HP meets at Hogwarts

Chapter 13 Quidditch

Another week passed, and by Friday the whole school was discussing Saturday's Quidditch match.

This was Harry's first match since being called up to join the Gryffindor Quidditch team.And this match is Gryffindor vs Slytherin.If Gryffindor beat Slytherin in this game, Gryffindor's ranking will become No.2 and it is expected to win the Quidditch Cup.

Saturday came as promised. This day is a rare good weather since winter, and the sun did not continue to hide behind the clouds.The game started at 11 o'clock, and the stands were full of people by 10:[-].

By the time Ann arrived in the stands to sit next to Fanny at 10:50, nearly the whole school was there.

The Quidditch game is played on two football field-sized stadiums surrounded by stands. There are three 50-foot-high gold poles at each end of the court. There are rings on the top of the poles. Broomsticks fly in the air against teams of seven, each with a keeper, three Chasers, two batsmen and a Seeker.As a ball game, the most peculiar thing about "Quidditch" is that it uses three different balls to play at the same time: a red ball that is as big as a football and more like an ordinary ball is the "Quaffle", and the Chaser They pass the "Quaffle" to each other, try to pass it through each other's ring, and get 10 points each time, and the goalkeeper is responsible for guarding their team's ring; The black balls are called "bludgers" and they fly around by themselves, always trying to knock players off the broom, and the batsman is responsible for protecting teammates from being hit by the "bludgers" and hitting them at the other side The player; a golden ball the size of a large hazelnut with silvery wings is the Snitch, which flies as fast as lightning, and it's the Seeker's job to catch it.When the Snitch is caught, the team that catches it scores 150 points and a Quidditch match is over.

Ann glanced at the entire stand. Except for Slytherin, the other three houses held Gryffindor flags and shouted words like Gryffindor Come on.

"It seems that Slytherin is really not welcome at Hogwarts~" Ann whispered.

Fanny sat upright beside Ann, but her neck was stretched out and she stared at the field.

Malfoy and the Slytherin first-years were crowded into the front row of the stands, shouting across the field, "Slytherin! Slytherin!"

Next to Slytherin is Gryffindor. There is a huge banner in the first row of the Gryffindor stands, with a huge red lion painted on it, and the words Harry must win. The paint on the banner flashes differently. The brilliance of color.Behind the banner are excited Hermione, Ron, Neville and a group of Gryffindor freshmen.

At 11 o'clock on time, players from both sides came to the center of the venue amidst the cheers of the audience.Mrs. Hooch was the referee for the game.

After a brief pre-match introduction, Mrs. Hooch blew the whistle, and the players from both sides flew into the air immediately.

As the game started, An took out two binoculars from her schoolbag.Handed one to Fanny, "Here you are."

"Aren't you not interested in Quidditch? This?"

"I received it this morning. Aaron was so excited about the Quidditch match. He sent me a few binoculars and left me a letter saying that if he broke them during the cheering, he still had... anyway. It’s sent, don’t use it in vain~”

"..."

After seeing the details of the game clearly, Ann suddenly understood why Slytherins were not popular anymore. Most of the time, they fouled deliberately so that the opponent would not get points, and Quidditch rules do not punish people for fouls. end.

Halfway through the game, the Snitch hadn't been spotted.Ann stared at the three pillars beside Slytherin with the binoculars. It was too tiring to chase people with the binoculars. She thought, anyway, the main points to watch for the ball were basically near the pillars.

Fanny suddenly exclaimed, she tugged on La Ann's sleeve, "Ann, look quickly, something seems to have happened to Harry Potter?"

"Where is it?" Ann looked in Fanny's direction, sure enough, Harry was holding his broom tightly in the air, and his broom kept shaking in the air.

Then, the whole audience seemed to notice Harry's broom, because his broom had started to flip over and over in the air.Someone started to scream, and the Gryffindor Weasley brothers tried to get close to Harry to rescue him, but every time he got close to the broom, his broom only shook more violently.

Ann immediately looked towards the teacher's stand, and Professor Quirrell was staring at Harry intently, muttering something.The Dark Lord is about to move, Anxin thought.

Suddenly there was another exclamation on the field, and Harry fell off the broom and was hanging in the air with one hand on the broom.

Ann looked into the Gryffindor stands, and Hermione was no longer in the stands.Ann looked at Professor Quirrell again, just in time to see Hermione knocking Professor Quirrell down.

That's all right, Ann thought.She looked back at Harry.High in the air, Harry had already climbed back to the broom, but he was covering his mouth and diving towards the ground. When he stood bent over on the ground, he kept coughing, and a golden object fell into his hand.

"I caught the Snitch!" he yelled, straightening up, holding the Snitch high above his head.The match was over, with Gryffindor winning the match with 170 points to Slytherin's sixty.

The audience stood up and applauded Harry except for the Slytherin house, and quite a few people in Slytherin applauded, but everyone who applauded drew a sharp stare from Malfoy.

Fanny applauded too, but Malfoy didn't stare at her.Ann didn't applaud, she was looking at the teacher's table curiously, Professor Snape's robe seemed to be on fire, and he was trying to put out the fire angrily.It's rare, Professor Snape also has this expression, Ann thought.

Shortly after the Quidditch match ended, Hogwarts entered December, the weather was getting colder, and Christmas was getting closer.Ann's mood became better and better as Christmas approached, especially when she received a letter from Aaron at breakfast five days before Christmas.

Dear Ann, Christmas is coming soon, I have received the relevant documents from the Ministry of Magic, and the documents from the Muggle world will be sent to me three days before Christmas.I have a job arranged and I can go to the orphanage anytime three days before Christmas and get everything sorted out for you.But I think you'll need some time to say goodbye or do something with your Muggle friends.I will give you the right to choose. You can see when it is better for me to come to the orphanage to pick you up.As for our future home, it is located at 12 Shaftesbury Avenue, West London. The house has three floors. The first floor is the living room and dining room. I built a small greenhouse for you in the yard. The second floor is my bedroom and Studio, the third floor is your bedroom and studio.I think you'll love that studio.By the way, we still have an empty basement, I have some fantastic animals in it, but there is still a large area tidied up for you.I can't wait to meet Ann, please write back as soon as possible.Love your Uncle Aaron.

Ann is very excited about having a small space of her own soon. For an adult, living in an orphanage makes her very helpless. When she was still in the orphanage, she always thought that she had to graduate from high school and work hard to have a small world. .And now, she enters the magical world and realizes a world that is completely different from the physical one.A large part of this comes from Aaron, and this time she got a small world of her own.The words Aaron used in the letter, our home, warmed Ann's heart. After experiencing death and coming to a new world, she became an orphan. She thought she would never have family affection again, but Aaron appeared .

Humans are group animals, and they will cherish the things they have lost.

She quickly wrote Aaron back after thinking about it for a while.

Dear Uncle Aaron, I'm very glad to hear this news. Hogwarts will be closed three days before Christmas. Then I want to go back to the orphanage. I still have some things to take out there.I think you can pick me up two afternoons before Christmas, I need to set aside a morning to explain this to Jill and give her my home address.studio?I'm looking forward to it.Maybe we can go to Diagon Alley after Christmas and do some shopping.Love you Ann.

Because of the letter, An was in a good mood all day.So when she was stopped by Hermione on the way to the restaurant for dinner with Fanny, she didn't directly refuse to go, but followed Hermione to the back of a stone pillar.

"Ann, I want to ask your personal name!" Hermione said directly.

Ann was stunned for a second, thinking for a while that answering a name should not involve too much, but she still planned to listen to what Hermione said first, "Say it."

"Nicole May, do you know?"

"Him? Dumbledore the Chocolate Frog has his name on the back of the card. I don't know more about it." Ann felt that there should be no problem with a name printed on the back of the card.But she still asked curiously, "Why are you asking him? Your history of magic homework?"

Hermione just lit up her eyes, said thank you, and left.

When Ann returned to the table, Fanny was cutting up a black pepper steak.Seeing Ann sitting down, she asked curiously, "What does she want from you?"

"She asked for a name, Nicolas May, and I told her I'd seen that name in Dumbledore's card on the Chocolate Frog."

"The great alchemist Nicolas, why is she asking this?"

"She left after asking, do you know him?"

"The great alchemist Nicolas, the only wizard who created the Sorcerer's Stone. He is a legendary figure. It is said that our Principal Dumbledore is a friend of him."

Ann shook her hand holding the fork, and dropped a small piece of baked potato onto the table, "What Sorcerer's Stone?"

"It's the legendary Philosopher's Stone that can make people live forever."

"Oh..." An, who had no change in expression, scolded herself severely in her heart.How can you relax your vigilance just because you are in a good mood?Thankfully only the origin of one name has been revealed.

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I spent a few hours today making character cards for some characters, and it feels great!