days at Hogwarts

Chapter 57 Before the Quidditch Game Starts [Please read]

Sunday night, the Gryffindor common room.

Loren and Hermione came in from the outside and saw Harry and Ron pulling a group of young wizards around. Ron was beaming and talking about something. Harry and the other young wizards looked pained and had rejection written all over them.

The two walked over and saw a brand new wand on the table.

Ron also saw the two, got up and said, "Hey! Loren, Hermione, come and see my new wand."

Before Loren and Hermione could react, the expressions of the young wizards around them became even more painful when they heard this.

The two found a place to sit down.

Ron looked delighted. "Ollivander handpicked this for me. It's fourteen inches long, made of willow, with a core of unicorn tail hair—"

Harry interrupted Ron, and quickly continued, "Willow is an extremely rare wand wood with extraordinary healing powers. Willow wands are very beautifully grained, and are very suitable for casting advanced silent spells. But willow wands Usually those wizards with great potential are chosen."

The speed of speech is very fast, like a reading machine without emotion.

Ron glared at Harry, before going on.

Before Ron could speak, Seamus quickly continued, "Unicorn tail hair usually casts the most stable spells, with the least chance of fluctuating or clogging. A wand with a unicorn tail hair core is usually the most stable spell. The least likely to succumb to the Dark Arts. They are the most faithful of all wands."

Ron couldn't take it anymore, his words were robbed twice.He stared at the two in exasperation. "Hey! Here's my wand."

"Yeah." Harry covered his head in pain, "You've been talking for an hour, and you have to drag everyone in and say it again, and we're not allowed to leave."

Seamus also complained: "We can all recite it."

Loren and Hermione couldn't help laughing.

Ron was wronged, his arrogance dissipated, and he muttered, "I'm sharing the joy with you, you guys are still my roommates..."

"So how many butts do you have now?" Loren was more curious about this question than the wand.

Speaking of this, Ron cheered up, "I didn't believe it myself, I told my parents about the whole thing, and they didn't blame me, they just asked me if my injury was over."

Every parent gets angry when they hear that their child is in trouble, but every parent is worried when they hear that their child is in danger. The Weasleys are not very angry, they are just worried about their child.

Ron remembered something and added: "My mother asked me to invite you to my house during the summer vacation."

Mrs. Weasley wanted to thank a few people who risked their lives to get Ron out, especially Harry and Loren.

Harry and Hermione are very excited, pure blood wizard family, they are very curious.Loren is also curious about the Burrow.

They all agreed.

After talking about Ron, the little wizards relaxed, and the topic gradually diverged.

Harry talked about the Quidditch team. On the third Saturday in November, he was going to play his first match, Gryffindor vs. Slytherin.

"We haven't won the Quidditch trophy for four years, and Wood feels sorry for the former seniors." Harry talked about the historical record.

Hermione thought of the picture she had seen of Professor McGonagall jumping up and waving on the Quidditch pitch. Gryffindor College's previous Quidditch competition must have been strong.

Harry thought of his dad's medal for best Seeker, and wanted to be like his dad.

On the contrary, Ron was very relaxed, "Don't worry about Harry, our team has two Nimbus 2000s this year, and you are a talented Seeker, the Quidditch trophy must be ours."

Harry sighed, it was this kind of other people's sustenance that made him very stressed. After entering November, Wood turned his Quidditch training on three nights a week into a game where he dragged whoever he caught to the Quidditch pitch, He can't be free for a week.

Loren recalled the plot of the Quidditch match, Harry would be cursed by Quirrell, fly in danger, survive with the help of Snape and Hermione, and catch the golden snitch.

He has always wondered why Snape, knowing that Quirrell was behind the trick, didn't directly attack Quirrell, but instead recited some counter-curse.

Can't get an answer, it can only be attributed to the sudden occurrence of the incident, Snape has no evidence, and can't tear his face and directly attack Quirrell.

Thoughts were chaotic, Loren sorted out another thing he was concerned about, and said to Harry: "You said you were always arrested for Quidditch training, and you didn't have time off for a week?"

Harry looked at him, nodded, "I see, what's the problem?"

Loren's eyes flicked over Harry and Ron, "Before that, let me ask, will you two know how to cry like a troll?"

This question is very strange, why do you ask about the cry of the troll.

Ron still nodded, and the tone of the answer was not very sure, "Yes, right?"

Loren straightened up, leaned close to the heads of the two, and whispered, "Have you done your homework for Transfiguration?"

Harry and Ron's pupils trembled, and they suddenly remembered what happened on Monday.

In Ron's mind, he heard himself swear loudly at that time: I swear in the name of the troll-slaying warrior, the first thing I do when I wake up is to write the homework for the transformation class, and I will never stay up late the night before to do my homework again. I'm a troll!

Harry and Ron looked at each other, and they both understood the meaning in each other's eyes: Who remembers homework after catching up on sleep?

"Ahem!" Loren took off the non-existent tie, sat back on the chair, stretched out his hand and said, "Please start your performance."

"Roar!"……

Neville's memory is not very good. He has the habit of keeping a diary. Every night before going to bed, he will briefly write down the things he can remember today.

"Overcast Sunday, November 1991, 11

... two of my roommates are still copying Transfiguration homework, which they call references.I don't quite understand, even people like me with a bad memory remember to write their homework well, why do they always write it before going to bed, it's a bad habit, don't learn it...they swore firmly before that they would never do this again , so I heard the cry of the troll, very interesting..."

On Monday, Transfiguration classroom.

After class, the students packed up their things and gradually left the classroom.

Loren approached Professor McGonagall who was packing up, "Professor McGonagall, I have a request."

"You say." Professor McGonagall tidied up the books on the desk by herself. She knew that Loren was not a worry-free child.

"I want to be the commentator of the Quidditch game." Loren asked to find the best viewing position.

Professor McGonagall piled up several books and took them away, "The narrator has been confirmed to be Lee Jordan, and will not be changed." He said, intending to leave the classroom.

Loren hurried to catch up, "I can explain with him."

"It's not necessary." Professor McGonagall didn't want to stay, and didn't want to agree. Loren was not a worry-free student. She was worried that Loren would give her a big surprise in front of the whole school.

Loren grabbed Professor McGonagall's sleeve, and tried to show an innocent and pitiful expression in his eyes, "As a child of a Muggle family, I just want to get closer to my classmates, and I promise not to make trouble."

Professor McGonagall paused, trying to figure out if this was another Weasley twin-like troublemaker, but Loren did do well in class and never did anything out of the ordinary.

"Come to see me in the office tomorrow night. I will test you on some questions about the Quidditch rules. If you pass, I will let you be the commentator." Professor McGonagall backed down, but not completely backed down.

"Of course!" Loren ran away happily.

……

At the dinner table, Loren sat next to Harry and asked if there was a quick way to learn the Quidditch rules.

Harry said that he always trains with the team and learns one rule every time he commits a foul. He has learned more than 100 rules so far.But you have to let him say, he can't say it, but he can take Loren to experience what kind of behavior is a foul.

Loren shook his head violently. I just want to be a commentator, and I don’t need to actually go to the battlefield. You can’t beat Quidditch and lose your limbs. This also makes me experience foul behavior, so I can’t come.

"Maybe you can read the book "The Magical Quidditch Ball." Hermione suggested to Loren after hearing their conversation.

Loren was very surprised. He always thought that Hermione didn't like Quidditch very much. "You still read books about Quidditch?"

"This book is very interesting and can be read as a story." Hermione didn't say that she read some Quidditch books because of Professor McGonagall.

Loren went to the library and found the book with the help of Mrs. Pince, like a dictionary.

This book records the origin of Quidditch.

The sport of Quidditch takes its name from the Quidditch Marshes where it originated.A witch named Gerty Kidder, who lived near the swamp in the 11th century, described the development of the Quidditch game at the beginning in her diary for several days, and mentioned how various elements of the game were introduced. .

Gerty began by complaining only of her annoyance at the fact that a group of people on broomsticks were playing balls over the swamp and the balls had fallen into her vegetable patch.She confiscated the ball and put a poisonous spell on the person who asked her for it.On the second day, the ball players didn't give up, they made a new ball.They also started throwing the ball into the woods at one end of the swamp to score.This is the earliest prototype of the Quaffle and Scoring Ring.On the third day, the players brought two rocks and flew them in the sky, trying to knock them off their brooms.This is the predecessor of the Bludger.

Later, the rules gradually became complete and evolved into what it is now.

Each team has 7 players, including: 1 goalkeeper, 2 batsmen, 3 chasers, and 1 seeker.A total of 4 balls are used to play the game.

The Chaser is responsible for the Quaffle, and in an attack, scoring the ball into the opponent's goal is worth 10 points.The goalkeeper is responsible for defending the goal, so he can touch the ball with his whole body, and can also take the Quaffle to participate in the frontcourt attack.

Two heavy Bludgers will automatically fly around the field, trying to knock players (especially players with Quaffles) off the broom. Players may use it to attack and interfere with opposing players.

The last ball is the Snitch darting around the field, and the Seeker scores 150 points for catching the Snitch.If you don't catch it, you can't end the game. The story mentioned a ball game that lasted for three months, and the players completed it in shifts.

More content about the historical evolution of Quidditch will not be repeated here.

Loren quickly scanned it, and took the "Magical Quidditch Ball" back to the dormitory for a good night's sleep.Quickly familiarize yourself with various rules and fouls in the fantasy book.

Flamel was aggrieved and scolded Loren for not studying so hard...

It wasn't until the next morning that Loren shook his swollen head, walked to the window, and took a few breaths of cold fresh air before gradually waking up.

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