Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 227 A Crying Family

Returning home with his new owl, Cohen was pleased to see that the Earl had not yet returned - indeed, not so soon, as it would at least have to fly back and forth between the Scottish Highlands and Surrey, where Privet Drive was located.

Rose and Martha had no objection to Cohen getting another owl, and Martha was surprised when she learned that this was the "wife" prepared for the count.

"Can Grandma raise a few little owls when they're born?" Martha said cheerfully. "Your grandpa used to love reading books about magical beasts..."

"Ah good."

Cohen agreed, saying it was hard to say whether his grandfather read the book because he "liked Fantastic Beasts" or simply to find out the origin of the mysterious monster in the basement.

At dinner, Dobby brought out several plates of various grilled fish with soup, all of which were made under Martha's "guidance" - of course, Dobby also knew how to make grilled fish, and this was just to make Martha feel a sense of participation, so that she wouldn't have to grill the fish herself and turn it into "charred fish bones."

"Be careful of the spines." Rose reminded Cohen while eating fish.

After finishing a whole conger eel, Cohen patted his belly with satisfaction.

The few haddock left over from dinner were given to the three cats in the house. Mr. Frando very gentlemanly let the two kittens eat first. Cohen was sure that if it were the count, he would definitely choose to eat first.

Back in his room, Cohen covered the Countess's cage with a bright red square cloth - it looked like an oriental bride waiting to be married.

"I'm back!"

Not long after, the Count flew in hurriedly from the window.
"Gift, gift! Where is the gift!"

It looked around Cohen's room and saw the strange new object covered with red cloth that looked like a birdcage.

Birdcage...Mysterious Gift...Christmas...

If this had been prepared by anyone else, the Count would have had no hesitation in assuming it was a female owl.

But if Cohen prepared it...

"You didn't just buy me a new cage, did you?" The Count cautiously lowered his expectations.

"Do you think I'm that evil?" Cohen said bitterly. "I won't buy you a cage—you won't be in one once a year."

"That is..." said the Count, his eyes shining.

"Dang, dang, dang!" Cohen pulled back the cloth. "This is the wife I prepared for you!"

"Cuckoo-"

The colorful owl hooted when it saw the Count.

"What? Are you so surprised that you can't speak?" Cohen asked the stunned earl.

“…” The Count was silent.

Something seems wrong...

Cohen narrowed his eyes—

"It is the son of my friend," said the Count dryly.

"You're already old enough, it's okay to be a little messy," Cohen comforted.

"I hatched it," the Count added reluctantly.

“That’s a very fulfilling life.”

Cohen was about to get into the box with a pile of gifts for the "relatives" in it.

"Come on, I've paid for it, I hope you can beat the bottom line soon--"

"Ahhhh!!!!!!"

The count uttered an indescribable scream of annoyance, grief, sorrow, misery, and sorrow.

But Cohen could no longer hear him, for he had already crawled into the box with his gift and taken the other half of the box with him.

"Gather, gather!" Cohen gathered all the "parents" and other magical animals together.

Although it was winter, the three basilisks did not hibernate. Instead, Norbert, who least needed to hibernate, was sleeping soundly in the cave.

[I told you he would prepare Christmas presents for us] Sissoko said proudly, [Good job!]

"Get down," Cohen said grumpily. "Do you always have to say such a short word in this weird, long tone? (son)"

【Dad!】The little basilisk said happily.

[Can you give it to me privately?] The old basilisk hid behind Sissoko and the young basilisk and whispered to Cohen.

"I smell the pages of a book," said the Black Goat.

“I don’t smell any vodka,” Yali said disappointedly.

"Roar!!!" The lion roared excitedly because it saw a round package.

The unicorns gathered around and whispered to each other. They didn't know what the Christmas presents were.

"I've prepared Christmas presents for you all. I asked about it last time," Cohen said. "Come one by one..."

"Sissoko, this is yours." Cohen threw the soft package to Sissoko, who then caught it with his tail.

"And Sofia's..." Cohen tossed the insulated box containing a large piece of cumin barbecue to the little basilisk.

But the little basilisk swallowed it in one gulp.

[Hey hey hey——this thing is not for you to swallow in one gulp——]

Sissoko didn't have time to open his present. He dropped it and immediately grabbed the snake monster's tail, swinging it backwards.

[Why are you swallowing everything? Spit it out! Spit it out!]

Every time Sissoko hissed, the little basilisk would be thrown violently.

Not until the box of barbecue was spit out by the dizzy little basilisk with great difficulty did Sissoko breathe a sigh of relief and began to teach it step by step how to use its tail and teeth to unpack.

"And then there's the old basilisk's love—"

[Just give it to me directly...] The old basilisk quickly interrupted Cohen's explosive remarks, quickly took the strangely shaped package from Cohen's hand, and hid it under its tail guiltily.

"And then there's the lion's ball of yarn..."

The impatient lion bit the spherical package, and without even opening it, it began to roll the ball on the ground with its two front legs.

There's nothing felines can resist.

"And Goat's The Republic...does it need a reading stand or something?" Cohen asked.

"Don't bother...Don't bother..."

The black goat said politely, and the book suddenly took off from Cohen's hand, slowly floated in front of the goat's head, and then rested on the back of the lion's head.

"Horned Water Snake rabbits... I brought a litter with me, and we can keep them here later." Cohen helped unpack a large cage filled with a bunch of little rabbits with white or gray fur.

Norbert wouldn't eat something so small, so the only thing that could threaten the rabbit's reproduction might be the little basilisk.

As soon as the rabbits came out of the cage, they were frightened to death by the ferocious monsters surrounding them.

"It's not a big problem... they should wake up..." Cohen forgot about this - he had to use a levitation spell to transport all the rabbits to the sheep pen, where they might be relatively safer (for the rabbits).

"Then there are the unicorns and Aly." Cohen opened a packet of tree seeds - originally, saplings were needed to plant trees, but with the magic of the unicorns, even seeds would quickly grow into fruit trees.

"Some fruit trees can be planted in the open space in the north, oranges, peaches, and so on..." Cohen said, "I also brought some drinks for Ali."

"Vodka!" Yali demanded.

"Drink the juice, and wait until your blood alcohol content is below 20% before drinking the vodka." Cohen said seriously, "Your blood is already almost half the alcohol content of vodka! If you weren't a normal animal, you would have died long ago-"

(End of this chapter)