Chapter 127 Competition Scene
Not only the Quidditch team members but also the prefects of the four colleges paid close attention to this Quidditch match.
In fact, after all the gems in the scoring hourglass returned to the same starting line, they were more surprised than anyone else, staring at the increase and decrease of the gems all day long.
As for the Quidditch match, which was a bonus event, every prefect firmly believed that his team could win the game and thus recover some of the loss of house points.
- Even though this was a match between Slytherin and Gryffindor, and even though there were strong winds and heavy rain on the day of the match, the prefects of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff still forced their team members to arrive at the scene to figure out the tactics of both sides.
Gemma was equally nervous. She privately asked Jane to loan the Firebolt to the Slytherin team and handed over a full bag of money on the spot.
"This is my last year here. Winning a College Cup Grand Slam is my lifelong dream—"
"This way, we won't let down the ancestors of Slytherin—"
Jane Yu happily agreed to the deal, which made Flint kneel down on the spot to pay them a great tribute, and ordered their seeker Draco to catch the Golden Snitch at all costs, otherwise the stadium would be his grave.
The Quidditch captain strongly urged Jane to come and witness in person the great victory they were about to bring her, and asked her to watch carefully how they used the "latest tactics" and "the greatest broom in the world" to defeat Gryffindor.
Jane Yu found it hard to refuse the invitation, so she put on an invisibility cloak and came to the court in the pouring rain - thanks to Harry's help, she was not surrounded and blocked by the crazy crowd.
She chose a seat in the last row of the emptier spectator seats and sat down quietly.
The whole stadium was cheering, but she felt as if she was about to be blown away by the strong wind, with cold rain splashing on her face.
All the joy was theirs, and she had nothing.
But she soon couldn't help laughing out loud.
——Because the players on both sides are incredibly synchronized.
The captains of both teams, Flint and Wood, first tacitly exchanged harsh words, trying to dampen each other's arrogance before the game started.
Flint declared viciously that he had seen through all of Gryffindor's tricks and would beat them so badly that they would go home crying for their mothers; Wood was not to be outdone, shouting that he would catch Slytherin off guard and claiming that they had the guidance of an expert and had already stood at the top of Quidditch.
Thanks to the Quidditch binoculars that Dumbledore bought her, she could see the lip movements of both sides clearly.
The match officially began, and everything went smoothly - both sides scrambled for the Quaffle and took turns to control the ball, until things went wrong after Slytherin Chaser Warrington performed a Bokoff trick and the players began to use Wollongong "Zigzag" flying to confuse the Gryffindor Chasers.
"Cheating! Cheating!" Gryffindor Chaser Alicia Spinnet screamed angrily, "Slytherin stole our tactics!"
The two sides seemed to be copy-pasted with the direction reversed, which was particularly evident in their Chasers and Beaters - Fred used a trick to counter the Bludgers, and Slytherin's Beater Derek did the same thing almost at the same time; then the Beaters began to attack each other's Seekers, and the Bludgers attacked Harry and Draco one after another.
"Oh no, Marcus!" Derek yelled. "Gryffindor is using the same tactics as us!"
Then there was the neat and orderly Eagle Head attack formation. Seeing that the other side did the same, the Chasers on both sides changed their expressions and immediately switched to the Parkin's clamp tactics. Their movements were exactly the same, like twin brothers and sisters.
——This amazing synchronization immediately caused the audience to burst into laughter, and the laughter even drowned out the sound of wind and rain.
"Merlin's beard--" commentator Lee Jordan exclaimed in the commentary booth, "Do they train together on weekdays? To be able to come up with exactly the same tactics, Flint and Wood must sleep in the same bed!"
There were boos from the Slytherin and Gryffindor stands, Flint looked like he wanted to grab the Bludger and throw it at Jordan's face himself, Wood wanted to drag Jordan to the goal and let the Quaffle brainwash him - the captains of both teams had the same brain circuits, and they glared at the commentator at the same time.
In order to save Lee Jordan's life, Professor McGonagall snatched the microphone from his hand while scolding him, "Listen to what you are saying" and "There are younger students here."
The players on the field performed several identical movements, as if they were not playing Quidditch but performing a duet -
This made the audience laugh even louder.
Wood had to call for a timeout, and players from both teams landed on the muddy ground and started arguing and pushing each other.
"Despicable, shameless!" Flint was so angry that he cursed and slapped Wood on the shoulder. "You are a thief and you don't admit it! You copied our tactics... a dirty thief!"
Wood was so angry that his face turned red. He punched back, but Flint was prepared and caught it.
The Gryffindor captain roared:
"What are you quibbling about, Flint?"
"Damn it, it's you Slytherins who stole our tactics and spied on our style and you still don't admit it!"
Seeing the captains start to fight, the players on both sides did not want to be outdone, and stepped forward one after another, chest to chest, face to face, straightened their bodies, and prepared to fight -
It was not known who threw the first punch, but like a battle horn, they rolled together, grabbed the hair of an unknown player, pinched the neck of an unknown player from the opposing team or their own team, and hit each other's bodies and faces with their fists and legs.
For a moment, the venue was filled with swear words and fists. Harry's glasses flew off, Draco's hair stuck to his face in clumps, and everyone's robes were soaked by the mud and water on the ground, as if a group of mud monkeys and water ghosts were rolling on the ground.
Madam Hooch blew and blew her whistle, but she couldn't separate them by herself -
The professors screamed and rushed down the stage to help, and only then did they separate the noisy team members.
They were all bruised and swollen, and their faces were covered in mud, making it impossible to recognize their original features.
Seeing this scene, Hufflepuff Captain Cedric Diggory and Ravenclaw Captain Roger Davis simultaneously stuffed their game consoles deeper into their robes.
There were shouts, jeers, curses and occasional boos from the audience.
"Fighting in public, on the Quidditch house team—"
"Wood and Flint, you set a good example—"
Professor McGonagall scolded them angrily, and the sound of deducting points from Slytherin and Gryffindor could be vaguely heard in the air...
But Jian Yu no longer cared about all this.
She is catching the dog.
A few minutes ago, a large black dog suddenly appeared in the empty seat at the top row where she was sitting.
It moves furtively, as if avoiding human sight. Unfortunately, it didn't expect that there was a student wearing an invisible cloak here, so it bumped into Jian Yu while running quickly and fell upside down!
It has to be said that Perenal's robe embroidered with defensive magic runes is very durable. Under such a powerful impact, Jian Yu didn't even feel any pain.
She was quick to use a stunning spell to knock down the culprit -
Judging from its disheveled hair and skinny appearance, it is obviously an ownerless black stray dog!
It's simply a gift from Merlin!
Help her to have both a cat and a dog one day!
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