Harry Potter: Dark Alchemy Chapter 56: The magical Quidditch ball


  Because the time is approaching the end of September, the temperature has dropped a lot from when school just started. But the gradual cold temperature did not extinguish the enthusiasm of the students, and Saturday finally arrived.

   Early in the morning of the next day, some students rushed to the Quidditch ball factory with some distance before the start of the game. The weather outside was clear and cold. Looking from the castle to the stadium, the flags of the four academies were waving with the slight wind. Today is a very suitable day for Quidditch games.

   In the hall on the first floor of Hogwarts Castle, the air is filled with the tempting aroma of grilled sausages. Everyone sitting at the long table is looking forward to the exciting Quidditch competition that will take place. Their cheerful conversation kept ringing in the hall.

  Ravenclaw's long table.

  Wright took a knife and smeared a layer of fresh strawberry jam on the bread in his hand. Chang Chu sat on his left side and rolled up a ball of noodles with a fork. Roger was sitting on Wright's right, the plate in front of him was clean and there was no food on it.

   "Wright, it's a pity that you didn't go to watch our Ravenclaw recruiting team last weekend. Otherwise, with your talent on the broomstick, you will definitely become the main force of our academy team." Roger's The voice sounded a little trembling, but with the corners of his cheekbone grinning, he could tell what his mood was like.

   "If you joined the academy last week, then you will break a school record again and become the first student to become a Quidditch player in the first grade in hundreds of years." Luo Jie added.

  Wright did not speak, he just continued to spread jam on the bread. Wright knew that Roger would enter the Quidditch game as a chaser later, and it was understandable that he was so excited at this time.

   Although Wright didn’t speak, Chang Chu said, “The reason why Wright didn’t go to see the recruits last weekend is because he was still in the school infirmary and didn’t come out. But Roger, you really don’t need it now. Do you have something to eat? It’s time for the game later!"

   "No, I don't want to eat anything now," Roger shook his head, and continued to talk in the excitement tone he had just now, "and I'm not hungry at all now! I think I will ride later. When I boarded the Quidditch stadium with a flying broomstick, I was so excited that I couldn't eat anything!"

   "If I were you, I would stuff a few slices of bread into my stomach, and a sausage would be fine. As far as I know, the task of chasing a golfer is not very simple." Wright finished eating at the end. A piece of bread, said slowly to Roger.

   Everyone can see that Wright is in a bad mood at this time. After all, if it weren't for Changchu to be pulled out of the warm single dormitory early this morning, Wright is still dreaming in bed now!

   Roger closed his mouth instantly, and began to take food from the table to the plate, and the surroundings of Wright also became quiet.

   To be honest, although Wright is very keen on making flying broomsticks, it does not mean that Wright likes Quidditch.

The    Quidditch competition is popular throughout Hogwarts, and it is also one of the unique events in the wizarding world, and it is also hot enough to host a world league. "The Magical Quidditch Ball" is one of the most popular books in the Hogwarts library. Most people in the school know that there are three kinds of **** used in Quidditch games. Walking ball and Golden Snitch, and each game requires seven players from both sides to play.

   sounds reasonable, right? But the fact is not like that.

  If, Wright is saying that if, if Quidditch's game rules are a little more reasonable, he may still be interested in it, but this thing is completely unreasonable!

   There is no time limit for the Quidditch game. The only way to end the game is to wait until the seeker finds the Golden Snitch. The longest Quidditch game in the world even lasted for three months! And this is nothing, the most problematic is Quidditch's scoring method.

  The division of tasks of the Quidditch team is: the batsman is responsible for protecting his teammates from wandering ball attacks, the chaser is responsible for throwing the ghost fly ball into the circle, and the goalkeeper needs to defend his own three laps. Entered by the opponent's ghost fly ball. The most important of the players is the Seeker just mentioned. Their task is to catch the extremely fast flying but extremely small Golden Snitch.

   And here is the problem.

  Each chaser throws a ghost fly ball to get 10 points, and once the seeker catches the golden snitch, he gets one hundred and fifty points and ends the game.

   This is totally unreasonable! And it violates most of the game design rules!

   Someone once carefully counted the Quidditch competition data in Hogwarts school over the past few decades~IndoMTL.com~ The result is that the ownership of the Golden Snitch can almost always overwhelmingly determine the result of the game. The problem is that if the seeker needs to find the Golden Snitch, it is basically all luck.

   Seekers who are regarded as the soul of the team hardly have any interaction with their teammates. There is no cooperation and confrontation with other people. Quidditch matches seem to be better than the seekers of two teams. Whose eyes are better, whose eyes are sharper. No matter which side the seeker happened to see the Golden Snitch, he would pounce on it and catch it, and then terminate the game.

   put it a bit too much, Wright felt that this activity seemed to be a game specially tailored by the creator for the world protagonist Harry Potter who will not enter the school next year. Seekers need innate excellent flying talents and occupy the most important position in a Quidditch team. Once they catch the Golden Snitch, they will quickly end the game. In some cases, they will also help them fall into a great disadvantage. The own team came back directly.

   What is more suitable for a short-sighted protagonist than a sports competition that only requires luck to win and attracts great attention among classmates and even the entire British wizarding community?

   And although Harry is short-sighted and his eyesight is not very good, he is the protagonist! what? You said someone wants to fight luck with the protagonist? Wright just wanted to send him two words: Come on.

   So, Wright was not prepared to watch today's game. In addition, even if he was not taken to the school infirmary by Mrs. Pomfrey last week, he would not participate in any recruiting for the Ravenclaw Institute team.

   But what Wright never expected was that Guapi, who had been in elementary school with him for six years and had been exposed to the complete rules of modern sports, would be an avid Quidditch fan!


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