The Admiral of Hogwarts

October arrived, and a damp chill permeated the grounds, seeping into the castle. A cold suddenly swept through the faculty and students, keeping Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, frantically busy.

Her Pepperup Potion had an immediate effect, though those who drank it would have smoke coming out of their ears for several hours afterward.

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

This was because the biggest outward characteristic of the person who took Voldemort's Horcrux and had their life absorbed was listlessness. But now, with the flu going around, there were simply too many people who looked listless, making it impossible to judge.

On the Ravenclaw side, Hugo saw at least a third of the students with various white mists constantly rising from their heads. They looked like boiling kettles. And because the effects of the potion lasted for several hours, the entire common room was shrouded in white mist for a long time.

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

It must be said that those ship girls possessed a lot of knowledge about how to exercise the body, so in just one school year, Hermione's body became much stronger than before.

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

After hearing his older sister say this, Hugo also realized that the situation was indeed the case.

Although games similar to hopscotch or hide-and-seek were common in both the wizarding and Muggle worlds, these were all for children. It was a bit inappropriate to still play these games after entering Hogwarts.

For those students who had already entered Hogwarts to study magic, they abandoned these childhood hobbies and played some real wizarding games.

For example, Wizard's Chess, Exploding Snap, Gobstones, or various magical prank products. But without a doubt, these activities didn't involve much exercise.

The only exception was Quidditch, but flying around on brooms usually didn't consume much physical strength.

Of course, this lack of physical exertion was for ordinary students who just played casually. For the team members, the situation was different.

For example, the Ravenclaw team had formulated a detailed training plan this semester and was training according to the plan, and Veneto, considering the idea of getting along with everyone as much as possible, also participated in these trainings as much as possible. And during training, Captain Randolph quickly realized a problem.

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

"It's definitely not suitable for you to play in a match on these old school brooms. We've decided to pool money to buy a common broom for the House to lend to you temporarily."

Another important reason why there weren't many people playing Quidditch was that this competition also had high requirements for equipment. And ordinary people found it difficult to have enough funds to purchase a broom that could win in a match.

In fact, according to Hugo and the others' observations, no more than a third of the students in the entire Hogwarts owned their own flying brooms.

Since Veneto was not actively participating in the Ravenclaw team, but was invited because of her ability, it would be inappropriate for Veneto to pay for a broom that was not cheap at this time.

Fortunately, every Quidditch team had some working capital, so they were able to buy a decent broom to lend to Veneto temporarily.

"If it's for me to use, then I need a broom that is more responsive. Of course, in this case, a slightly lower speed or slightly worse handling is acceptable."

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Veneto thought for a moment and said. After all, she was a Beater, not a Seeker, so the speed requirement was not high. As for the defect of poor handling, she could completely rely on her perception and reaction abilities, which were much more sensitive than normal humans, to solve this problem.

"If that's the case, then the Cleansweep Nine is very good." After listening to Veneto's request, Captain Randolph tapped his chin with his index finger and said.

"This is a new broom that Cleansweep Company just launched this year. Although it can't compare with the Nimbus 2001, it is also 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 have to trouble you."

"It's nothing." Randolph waved his hand. "After all, everything is for the team, and this is what we should do, as long as you can stop those damn Slytherins."

This year's Slytherin team has brought too much pressure to other teams, so that even a team like Ravenclaw, which usually advocates wisdom rather than brute force, has chosen to increase the amount of training.

As long as it was a scheduled training day, the Ravenclaw team would not stop training even in windy and rainy weather, at most, they would spend more time discussing in that kind of weather.

Of course, this approach can also be said to be very Ravenclaw. After all, for Ravenclaw students, formulating appropriate plans and tactics is far more important in their eyes than in the eyes of Gryffindor and Hufflepuff.

It's just that practicing in the wind and rain is not a good idea. Even with the blessing of various protective spells, many team members inevitably caught 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 medicine.

According to the reconnaissance results of Cho Chang, this year's reserve Seeker, the Nimbus 2001 has created an overwhelming advantage for other people's brooms in Hogwarts—simply in terms of speed, others can hardly catch up. The Slytherin players now fly up like seven blurred pale green shadows, whizzing through the air like jets.

Moreover, the advantage of the Nimbus 2001 is not just that. To be precise, this is a top-level broom that surpasses the Nimbus 2000 in all aspects.

And what is even more threatening to other teams is that the Slytherins' unified broom performance makes it much easier for them to formulate tactics than other teams using mixed brooms.

Compared to the Ravenclaw team, which believed that they could smooth out the gap in equipment through some appropriate tactics, and the Hufflepuff team, which was very Buddhist and satisfied as long as they worked hard.

The Gryffindor team, which was full of a strong competitive spirit but did not have any advantages in all aspects, was now the most uncomfortable.

In addition, with Wood's unscientific training method that purely relied on quantity, everyone in the Gryffindor Quidditch team could be said to be in a very bad mood now.

So much so that Hugo and the others often saw Gryffindor Quidditch team members soaked to the skin and covered in mud returning to Hogwarts Castle, each with a tired look on their faces.