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Your version adds an irrelevancy - the possible moral agency of the demon provides an out for the test subject: "It is not my fault those 5 people died; the demon did it." It is much more difficult to shift moral responsibility to the trolley.
Good point, though that still tests whether a person thinks of "moral agency" as a relevant factor in deciding what to do.