Hogwarts: A Chinese-Style Professor

Chapter 260: He Should Be Given Some Care

Inside the closed training room, Sirius's heavy breathing sounded like a bellows.

Only ten minutes had passed since he and Li Wei began their fight.

In ten minutes, he was disarmed twice by Li Wei and forced to use Animagus transformation jumps several times. Throughout the entire process, he only managed one ineffective counterattack.

His spell flew in front of Li Wei, but the other simply tapped it with his wand and neutralized it. No one knew how he did it.

Sirius's mind was buzzing. He felt like a circus lion dodging Levi's whip during every training session. Every time Levi waved his wand, he had to 'dance'.

"That's all for today's training."

Li Wei put away his wand, looked at the panting Sirius, and was about to turn away to give himself some time to recover.

"Wait—wait—"

Sirius swallowed hard, placed his hands on his knees, and asked Li Wei with difficulty:

"Who is this student named Seamus Finnigan? How come he's even more capable than Harry?"

If we're talking about who cares most about the leaderboard, it's probably Sirius Black, the Duel Tower administrator and Harry's godfather.

He spends every day intensely watching the leaderboards to see who the top students are in each grade, as well as Harry's real-time ranking.

The result also surprised him greatly.

His godson was only second in the third year, with Hermione and Malfoy close behind, and the first-place boy, Seamus, was far ahead of the other three.

The starting score for third grade is 15 points, placing them in the new student stage.

After two weeks of relentless hard work, they have raised their scores to over 140 points, entering the apprentice level with scores in the 101-200 range.

But that Simo had already pulled the score up to 300 points, almost double that of everyone else.

Sirius had seen his duels—that kid's fighting style was simple and brutal, without any fancy moves, just a barrage of thunderous explosions, followed by a continuous barrage of thunderous explosions.

The students felt as if they were facing Li Wei in front of him. At first, they could use spells to defend themselves, but they were quickly overwhelmed by the continuous barrage of spells and could only flee in panic and be defeated.

Sirius Black couldn't understand how Levi could have taught such a student, whose fighting style was completely different from that of other students who skillfully used spells and sought opportunities.
"What's his background? Isn't it normal for a student to have a unique understanding of explosions?"

"This is not normal at all!"

Sirius took a deep breath; Levi's nonchalant attitude had successfully gotten him impatient!

"That's Harry, my godson, and he gets extra help from your teaching assistant every morning!"

I've seen all his hard work; there's absolutely no student more diligent than him.

Even so.

Sirius paused, and seeing that Li Wei still looked at him with an 'indifferent' attitude, frowned and continued:

"It would be one thing if two students were on par with Harry—but Fineggan's record is just too outrageous. You should know what I mean."

"Of course I understand what you mean."

Li Wei's words relieved Sirius.

But the next moment, his chest felt tight again.

"You just think it's unreasonable that Harry didn't get first place in his third year, right?"

"Okay, it's not entirely accurate, but you can think of it that way." Although it wasn't good to think of his benefactor this way, Sirius was gradually finding that talking to Levi could sometimes be truly infuriating.
If Snape had heard his heartfelt words, the two would probably have resonated with each other.

“You’re too impatient—you’re so eager for Harry to win that you’re blinded by the short-term gap.”

"You mean Harry will still win in the end?"

Sirius became happy again—not because he lacked confidence in Harry, but because seeing Seamus's relentless attacks, he didn't know how a young wizard at this stage could stop him.

Perhaps a fifth-grade student could?

But Harry and his friends couldn't possibly be a match for fifth-graders, so in the end they still couldn't beat them in points.
“I didn’t say that—in my opinion, Hermione and Harry both have a chance, and as for Malfoy, it depends on how fast he progresses.”

"Hermione?"

Sirius frowned and thought for a moment, then quickly relaxed.

He knew the girl well; her learning ability was undeniable, but she seemed somewhat timid. While not exactly cowardly, she lacked decisiveness in casting spells, often hesitating and pausing for no apparent reason. She wouldn't be a match for Harry.

"And what about this Finigan? Is his excellence just a facade?"

"Of course not—it's just that a single type of magic cannot handle complex situations."

His relentless, bombarding style of attack would likely put even seasoned wizards at a disadvantage elsewhere, especially against wizards unfamiliar with him.

But this is a points-based system, so students will have plenty of opportunities to learn and adapt to his playing style.

As long as they aren't completely obsessed with sedge, as Snape suggested, Seamus's advantage will be countered after a few weeks.

In addition, the reason his score appears high is because his playing style ends the game quickly and is more efficient at scoring.
Once you understand these factors, you'll know that his behavior is normal.

"Oh—now that you mention it, it's true!"

Sirius tapped his fists together, realizing the truth.

Li Wei glanced at Sirius Black, then turned and left.

There was one more thing he didn't say.

Hermione had his study group to help her, Malfoy received private instruction under his experiment, and Harry made rapid progress under Jowell's guidance.

Only Simo received no special treatment from him.

Even though he had specifically reminded Simo during class to pay attention to the fundamentals and the stability of the spells—he must have taken it to heart, otherwise the spell wouldn't have achieved the current effect.

However, during the Duel Club's assessment, he still caused an incident that could be described as either an accident or a normal performance, resulting in him failing to even enter the Duel Club.

This is indeed a bit strange.

The Duel Tower has been open for three weeks, but the third-year student who is far ahead of the others is not in the Duel Club.

Not only Sirius Black, but also the students and professors were quite shocked by the result.

If Professor Flitwick hadn't mentioned it to Levi, he wouldn't have realized that everyone was paying attention to this dueling ranking.

All I can say is that there's something about Ximo that's hard to understand.

Therefore, Li Wei decided to spend more time and effort on him.

After all, everyone else has other channels to receive preferential treatment, but this dark horse who temporarily took first place through his own ability doesn't, which is a bit unreasonable.

(End of this chapter)