Chapter 848 The Sky Is Full of Stars

"Since you are here with your broomstick," Professor Flitwick urged as he saw the selection queue for the freshman team gradually shortening, "go and give it a try, at least fly in the sky."

"But... I'm not a first-year student. I will be laughed at and talked about for a long time, right?"

Qiu Zhang tightly held the Comet 260 that she had just nursed in the morning, and whispered in a distracted voice.

Filius Flitwick did not intend to refute this. He had been the headmaster of Hogwarts for decades. He was the professor who knew the children of his house best. In the Ravenclaw lounge Among them, rumors and gossip are always the most common.

"Fly if you want," he said, "and don't have any regrets about your Hogwarts experience."

"But no one from the team came to the stadium before," Qiu Zhang said softly, "Is this considered... betrayal?"

"Oh, that's too bad," said Flitwick. "After all, judging from the current situation, at least half of the freshmen team are first-year Ravenclaws. I thought that after a year's rest, , the academy team can come back next year.”

Professor Flitwick had long been aware of the abnormal atmosphere in the college, but he had never thought it would be so serious.

The noise of the crowd - this is Elena Kaslana's evaluation of Ravenclaw today.

Follow the crowd, lack the spirit of independence, lack of independent opinions, and easily replace rational thinking with emotional emotions in daily life. Even a certain degree of rationality is often influenced by emotional emotions... conceited mentality, terrible sensitivity, extreme irresponsibility , this kind of group under the guise of freedom and majority is not what Ravenclaw House should present.

"If I go, Marietta will definitely break off our relationship with me." Qiu Zhang struggled a little.

"Qiu, there are many ways to maintain and restore friendship." Professor Flitwick raised his finger and replied seriously, "Don't easily try to be irresponsible together or make mistakes together. Even if you succeed for a while, you may It leaves a bitter taste in your friendship - not to mention, if Ravenclaw wants to return next year, it still needs a captain."

His voice echoed in the empty Quidditch stands, which belonged to the Ravenclaw students.

"There is still a long road ahead," the short half-elf professor said softly, "Doubts and setbacks are inevitable, but these are not your responsibility. Whether you continue to fly and enjoy the game is what you should consider now. "

Qiu Zhang glanced longingly at the flying figures on the field, pursed her lips tightly.

She finally joined the college's Quidditch team last year. Over the years, she has been looking forward to flying freely in the sky and winning exciting games like her favorite Tornados players. .

This kind of expectation cannot be easily defeated by a heavier Bludger.

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As Elena said before, the freshman selection competition lasted almost all morning.

Almost all the first-year students from the four colleges came. They nervously clutched the batch of old brooms that were about to be eliminated from the school warehouse, and excitedly and enthusiastically submitted their applications to Irina and Hermione. Apply.

A whole week is enough for the new students to find out what happened on the Quidditch pitch last year.

With the power of role models that they can follow, most of the freshmen's self-confidence has greatly increased.

Maybe they can't be the "killing king" like Elena Kaslana, but if they use other members of last year's Hogwarts freshman team as targets, it doesn't seem completely unattainable? At least in the eyes of the freshmen.

Obviously, this undoubtedly greatly increased the workload of Hermione and Irina.

Some of the first-year students who submitted their applications had never even flown before. Apart from last week’s flying lesson, this might be their second experience with flying broomsticks. At the beginning of the selection process, the scene was extremely chaotic.

Especially when there were a group of senior students watching the excitement around, the chatter almost made the two go berserk.

However, after the two people sorted out a screening mechanism, the process quickly became simple and efficient.

"Phew, it's finally almost over..."

Hermione breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the last remaining group of applicants.

The easiest position to determine is the Seeker. Luna Lovegood's talent in this area is like cheating. She is so outstanding in catching the Golden Snitch, predicting the Golden Snitch's deflection trajectory, and avoiding Bludgers... .

On the other hand, her personality is also very suitable for a position like a seeker, which is located around the team.

As for the batters, they are two boys from Ravenclaw:

Hoffa Bach is a somewhat reserved little wizard, but he is surprisingly powerful and tricky when hitting the ball; the other is called Verne Kemond, a man with a resolute face and a strong body that looks like he stepped out of an oil painting. The knight's squire boy.

In order to expel Bludgers, Beaters usually need a lot of physical strength, so compared with other positions on the Quidditch pitch, the Beater position is more likely to be played by male wizards than female wizards. And since batsmen sometimes need to let go of the broom with both hands at the same time during the game, in addition to arm strength, leg strength and balance are also required.

It has to be said that as a college that has always been known for its yin and yang's decline, Ravenclaw finally broke the curse this year.

The proportion of boys among the freshmen has reached an unprecedented level of more than one-third. It is no wonder that Professor Flitwick is confident about the future Quidditch competition - judging from past experience, there are obviously more males in the Quidditch project. Dominate.

"Well, Kira Bi Carol...if you were in your position——"

Irina frowned in distress and looked at Hermione standing next to her with searching eyes.

Standing in front of them was a small, shy-looking girl, and what did not match her appearance was the content that the girl had filled out on the application form for the Hogwarts freshman varsity team.

"Are you sure you want to be a goalkeeper? Well, you fly so well, you could actually consider becoming a chaser."

Hermione's eyes stayed on Qilabi's petite body for a moment, and she considered her words.

It was not that there had never been a similar "little keeper" in her mind, but compared to a certain witch who played Quidditch as a knockdown game, this shy first-year Ravenclaw was nothing like He is a dangerous person with this possibility.

"The goalkeeper's movement range is the smallest. I have studied the rules carefully."

Qilabi Carroll said timidly but at the same time extremely seriously.

"Even those broomsticks used for teaching at Hogwarts can take into account three knockers in terms of instantaneous speed increase, so as long as the path of the Quaffle is judged correctly, there is not much difference between an arm that is one foot longer or one foot shorter."

"...It sounds like there is a lot of feasibility."

Hermione nodded noncommittally, drew a circle on the cardboard in her hand, and pointed behind her.

"Okay then, there is an extra part to the goalkeeper test. In the chaser assessment later, you and several other little wizards will defend for ten minutes each. We will make a judgment based on the final comprehensive situation. …”

In regular professional Quidditch games, the goalkeeper is usually played by a tall wizard.

However, strictly speaking, most of the young wizards at Hogwarts are not qualified. Putting aside this condition that most people cannot meet, flexibility and brain are indeed more important than body.

"Well... ok, then we are just short of the last two people..."

Irina lowered her head and looked at the form, and then at the little wizards who were still on the field.

In Quidditch, each team can only play seven players.

Except for the seeker, goalkeeper, and two batters, most of the hot spots and contentions in a Quidditch match actually occur during the high-frequency transition between offense and defense between the three chasers of both teams.

"Well, Irina, you will occupy a chaser position by default, so we only have two spots left -"

Hermione nodded and glanced at the excited little wizards standing in front of her.

If she remembers correctly, judging from the flying qualification test just now, Ron's sister is obviously much better at flying than the other little wizards. If nothing else, Miss Ginny Weasley is probably the best at flying. Also locked in advance.

Unfortunately, except for Ginny, the performance of several other young wizards was much worse.

The reason why they put the chaser trials to the end is that they hope to watch the performance of the little wizards for a few more rounds and select suitable candidates from among them. If that doesn't work, they can only resign themselves to randomly pulling in one to make up the number.

"Excuse me...can I have a try?"

At this moment, a witch flew over from the stands not far away.

Before Hermione and Irina could react, the witch turned the broom head lightly and hovered at the edge of the field. She looked carefully at the two junior students standing behind the review desk and mustered up the courage to ask. road.

"I heard, well, I saw the announcement in the auditorium said that you are not only recruiting first-year students..."

"Uh - you're not joking, are you?"

Hermione said with some surprise, frowning and looking at the senior girl in front of her.

As she aspired to become an excellent Quidditch coach at Hogwarts, she naturally recognized the witch wearing Ravenclaw House robes at first sight. She was the ball seeker of the Ravenclaw House Quidditch team last year. Hand - Qiu Zhang.

"No, no, you see I have already filled out the form -"

Qiu Zhang, who had made up his mind, shook his head quickly, took out a form from his arms, and said seriously.

"Due to not being able to gather seven players, the Ravenclaw Academy team withdrew this year, so I am a free agent now. As for the position, there is no need to worry, I can play in every position... It is not necessarily limited to finding a position. Ball player.”

"But -" Hermione pondered for a few seconds, looking at Qiu Zhang thoughtfully.

"If you obey the command and are willing to participate in the trial, then I don't think there is any problem!"

Irina stretched out her hand and took the completed application form for joining the team from Qiu Zhang. She looked at the old but well-maintained flying broom behind her and paused for a moment, calmly. He pointed behind him.

"By the way, let me explain in advance, even if you pass the selection, our team is not yet qualified to participate - after all the Quidditch selections are over this afternoon, we still have to play a game with those returning graduates. Instructional game. If the performance is too bad, then we may have to cheer in the stands this year, so I hope-"

Irina did not continue to finish the rest of the words.

Coming from a wizarding family, she could tell that this senior girl loved Quidditch. Moreover, although everyone was used to calling them the "Hogwarts Freshman Team", in fact this team was not called "Hogwarts Freshman Team". the name.

Irina lowered her head and glanced at the silver-white wing mark on her chest.

"Hogwarts Moonlight Team... what a simple name-"

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Two hours later, the Quidditch trials for the remaining three houses began one after another.

Compared with the "freshmen teams" formed from scratch, the lineups of most colleges are relatively fixed. Rather than being an open selection for all, it is more like a special recruitment ceremony for certain "star players". .

As last year's batch of "Moonlight Demon Familiar" entered the second grade, the new era of Quidditch finally kicked off.

"Gregory Gower, Vincent Crabbe, the batting combination that played for the Moonlights last year..."

In the stands, Hermione introduced seriously to the team members behind her.

There was no suspense in the final selection result in the morning. Qiu Zhang and Ginny Weasley had an absolute advantage and became the team's chasers together with Irina Ivanovich. At this time, what was going on in the field was Selection at Leitlin College.

Unlike other colleges, the intensity and practicality of their batters' confrontations is much more ruthless.

Goyle and Crabbe hovered in the sky, dodging the flying Bludgers while swinging their bats vigorously, trying to knock down two other current Slytherin House batters - the winner joined this year The first team will start, and the loser will be transferred from the first team to the second team to serve as a daily training tool.

"It is worth noting that both of them knocked down other players last year, and assisted the main attacker Elena to complete nearly 50 knockdown attacks... Compared to the Weasley brothers of Gryffindor, their offense Much more sexual.”

boom!

Accompanied by a muffled sound.

Gall and Crabbe both expertly completed an alley-oop, shooting down Derrick as he tried to counterattack.

Immediately after taking advantage of the advantage of playing more and less, Bol's movement space was blocked, and directly through a one-for-one exchange, it was announced that the Slytherin Quidditch team's batsman position had completed the replacement of the old and the new.

"Draco Malfoy, the final data is 0/0/5, which is his knockdown assist-but compared to this somewhat bleak data, as the main chaser of the Moonlight team, he is very good for the offensive end. Most houses cause a lot of pressure. And when he becomes the Seeker of Slytherin House, he may be even more dangerous..."

Hermione glanced at Draco Malfoy who was warming up, frowned and continued the introduction.

Compared to when he first started school last year, Draco has tempered his sharpness now. He is like a poisonous snake hiding in the darkness, waiting to attack at any time. Even Hermione does not know the true strength of this little wizard now.

However, judging from his performance in class, he is at least among the top five in his grade.

…

Half an hour later.

At the tryouts for the Gryffindor House team.

"Ron Weasley served as Gryffindor's goalkeeper last year, but he should only be the substitute goalkeeper this year."

Compared to the other little wizards, Ron was undoubtedly the most depressed and unlucky one.

After all, the current Gryffindor captain, Oliver Wood, is the goalkeeper, and the beater is his twin brother. The three chasers are all female lions, and one of them seems to have a high probability of being the next captain.

"Harry Potter, Chaser last year, Seeker once in the last game."

Hermione looked at the data she had copied from Mrs. Hooch, recalling the games she had watched.

"In the team before, Harry was mainly the setter and setter for Malfoy and Hannah - he was quite good at flying. He killed the Golden Snitch in the last final and helped the Moonlight team complete a double kill. .Hmm...it seems like there are also seekers this semester..."

I have to say that Harry was indeed a bit of a jerk in last year's competition.

Of course, this can't be completely blamed on him. After all, Elena's previous way of ending the game relied on the seeker. Compared with the other little wizards, Harry doesn't have that much desire to attack or "killing intention". Heavy.

…

Another half hour later.

boom!

"Hannah Abbott, Hufflepuff's new Chaser... In the sky, half Elena..."

Hermione looked at the huge white air wave channel in the sky that Tie Hanhan had penetrated with the Quaffle. She turned her head and looked at the little guys behind her who were obviously frightened. She rubbed her temples helplessly and sighed softly. Take a breath.

"One of the favorites to win the championship this year. In short, just be careful..."

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