Chapter 23: The Game Begins

With Mrs. Hooch's whistle, the Gryffindor and Slytherin players all flew off the ground, and at the same time flew into the air, as well as the Quidditch ball, of which the Quidley was thrown into the air by Mrs. Hodge, and the Bludger rose from the ground like two cannonballs, flying towards the air, as for the "Golden Snitch", Darren could not even see the shadow, it was clear that he had no talent for being a Seeker, although he was not short-sighted at all. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

But when the match started, Darren really couldn't understand what was so good about this game, because, although this Quidditch was claimed to be a ball game, he could hardly see the ball!

First of all, the Quidditch field is too big, in the ball games of Muggles, the largest field is football or rugby, and the length of the field is not more than 110 meters, but when it comes to the Quidditch game, the goal alone is 15 meters high, and in fact, the range of movement of the players is not limited, but because of the ghost flyball, most of them are near the goal, so quite a confrontation is near the goal, but with different tactical arrangements, the range of movement of the batsman and the seeker is quite large, for example, Harry once flew into the clouds because of the golden snitch, what can be seen, wizards are magical, but not superman, although the telescope is expectedBut in Darren's experience, it's easy to get dizzy when you look at a high-speed moving object, such as a Quidditch player, and if you don't believe it, when you're in a car, take a telescope and put it in front of your eyes to see how long you can last.

Then, there is another problem, in Muggle ball games, in order for the audience to be able to see the trajectory of the ball, under the premise of good lighting, colors with strong contrast with the background of the field will be chosen, such as white and black of traditional football, and modern football is simply all white, and then add some patterns!

But what about Quidditch, it is completely natural light, although the Quaffle is red, it can't fly, it all depends on the chaser, and it is easier to find than the ball.

The other two balls, the Bludger, are only a little smaller than the Quaffle, however, the balls are black......

The Golden Snitch is a nice one, golden and sparkles in the sun, but it's only the size of a walnut......

You're so clear that you don't want people to see it, right?

After a while, however, Darren knew what Quidditch was looking at, and when Gryffindor scored first, the Slytherin players began to attack wildly, in every sense of the word.

Forcibly hitting people, throwing balls and smashing people, swinging sticks and beating people, and even two players squeezed the Gryffindor chaser and hit the stands directly, which caused the Gryffindor team to plummet for a while, and although there were boos in the stands, the atmosphere was warm and extraordinary.

"It's brutal!Slytherin foul!" Hermione screamed.

Dean Thomas also shouted: "Send him off, referee!

Ron reminded him that "in Quidditch, you can't take someone off the field - and what a red card is......"

"How can they do this, this rule is ridiculous. ”

"That's the real reason why people are so excited about Quidditch. Darren reassured Hermione, "Just like in a football game, the audience wants to see the players of both sides collide violently, and the rules makers want to see the Quaffle." ”

"Why?"

"Because the ghost fly ball can be caught with your hands, you look at other big ball games, what basketball, football, Volleyball, which allows players to hold the ball with their hands for a long time, or move with the ball, the reason is that the control of the human hand is too strong, and if there is no considerable degree of confrontation, it is impossible to get the ball from the opponent's hand, and the only game that allows players to move with the ball is the rugby just mentioned, but there are no broomsticks and Bludgers in football, so Quidditch is basically a speed-enhanced version of three-dimensional rugby, plus players are allowed to bombard each other with Bludger. ”

"I really don't understand why this kind of competition is so popular?"

"Because there are too few people in the wizarding world!"

“?”

"It is said that the wizards in the whole of Britain add up to only about 3,000 people, such a small population base, it is impossible to support large-scale cultural and sports activities, such as culture and entertainment, so it is just a song, a dance or something, like film and television, it can't be supported at all, for example, there was a movie in the Muggle world, and the staff used was 2,000 people, and all of them were British, so this should be put in the wizarding world, who will it be filmed for? Darren said to Hermione, of course, he wouldn't say that the movie was called Harry Potter......

Also, he wouldn't say that in the far east, there is a mysterious place, and the devils who die there every year can circle the earth twice in a row......

Cultural activities are like this, sports activities are naturally not much better, the narrow audience group seriously limits the diversified development of sports activities, coupled with the cultural characteristics of the wizarding world, after abandoning simple and crude physical activities, only Quidditch can be relatively popular, and it is also suitable for the cultural characteristics of wizards, talent determinism, or rather, blood determinism.

You don't see that with his pedigree talent, Harry can become the most important Seeker in Gryffindor at the age of 11, deciding the outcome of the match, and this is a unique sport except for Quidditch.

I don't believe you just put together the top Muggle world's football players, Beckham and Zidane, but they are only 11 years old, even if they are good in the future, the Chinese men's football team can beat them to the ground, maybe......

Just as Darren was chatting with Hermione, Harry in the sky suddenly began to shake up and down, spinning back and forth, and even rushing back and forth, which made people inexplicable, thinking that Harry was performing some stunt, but suddenly, with a frantic twist of the broomstick, Harry's whole body was thrown off from above, and he grabbed the broom handle with only one hand and hung in the air.

While everyone was looking up and exclaiming, Hermione grabbed Hagrid's telescope and looked at the stands, and it was Darren who was moving the same way as him, but Darren was much more purposeful and looked directly at the Slytherin stands.

"There," Darren instructed Hermione, "in the stands of Slytherin......"

"I guessed a long time ago," Hermione gasped before Darren could finish, "It's Snape—look." ”

Hearing Hermione's words, Darren saw Snape standing across from them, in the middle of the Slytherin stands, his eyes fixed on Harry, his lips opening and closing, obviously saying something.