Chapter 55: Quidditch, Boy!
Spring is here, and Quidditch matches are back in place.
This year, the whole team has been replaced with the latest version of the Malfoy-sponsored Halo 2001 Snake Courtyard, which is a Quidditch championship. Although in the first match, the game was lost due to the carelessness of new Seeker Draco Malfoy, who missed the Golden Snitch hovering over his head, the Snake Courtyard team chose to forgive him after taunting him.
Today, the Quidditch players of the Snake House are in the game against the Eagle House.
Today's wind is soft, the air is fresh, the sun is warm, and it is a very suitable weather for outdoor sports.
At the Quidditch pitch, jubilant students filled the stands with flags and slogans. Unlike previous years, this year there are students selling drinks and snacks walking around the stands.
After a winter of hibernation and several assaults, students desperately need a vent to get their best out of their heads, and this Quidditch match certainly provides that opportunity.
When the high-spirited and confident Snake Courtyard players walked into the stadium with flying broomsticks and saw the players of the Eagle Courtyard opposite, everyone was a little confused. Because the players of the Eagle Academy were holding a kind of broomstick that they had never seen before.
The whole broom takes on a bright blue color. The broom shaft has some "Z" arcs that make it comfortable to hold the broom while sitting on it. Each broom twig at the tail of the broom is clearly selected and arranged according to a certain pattern. The whole broom is combined to create a streamlined shape full of beauty.
Although it is not known how effective this broom is, its appearance quickly conquered all the spectators present.
Snake Courtyard Vs Eagle Courtyard, the best broom on the market Vs an unknown but good-looking broom, second-year rookie seeker Draco Malfoy Vs third-year rookie seeker Zhang Qiu, these game highlights make the audience wait and see.
With a whistle from Mrs. Hooch, the game began.
Fourteen members of the team jumped into the blue sky together.
The players of the Snake Courtyard found that the players of the Eagle Courtyard riding blue brooms were not slower than them in terms of speed, and Zhang Qiu, as a Seeker, flew into the air all of a sudden.
Since Chambers, a chaser of the Eagle Academy, could not play today due to physical discomfort, Zhang Xu came on as a substitute.
At the beginning of the game, Roger Davis, the chaser of Eagle Courtyard who got the ghost flying ball, rushed towards the goal of Snake Courtyard at full speed, and Zhang Xu and Bradley, another chaser, formed a triangle formation on both sides.
The trio of attacking arrows caught the Snake Courtyard players off guard, with Roger Davis scoring with a pitch and the Eagles taking the lead.
Then the snake court got the ball and started attacking.
Snake captain Marcus Flint attacked with the ball and found Roger Davis and Bradley in the middle of the half. Marcus Flint saw teammate Derian Pusse catching up from behind and passed the ball.
As soon as the ghost flying ball was halfway through, Zhang Xu, who was flying with a broomstick at full power, swooped down from the air and stole the ball.
Zhang Xu, who got the ghost flying ball, first rushed forward, and then saw a Bludger ball in front of the left that was hit by a member of the Snake Courtyard flying towards him. Zhang Xu didn't dodge, a steel bridge lay on a broom to avoid the Bludger, and then flew to the goal, suddenly a horizontal move to avoid the goalkeeper, and the ball was scored.
In less than three minutes after the opening, Eagle Courtyard won two cities in a row.
Stimulated, the Snake players began to step up their offense and fouls, but they soon discovered that the broom used by Eagle Academy today was no less powerful than their Halo 2001. This blue broom beats the Smooth Wheel 2001 in terms of speed, acceleration and handling.
When the Snake players try to use foul tactics, the Eagles players can often suddenly pick up speed or turn to miss their fouls.
In an attack on the Snake Courtyard, Zhang Xu defended Marcus Flint, and the two flew towards the goal of the Eagle Courtyard together.
Derian Pusse, who was on the other side of Marcus Flint, passed the ball to Marcus Flint, and Zhang Xu made a barrel roll maneuver that went around Marcus Flint's head to his other side and stole Derian Pusse's pass.
Seeing that the ball passed to him was intercepted by Zhang Xu, Marcus Flint manipulated the broom and hit Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu, who got the Quaffle, didn't wait for Marcus Flint to collide with him, and immediately made a tail maneuver, pulled up his broomstick and entered the jump, avoiding Marcus Flint's collision. Then reduce the power of the broom, the speed of the broom keeps decreasing, when the speed of the broom becomes zero, the broom keeps the front head and continues to go up, the tail is facing down, and under the action of the earth's gravity, it rushes down at the rate of gravitational acceleration, leaving two players from the snake courtyard who come to attack with a confused face.
Zhang Xu adjusted his direction in the process of rushing down and rushed along the right side of the court towards the goal of the snake courtyard.
After dodging the Bludger's sneak attack, two players from the Snake Courtyard took advantage of Zhang Xu's dodge of the Bludger's slowdown.
When Zhang Xu was about to collide, he suddenly pulled up the broom, the broom rose to 120 degrees, and the speed dropped rapidly, and the two players from the Snake Courtyard couldn't slow down and collided in front of Zhang Xu.
Zhang Xu, who finished the Pugachev Cobra maneuver, saw the two Snake Courtyard players who were just thrown off by him rushing towards him, and Zhang Xu, who attracted almost the entire Snake Courtyard team, passed the ball to the middle and passed it to Roger Davis.
The two Snake Courtyard players who originally rushed towards Zhang Xu turned and rushed towards Roger Davis.
Roger Davis passed the ball to Bradley on the left as the two Snake Court players rushed up.
Bradley, who received the ball, flew forward for a while and approached the goal from the left side, when Marcus Flint charged at him and goalkeeper Miles Bledge began to block him.
Bradley suddenly passed the ball to the right, and the unguarded Zhang Xu rushed to the front of the goal to receive the ghost flyball, and scored another ten points in the face of the empty goal.
In the stands, the students stood up and gave Zhang Xu a warm applause.
The next game became more and more white-hot, the scores of the two sides continued to rise, the snake courtyard began to chase and fight, the eagle courtyard flew fast and flexible, and finally the score gap between the two sides has remained at the eagle courtyard lead of about 40 points.
When Zhang Xu dodged a Bludger's sneak attack, he saw Zhang Qiu, who had been hovering high in the air, suddenly swoop down, and then Malfoy also rushed down with Zhang Qiu.
Just as Malfoy was maxing out the horsepower of the broomstick, Zhang Qiu suddenly switched to level flight, and Malfoy couldn't brake enough to hit the ground.
Then Zhang Qiu easily grabbed the golden snitch that was wandering around the wall.
In the stands of the Lion House, the captain of the Lions House team, Oliver Wood, looked at the brooms of the Eagle House players with envy on his face, and said to the other players around him: "Ravenclaw's broom is better than Slytherin's Halo 2001." ”
"I used Zhang's broom on the day I was almost eaten by a spider in the Forbidden Forest." Harry said, "I carried three people on a broomstick that day, me, Ron, and Hermione, and the broom flew just as well as a normal broomstick. It is not difficult to maneuver at all, and you can turn a corner with a single click. That's the best broom I've ever flew. ”
"What's the name of the broom?" Oliver Wood asked.
“Blue Fly.”