Admiral of Hogwarts

147 Preparing for Quidditch

October has arrived, and a damp and cold air permeates the grounds and penetrates into the castle.A cold suddenly broke out among the staff and students, leaving Madam Pomfrey, the head nurse, scrambling.

Her pick-me-up potion has an immediate effect, but anyone who drinks it will have smoke coming out of their ears for hours.

Of course, this situation also made it more difficult for Hugo and the others to find the person controlled by Voldemort's diary by more than an order of magnitude.

Because the biggest appearance characteristic of the person who took Voldemort's Horcrux and absorbed his life was that he was languid. But now there are so many people who look depressed after the influenza epidemic that it is impossible to judge.

On the Ravenclaw side, Hugo saw that at least 1/3 of the students had various kinds of white mist coming out of their heads. It looks like a boiling kettle. And because the effect of the medicine lasts for several hours, the entire common room was surrounded by white mist for a long time.

Fortunately, neither Hugo nor Hermione caught a cold. According to Hermione's opinion, this should be entirely attributed to Veneto and Firefly taking them out for exercise frequently.

It has to be said that those ship girls have a lot of knowledge on how to exercise, so Hermione's body has become much stronger than before in just one school year.

"I think this may be because wizards really lack sports games." Hermione raised an interesting point when talking about this matter. "Haven't you noticed that besides Quidditch, wizards don't have many ways to exercise their bodies for entertainment."

After hearing what his elder sister said, Hugo also realized that this was indeed the case.

Although games like hopscotch or hide-and-seek are common in both the wizarding world and the Muggle world, they are all for children. It would be inappropriate to play these games after entering Hogwarts.

For those students who have entered Hogwarts to study magic, it's time to give up those childhood hobbies and play some real wizarding games.

For example, wizard chess, crackling exploding cards, Gobstone or various magical prank products. But there is no doubt that these activities are not very active.

The only exception is Quidditch, but usually flying around on a broom actually doesn't consume much energy.

Of course, this kind of exercise that doesn't consume much physical energy is only for ordinary students who just have fun. That's not the case for the players on those teams.

For example, the Ravenclaw team has formulated a strict training plan this semester and is training according to the plan. Veneto also participated in these trainings as much as possible in order to have a good relationship with everyone. During training, captain Randolph quickly realized the existence of a problem.

"Veneto, what broom do you like?" Randolph quickly stopped her after Veneto once again completed a training session on the school's old broom.

"The old school brooms you ride on are definitely not suitable for playing games. We decided to pool money to buy a public broom for the college and lend it to you temporarily."

There is another important reason why not many people play Quidditch, and that is that this kind of game also has high equipment requirements. It is difficult for ordinary people to have enough funds to purchase a broom that can win the competition.

In fact, according to Hugo's observations, no more than 1/3 of the students in Hogwarts have their own broomsticks.

Since Veneto did not actively participate in the Ravenclaw team, he was invited there because of his ability. Therefore, it would not be appropriate for Veneto to spend his own money to buy a broom that is not cheap at this time.

Fortunately, every Quidditch team has some mobile funds, so they can just buy a reasonably good broom and lend it to Veneto temporarily.

"If I want to use it, then I need a broom with a more responsive response. Of course, in this case, a slightly slower speed or slightly worse controllability is acceptable."

Veneto thought for a moment and said. After all, he is a beater rather than a seeker, so his speed requirements are not high. As for the shortcoming of poor controllability, she can completely solve this problem by relying on her own perception and reaction that are much more sensitive than normal humans.

"If this is the case, then sweeping nine stars would be very good." After listening to Veneto's request, captain Randolph tapped his chin with his index finger and said.

"This is a new broom launched by Sideswipe this year. Although it is not comparable to Nimbus 2001, it is still a very good broom."

"I know this because the Weasley twins use this series of brooms." Veneto nodded and said, "If that's the case, then I'll trouble you."

"Nothing." Randolph waved his hand. "After all, it's all for the team, and that's what we should do, as long as you can stop those damn Slytherins."

This year's Slytherin has really put too much pressure on other teams, so much so that teams like Ravenclaw, which usually values ​​wisdom rather than head-on recklessness, have chosen to increase the amount of training.

As long as it is a planned training day, the Ravenclaw team will not stop training even in windy or rainy weather. At most, the discussion will take more time in that kind of weather.

Of course, this approach can also be said to be very Ravenclaw. After all, for Ravenclaw students, the importance of developing some suitable plans and tactics is far higher than that of Gryffindor and Hufflepuff.

It's just that practicing football in the wind and rain is not a good idea. Even with various protective magic blessings, many team members will inevitably catch a cold.

As a result, during that period of continuous rain, the Ravenclaw team had to take turns enduring Madam Pomfrey's criticism to get the medicine.

According to the results of this year's preliminary seeker Zhang Qiu's investigation, the broomsticks of other people in Nimbus 2001 Hogwarts have created an overwhelming advantage - just in terms of speed, it is difficult for others to match. The Slytherin players are now It was just seven vague light green shadows flying, whizzing through the air like jets.

And the advantages of Nimbus 2001 are not just that. To be precise, this is a top-level broom that completely surpasses Nimbus 2000.

What's even more threatening to other teams is that Slytherin's unified broom performance makes them far simpler to formulate tactics than other teams using no-name brooms.

Compared to the Ravenclaw team who believes that they can smooth out the equipment gap through some appropriate tactics, and the Hufflepuff team who is very Buddhist and is satisfied as long as they work hard.

The Gryffindor team, which is full of strong mentality but has absolutely no advantage in all aspects, is the most uncomfortable team right now.

Coupled with Wood's unscientific training method that relies solely on weights, everyone on the Gryffindor Quidditch team is in a very bad mood now.

So much so that Hugo and the others would often see the Gryffindor Quidditch team members soaked and covered in mud returning to Hogwarts Castle, with tired looks on their faces.