Professor Flitwick used Side-Along Apparition to take Li Wei and Hermione back to the Castle Estate.
Without even stopping for a cup of tea, he hurried back to Hogwarts, ready to tell Headmaster Dumbledore that Koschei the Deathless had reappeared.
"Ah, poor old Dumbledore!"
"He really has his hands full this time. He finally managed to win Grindelwald over and was close to finishing off Voldemort!"
"And now Russia has produced a Koschei the Deathless! Another man making Horcruxes in a deluded bid for immortality!"
Li Wei suddenly felt that stopping Dumbledore from coming into contact with Marvolo Gaunt's Ring and forbidding him from touching the Resurrection Stone might not have been such a good thing for the headmaster after all!
Living was nothing but suffering.
The only consolation for Headmaster Dumbledore was that Koschei the Deathless was not a dark wizard he had personally trained!
Still, Li Wei was very interested in Koschei the Deathless himself.
Koschei's Horcruxes were highly unusual. Not only were they nested inside one another like Russian dolls,
but destroying a Horcrux did not weaken Koschei at all. Instead, it strengthened this fellow who called himself "the Deathless"!
Even more remarkably, Koschei seemed to have mastered some way of repairing Horcruxes.
Through his conversations with Madam Kalyana and Baba Yaga, Li Wei had learned why Koschei had created so many evil spirits and ghosts.
They served as his minions, killing people for him and gathering enough power to restore his damaged Horcruxes!
"In a sense, this dark wizard Koschei has already surpassed Voldemort in the art of making Horcruxes!"
"And unlike Voldemort, he isn't a joke who pursued eternal life only to live for seventy-odd years!"
"Koschei the Deathless has already become a popular fairy-tale figure throughout the Slavic lands. Who knows how long he's