Hogwarts: A Chinese-Style Professor

Chapter 155 Memory Theft
Professor McGonagall is serious.

He had not a single thought of joking, nor any intention of retaliating against the other party for his previous teasing.

It took Li Wei a full three seconds to confirm this.

He then realized that Professor McGonagall's perception of him was probably flawed.

This treats him entirely as a selfless educator.
"cough--!"

Li Wei coughed lightly and said with a serious expression:
"I think we should wait until the students catch up before discussing this matter."

I can't just create a separate class for one student—if that were the case, the study groups I formed would solve the problem.

"Study group?"

Professor McGonagall was like a curious child—after she learned about the study group from Levi, her expression looked a little strange.

Asking students to help collect, distribute, and grade assignments was, in her opinion, a complete dereliction of duty.

But that's what Li Wei is doing—she decided to wait and see.

However, selecting one top student from each of the seven grades to nurture seems like a good idea—in Professor McGonagall's view, it's essentially a small club.

It wouldn't take too much effort, but it would allow her to do something beneficial—perfect for her.

Professor McGonagall immediately decided to replicate Levi's approach in the new semester.

"I should have talked to you sooner—I've been really busy lately, Dumbledore. Never mind him."

Professor McGonagall, recalling Dumbledore's recent hurried comings and goings and his somewhat weary appearance, vaguely guessed that he was probably doing something extremely important, but it was inconvenient for him to reveal it.

“After talking with you, I realized what I’ve been missing all this time—I hope you can find some time to organize a professor exchange meeting in the new semester. I’ll invite professors from Hogwarts and other schools to come and exchange teaching experiences with each other. What do you think?”

Li Wei's lips twitched.

Isn't this just a meeting?

Li Wei's mind conjured up some unpleasant thoughts, but he still nodded and said:

"It's fine if it's held occasionally."

"That's great—I'll let you know the specific time once it's arranged."

Professor McGonagall seemed very satisfied.

Although she wanted to talk to Levi more, it was getting late, and seeing that Levi seemed a little absent-minded, Professor McGonagall assumed he was tired and took the initiative to end the conversation.

"That's all for today. If there's an opportunity, I hope we can have some academic exchanges during the summer vacation."

"Whether by letter or in person, it's up to you; I'm always here."

During the summer vacation, Li Wei had nowhere else to go, so he would most likely stay at Hogwarts to study magic—by then most of the students would have left, and he could experiment more recklessly.

Professor McGonagall's intuition was correct.

Li Wei's mind was indeed entirely focused on the time converter. It wasn't that he lacked the willpower to wait even a short while and was eager to begin time travel—in fact, he would never use it until he had a complete understanding of it.

He has more reverence for time than anyone else here.

He just thought of something else—like how the school gave him the time-changer under this pretext.

This led him to think about something much further ahead—the Ministry of Magic, it seemed, kept a bunch of time-twisters.

Such a terrifying thing, yet no one wants to use it, not even the Death Eaters—this undoubtedly shows that the Time-Turner is an extremely dangerous object.

However, Li Wei then remembered that part of the third-year storyline seemed to revolve around the time converter, and the main characters apparently used it to accomplish something quite significant.

This is quite intriguing.
This was exactly what Li Wei had been thinking about.

Seeing that Professor McGonagall had ended the conversation, and having already gotten what he wanted, he naturally wouldn't delay any longer.

He hurried back to his office.

Joey had already rested, but Camille was still waiting for him in the lobby—their mental battle for today hadn't even begun.

Li Wei was eager to get started researching the time converter, but then he thought there was no need to rush.

This resulted in him being somewhat unfocused during the mental battle today.

But Jia Meier put in all her energy every day, dedicating herself to those short evening hours.
In the sealed room, after three months of effort, Jia Meier finally managed to retrieve some of her travel memories from the core area of ​​Li Wei's brain for the first time.
Suddenly, an unfamiliar memory surfaced in her mind—a boy with a maturity far beyond his years, silently raising his wand and aiming it at the target he had conjured up.

He seemed a little nervous while casting the spell—Jamie noticed the fine hairs on his face trembling.

But when he chanted the incantation, his eyes were so resolute.

"All petrified!"

Jia Meier saw blue light emerge from his hand—the boy's movements were standard, and his syllables were steady and correct, but the power was not great—in fact, compared to his standard movements, the power of the spell seemed rather weak.

"Oh—you actually caught me today?"

Camille's gaze suddenly fell from the sky and landed on the professor with a calm expression in front of her—Camille was somewhat dazed—at this moment, she seemed to see that unfamiliar boy from her memories again.

So, this time I saw the professor's teenage years?
"Let's call it a day. I still have some things to do—oh dear, Camille, I'll have to be much more careful around you from now on."

Li Wei got up and left with a sigh.

More than feeling happy, Camille, recovering from the unfamiliar memories, was worried – “Professor.”

She called out to Li Wei, a worried look on her face—even if she had made considerable progress recently, how could the professor not improve in such a back-and-forth battle?
Her success was less due to her progress and more due to Li Wei's absent-mindedness today—what could have happened to cause such a fluctuation in the professor's concentration?
"Nothing's wrong—or rather, it's a good thing. Get some rest."

Levi wasn't planning to talk about the Time-Turner—not just because Professor McGonagall had seriously said that this matter shouldn't be told to anyone else.

Also, there is no need for it—even he himself is very secretive about the time converter, let alone handing it over to his assistant to test.

As for Professor McGonagall's plan to hand over the Time-Turner to her students simply to get them more classes and achieve a 12'0" grade on the OWL exam, that remains to be seen.
That's not something Li Wei needs to worry about.

(End of this chapter)