At last, it had come to this. Dumbledore had finally relented and told me the prophecy!
As Li Wei listened to Headmaster Dumbledore, he thought joyfully.
He did not know that, because of his speculations about the prophecy, Headmaster Dumbledore had already prepared himself to die "accidentally" while searching for and destroying Horcruxes.
He simply believed that, after destroying a Horcrux, Headmaster Dumbledore saw victory on the horizon and had therefore told him the prophecy concerning Voldemort and Harry's fated confrontation.
He had also voiced the doubt in his heart: if the two of them could find and destroy Horcruxes, why did Harry Potter still need to engage Voldemort in a fated battle to the death?
Li Wei, who had long known the answer, wore an unpleasant expression as he resolved Headmaster Dumbledore's long-standing question with a single sentence:
"Headmaster, perhaps you don't know this, but Harry can speak Parseltongue!"
Boom!
Li Wei's words sounded no less than a thunderclap in Headmaster Dumbledore's ears!
As an old wizard of immense learning, thoroughly familiar with the bloodlines and factions of wizarding families,
Headmaster Dumbledore only had to think back briefly to know that neither the Potter family nor the Evans family had ever possessed an inherited history of Parseltongue.
Perhaps... perhaps Harry Potter's father's or mother's family had once intermarried with descendants of Slytherin?
Headmaster Dumbledore could only comfort himself with that thought, even though he knew it was impossible!
Though he did not understand the concept of dominant inheritance, Slytherin's blood descendants—the Gaunt family—had always inherited Parseltongue!
In other words, unless Harry Potter was a member of the Gaunt family, he should not have suddenly acquired Parseltongue!
"Li Wei, are you saying...?"
Headmaster Dumbledore cautiously asked Li Wei. He very much did not want to hear that answer.
Yet Li