Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 217 Ghost Ball and Bludger

Without Byrne on the bench, the morale of the Gryffindor team was only slightly affected, but it still did not affect the overall situation.

After all, they still have enough equipment to crush the Slytherin House team, have strong fighting spirit, and are extremely well prepared before the game...

Anyway, this is how Wood motivated Harry and other team members.

When they came out of the locker room and walked onto the field, they were greeted by a loud noise.

Mainly cheers, as both Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff wanted to see Slytherin defeated, but boos and boos from the Slytherins could also be heard from the crowd.

Mrs. Hooch, who was in charge of arbitration, asked Flint and Wood to shake hands.

The two captains glared at each other threateningly and held each other's hands unnecessarily tightly, both of them exerting all their strength.

Seeing this, Mrs. Hooch could only shrug her shoulders, because that's how the Quidditch game is.

Before the eighth best man in Gryffindor—that is, Lee Jordan, who had the potential to be a stand-up comedian—did anything fancy in the commentary box, Mrs. Hooch announced the start of the game.

"Listen to my whistle," she counted down quickly: "Three...two...one!"

The crowd was noisy, welcoming their takeoff, and the fourteen team members jumped into the leaden sky together.

Harry flew higher than the rest of the team, squinting around, looking for the Snitch.

"Scarhead, your opponent is me!"

Draco Malfoy shouted to him.

Immediately afterwards, the young master of the Malfoy family shuttled under Harry like an arrow, seeming to show off his flying skills.

Harry made no answer to this, and he didn't bother to express anything to Draco.

Because that doesn't really make sense: Nimbus 2001 was great, but Firebolt was truly awesome and dominant!

What he has to do now is to concentrate on finding the Golden Snitch, then accelerate to throw that little piece of garbage Malfoy behind the broomstick, and then end the game smoothly.

The Firebolt can accelerate to 10 miles per hour in 150 seconds. In the face of this exaggerated acceleration ability, whether it is a cunning Golden Snitch or a despicable Slytherin-style foul, it is meaningless.

He scanned the entire arena with his glasses (but actually had excellent dynamic vision) eyes, not missing any gaps, just to discover the golden figure that would determine the outcome of the game one step ahead.

At this moment, a heavy black Bludger suddenly flew towards him. Harry flicked the broomstick, and the Firebolt made a 360-degree U-turn, smoothly letting the Bludger pass by him. The ball only flicked the edge of his robes as it flew by.

"Sorry, Harry!" George rushed up on his broom and pushed Malfoy aside. "It's Fred and I's fault. I'll treat you to butterbeer next time."

Batting bat in hand, he raced past Harry, ready to hit the Bludger at the Slytherins.

Because the game had just begun, George and Fred habitually ignored the Bludgers (which generally would not be attacked with full force at the beginning), but instead surrounded the Gryffindor women. By the Chaser's side, they were able to break the pincer-pressing strategy used by the Slytherin martial arts team.

Harry shouted to George: "It's okay with me, let's carry on as usual!"

At the same time, he also saw George hitting the Bludger hard towards Derian Pusey - the guy was preparing to imitate the classic action of violent motorcycles, constantly raising his legs to kick Angelina Johnson while flying close. ; This action is actually a variation of the Transylvanian feint. If Adrian Pusey does not actually kick the opponent player, then he does not really count as a foul - but the Gryffindor batter obviously I won't let him do "mischief".

The Bludger fell from the sky, and Derian was so frightened that he quickly retracted his right leg. The high-speed Bludger could easily break someone's body when it hit a limb.

However, no one, including the little wizards in the audience, expected that the Bludger actually changed its direction midway, turned around and flew into the sky, and flew straight towards Harry.

Fred wanted to intercept the Bludger, but it suddenly accelerated and rushed out of the hitting range of the bat.

This made Harry feel a little bad, and he quickly leaned over and moved two or three positions sideways to avoid the Bludger's "return gun".

George, who had not yet descended, rushed over and hit the Bludger with his bat. This time he "cruelly" hit the ball towards Malfoy, the new Seeker of the Slytherin team.

However, like a boomerang, the Bludger turned around again and headed straight for Harry's head.

Harry suddenly accelerated, showing the true speed of the Firebolt in front of the entire audience, and flew to the other end of the field with a "swish", trying to use the fence around the playing field, or the goal post that was twenty or thirty feet high. Such obstacles will cause the Bludger to give up targeting itself.

Yet, as he accelerated, he could still hear the Bludger whizzing in pursuit.

"What's going on?" Harry noticed something was wrong. The Bludger seemed to have targeted him, as if it had a deep grudge against him.

Seeing that Gryffindor Seeker Harry was in trouble, the happiest person on the field was Draco, who had been holding back his breath and wanted to have sex with him.

Little Malfoy waved his fist excitedly: "Hard, hard, knock him over hard."

"Stop howling, Draco!" Unexpectedly, Marcus Flint, the captain of the Slytherin team, rushed into the sky on a broomstick and stopped little Malfoy's meaningless speech. "It's time to activate the 'Ghost Air Explosion' tactic!"

After saying that, Flint took out a stainless steel wine plate from his arms, poured out some solution and applied it to his hands.

Then, as if by magic, he took out a "Quaffle" from the sleeve of his robe - but in fact, it was a Quaffle.

The so-called ghost ball is actually a ghost ball whose properties have been changed by magic. Ghost Blast is a Quidditch-like game that wizards in the Americas (especially South America) particularly like.

There is only one kind of ball in the ghost air explosion game. Before playing on the field, each player must try to throw it into a "small crucible" filled with solution at the top of the field before it explodes.

That solution is a special potion that can hinder the explosion of the ghost ball and restart its explosion countdown.

In the field of ghost air explosion, any player holding a ghost air ball will have to withdraw from the game if the ball explodes in his hands.

Few players will question this rule, because the ghost ball explodes so violently that they all have to go off the field to treat their injuries.

This "ghost blast tactic" was a rare response that Flint came up with after seeing that Gryffindor had a Nimbus 2001 and Seeker Harry also had a Firebolt. Policy.

To this end, he also searched through the "Quidditch Foul Encyclopedia" and finally confirmed that there are only: vampire bats, Muggle weapons (including but not limited to darts, crossbows, muskets and electromagnetic guns, etc.), poisonous snakes, poison dart frogs ... There are more than 400 kinds of things like this, which are not allowed to be brought into the Quidditch field and are not allowed to be taken out and used during the game.

Ghost Kongqiu is not among them!
So, before the Slytherin players came on the field, they stuffed at least two ghost balls into their robes.

If it weren't for the strong opposition of the players, Flint would even let them hide three ghost balls on their bodies. After all, it's not like you can't hide things in your crotch.

At first, he wanted to have his players take out a ghost ball that looked exactly like the Quaffle to interfere with the game when the game was in an anxious state, or after the monster batsman Byrne came on the field. Llanffindor players.

"Boys, blast it hard and score as hard as you can!" Flint yelled and threw down a ghost ball he was carrying.

Others followed suit, one, two, three... Slytherin dropped a total of seven ghost balls.

As a result, there were eight quaffles on the field (plus the original real quaffle) that looked exactly the same. Unless detected by magic, there was no difference at all.

Every Slytherin player, like Flint, had already rubbed that special potion on their hands, so they didn't have to worry about the ghost ball exploding in their hands.

The Gryffindor players obviously did not expect their opponents to have this move. There were eight Quaffles flying around on the field, making it impossible for them to tell which ball was real and which was fake.

The brave and fierce Wood was the first to be struck. There's nothing you can do about it: he's a goalkeeper.

Other Gryffindor players might have chosen not to touch the extra Quaffles, but when faced with the "Quaffles" maliciously thrown by the Slytherins toward the goal, he could only try his best to knock them away. .

With a "bang" explosion, the leather gauntlet on Wood's forearm exploded into pieces, and he was unable to lift one of his arms.

"Up, up, up!" Seeing that Wood had to land on the lawn, Marcus Flint excitedly gave the order to the others.

"They are cheating, this is a shameless sneak attack with no sportsmanship!"

The commentator Lee Jordan stood up in anger, holding a loudspeaker in one hand and pointing at the Slytherin players on the field with international friendly gestures.

He took one leg out of the railing of the commentator's platform, and looked at his posture as if he was about to roll into the field and punish the Slytherins with actual actions.

Professor McGonagall picked up his collar and dragged him back behind the explanation desk. This place was three or four stories above the ground. She couldn't let a little lion who was blinded by anger go crazy.

Fortunately, Mrs. Hooch took action quickly. She used magic to stop the Slytherins' crazy score-raising behavior while taking advantage of the lack of a goalkeeper.

Not only that, the referee also paused the game, put all the ghost balls and quaffles on the lawn, and used magic to detonate the ghost balls that had not had time to detonate.

She threatened seriously: "Take out all the ghost balls hidden on your body. I will only count to five times, and then I will cast a spell on you to detonate those things!"

It was precisely because of her harsh words that the Slytherin snakes were frightened and took out all the remaining ghost balls - others only took out one, while Flint took out Two, this guy really has another ghost ball hidden in his crotch! ! !

"Bang, bang, bang--!" Mrs. Hooch detonated them one after another.

"I protest," Flint took the lead in expressing his dissatisfaction with the referee: "I checked the "Quidditch Foul Book" and there is no explicit prohibition on players carrying ghost balls when they play. This is our tactic, and I request an appeal. arbitration……"

"Shut up!"

Mrs. Hooch gave a rare scolding to a young wizard, and then she actually summoned a "Quidditch Foul Encyclopedia" from the rostrum with a flying spell, and slapped the cover directly into Flint's face.

"Did you see what's written on the cover? 'The content of this book is a summary of past situations. It is inevitable that there will still be gaps in the future. If there is an emergency on the field, all penalty power will still belong to the referee', I prohibit you from continuing to use this tactic. Who is for it and who is against it?"

To be fair, the fine print was indeed very small and inconspicuous.

But no matter how stupid Flint is, he will not risk the team being targeted by Mrs. Hooch for one or even several seasons just to unreasonably mess up the three points.

He surrendered decisively.

However, regarding the previously established fact - taking advantage of goalkeeper Wood's dismissal, the Slytherin team scored several goals in succession - Mrs. Hooch also opened the net and did not count it as invalid.

It started to rain, and big drops of rain hit the faces of the players and spectators. The commentator Lee Jordan announced the score to everyone in a helpless tone that was very appropriate for the situation: "Slytherin" Against Gryffindor, sixty to zero, Slytherin is temporarily in the lead...@%￥￥#”

The magic loudspeaker automatically muffled the trash talk he spouted, and the sound of "beep beep beep" sounded for more than ten seconds before it stopped.

This is because Professor McGonagall couldn't stand it anymore and used magic to silence the commentator from her college.

After losing the goalkeeper, Wood's replacement also came on. It was a boy named Pinnet. His figure was somewhat similar to that of Charlie, the second brother of the Weasley brothers. He was not too tall but had broad shoulders. He looked very strong.

However, perhaps because he rarely played in official games and because Pinnet was actually only a fourth-year "newcomer", he still seemed to have difficulty dealing with Slytherin's ferocious offensive.

Therefore, Fred, one of Gryffindor's two batters, had to hover around him, occasionally using his body to block the quaffles (beaters) thrown by the Slytherin Chasers. You can only hit the ball with a bat on the field, and you can't actively hit the Quaffle).

As a result, the pressure was put on the other batter, George: he was now struggling to deal with the Bludger that was chasing Harry.

"This is so fucking awesome."

George gritted his teeth and took advantage of the turning opportunity to once again catch up with the crazy Bludger and knock it away from Harry's head.

That Bludger flew too fast.

Its straight-line speed is only slightly slower than Harry's Firebolt, but much faster than Nimbus 2001, so George can only defend Harry when turning.

If anyone wants to ask: Why doesn't Harry wave the Bludger open by himself?
Because the bludger is iron! Do! of!
Its diameter is about 10 inches, which is about 25.4 centimeters, which means the radius of the Bludger is about 12.7 centimeters.

According to the sphere volume formula, the volume of the bludger is approximately 8575 cubic centimeters and the mass is approximately 67 kilograms.

Of course, the Bludger may not be solid, and its mass is actually only 24 or 25 kilograms.

And its flying speed on the field (it can catch up with Firebolts) is much faster than during normal games, even surpassing Nimbus 2001. Because the latter's maximum speed is about 80 meters/second, which is almost 60 meters/second under normal conditions, the most conservative estimate of the speed of this bludger is more than 60 meters/second.

what is this concept?

Use a picture to understand:
Although the wizard has to teach magic - otherwise George wouldn't be able to use the bat to hit the bludger like a cannonball fired from a sailing battleship's gun.

But manpower has its limits after all.

Without being able to cast spells with his wand, George simply couldn't imagine what would happen to their team's Seeker if the Bludger hit Harry?
Broken bones and tendons are all too optimistic.

"George, please leave me alone and go help other team members." Harry had a vague idea about this Bludger that had been targeting him.

Of course, the main reason was that George's "guard" was so hardcore that the feeling of the bat grazing his hair gave him goosebumps.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" George disagreed with Harry's idea, "You don't want to be hit in the head by this little broken ball..."

Harry thought to himself: "I don't want to be knocked unconscious by your stick either."

Of course, he didn't say these words, but only responded with practical actions——

"What is Harry doing? He seems to have discovered the Golden Snitch!" Lee Jordan yelled on the commentary table.

"Really? Under such circumstances, he can still find that golden figure? Merlin bless you, he is indeed a powerful Gryffindor, great!"

With the help of the eighth man off the field, the atmosphere in the field that had been "sick" due to rain was suddenly rekindled.

The little wizards in the stands immediately picked up telescopes if they could, and if they couldn't, they set up awnings and tried their best to follow Harry Potter with their eyes as he swooped down from the sky above the stadium to the ground.

"Scarhead, come back!" Draco followed angrily and launched a dive. He also thought that Harry had found the Golden Snitch.

However, Harry was not what they thought, he was just doing a Wonski fake. His Firebolt pierced the ground at an extremely fast speed in order to allow the Bludgers behind him to keep up with him. And that heavy iron ball did exactly that. Even because of the effect of gravity, it fell faster than during the previous chase. It gradually bit the tail of the Firebolt...

(End of this chapter)