Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 251 We must first assume that no one has violated any laws or regulations.

"Um-"

Sirius, who was still tied up, looked at the children and realized that they had no idea he was still bound. He let out a few muffled thuds in frustration.

"Sirius!" Harry slapped his forehead and quickly untied Sirius's ropes.

"You really are..." Sirius hesitated, then stopped himself from speaking, "Sigh..."

“So the voice I just heard was Voldemort’s…” Harry asked Cohen.

“Yes, that old pervert loves spying on you every day.” Cohen nodded. “It’s a good thing he’s a wizard, otherwise he’d probably be chemically castrated by Muggles—”

"What's in this bag?" Ron leaned over to where the small cloth bag had fallen from Peter's hand and carefully picked it up.

“Port key,” Cohen said. “Voldemort wanted to kidnap Harry and then resurrect himself using Harry’s blood. Voldemort made Peter do all of this.”

"Hiss..." Ron gasped.

"Then why did you stop me from knocking out that traitor?" Sirius asked Cohen angrily.

"Because I was also one of Voldemort's men!" Cohen said matter-of-factly. "Who would betray their boss like that?"

How could you become his lackey—

"Don't point fingers at me, you dog!" Cohen said viciously. "How can I control the situation if I don't build a good relationship with Voldemort? Wait for Voldemort to ambush Harry and then resurrect to continue wreaking havoc on the wizarding world? Did the Dementors suck your brains out in those twelve years? If you keep bastarding, I'm not saving you!"

"Alright, alright..." Harry quickly stepped between Sirius and Korn, "Sirius, just be a little more mature—"

"Are you helping him or me? James—" Sirius shouted at Harry without thinking, but by the time he realized what was happening, it was too late.

……

The group remained silent for a few seconds, but they were about to begin searching for a way out.

It's daytime now. They have five conscious people and two unconscious ones. The best outcome now is to get Sirius and Peter to Dumbledore without anyone noticing. Once Dumbledore takes over, everything will be fine.

“But we only have one Invisibility Cloak…” Harry said, “and Cohen didn’t bring a trunk…”

“How about we leave Snape here?” Ron suggested. “Let Sirius wear your Invisibility Cloak and take Peter with him, then the four of us can go back to the castle as usual…”

“Harry shouldn’t be out here, Ron,” Hermione said. “We can’t get Harry back to Hogwarts from Hogsmeade by the proper route…”

"This leads directly to the Willow of Hogwarts," Sirius Black suddenly said. "We don't need to go through the path to Hogsmeade."

"Huh? Fred and George said that the road no one had ever traveled on the map led here?" Harry exclaimed in surprise.

"Huh?" Ron said, distressed. "Neither of them ever told me where the secret passage was!"
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Although they ultimately decided to leave Snape here, they at least put a protective charm on him in case anything happened to him.

They draped the Invisibility Cloak over Sirius Black, who was dragging Peter along, and followed the secret passage of the Screaming Shack all the way to the roots of the Whomping Willow.

“You could have told us sooner,” Harry said to Cohen. “That way Hermione wouldn’t have misunderstood you—she was just worried about our safety…”

“If you had told me earlier, where would I have found the climax of the plot?” Cohen sighed. “You know, I’m going to write an autobiography to make money later—nobody wants to read an autobiography that’s uneventful—but you guys are being a bit too uncooperative. The atmosphere was built up to that point, and no one except Hermione laid a hand on me.”

“Can I finish it now?” Ron asked. “That way I can brag to Fred and the others that I beat up a Dementor—”

“Just do it?” Cohen raised an eyebrow. “We’re here.”

Sirius stopped, climbed the stairs leading to the ground, and pushed open a hidden trapdoor. He skillfully found the knot that could freeze the Whomping Willow in place, allowing them to safely leave the dangerous tree's attack range.

"Didn't you go to Hogsmeade?"

As Hagrid was tending his vegetable garden, he saw Cohen and his men hurrying toward the castle.

“Hagrid, we’ll talk later—” Harry said goodbye to Hagrid in a hurry, “We have something important to discuss with Professor Dumbledore.”

“Oh…” Hagrid didn’t press further when he heard it was about Dumbledore. “But Professor Dumbledore might be quite busy today… though of course, it’s also possible he just doesn’t go to Hogsmeade much for leisure…”

With Cohen by his side, even though the Dementors outside the school discovered Sirius's presence, they didn't cross the school's boundaries to rush in and capture him.

Harry's heart was pounding so loudly it was frightening; Cohen felt he could hear it clearly even if he were walking right next to him.

“Think about something else,” Cohen said. “It feels like your heart might explode from excitement before you even get to the eighth floor…”

“But I’m still so excited…” Harry’s hands, gripping the stair railing, were trembling. “I can finally get rid of the Dursleys—I can move to a new house next summer—a real new house—Sirius said he can let me stay at his house…”

Sirius, hidden under the Invisibility Cloak, reached out and patted Harry on the shoulder reassuringly.

"Watch out!" Hermione whispered, quickly reaching out to pull down Sirius's Invisibility Cloak, which had revealed his calves due to his large movements.

Even on weekends at Hogsmeade, many students wander around the school, and it would be troublesome if Sirius were seen.

Finally, they arrived at the principal's office.

The password is—

“Correct.” Before Cohen could even say what the command was, the stone beast jumped aside as if in a hurry.

"Dumbledore's password is 'What is the password?'" Ron asked curiously.

"The password might also be 'Cohen'," Cohen quipped.

As they climbed the spiral staircase, the group crowded at the doorway of Dumbledore's office.

Dumbledore's voice rang out before they even knocked.

"Please come in."

creak-

The door opened, and Dumbledore, dressed in a grey robe, sat behind his desk with his arms crossed, calmly watching the four students and two people hidden under the Invisibility Cloak pour in.

“Professor—we need your help with something—” Harry was about to explain the whole thing, but then he remembered—contacting the fugitive, sneaking out of the castle, attacking the professor…it seemed like they hadn’t done many things that followed the school rules along the way.

Should I really openly confess all the illegal and disorderly things I've done to the principal...?

"First, we need to assume that no one here is breaking the law or violating regulations."

Dumbledore blinked.
“Then you can tell me all of this exactly as it happened—I’m always easy to talk to. So… Sirius, you can take off that invisibility cloak now. If I were going to be so ruthless as to arrest you, you’d be in the Ministry of Magic’s interrogation room right now.”

(End of this chapter)