion of "happiness" in it - but Dementors should not have emotions.

Did he escape from that lab too?

It seems that this is the only possibility left.

Cohen didn't stop it from rubbing against him.

"Look at your memory?"

Cohen used the consciousness link to explore the memory of the little black cloak - it did not resist much, or rather, all the Dementors were defenseless against Cohen. This race was extremely united and friendly.

This is what the Garden of Eden looked like...

A noticeable part of the young Dementor's memories was of Burke Manor.

Cohen saw the process of its growth and some fragments of the "man in a bottle" experiment at Burke Manor.

The researchers captured a Dementor and tried many things with it, such as using the Patronus Charm to break it up and then stuffing it into liquid curses and other primitive methods (Cohen was curious about who the wizard who cast the Patronus Charm was. The Patronus looked like a bird. Could the Burkes really have a wizard who could cast a powerful Patronus).

Alchemy is often so simple and crude. Based on the logic of trying a few more times if it doesn't work the first time, maybe God was tired of stopping them, but in the end, this group of researchers actually succeeded.

The original experimental subject was broken into several pieces, most of which were stuffed into the bottle and became the basis of the "Man in the Bottle", but one piece was still scattered outside - and a new Dementor grew on a corpse in the laboratory.

and so……

This little Dementor was damn right to call Cohen "Dad". That's how Dementors reproduce.

There was something wrong with the corpse too - it was the corpse of "Korn Bock", and the little Dementor was able to have feelings, most likely because it took something away from the corpse.

As a product outside the experiment, the little Dementor was driven out by the group of researchers, while Cohen's body continued to be used as one of the experimental materials.

But if the little Dementor's "happy" emotions came from "Korn Bock", it meant that the soul of Korn's original body was once still in the body.

So after the little Dementor merged with the human soul and left, the body of "Korn Bock" should have been just an ordinary corpse. Why did he later humanely let his blood relative go?

Is it entirely due to "instinct"? If so, then the important factor that Nicolas Flamel said affected the success or failure of this experiment would not be "love".

Cohen would rather speculate that the soul of the original "Cohen" had long been torn into pieces by some kind of curse, and it was reasonable for the soul to be trapped in the body. After all, the Bock family had long planned to use him as an experimental subject and had personally planned to kill him.

The little Dementor may have taken only part of it, and the rest constituted the previous "Cohen", until Cohen traveled through time a year ago.

In any case, this little Dementor is indeed a relative of his.

[Don't...separate...]

The little Dementor clung to Cohen, rubbing against him happily.

Cohen could feel the feel of it—the soul-pleasing, the familiar, the compactness.

But it's not a big deal if it keeps pestering me...

After letting it rub against him unscrupulously for half an hour, Cohen finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Okay, okay, have you had enough? I have to go." Cohen first tried to leave it here - but it was obviously unwilling.

As long as Cohen floats a little in a certain direction, it will float a little in the same direction as Cohen.

【Follow You】

The little Dementor gave a clingy response.

【I won’t eat your delicious food】

It added after a moment's thought.

Is that because they are afraid of food snatching...

Cohen felt a little ashamed.

It's okay to carry it around, but you can't keep it in a box. Even if the Dementors don't attack animals, the Earl and Norbert might be frightened and get stressed by it.

Moreover, Dementors don't like light, but it is sunny in the box most of the time, and even if the time is set to night, there will be very bright moonlight.

"Then you get in here?"

Cohen asked it, opening the horned camel hide bag in front of it.

Cohen had moved all the things inside into the box, including the books brought out from the underground laboratory and the rune cage that once held Ali.

Originally, Cohen planned to put the box into this pocket for easy carrying, but problems soon arose. The pocket could be placed in the box for a long time without any reaction, but if the box was placed in this pocket, the traceless stretching spell inside the pocket would begin to disappear rapidly - Cohen thought this was because his camel skin bag was not shaped with bird snake feathers.

But this is no longer a worry now.

The little Dementor went in very easily and this place was now its home.

Since the pocket is very close to Cohen, it can also enjoy the feeling of rubbing against Cohen in the pocket.

I got a baby for no apparent reason, and this trip to Azkaban actually brought me an unexpected gain.

Although this cub may be useless most of the time, because Cohen himself is also a Dementor, perhaps it can only be used to attack unexpectedly when encountering an opponent with too strong a soul strength.

While waiting for nightfall, Cohen wandered around Azkaban and became almost familiar with the Dementors. The Dementors here were kind and spoke sweetly, and Cohen liked them very much.

But Cohen also saw the other side of them.

In the evening, a wizard from the Ministry of Magic came to the entrance of Azkaban using a portkey - he was here to deliver food to the prisoners.

As soon as this man appeared, he was surrounded by a group of Dementors shouting "Delicious!" - it was not until he summoned a leopard-shaped Patronus that he was not eaten by the Dementors immediately.

"This is food for the prisoners," the man said to the Dementors in disgust, and placed a large box on the ground.

【Not for eating】

The Dementors dispersed in disappointment.

When they meet people, they don't greet them like they did when they met Cohen. They just pounce on them and attack them - unless they scare them with a patronus first and then talk to them about it.

Dementors can understand human language, but most of the time they won't listen and will just pounce on it to have a feast - who would listen to a chicken begging for mercy when it's about to be slaughtered?

Their truth, goodness and beauty are only reflected in their own kind.

　Happy New Year, there's another chapter tonight

　　
　
(End of this chapter)