Mysterious Journey
Chapter 484: Soaring Silver-White Demon in the Sky (II)
At eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, the Quidditch match officially began.
Madam Hooch stood in the center of the field, waiting for the Quidditch players from both sides to enter.
"Listen, I hope everyone can participate in the match with a friendly and fair attitude."
Erina noticed that Madam Hooch seemed to be saying this specifically to her—which wasn't surprising, given the "Bludger bombardment" training she'd gone through in the previous weeks. She even thought Madam Hooch might...
"And..."
Before Erina could finish her thought, Madam Hooch turned her head, patted the Gryffindor players on the shoulders one by one, sighed with a complex expression, and looked at Oliver Wood's eyes earnestly.
"Be careful, don't push yourselves too hard... This is just a school match, you have a long road ahead."
"Professor Dumbledore has submitted an application to the International Quidditch Association, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, there will be examiners coming to the next match. Depending on the actual situation, they may consider adding a few supplementary Quidditch rules."
"Eh?"
Erina blinked. So, the Quidditch version might be updated soon?!
The girl thoughtfully raised her head, her gaze sliding over the faculty-exclusive stands in the distance, glancing at Albus Dumbledore, who was chatting happily with Grindelwald. If that's the case...
Then she'll go all out for the next few matches.
Having made up her mind, Erina gave Oliver Wood, who was standing not far away, a slightly apologetic smile—as a kind-hearted little witch, the only thing she could do was give this Quidditch fanatic a grand respect.
"Everyone! Mount your brooms!"
Madam Hooch took a deep breath and blew her silver whistle forcefully.
The next moment, fifteen brooms soared into the air, rising high into the sky. The match began!
The red Quaffle was thrown straight up by Madam Hooch. Gryffindor's Chaser, Angelina Johnson, controlled her broom and ascended rapidly, trying to be the first to seize the initiative.
However, before Angelina Johnson's broom could reach its maximum speed, a slender silver figure flashed past her, snatching the Quaffle first and throwing it to a teammate behind.
Harry Potter, inheriting his father James Potter's flying talent, displayed it vividly at this moment.
Although Harry had always played the Seeker role in the original story, that didn't mean he was only suitable for the Seeker position.
In fact, whether judging from the training results of the past few weeks or from his family history, his talent as a Chaser was no lower than his talent as a Seeker—after all, his father, James Potter, was a genius Chaser. (ps: This is JK Rowling's official setting, not a typo.)
"Newcomer team's Harry Potter snatched the Quaffle first. Without any hesitation, he directly transferred the ball to Draco Malfoy behind him—the two alternated and moved quickly, skillfully bypassing Gryffindor's Chaser, Katie Bell's blockade. It's hard to imagine that they've only been training together for less than two months—"
Lee Jordan, a friend of the Weasley twins, was responsible for commentating.
These days, he could almost hear the Weasley twins' near-death experiences after each training day. Of course, there was the most about Erina Kaslana, but there was no shortage of praise for other young wizards.
And now, he had personally witnessed the terrible nature of these "little monsters."
"Draco Malfoy is flying close to the ground with the ball—undoubtedly, this is a wrong choice—although this can reduce the threat from below, it loses the extra important high-altitude vision—as long as the opposing players double-team him, he will soon lose the ball—"
"Strange! Why haven't the Gryffindor players chosen to descend and double-team?!"
"Malfoy has reached in front of the goalposts! He's starting to climb straight up! And Harry Potter is on his left, ready to receive! This kind of straight climb is unstoppable—my goodness, are they going to score?!"
"Harry Potter has blocked the offensive position, Angelina Johnson can't affect Malfoy! A feint, a throw—whew, thankfully, Gryffindor's Keeper, Wood, wasn't fooled, he intercepted the ball."
"Good, now Gryffindor has the ball, the three Chaser girls from Gryffindor are organizing a counterattack."
"Oh! Hannah Abbott, she actually intercepted the Quaffle directly from Alicia Spinnet! But thankfully, Katie intercepted the ball in time, Hannah can only rush around Katie, looking for the next opportunity."
"Well done, Katie with a beautiful long pass, gave the ball back to Angelina Johnson—she is flying towards the newcomer team's goal—all the Chasers are behind her—"
Accompanied by Lee Jordan's fast commentary, the situation on the field changed rapidly.
"Draco was a little too hasty, it would have been better to pass the ball just now."
Flying high in the sky, Erina, who witnessed the first wave of offensive contest, shook her head, slightly dissatisfied with Draco Malfoy's decision. But she knew that after all, this was the first goal of the official match, and no matter how good the relationship between the boys was, they all had their own vanity and competitiveness.
"Okay, the warm-up is over, now it officially begins!"
Erina smiled slightly, circled in mid-air, and then locked her eyes on the Bludgers wandering in the sky.
Compared to the Golden Snitch, the black Bludgers were obviously much easier to find.
"Huh?! Erina Kaslana has started a dive, did she find the Snitch?"
As Erina suddenly accelerated, Lee Jordan's face suddenly changed, and he shouted into the microphone.
Undoubtedly, as the focus of the entire Quidditch match, any movement of the Seeker was the focus of people's attention.
However, people followed the direction of the silver-white figure that cut through the sky, and only saw the black Bludger constantly moving in front of her, and found no golden flashing object other than that.
"Oh, what does this mean?! Does she want to attract the Bludger's attention to disrupt Angelina's attack?"
Lee Jordan frowned in confusion. In this instant, countless classic moves he had seen on Quidditch posters flashed through his mind. Seekers did have examples of actively flying towards Bludgers, but most of them were to induce attacks.
But, from the current angle, Erina is too far away from Angelina.
"Meaningless dangerous action, Miss Kaslana seems to be unaware of the power of the Bludger."
Lee Jordan, who claimed to be a senior Quidditch expert, didn't know how to explain it for a while, and could only frown and look at the sky. Whether it was the Langiers feint or the Colmar secondary misdirection, they were all using themselves as bait to deceive the opponent's Seeker.
But from the current situation, if the Bludger really wanted to attack, it would definitely lock onto Erina, who was closest to it, rather than Angelina Johnson, who was further away, unless a miracle happened...
Bang!
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Chapter Two, trying to pay off debts~ (2019.12.06—1)
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