Who let this Dementor into Hogwarts!

Chapter 462 But the minister's son is different.
"Finally, we'll force Dumbledore to take action," Hermione whispered. "We'll give Dumbledore a trolley problem, just like when those Aurors summoned him fourteen years ago."

“Dumbledore would never do that,” Hagrid said firmly.

"Aren't you worried?" Hermione asked anxiously.

“I’m ready,” Cohen said in a relaxed tone. “No matter what the outcome, I have a way to deal with it—don’t look at me like I’m a dead man, I’m not talking about lying down and waiting to die.”

Cohen doesn't need to rush into anything.

Cohen has a plan for both when a fight breaks out and when no fight breaks out. The only difference is whether Cohen will establish a Dementor Empire of terror this year or a harmonious and symbiotic Dementor Empire after graduation.

It's up to people to choose for themselves.

“No wonder Dumbledore wanted to give me the prefectures,” Cohen said thoughtfully.

"To prove you're a good person?" Harry asked.

"No, it's so that I can give those students who like to call me an evil Dementor a little punishment."

Cohen smiled crookedly.
"People who are isolated (confined) will become depressed, but people who confine others will not."
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It's unclear whether Dumbledore had anticipated Crouch's intentions beforehand, which is why he granted Cohen certain privileges—but the outcome was positive.

At least Cohen was having a great time, and all the smiles on the faces of the students who stayed on campus after school were now directed towards Cohen.

This slowed down Cohen's progress toward becoming the Dark Lord.

"We must learn to be grateful."

On Monday morning, Cohen addressed Harry and Ron, saying...

“Those students earned the appreciation of the great Cohen by doing these assignments. You should thank them, and also thank me.”

“What if I don’t lend you my homework?” Hermione said. “Great Lord Cohen?”

"Then the great Lord Cohen wouldn't be able to hand in his assignments and would be dragged into Professor Binns' office for some ghostly training," Cohen said in all seriousness.

“Don’t be ridiculous, Professor Binns has no intention of taking you to his office…” Hermione corrected, glancing at the newspaper. “And what’s with this weird idea of ​​‘ghost-specific training’…”

“You’re a bit out of the loop,” Cohen said. “There’s a ghost couple in the exhibition room on the third floor who hide in a closet at night and do some really thrilling things.” “Nick told me about it; they’re really something else—”

"Tell me more details?" Harry and Ron's eyes lit up, and they urged him curiously.

“You guys…” Hermione sighed and continued reading the newspaper.

"Why are you still reading this newspaper? Are they going to fabricate some untold secret relationship between Cohen and Voldemort?" Harry was quite puzzled by Hermione's continued reading of the Daily Prophet.

“If you can tell right from wrong, you can use it to find out what the Ministry of Magic and Void are up to,” Hermione explained, “and when some key elections will be held, like the candidate for Minister of Magic, who was announced today—”

Hermione suddenly stopped talking.

“Who are the candidates?” Ron asked.

"Who are the candidates?" Harry asked, repeating himself like a broken record.

“Barty Crouch…” Hermione slowly read out the names on the list, “Rufus Scrimgeour… Pierce Sinkness… Amelia Burns…”

“I’ve never heard of anyone except Crouch and Amelia,” Harry said.

“I know Rufus Scrimgeour, I’ve heard my dad mention him,” Ron said. “He’s the head of the Auror’s office.”

“There’s one more person.” Hermione looked at Cohen. “Cohen, your father’s name is on it too—Edward Norton.” With that, Hermione held the newspaper up to Cohen’s eyes.

“It feels like nothing unexpected,” Cohen said. “It seems that the report changed his plans.”

Of course, it's also possible that Edward had no idea he was on the shortlist, and that Dumbledore might have gone to the Ministry of Magic around Christmas just to get this done.

It seems that in the trolley problem, Dumbledore chose to buy the trolley company.

“You knew all along?” Ron was stunned. “But—how did your father manage to get promoted so quickly… I mean… I thought it was hard to get promoted in the Ministry of Magic—my dad has been in the most boring department for so many years, and Percy has worked so hard but hasn’t been promoted from secretary.”

"Would everything be alright if Mr. Norton became minister?" Harry asked hopefully.

“But this is an election, you know. How is your dad going to garner votes?” Ron frowned. “Maybe I can talk to my dad and ask him to help me find some acquaintances—every little bit helps…”

“I think Mr. Norton has a very good chance,” Hermione said, her eyes lighting up.

“But he’s Cohen’s father,” Harry asked, puzzled. “Cohen is practically Voldemort’s second son.”

“That’s why I say he has a good chance,” Hermione said excitedly. “Cohen won’t work with Crouch, but he’ll definitely work with his dad, right?”

“If he bribed me with a year’s supply of chocolate cakes and three completely different sand table sets, I might consider it,” Cohen said.

“It’s charged annually,” Cohen added.

“This counts as embezzlement,” Ron said.

“If these things can be used to bribe people, I think the other candidates would be more than happy to do so.” Hermione chuckled. “Mr. Crouch probably never expected that after all this planning, he would be outmaneuvered by Cohen’s father.”

"And if you pay attention to the newspapers these past two days, you'll notice something."

Hermione continued, then spread the newspaper out on the table, even accidentally spilling her pumpkin juice in the process.

"There has been absolutely no news about Cohen these past two days."

Not only in the newspapers, but all day Monday, Cohen didn't catch a single student spreading the rumor that "Cohen is an evil dark wizard."

They also received a bunch of "apology" gifts.

During the Transfiguration class, Dean secretly slipped Cohen a small package with a note attached.

Seamus asked me to give this to you, saying it's an apology to you and Harry.

“Looks like their parents reminded them to get on your good side,” Hermione said.

“They’re not afraid at all that my dad won’t be chosen in the end, are they?” Cohen said.

“If we don’t get elected, we’ll try another way. Anyway, the students won’t offend the other candidates at school,” Hermione whispered. “Crouch’s son is dead, and Pierce and Scrimgeour don’t have any children in school.”

“It sounds like Cohen is about to be overwhelmed with gifts,” Harry chuckled.

"It sounds like you'll be getting extra homework soon, Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley."

Professor McGonagall had somehow arrived in their row, and with a slight smile, she spoke to Harry and Ron.

"The other students have already finished their transformations, but I noticed that your plush puppies are still made of cotton and yarn."

(End of this chapter)