Hogwarts: A Chinese-Style Professor

Chapter 205 Identical Horcruxes
"Here, this is a small token of my gratitude."

Sirius Black swaggered into Levi's office and effortlessly transformed back into human form to wait.

When the person in question appeared, he casually placed the golden locket on Li Wei's desk.

"I found this Slytherin locket in my old, garbage-filled house—how about that? It's a relic of one of the four great masters. I do have some good stuff here, don't I?"

Li Wei didn't reply, but just stared blankly at the locket on the table.

A Horcrux that came to us willingly?
He reached out, but did not touch directly. A wisp of silver light swirled around his fingertips, transforming into a runic symbol that merged into the rune—but there was no reaction.

"What, you're worried about something being scammed when I give you this?"

Sirius was not very satisfied with his performance.

Li Wei ignored him and picked it up without worry.

"Click."

The lid of the locket popped open, revealing an empty box. However, three cursive letters were clearly engraved on the inside of the bottom:

RAB
“Blake”.

Li Wei spoke for the first time, his tone so calm it was suffocating.

"Let me confirm—you said this was found in your family's old house?"

"Yes."

Sirius was somewhat bewildered by Levi's overly serious attitude.

"Just yesterday, when I took Harry and Ron on an adventure, I found it in a corner. That old man Kreacher kept it like a treasure, he's so crazy."

Li Wei shook the locket at him.

"RAB, do you know who that is?"

"What kind of nonsensical abbreviation is this?"

Sirius leaned closer to look, then shook his head and said:
“I don’t recognize it—isn’t this a Slytherin locket? Perhaps it’s related to him?”

Li Wei nodded and ignored him—he had already forgotten who RAB was, and didn't even have such a person in his mind. But now that he had obtained the Horcrux, other things were relatively less important, and he could figure them out slowly when he had the chance.

"Snapped."

The next moment, Patton suddenly appeared beside him.

Levi handed the locket to Barton and said softly:

"Give this to Headmaster Dumbledore. If he's not in his office, have Fawkes inform him."

"What? You're using the things I gave you to curry favor with Dumbledore? What kind of nonsense is that?"

Levi glanced at Blake, who knew nothing about anything, and ignored him.

But the other person insisted on getting to the bottom of it, nagging and shouting incessantly in his ear.
Fortunately, he was freed not long after.

"Snapped!"

A deafening explosion, as if the air were being torn apart, resounded throughout the office.

The space seemed to be forcibly compressed, and the papers on the desk were blown away by an invisible wave of air.

With a loud bang, a pale-faced Dumbledore appeared in the office, holding Barton's hand, while Fawkes stood on his shoulder.

It appears he just used an extremely long-range phantom appearance, requiring two messengers to help him locate it.

Sirius Black stretched out his hand, looking at the scene with considerable surprise—Dumbledore had never seemed so unsteady in his memory. “Levy,” Dumbledore’s voice was more urgent than usual, “Barton said you need to see me.”

He brushed the stray hairs from his forehead and offered an explanation:

"I immediately abandoned a survey on the edge of the Arctic Circle and rushed back with the help of Fox and Patton's coordinates."

His hand emerged from the chilly wool cloak, still damp with a few specks of freshly melted snow.

"Hello, Sirius."

He shook hands with Sirius Black beside him—Sirius returned the gesture formally, but was then told to leave by Dumbledore while he was still dumbfounded—he wasn't even the owner of this office.

"I have something very important to discuss with Li Wei, and I hope you can give us some privacy."

Sirius Black: "???"

No, what does this mean?
One second Sirius felt honored – after all, Dumbledore chose to shake hands with him first, ignoring Livy standing to the side.

He thought that made sense, after all, he was a long-time member of the Order of the Phoenix, and it was only natural that Dumbledore would have more feelings for him. Merlin's underwear!
They're just using the handshake as a way to appease me; they'll kick me out the next second!

"He sent this."

Li Wei said it seemingly unintentionally.

But Dumbledore's will remained firm—Sirius shrugged, walked out gracefully—and then—quickly stuck his hand to the door.

He frowned and listened for a while, but couldn't hear anything.

This made him feel quite regretful.

Because he had realized that the Slytherin locket he gave to Levi definitely contained a very important secret!

A secret that made Dumbledore go to great lengths to rush back from the distant Arctic Circle after hearing about it...

Although Sirius didn't understand, why did Dumbledore choose such a difficult method when it was so much easier to Apparate multiple times instead of going to such extremes?
Can't he even wait a few minutes?
Or is he simply expressing his seriousness in this way?
But is this really necessary?

Sirius listened to the door for a while, but heard nothing, so he simply used his Animagus powers to leave—if he wasn't allowed to listen, he wasn't allowed to listen, it wasn't a big deal.

Let's go play with Harry!
...

Inside the classroom, Dumbledore and Levi got down to business.

"Alright, I believe you generally won't contact me unless there's a specific reason—"

Dumbledore, his face etched with undisguised weariness, looked solemnly at Li Wei.

“Principal, there’s no need for you to rush back so quickly—I’m not so anxious that I can’t even wait a few minutes.”

Li Wei took out the locket that Dumbledore had noticed long ago, confirming his suspicions.

"Congratulations, we've found another one—are there four left?"

"Yes—yes, everything is getting better."

Dumbledore nodded with delight, his emotions clearly evident.

At the same time, he buried the anxiety that arose within him even deeper—everything was just as he had imagined.

From the moment she met Li Wei, it was a calling from fate.

In just over a year since he discovered the other party, they had already found three Horcruxes—finding Voldemort's carefully hidden Horcruxes in the vast magical world was no different from finding a needle in a haystack—yet Levi just happened to discover three by sheer chance!
For a fleeting moment, Dumbledore even wondered if, if he did nothing, the remaining Horcruxes would simply appear one after another.

It was at this moment that he made up his mind to share a place with Li Wei.
“I want to take you to a place where, coincidentally—there is also a Horcrux there that is just like it.”

(End of this chapter)