Chapter 755: New Lineup
This year, Severus Snape finally became a professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts.
Allen's Ancient Magic class would teach students the proper use of the Dark Arts, and Snape's Defence Against the Dark Arts class would talk about the Dark Arts almost with affection and admiration - like Allen, he chose a hands-on approach to get the sixth graders started with the Silent Spell technique, and he had the wizards split into groups of two, one of whom tried to cast a spell on the other but was not allowed to say it, and the other tried to repel the spell without saying it silently.
The Hogwarts wizarding apprentices had their faces flushed and their mouths tightly closed, fearing that they would not be able to resist the temptation, and whispered incantations. And those who try to repel the curse are holding their wands, constantly reciting the Iron Armor Spell, waiting in fear to repel a spell that never seems to come - it's just that in the classroom, except for the training class and a few gifted geniuses, this technique has been practiced and mastered for a long time, and most of the young wizards, including the members, have tried this advanced technique for casting spells for the first time, and they have not been able to successfully cast the silent spell, and it is too difficult for them to successfully cast the spell in the first practice.
Under such pressure, the sixth-year wizards took the time to practice the silent spell day and night after class, because not only the Defence Against the Dark Arts class, but also the Charms and Transfiguration classes began to make this request.
Therefore, in Hogwarts Castle, whether it is the common room of the house or the auditorium, the young wizards in the lower grades can often see these senior wizards with red faces and secretly competing with themselves, as if they have taken an overdose of constipation kernel - if Cedric Diggory is still at Hogwarts, then he will definitely find that in one day, the expressions on the faces of his younger students in the house will become very similar to his father, Amos Diggory of the Department of Magical Beasts Management and Control...
What freed these wizards from the practice of silent spells day and night was the Quidditch tryouts.
Emily had reached the age criteria to be selected as a Quidditch player, and it was not surprising to the Slytherin wizards that the sister of the world's best Seeker would also be present in Quidditch, but Pansy was surprised to see her in Quidditch after Emily in preparation for the tryout.
"Pansy, how are you going to participate in the tryout?" Draco turned the broom in his hand, she used to call Pansy to the Quidditch team, she said that she just wanted to sit on the sidelines and cheer for herself, how could she take the initiative to participate in the tryout today.
"Draco, Emily thinks my extracurricular life should be richer, so she asked me to come along. "Since the incident between the two in the Room of Requirement, the relationship between the two witches has become more sincere than the previous friendship that was forced by the difference in status.
With his position in Slytherin, Draco, who defeated another popular candidate Urquhart to become the captain of Quidditch, softened his voice to the little princess of the Harris family: "Emily, which position do you want to play?"
"I want to be in the same position as Allen, Seeker. Emily smiled sweetly, as if she didn't realize that the Slytherin Quidditch captain in front of her was the Seeker.
"Uh... Emily and others can try it first. Draco's voice suddenly felt like someone had been choked by the throat, and he coughed dryly and felt that his tone was a little dry, so he added, "You're Alan's sister, you must be flying well..."
Pansy's performance in the Slytherin team selection was astonishing, and she chose to run for batter.
Each Quidditch team has two batsmen, and they are also the only players on the pitch who have a bat. Their job is to keep the Bludger away from their team's players and try to hit it at the opposing team – the batsman needs to be physically strong and have a lot of strength in the arms, as this is the only way to be able to hit the Bludger throughout the game. As a result, this position is more likely to be held by a man than a witch.
The exception is the famous Holyhead Harbby captain Gwenog Jones, who was born in 1968 and was one of Horace Slughorn's favourite pupils during her studies at Hogwarts, where she joined his Slug Club, and after graduating in June 1986, Gwenog became a batsman for the all-female Holyhead Harpys, eventually captaining the team. She is still in close contact with her Potions teacher, Horace Slughorn, and will help him get tickets for free if Slughorn wants to.
At present, Pansy has a tough style on the field, although not as strong as her strong female senior, but when she wields a bat to hit the Bludger at the wizard, she is merciless, she raises her eyebrows and is aggressive, and uses the Bludger to hit all the opponents who dare to challenge her one by one.
The batsman also needs to have a good balance, as it is often necessary to let go of the broomstick with both hands at the same time to hit the Bludger - the lack of strength Pansy did a good job at this, and Crabbe, who was scored by Dracola before, although his arm strength was amazing, was much worse in this regard and flying skills, so whether it was selfish or for the sake of the team, Pansy was finally selected as one of the main batsmen of the year, and Crabbe became a substitute for her and another batsman who had good arm strength and flight, Goyle.
Pansy felt good when she landed on the lawn to wipe her sweat, and in such a battle, she seemed to vent the stress of the summer vacation a little bit through this method, and although her body was a little tired, her mind was a lot more relaxed.
There are only two people running for the Seeker spot, Emily Harris and Draco Malfoy.
Emily's performance on the field is very good, she is very agile in her posture of flying up and down to avoid Bludgers, and the golden snitch released this time, just like the game between Draco and Harry in the second year, flew between the buildings in the stands, and Draco, who has grown a lot, obviously has an advantage over Emily, who has just reached the second year, in this situation.
This was both unexpected and reasonable, as Draco was experienced in the game, but the Seeker athlete was usually some of the lightest and fastest flying broomstick pilots, he had to have keen eyesight, and he had to be able to grasp the broomstick handle with or without one hand - and Emily had taken attribute potions far more than Draco, and the advantages and disadvantages of age were insignificant without considering strength, and the Seeker was the position where the flying talent was most dependent.
Emily's flying talent today was obviously better than Draco's, and the other Slytherin players, who were a little surprised, thought of Emily's brother Allen, the world's best Seeker.
In the end, Emily won the main position of Seeker in Slytherin this year, and although Draco was a little reluctant to do so, he was able to convince himself to accept such an arrangement after transferring himself to the position of Suitor that Allen had played at the beginning.
"Maybe there will be some hope to beat Ravenclaw this year... Let the Quidditch Cup be re-engraved with our name. "When he reorganized the team and returned to the academy, Draco was very satisfied with the lineup he selected this year, the chasers had himself and Urquhart and Vasey, who had also hoped to be elected captain, formed a good offensive line, the batsmen had Pansy, who did well today, and Goyle, who was quite good, and the defenders themselves arranged for Zabini to join the team, plus good substitutes made the bench depth quite good- Crucially, half of Quidditch's main players are now Draco's henchmen, which makes him very comfortable in managing the team's affairs.
After that, Ravenclaw audition, Alan sent his own doppelganger to preside.
After the whole Ravenclaw selection, the main team did not change much - Cho Chang wanted to participate in a professional club like her boyfriend Cedric after graduation, so even if she needed to prepare for the exam in seventh grade, she did not choose to quit.
After more than a year of professional club-style professional training, the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, which lacked star players after the absence of Allen, looked more like the professional team that Larry Brown had created.
The Ravenclaw didn't have a star player and no longer relied on it, and they were trained to be quality players in every position, both as a start-up and on the bench, and even if they felt their talents were better utilised, everyone stayed in the position that best suited them to the best of their ability to perform what the team needed them to do, and the new blood who only joined this year will continue that tradition.
After a full semester of brutal training, Ravenclaw, who was the least physically gifted of the four Hogwarts teams, became a team with no obvious advantages and obvious disadvantages in terms of player position, and with the brains of Ravenclaw's eagles, their own understanding and execution of tactics allowed them to skillfully use a variety of professional tactics against different opponents - this is a team that plays the right way.
The construction of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team has worried the captain of this team, compared to the other houses, Hufflepuff has the largest number of wizards who have not found enough talent to join to complete the rebuild, since Cedric's departure to compete for the Quidditch Cup is more of a dream, except for the two chasers Zacharis Smith and Cadwallad, and himself is barely enough, the other three houses are a big difference in the other positions - to keep themselves from the bottom of the overall table this year is their goal.
The selection of Gryffindor, the last team at Hogwarts, was Harry's first challenge after becoming Quidditch captain. It's just that except for Ron, everyone else laughs and ignores the new captain, Harry.
After Harry semi-forced former captain Angelina Johnson to add Ron to the team last year, the red-haired goalkeeper couldn't resist Slytherin's deliberate pressure on him, causing Gryffindor to lose a lot of points, leaving the new Gryffindor captain not as good at leading the team as his predecessors - even if he showed the ability to play in the Seeker position that the other little lions couldn't say anything about.
"Shut up!" Just as Harry was embarrassed, Ginny, who had changed into a Quidditch suit, quieted the scene with a roar, and her long red hair raised in the breeze made her look quite heroic.
"Even if you were a regular member last year, I don't guarantee that you will be ...... this year Does that make sense?" saw the scene fall silent, and Harry learned.
Last year, Ron had a terrible performance as a goalkeeper, and Slytherin led the other houses to start calling him "King Weasley".
As a result, there were a lot of people running for goalkeeper this year, and Cowmike McLagan even bumped Ron on the shoulder from behind, and said playfully with a confident expression: "Weasley, don't mind... I'm also going to play as a goalkeeper, not really for you. ”
Because of the previous pure-blood princess notes and the production of failed life and death water, the potion that should have been used as a powerful sleeping agent had the opposite effect, Ron, who had been highly excited and couldn't sleep, looked at the wizard who was much taller than himself, his face became even paler, he waved his hand a little angrily to try to drive away the flies around him at this time and said: "With your big man, don't you think you are more suitable to be a batsman?
Cowmac jerked out his strong arm and deftly grabbed the fly with his bare hands with his fingers with protective gloves and stopped Ron from speaking, stunned, "Let's see which side Lady Luck is on." ”
Cowmike McLagan is a tall man, and with his handsome appearance and deliberately imitation of Allen's big back hairstyle, he is very popular among the girls of the Lion House. In his sixth year, last year, he was admitted to St. Mungo's Hospital for a bet on eating the eggs of a poisonous fox, so he lost the opportunity to compete for a Quidditch keeper and was forced to repeat a school year, so he thought this year was the perfect opportunity to perform, so he would participate in the selection again.
In addition, because McLagan's overly strong Gryffindor style and bad grades on the verge of repetition, he was considered by the other house witches to be nothing more than a self-righteous Gryffindor idiot who did things but did not have a brain, and had nothing to offer except for his appearance.
Professor Horace Slughorn was interested in McLaggan, who had an uncle of no low social status.
Although Ron worked hard in this audition, and the fact that no one around him sang "The Weasley Song" to him, he performed much better than he did in the official arena, but Comac, who was significantly better in terms of age, motor nerves and technique, came out victorious.
Hermione Granger, who was watching the battle from the audience, didn't pretend to cough but cast a spell without a wand to help Ron cheat with a confusion charm on McLagan's broomstick. And during the train incident during the vacation last semester, after hearing that Ron was not really gay, Lavender Brown, who began to have a crush on the red-haired wizard because of superstitious divination, did not have the ability to cast this kind of spell, but just sat on the sidelines and shouted a few words of cheering.
Ron was squeezed out of the position of keeper, and seeing the frustration of his best friend, Harry had to take advantage of Ron's tall stature and his two twin brothers' reputation in Quidditch, and semi-forcibly put Ron in the batsman position.
But the results of this election made Ron, who had finished the selection and accompanied Harry and Ginny to clean up the field, remained silent and looked devastated.
"Ron, if you really spend all your free time practicing Quidditch, as you planned before school started, the ending would be different, you're only two balls short of him. Ginny pressed a Bludger back into the box and glanced sarcastically at Ron, "Cheer up, I'm going to have to rely on you and Jimmy Perks to protect me and Katie and Demirza when we score." ”
"Didn't I tell you last time that Dumbledore arranged for Sirius to teach us to transform into Animagus near Beater Willow, Sirius will come over for the first lesson this weekend, and Ginny, the time for the ancient magic class is coming again, I don't know what Alan has prepared for us this time" Seeing his girlfriend's sarcasm about her brother made the atmosphere freeze again, Harry changed the subject but then yawned again, "Ron, my medicine seems to have worn out, I need to go sleep for a while..."
"What?, you have more gifts for class besides that valuable book?!" Ron finally came to his senses when he heard this, and then he muttered with annoyance and jealousy on his face, "... It's nice to be rich... I knew I had so many things to take, I should have gone with you in the first place... Your book seems to be worth more than all the materials we've used in seven years at Hogwarts..."