Hogwarts: A Chinese-Style Professor

Chapter 307 Joe Verri's Research
Snape and Dumbledore eventually agreed with Levi's idea—they really didn't have a better choice in this matter.

Moreover, they were willing to believe in Livy—just as everyone in the castle believed in him.

With two legends in charge and him as an inside man, even if things go wrong, how bad can it get?
Was Voldemort really that omnipotent?
In fact, he clearly overestimated his influence—for so many years after his death, no one has tried to find him and resurrect him, even though those people know that Voldemort is not completely dead.

He and Dumbledore were influenced by fear.
Nevertheless, Snape still looked worried when he left the office—he would occasionally glance at Levi beside him out of the corner of his eye, and even if he couldn't see clearly, he knew that Levi was so relaxed that it made him grit his teeth.

"What—are you that afraid of Voldemort?" Li Wei clearly noticed Snape's little action, smiled faintly, but his aggression was stronger than ever before.

"If you're so afraid of him, you might as well just kneel down before him."

"you--!"

Snape's facial muscles twitched violently as a surge of anger welled up inside him!

But he had already tolerated what had happened before, so how could he possibly explode at Li Wei now?
"I'll find a way to reply. By the way, while we're in the castle, let's minimize our public contact."

Snape paused almost imperceptibly as he spoke.

“There are foreign house-elves roaming around the castle. I guess they were sent by the purebloods. If they are seen, it might affect their trust in me.”

Li Liwei raised his eyebrows, nodded slightly, and said "okay".

The two parted ways in the lobby on the first floor. Snape went to his cellar, while Levi returned to his sunlit place. Before entering the underground, Snape couldn't help but turn around, but only saw Levi's back as he walked away without looking back.

Does this guy really have no fear of Voldemort at all? He was the first one to choose to hide.

Snape shook his head, dispelling the doubts and lingering unease in his heart.

Only after entering the cellar and returning to his office did he slump against the door, breathing heavily.
Meanwhile, Li Wei returned to his office with a calm expression, only to encounter Qiao Weili sitting in the living room.

"professor--"

Upon seeing Li Wei, he immediately stood up and looked at Li Wei.

"What's wrong?" Li Wei could tell from his expression that the other person was waiting for him.

Jowell said with a solemn expression:

"Professor, I have made some preliminary research progress on memory magic—so I would like to ask you to help me test it."

"Great! I'm really looking forward to it."

Li Wei became interested.

Since December of the year before last, after his conversation with Dumbledore and understanding the power of 'love', he began to pay more attention to his own feelings and changed the direction of his training for his two assistants.

Instead of him providing the 'perfectly correct' path, he allowed his two assistants to freely explore their own directions.

Camille's foundation in high-level magic still needs improvement, while Jovel is six years older than her and is Li Wei's first disciple. Whether in terms of status, talent, or opportunity, he is superior.

Back when he first arrived at Hogwarts, Jowell had already reached more than 80% of the level that Levi had once achieved.

Therefore, Li Wei was quite curious about how much progress Qiao Weili could achieve with his intermittent research over the past year.

In the past, he trained these disciples in order to learn from different ideas and enrich his understanding of magic.

However, after entering the legendary realm, he no longer cared about this matter. Apart from his disciples occasionally writing to him to discuss their recent research directions and difficulties, Li Wei did not push them to do anything else.

"Let's change rooms."

Li Wei took off his coat and went with Qiao Weili to the training ground inside the office.

"I remember your research topic was about improving the emotional anchoring mechanism of the Guardian Charm by starting with the storage and retrieval mechanisms of memories, right?"

The two sat facing each other on the sofa that had appeared out of nowhere. Li Wei was reclining on the sofa, while Qiao Weili sat upright and replied:
"Yes—but I actually finished that project a long time ago."

"Really? Did you tell me about your future research direction? Have I forgotten—"

"No—I saw that you were too busy, Professor, so I didn't want to bother you—and I thought this was a good opportunity."

In the past, I have always conducted my research in the field of magic under the guidance and advice you provided. This is one of the few times I have independently advanced such a difficult area of ​​magic.
To be honest, I didn't have high hopes for the success of developing this magic—which is one of the reasons I didn't tell you.

"Hmm—very good."

Li Wei listened to Qiao Weili's explanation and nodded in satisfaction.

This student truly never gives him any trouble.

"I can't wait to see your results—so what's next? Do you have any integrative papers?"

"some."

Joey nodded quickly, placed a stack of bound parchment in front of Levi, and stood up to explain:

"Actually, I'm quite interested in the curse phenomenon surrounding Camille—"

Although Joe said it very naturally, Li Wei still raised an eyebrow and glanced at him.
"Professor, you also said that we can study the curse on her together, which is one of our possible research topics, right?"

"Hmm—you can continue." Li Wei lowered his head and quickly flipped through the pages.

Joey secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued:
"It is known that the curse on Camille strips away emotional connections, not memories themselves."

Her memory bank was complete, like a finely bound book, but no matter how beautiful the illustrations, reading it evoked no emotional experience—joy, sadness, longing, pain—all were stripped away into emotionless, descriptive text.

Once he got into rhythm, his gaze became clear and firm:
"So I thought, if we can't break the curse from the outside, is it possible to rebuild the connection from the inside?"
To give a blunt example:
We can try to stimulate her brain by forcibly using a happiness spell to make her experience pleasure when she recalls happy emotions.

However, this method is very likely to distort the authenticity of memories, making the already troublesome curse even more unpredictable.

So, I thought of another method:
"It's not about forcibly injecting emotions, but about using a magic that meets functional needs to help the subject rediscover those emotions that were cursed and isolated."

Li Wei leaned forward slightly and asked:
"You mean, you think the reason Camille can't feel these things is because her emotional connection is cursed and severed?"

"Yes—and from my observation, she isn't completely unaffected by all the memories. Especially when it comes to her emotional experiences with you, Professor, I feel that Camille is remarkably quick to process them."

I'll make a bold assumption here—perhaps her emotional experience with you wasn't completely isolated.

This also suggests—perhaps the degree to which this curse isolates emotions varies—that the memories that left a deep impression on Camille might not have caused her to completely lose her senses.

"She actually told you all this? This is the first time I've ever heard of such a thing."

Li Wei nodded thoughtfully.

"So during this time, you were actually trying to create a memory magic that would meet your needs?"

"Yes, I'll call it Mind Resonance for now."

The basis of this magic is Legilimency, and I have done research on this point, trying to eradicate the discomfort that comes with mind intrusion.

At the same time, by actively opening up the mind and thoughts, and using happy and comfortable emotions as an emotional trigger, the cursed person can be helped to completely relax and re-experience those associated memories in a relaxed and focused state.

"This also involves some of the principles of the Oblivion Curse."

However, the memory modification of the traditional forgetting spell affects the memory content itself.

"It is brutal, irreversible, and can easily cause cognitive impairment."

While mental resonance does not access the cursed person's memories, it merely establishes a relatively synchronized emotional frequency between the caster and the cursed person.
Well, to put it simply, it's like I'm sharing my emotional experiences with Jia Meier, and if she has similar emotional experiences in her memory, then it's very likely that a resonance will occur.
Based on the reasoning, under such circumstances, she should be able to normally feel the emotions brought about by the memories.

Moreover, because everything is concentrated on the mental level, perception is amplified, and the effect far exceeds her memories under normal circumstances.

As Li Wei listened to Qiao Weili's ideas, he turned to the last page of his paper and couldn't help but clap his hands in satisfaction.

"A perfectly sound idea—theoretically speaking, I can't find any fault with it."

However, your magic has a serious safety hazard; it can only be used on people who have absolute trust in each other or who have completely lost their ability to think.

Otherwise, the other party could easily steal a large amount of your memories with just a thought.

If someone harbors malicious intent and uses dark magic to curse your soul, you will have absolutely no chance to resist.

“Yes.” Joey nodded, pursing his lips, and humbly accepted.

It seems that he had anticipated this potential problem from the very beginning and had already made preparations accordingly.
Ultimately, wasn't this magic completely tailor-made for Camille?

"I am truly ashamed—as the master, I have been unable to find the time to investigate Jia Meier's matter, but it was you, the senior brother, who found the solution."

“Professor—it’s all the same,” George said softly. “Besides, Professor, you also have your own things to do—each of us can only complete our own research projects. As for what happens to others, that’s up to them to decide, isn’t it?”

"I'll take your word for it."

Li Wei nodded, not dwelling on the matter—once he had mastered all the dark magic and prepared his teaching materials, he did intend to make time to investigate the problems with Camille.

However, he did lack the corresponding inspiration before that—in this matter, Joe Verri did a much better job than him.

However, a disciple need not be inferior to his teacher, nor a teacher necessarily more virtuous than his disciple. Li Wei had no psychological burden about the fact that he would eventually be surpassed by those who came after him.

Not to mention, this is just one branch of the vast magic. Levi suddenly thought of a future scenario.

One day, magic will reach a level that an ordinary wizard could never fully explore in his lifetime—different spells, based on their function and direction, will branch out into countless sub-branches like tree branches.

In time, there will likely be more and more top-notch wizards in their respective fields—this is probably an inevitable law of development, isn't it?
To take a recent example, alchemy is a field where even Dumbledore, who discovered fourteen uses for dragon blood, could not reach its pinnacle, except for Nicolas Flamel who successfully created the Philosopher's Stone.

In the future, there will surely be many more vast fields like this—alchemy is one, ancient magic script is another, and perhaps I should leave behind an entire branch of my own path in the future.

What exactly do we do?

Li Wei kept this in mind, his thoughts racing—"You probably haven't actually used this magic before, have you?"

He looked at Jowell, preparing to deal with the immediate matter first—as for the others, he could deal with them later after Voldemort was dealt with.

At that time, everyone will likely have plenty of time that they don't know what to do or how to allocate.

“We only tried it on mice once,” Jowell said with a wry smile. “It was a rather unpleasant experience.”

"In short, I'm certain that this magic is completely unsuitable for experimentation on animals."

“Okay.” Li Wei nodded, without asking what exactly happened that time. “Shall we begin? Is there anything I can do to assist you?”

"Well—actually, I'm not sure either. I'll leave it to you, Professor, to decide."

“Indeed, there aren’t many spells that involve memory and thought, let alone your self-created spells—let’s begin, I’ll take careful notes.”

"Okay—I'll begin—Professor, please just lean back on the sofa like this."

Li Weishun sat down in response.

Jovel gripped his wand and slowly aimed it at the other person.

“Cogitatio Resonantia”.

As he chanted the spell, his wand began to slowly rotate in circles—the tip of the wand rippled with almost invisible silver waves, as if it were alive, slowly meandering towards Levi and Joey, gradually enveloping the two of them.

Li Wei felt a relaxing power—he suddenly realized that Joe Willi was probably going to try to resonate with him mentally next.

However, this problem didn't need to be so complicated—he and his two disciples were already of the same mind—the principle behind this connection was actually of the same origin as the formations he was studying.
Moreover, Jowell's memory magic seems to have been a lucky accident—previous methods of connecting arrays all required physical contact.

Now that I think about it carefully, magic is not such an inconvenient invention.
With this in mind, Li Wei followed the magical energy in the air and connected their spirits without their bodies touching.

Whoosh—a gentle breeze blew into Li Wei's mind.

(End of this chapter)