Hogwarts: A Chinese-Style Professor

Chapter 215 New Semester Group Meeting

Sunday afternoon.

13: 45.

Mini Garque is a first-year student at Hogwarts this year and a new first-year member of the study group.

When he arrived at the office, six of the seven seats were already filled—even though he arrived fifteen minutes early, he was still the last one.

Mini has made up his mind that he will come ten minutes earlier next week!

Apart from Ginny, a second-year student, who glanced at him and quickly lowered her head again, everyone else kept their heads down and no one looked at him.

The atmosphere inside the office was just like that of a quiet library.

Mini sat down cautiously, discreetly observing the others—at the far end of his line of sight was Weasley, the seventh-year prefect. His notebook was spread out horizontally in front of him, and he was writing something at the moment. Even on his day off, he still wore the prefect's armband on his sleeve and the prefect's badge on his chest.

Well, he looks kind of handsome—as a first-year student, being able to get so close to a seventh-year student filled Mini with a sense of pride.

Not to mention, not far away is Cedric, who is currently enjoying great popularity, and Hermione, who already ranked first in the [Basic Question Bank Leaderboard] in her third year.
Everyone had their heads down, and even in the last little time they were waiting for the professor, they were still engrossed in doing practice problems and studying, occasionally whispering to each other.

From their conversation, Mini vaguely sensed that Hermione and Cedric were discussing study materials for the OWL exam.

It's no wonder that he couldn't understand what the two top students were discussing.

Mini pursed her lips, then glanced at Ginny, her senior, beside her. She put aside her chaotic thoughts, took out her practice book, and opened the basic question bank.

Time flies when you're doing practice problems, and you get really absorbed in it.

Mini only snapped out of her daze when she suddenly heard Professor Li Wei's voice in her ear.

"Good afternoon, students. Let's begin today's group meeting—we'll start with the seventh grade."

“Yes, Professor,” Percy replied. “My recent research focuses on how to enhance the power of the Patronus Charm.”

He manipulated a thin stack of parchment to fly to Levi's front, and casually distributed copies to the other group members—even Mini, a first-year student.

"In terms of methodology, I mainly made three attempts."

Percy licked his lips as he watched Levi quickly flip through the parchment.

"The first is the influence of breathing—rhythm and force exertion on incantations."

The second is the relationship between memory clarity and spell power.

The third is the effect of the superposition of single and multiple pleasurable memories on spells.

Percy explained his thoughts in detail, and Gemma Farley and Cedric listened very attentively—after the Dementors' attack on the train at the start of the school year, they had become even more focused on the Patronus Charm.

What Percy did was exactly what they wanted to study.

As Li Wei listened, he nodded slowly, pondering Percy's ideas—the first two methods were actually quite basic—including the idea of using the Happiness Charm to enhance the power of the Patronus, which was an extension of the second method. Li Wei had also had his students write papers on this topic.

The third point is somewhat interesting.

Generally speaking, the strength of a Guardian Charm is considered to be positively correlated with three core variables:
1. The purity and intensity of the joy in recalling memories.

II. The wizard's own magical output level and control precision.

Third, the degree of concentration of the mind and the firmness of the belief in the concept of 'protection' when casting the spell.

Percy's proposal can be considered the first branch of the core variable.

For ordinary people or ordinary wizards, the only thing they can control is to desperately try to recall their happiest memories.

But that was just an ordinary wizard.

Under his tutelage, Percy has officially begun learning Occlumency and Legilimency. It is likely that during the practice, he developed a similar idea—to use Occlumency to create memory zones from happy memories and then recall those memories when needed.

A very promising research direction.

"What is your question?" Levi raised his head, his gaze shifting from the parchment to Percy.

"I wanted to ask, is my current direction the right one, Professor?"

"Hmm—this direction has considerable potential and is worth studying. You can go ahead and do it. However, I have a few questions for you."

"Yes."

"You say you want to increase the power of the Patronus Charm, but without experiments with Dementors, how do you define power in your research?"

"I broke it down into four metrics: brightness intensity, duration, anti-interference stability, and solidification degree."

According to Edgar Stog's 1897 work, *Patron Charms: Theory and Advanced Practice*, the degree to which a Patronus Charm materializes often corresponds to the extent of its restraining effect on dark forces.

Li Wei nodded and continued to ask:
"Have you actually researched or experienced the amplifying effect of the Happiness Charm on the Guardian Charm before this?"

"I've researched it—the Happy Charm can enhance the effect of the Guardian Charm, but it fluctuates more after the mood returns to normal, and its stability is not very good. I'm personally not very satisfied with it."

"Hmm—there is actually a solution, but it's a different approach."

Li Wei nodded and gave the instructions:

"Just go ahead and do it. Report your progress and ideas to me at the weekly team meetings. Any questions?"

"No."

Levi nodded, and Percy then sat down.

"next."

The group meeting ended at 4 PM.

Li Wei saw the students off, almost as if he were giving them a "get out" order.

Both Cedric and Hermione seemed to want to stay and ask him more questions.

"You seem really popular—completely different from before."

Sirius Black's figure had somehow appeared against the door, looking at Li Wei with a flippant expression, the anxiety from yesterday gone from his face.

As for what he was thinking, no one knows.

“Let’s go. We’ll go to Hogsmeade Village first, and then Apparate to Black’s Old House.”

Li Wei ignored his teasing.

Sirius didn't seem to care; instead, he got even more excited and said:

“If we’re going to Hogsmeade Village, I have a fast route that’s much faster than walking.”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Li Wei with a hint of anticipation.

"lead the way."

Li Wei put on his wizard's robes and nodded to him.

"Come on, come on—you should have experienced these things a long time ago."

Sirius Black saw that Levi had actually agreed and secretly thought to himself that the guy had really changed.

"By the way—why didn't you add Harry to your study group? My godson is so outstanding, surely he can join your group?"

"Harry is indeed quite good now, but Hermione is far more outstanding than you think."