Chapter 14: Unable to extricate himself
Sitting in the "state-of-the-art seats" that George and Fred had specially prepared for him, Carl watched as several people on the field flew around in a haphazard manner on broomsticks—at least that's what he thought.
He saw Oliver Wood, who wasn't the captain of Gryffindor at this time, but he was already a goalkeeper.
Karl also saw Angelina Johnson, but in the stands, who had not yet become a regular Quidditch player for Gryffindor, but was only a substitute.
Wood was flying in front of three goals, blocking the rest of Gryffindor's attack.
It took a while to train before a few people landed on the lawn of the Quidditch pitch on their broomsticks, where Carl was already there - this was the special seat that the twins had chosen for him, and Carl's neck was about to break when he kept looking up.
"How? Would you like to try?" said George to Carl.
"George, you know it's not in line. A tall, red-haired boy laughed, apparently not even taking it seriously.
"Come on, Charlie, don't be so rigid!" said Fred, "and by the way, I'm George." ”
Charlie Weasley, Carl and he had a relationship with him in the Leaky Cauldron before, but Carl hasn't seen him much since arriving at Hogwarts, and it is only now that the two have officially met for the second time.
"Fred, you can fool Mom, but you can't fool me. Charlie said with a smile, shaking hands with Carl by the way, the former's arms were almost thicker than Carl's thighs at this time, very strong and strong.
"Hello, Carl," said Charlie, "seriously, Carl, you're a big name in Gryffindor, an outlier of Gryffindor, a cool name. ”
What the hell? Carl didn't know when he had such a nickname.
"Of course it's cool!" Fred and George puffed out their chests, "and that's what we did." ”
Carl looked at the twins speechlessly, how did he know such two people.
Seeing Charlie Weasley inspiring in front of the players, Carl had to sigh that this is the real C-position boss, a natural leader.
Charlie said in front, even the Weasley twins listened carefully, and no one interrupted, and the Gryffindor Quidditch team at this time was really a monolith.
Of course, in the end, he still didn't win the championship.
At this time, the Gryffindor team was seriously short of personnel, and they did not even have their own Seeker, so they had to make a cameo appearance as Charlie Weasley, who was the captain and chaser.
At the urging of the twins, Carl sat on George's broomstick, and Charlie watched the excitement with the rest of the Gryffindors.
And then
"Help!"
Boom!
Riding a broomstick in the sky without flying twice, Carl fell to the ground solidly.
"I didn't expect you, Carl, to be afraid of heights!"
Coming out of the school hospital, George and Fred couldn't hold back any longer and laughed.
Carl didn't refute, and let the twins keep laughing at him - if he couldn't stand the ridicule, how could he keep getting Gryffindor to deduct points.
Actually, Carl is not unable to fly, from the first second he holds the broomstick he knows, he can fly, and he can fly well.
Karl secretly estimated in his mind that with the current situation of the Gryffindor team, with his flying level, if he showed it, Professor McGonagall would definitely let him join the Quidditch team, in a commanding way.
And this is exactly what he absolutely can't bear.
Endless training, rain or shine games, he won't have any personal time.
Everything else is easy to say, but Carl must not let Quidditch break his study plan.
Moreover, there is another point, he can also take advantage of this problem to skip the flying lesson directly, saving more time to read books, which is perfect!
Genius plan!
However, the feeling of flying is really comfortable, and Carl is a little distracted.
......
As time passed, Carl gradually fell into the fun of deducting points.
Originally, at first, he just wanted to vent the dissatisfaction in his heart, but over time, he couldn't stop.
To add points, you only need to answer the teacher's questions correctly and complete the things assigned by the teacher as required.
It's as easy as a base for Carl.
But deducting points is different, you have to keep changing methods, and each time it has to be more natural than the last, otherwise if the professors find out that you are doing it on purpose, you will end up in lockdown.
It's so much fun!
As a result, the whole of Hogwarts knew that there was such a person in Gryffindor, who was always adding points - Karl didn't want to do that, but the professors seemed to recognize him and always asked him to get up and answer questions - but he deducted more points than he added, and it was so reasonable that it was impossible to fault with it.
It's as if he's always done something wrong unintentionally - for which Carl is sorry, but not sorry.
Coupled with the fact that Carl was almost living in the library (George and Fred were literally speaking), Carl was even more sittingly charged with the title of "Greenffindor Outlier".
Actually, Carl didn't mind living in the library, even if he had to work on the floor.