Chapter 85 Mike's First Quidditch Experience
After Roger accepted Slytherin's challenge, the substitutes for both teams began running around to prepare for the game, while Mike and other regular players also rode on their broomsticks, ready to start the game at any time.
Just as Mike was about to take off, Roger suddenly ran over and grabbed him.
"You're not really going to be the seeker in this game, are you?" Roger said worriedly.
Mike is Professor Flitwick's favorite student, and Qiu Zhang is the darling of their Ravenclaw Quidditch team and the goddess of countless little boys. Roger doesn't want to offend either side.
If Mike insists on being the seeker in this game, Roger will be in a difficult position.
Seeing Roger's worried look, Mike knew what he was worried about. He suppressed his irritability and forced a smile, saying, "Don't worry. I actually prefer the position of Beater to Seeker. Besides, we will win this game, I promise you."
Roger was relieved to see that Mike had no intention of trying to grab the position of Seeker. As for Mike's last words, he thought that Mike was just comforting him. The equipment advantage of 7 Nimbus 2001s was too great.
Lee Jordan, who was pulled in to act as a temporary referee, saw that all the players from both sides had taken off, and he also stretched out his wand and fired a beam of light into the sky to indicate the start of the game.
As this red beam shot straight into the sky, the four balls used in Quidditch games: a Golden Snitch, a Quaffle and two Bludgers, were also released from the box. The Ravenclaw and Slytherin players were like arrows from a bow, and they split into several small groups and rushed towards different balls.
At this time, due to Lee Jordan's promotion, in addition to Ravenclaw and Slytherin, many Gryffindor lions also came to the field. They could clearly see that the Ravenclaw players wearing royal blue uniforms were flying much slower than the Slytherin players wearing green uniforms.
This was even more obvious in the chasers. Compared with the Slytherin chasers, Ravenclaw's Roger and others were like toddlers. The
bright red Quaffle was extremely obvious in the air. The chasers on both sides found it at the first time. As long as they threw it into the opponent's ring, they could get 10 points.
With the huge equipment advantage, the Slytherin chasers undoubtedly grabbed the Quaffle's control, and then rushed straight to Ravenclaw's three door rings.
Roger and others who failed to compete for the control of the ball could only follow them and eat farts. With such a huge equipment advantage, the Slytherin Chasers didn't need any tactics at all. They didn't need any tactical cover, fake moves, or collisions. All they had to do was get the ball and run. The Ravenclaw Chasers couldn't catch up with them at all.
"Bang!"
Fortunately, the goalkeeper of the Ravenclaw team was very powerful. He was not afraid of Slytherin's fierce attack. He rushed up and blocked the pass made by the Slytherin Chasers to confuse him.
The Quaffle finally came into Ravenclaw's hands this time, but the Slytherin Chasers were laughing and looked nonchalant. It was not their fault. The equipment advantage was too great.
Let's talk about the Seekers. Draco was hovering over everyone's heads, carefully looking for the traces of the Golden Snitch. As a Seeker, as long as he could catch the Golden Snitch, he could directly get 150 points and end the game.
Qiu Zhang was not as comfortable as Draco. The two Slytherin Beaters did not care about their Chasers at all. Instead, they rushed to Qiu Zhang and began to harass Qiu Zhang with various body movements. Qiu
Zhang was a girl no matter how skilled she was. She was not as physically fit as boys. Facing the pursuit and interception of the two strong men from Slytherin, she was as pitiful as a butterfly flying hard in a storm.
A Ravenclaw Beater was originally following the conventional tactics to cover the Chasers, but when he saw his goddess being besieged by two big men, he immediately left Roger and others to support. However, he was riding a sweeping series, and he could not catch up with the two Slytherin Beaters at all. Even if he occasionally caught up with Qiu Zhang's delay, he could only passively take the beating in a one-on-two situation.
At this time, our Mike seemed to treat Quidditch as a speed sport, circling at a very fast speed over the wide stadium.
Roger and the others were so anxious when they saw Mike's look that they almost lost their temper. Some of the audience even started to curse. In their opinion, the most important thing Mike should do now is to support Qiu Zhang. In this match, when the Chasers had no way to deal with the opponent, only Qiu Zhang, the Seeker, could save the situation.
Mike in the sky seemed to have heard the audience's curses. He found the position of the black Bludger and dived down from the sky.
His move scared the audience. The speed of the Nimbus 2001 was very fast, and with the effect of gravity, Mike's full-speed descent was so fast that people could not see clearly.
Before everyone could react, Mike suddenly raised his broom with both hands and pulled it up again.
When the audience exclaimed, Mike was already on a parallel line with the Bludger. He held the special bat in both hands and swung it hard to hit the Bludger out.
The black Bludger made of pure iron immediately turned into a shadow and flew towards a Slytherin chaser under Mike's strong whipping. Then a scream sounded, and the Bludger hit his shoulder directly, and also knocked him off the flying broom.
Many timid spectators in the audience had covered their eyes and dared not look. It was easy to imagine what would happen if they fell to the ground from such a high height. There were often such unlucky people who died from falling in the history of Quidditch games.
However, this man was still lucky. There were many seniors and even 7th grade graduates in the audience. Their magic attainments were not weaker than those of adult wizards. Seeing that someone was in danger of life, these people took out their wands at the same time, and magical auras shot towards the stadium.
Everyone saw that the screaming Slytherin chaser who was falling freely was falling slower and slower, and was finally gently caught by a big hand made of plant vines and placed on the ground.
At this time, the Slytherin support staff also reacted and rushed into the stadium regardless of the danger of being attacked by the Bludger.
When they came to the chaser, they found that he had fainted from fear. The place where the Bludger hit his shoulder had sunk deeply, and his lower body was full of feces and urine.
Although the smell was very bad, the Slytherin support staff did not dislike him at all. One of them waved his wand and made him float up and fly quickly out of the stadium, while the others held their wands and watched the sky to prevent the sudden attack of the Bludger.