Chapter 13: The Deprived Hogwarts
Although Harry was taken away by Professor McGonagall, the flying lessons continued, and when Mrs. Hooch returned, the remaining students continued to learn how to ride a broomstick, but without Harry, only Malfoy was extremely arrogant, and finally Mrs. Hodge threatened to disqualify him from taking flying lessons for a whole year. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
With Neville Jewel in front, everyone else was a lot more careful, and Darren simply took out a rope and asked Mrs. Hooch to help cast a strengthening spell to prevent it from being broken, because the rope was indeed a little too thin, and Darren was very timid.
But Professor Hooch's eyes lit up, "Use a rope to avoid flying around, this idea is fantastic, Gryffindor plus 5 points!"
Oh, that's a plus? This isn't the protagonist's aura, but Hogwarts School really doesn't have it, in fact, Darren would rather have a parachute......
Malfoy naturally laughed at Darren's actions, saying that only cowards would use this thing, and Darren said, "You can not be cowardly, I hope you can make the rest of you Slytherin not cowardly." ”
After listening to Darren's words, Malfoy turned his head, only to find that the rest of Slytherin was glaring at him, after all, Neville had just been admitted to the infirmary under their noses, and although Malfoy flew well, it was obviously not convincing to say that he had never touched a broomstick, "You can not be afraid of falling, but don't stop others from falling together." ”
After using the rope, although the flight range was greatly limited, the little wizards' fear was also much less, and they all floated up boldly with confidence, this kind of teaching progress made Mrs. Hooch very happy, of course, there were also troubles, that is, there were too many people flying, and she couldn't take care of it alone.
Hey, the teachers at Hogwarts are too weak!
It wasn't until Darren himself actually sat on the broomstick that he understood why the Quidditch match required so much from the broomstick, because the broomstick was no longer an ordinary broom at all.
Although it sounds strange, how can a broom that can fly be an ordinary broom, but in fact, just for the one thing of flying, it is enough for a flying broom to solve the two major problems of flight power and anti-gravity, but it is far from enough for a rookie like Darren and them to be able to fly safely.
First, according to Mrs. Hodge's demonstration, the rider is seated on a broom handle.
Even if the broom can stabilize itself without rotating, the rider needs to hold the broom handle tightly with his hand to ensure that it does not fall over from above, because when riding on the broom, the person's center of gravity is higher than the broom, and it will keep rotating downward.
Sitting on a broomstick adds even more difficulty, because the wind, air resistance, and the centrifugal force generated by the broom's turning will exacerbate this trend, which will make the passenger turn into a head-down state at any time, and at this time, the person's center of gravity is lower than the broom and enters a stable state.
That way, at least when the freshmen take flying lessons, they should see a group of young wizards hanging upside down over Hogwarts, speeding through the air......
Well, it didn't happen, in fact, Darren didn't think about it that much, what he was really worried about was that this broom looked so thin that it would hurt to sit on it.
Especially with Neville falling off the broomstick, it shows that the broomstick does not provide buoyancy for the rider, but comes entirely from the broom itself, so it is equivalent to pressing the weight of his whole body on the slender stick he is riding under his buttocks, or sitting......
This is clearly the ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, okay!
But when Darren trembled, ready to sacrifice his ass, and sat on the broomstick with the mood of "the wind is sluggish and the water is cold", he found that his worries were completely unnecessary, although it was indeed only a thin wooden stick, but when it came into contact, it felt like sitting on a cushion, as if there was a chair on the broomstick.
To this, Darren can only say, magic is amazing!
Of course, after the last lesson, Darren and the others did not stay more than 2 meters above the ground, let alone play air chase like Harry, Hermione was a little dissatisfied with this, "Why, Harry can fly so well?"
"Uh, are you sure you want to reason with magic?" asked Darren.
“……”
At dinner time, Darren finally saw Harry again, and he told Darren and Ron that Professor McGonagall had not punished him for calling him away, but had taken him to meet Oliver Wood, the captain of the Quidditch team at Gryffindor House, and that she was so anxious that she even called Wood out of Professor Quirrell's class to make Harry a Seeker for the Gryffindor team.
"You're kidding!" Ron said after Harry's explanation, "Seeker? But a first-year student can't even play Quidditch, you must be the youngest house player in years." ”
"It's been a century," Harry responded, picking up the pie and stuffing it into his mouth, "Wood told me. ”
"I'll start training next week. Harry said, "Don't tell anybody that Wood wants to keep it a secret." ”
After hearing Harry, Darren took a sip of water, and Ron was still dumbfounded, apparently because Harry's news was so shocking.
"Sounds good, I hope you get good results, but of course, be safe, and from what happened to Neville, it's not particularly safe to fly in the sky. Finally, Darren said to Harry, in fact, what he wanted to say more was that the rules of this house would be changed, and the professors would scare people with expulsion at every turn.
In addition, when Harry recounted his experience with Professor McGonagall in the afternoon, he mentioned a sentence that made Darren very concerned, that is, Wood was taking Professor Quirrell's class, according to Harry, Wood was a fifth-year student, and it seemed that fifth-year students had to take some exams in the Ministry of Magic, if Professor Quirrell was really as bad as he was when he was teaching Harry, then these students would not all be pounced, even if Dumbledore was wild, he couldn't carry a pot for Quirrell, it was a whole year of students!
If you think about it carefully, this is not all, the seventh year students also face exams, and there is only one professor in each class in Hogwarts school, this professor has to teach seven grade students, which means that he has to develop seven different class schedules, and he has to be careful not to conflict with each other, no wonder the professors here have not moved for ten thousand years except for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, this has to change the teacher, and only the preparation of seven lesson plans will be sad to death, only the old professor who has accumulated years can cope with it.
Maybe the time turner at Hogwarts House was for new professors......