A day of learning magic at Hogwarts

With the arrival of the new year, the temperature around Hogwarts is gradually warming up.

Everyone no longer needs to wear heavy winter cloaks all day long; there is no need to huddle together to keep warm by the fireplace; the thick ice on the steps of the castle is gradually melting...

A few weeks later, during a Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Gryffindor and Hufflepuff students were listening to Professor Quirrell.

Ian wrote quickly, taking notes carefully and urgently, recording the various treatment methods after being bitten by a werewolf.

But there are not many students like him anymore.

Most of the students were there chatting in whispers and talking about things that had nothing to do with the course content.

Professor Quirrell on the podium was also deaf to these voices.

Since Halloween, Professor Quirrell's face has looked paler and paler, and his whole person has become more and more haggard.

If you compare him in October last year with him now.You will find that he, who was already very thin, has obviously lost weight again.

When he speaks, he stutters more and more.

Of course, he wasn't completely broken yet.

After more than a semester of courses, these first-year students clearly know Professor Quirrell's "a few pounds".

For a professor like him who has no ability, no dignity, and even stutters when speaking, most students don't take him seriously.

As Ian wrote quickly, he could hear a lot of garbled sounds.

The most important content is about tomorrow's Quidditch Cup match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff.

The second round of the Quidditch Cup will start again tomorrow.

In the previous first round, Gryffindor and Hufflepuff both lost to their respective opponents by huge margins.

Obviously, they are both in urgent need of a soft persimmon, and they obviously regard each other as a soft persimmon.

Both sides are obviously confident.

……

The ideal is beautiful, and everything seems to be moving in a beautiful direction.

Before the Quidditch match started, Hufflepuff received another "good news":

The referee of this competition will no longer be Mrs. Hooch; Professor Severus Snape has volunteered to be the referee of this competition.

Although Professor Snape didn't get along well with Hufflepuff, he obviously hated Gryffindor even more.

The two evils are the lesser of two evils, so in the game, Professor Snape, as the referee, should be more biased towards Hufflepuff.

This is true.

After the game between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff begins——

As a referee, Professor Snape is very strict with Gryffindor's actions, but quite loose with Hufflepuff's actions.

In just 5 minutes, he awarded Hufflepuff two very controversial "free throws".

Hufflepuff quickly took a 30:0 lead.

Hufflepuff, who was full of momentum, started to attack and once suppressed Gryffindor.

Just when all the Hufflepuff players on the field and the Hufflepuff spectators in the stands were looking forward to the first victory of the season...

A situation that they did not expect occurred.

Only 5 minutes into the game, the Golden Snitch appeared early, although in the eyes of most people, it was just a faint golden thread.

Hufflepuff's Seeker Meloy O'Connor had no reaction, she didn't see the Snitch at all; but Gryffindor's Seeker Harry Potter found his target.

Mr. Potter swooped down from mid-air at extremely fast speeds. He looked like a bolt of lightning.

Finally, he jumped from his broomstick a foot above the ground.

In his hand, he caught the Golden Snitch.

The game is over, it only lasted less than 5 minutes...

Gryffindor 150:30, completed the reversal.

This is a new record. In the history of Hogwarts, there is no record of catching the Golden Snitch faster than this.

In the first Quidditch match that Harry Potter participated in, he fell down from mid-air in a very embarrassing manner; but in the second Quidditch match that he participated in, he directly made history.

Even the headmaster Albus Dumbledore (who rarely came to the Quidditch pitch to watch the game) walked up to Mr. Potter and congratulated him.

The entire Quidditch pitch was instantly flooded by a sea of ​​red celebrations.

……

Some people are happy, some people are sad.

The Hufflepuffs returned to their common room dejectedly.

Everyone was very disappointed and didn’t know what to say in the face of such a “disastrous defeat”.

Everyone stood speechless in the common room, slowly filling the large common room.

Meloy O'Connor, captain of Hufflepuff, was sobbing in the crowd.

The huge losses in two games have meant that they bid farewell to the Quidditch Cup this year.

There is even a high probability that he has already booked the last place in the Quidditch Cup in advance.

But at this moment-

Ian Twister closed his eyes, then opened them again, thinking for a moment that there was something wrong with his eyes.

Because he saw Professor Pomona Sprout's face hanging in the middle of the fire in the fireplace.Flames danced around Professor Sprout's face, tongues of fire licking her ears, but she was not hindered in the slightest.

"Children, don't be sad!" Professor Sprout said gently: "It's just a game. We Hufflepuffs are not afraid of failure; even if we fail, we will stand up bravely. Let’s fight again next year…”

Professor Sprout said a lot, but Ian did not hear some of the latter words clearly.

However, the vast majority of students in the common room were touched.

They gradually dispersed, slowly getting over the pain of losing the Quidditch Cup.

……

A few minutes later, Ian and his companions returned to the dormitory.

"Hey, Ernie!" Ian couldn't wait any longer and asked quickly.

"What's wrong?" Ernie McMillan, who was still wiping tears, asked.

"Professor Sprout...how did she do it?" Ian looked very curious. "She actually made her face appear in the fire without being affected by the flames!"

"It's very simple..." Ernie replied matter-of-factly, "It's just using the fireplace to teleport. You should use Floo powder."

"Fireplace... teleportation..." Ian blinked, "Do you mean that the fireplace in the professor's office and the fireplace in our common room are actually connected?"

"No," Ernie shook his head:

"should say--"

"All the fireplaces in Hogwarts, and even all the fireplaces in the wizarding world, are connected."