war and peace

In the knockout round of the next sixteen, the Welsh team's opponent is Ecuador, which is second in Group D.Compared to the "death" Group G where Ireland, Argentina and the Federal Republic of Germany are in, Group D can also be called a "death group" in another sense-except for Bulgaria, the level of the other three teams They are all about the same, but if you just change any other team from other groups to Group D, they will probably wake up laughing in the middle of the night-Ecuador, Lithuania, and Nigeria are the bottom three in the group stage (Harry really doesn’t want to think about the England team record).So the Welsh team's entry into the quarter-finals is almost a certainty, without any suspense.

Wales v Ecuador is scheduled for the second round of the round, so Harry has plenty of time to watch the remaining key games.Their next match was Bulgaria vs. Uganda, and Krum caught the Snitch at 21:[-], earning ovations from the crowd.Harry sat in the front row with the rest of the Welsh team and saw through binoculars the rising Krum scanning the stands.

"It must be looking for you, Harry!" A team member reminded Harry.

Krum's eyes quickly settled in their direction, and the white and green uniform of the Welsh team was very eye-catching.Harry put down the binoculars and said nothing.

He was seen by Krum as a worthy opponent... not in terms of girlfriends, but in his field of expertise, as a challenge from a world-renowned Quidditch Seeker... Harry thought It was full of a feeling that only existed in dreams before, wanting to participate in the competition immediately, enjoying the tension at the touch of a button, chasing the wind and the golden ball, victory is just around the corner... He said to himself in his heart, he must fight with Krum Fight a fight, no matter how difficult it is...

In the next few days, in addition to training, Harry watched a few more games.Ireland took the United States with an unrivaled Chaser score, while Brazil narrowly won and caught the Snitch when the score was about to be overtaken by Luxembourg.

"Harry, you are simply our savior!" After the quarter-final matches came out, the entire Welsh team, from the coach to the players, hugged Harry fiercely. "Since you came, our game has been triumphant all the way!"

Harry could barely catch his breath, they were so hard.Looking back, the opponent is the Transylvania team.No wonder everyone is so excited. The strength of the Transylvania team is comparable to that of the remaining teams, and they are not considered a strong enemy; more importantly, they beat the England team home before, and it was a very embarrassing defeat. score.Harry was very skeptical, just because of this, the Welsh team couldn't lose to them, otherwise they would probably be drowned by the spit of fans all over Britain.

The quarter-finals began a day after Argentina's crushing victory over Iceland.The Slovenia-Ireland match was played outside Manchester.It has to be said that Ireland's Chasers are the best in the world for half a century, with skilled skills and tacit cooperation. Coupled with the world's first-class broom and Firebolt, they can only be described as "scoring weapons".

Wales' game was second, consistently in a hidden valley at the foot of the Brecon Beacons.When Harry entered the arena with the team, cheers were overwhelming.He wasn't too shocked to find that the stadium was packed with crowds that rivaled those of a World Cup final.Of course, many of them are British fans. After all, everyone hopes to see Wales beat Transylvania, so that they can express their feelings.

Harry squinted his eyes and looked up to the stands. Tom was looking at him with a smile, and his impetuous mood just now calmed down immediately.Hermione waved furiously beside Tom.Voldemort is a must for his matches, anyway, he bears the title of "Harry's best friend at Hogwarts", and he doesn't even need an excuse for secret protection.And Hermione, who had never been interested in Quidditch, finally couldn't hold back her curiosity about Harry's games, ended her summer vacation early, and lived with Harry in Roald Manor.

Must win!Harry said so to himself as he straddled his broom.

At first, the Transylvania hitters had their eyes on Harry.This is the consequence of the consistent strategy. After watching the Welsh team's previous games, they basically focus on marking Harry as a dangerous seeker.If there is an obvious gap in strength between the two Seekers, the best way for the poor side to win is of course not to let the Chasers tie the ball very ten times, but to solve the opponent's Seekers early in the morning——

No, within 10 minutes of the game, Harry had already dodged no less than five Bludgers.It has to be said that the overall quality of the Transylvania team is higher than that of the Uganda team. At least they still have the same score as the rest of the Welsh team with two less batsmen.As for Harry, he didn't mind hitting the goalposts or the ground with the Transylvanians who were trying to make him suffer.His actual combat ability has increased a lot now, and he is more comfortable in controlling increasingly faster speeds and more and more complicated situations, accelerating and turning without hesitation.This trick has been tried and tested, and it has greatly increased the workload of the doctors on the field.

"Harry, you're amazing!" Hermione said excitedly to him after the game. "Several times I thought you would hit it...but it turned out that someone else did!"

Harry grinned happily at the compliment.They had already returned to Roald Manor at this time, and they were sitting around a white carved round table drinking fruit juice.The faint moonlight poured down, surrounded by a never-ending sea of ​​tulip flowers.

Wales beat Transylvania 240-110 to advance to the semi-finals.The result of the two quarter-finals in Manchester was that Bulgaria beat the Netherlands by a big score, while Brazil and Argentina have yet to catch the Golden Snitch, and the score continues to be stalemate.The semi-finals would not continue until the day after they had decided the winner, so Harry rarely had some free time to chat with Hermione after training.

Tom frowned. "It won't work like this," he said. "If you continue with this tactic, you might be defeated by them every time...Everyone is watching your every move, trying to get you off the broom."

"I can handle it," Harry promised hastily.

Tom stared at him, frowning even tighter. "Don't think I can't see it! Today's game will be more strenuous than the last game against Uganda. What about the next game? If it's like the Irish team, can you guarantee that?"

Harry was momentarily at a loss for words.Well, the Irish team is indeed a lot better than the Transylvania team, and their next game is likely to be against the Irish team.

"According to their speed, the game can only be won by catching the snitch at the beginning of the game..." Tom continued to analyze, "the world record time for the fastest catch of the golden snitch can beat them, Harry."

"Less than a second? Isn't there no chance?" Hermione exclaimed.She thought for a while, "Maybe it doesn't need to be that exaggerated, but the Irish team is likely to score 150 points in two and a half minutes. This is a conservative estimate. And there are various unexpected situations that may happen, such as being entangled, Surrounded, shot..." She fell silent suddenly, because Tom was staring at her with indescribable eyes, which made her feel like falling into an ice cave in the midsummer weather.

Seeing this situation, Harry quickly changed the subject.Voldemort was worried about his personal safety, but he was a little too nervous. "Well, although I really want to win, I will definitely do what I can, and I will never let myself suffer any harm!"

Tom snorted, evidently in disbelief. "A Gryffindor knows what it means to do what he can?" The savior he knew always had a drive, and he had to do what he wanted to do, no matter how difficult and dangerous it was.And compared to anyone else's safety and life, the least important thing is his own.

Being pointed at the essence again... Harry was a little embarrassed. "I know I'm a little impulsive..." he said finally, and Hermione, who was about to say something, gave him a surprised look, "but if there is such a choice, I don't want to disappoint those around me. "

A pair of dark green eyes stared at each other for a few seconds.Tom's frosty face finally softened, "Remember what you said yourself, Harry."

The game between Brazil and Argentina finally came to an end after a day and night, and Brazil narrowly won.The matchup table for the semi-finals will be released shortly thereafter, with Ireland v Wales and Bulgaria v Brazil, which will be played near Manchester and Ronda at the same time.

At this time, there were only two weeks left before the start of Hogwarts, and Harry received more and more cheering letters.Most of the students wished him good luck, as long as he can play at his best level, after all, the Irish team is obvious to all.Coach Terry also said to Harry, just try your best, and it is an unimaginable result for them to enter the semi-finals.But Harry is not satisfied, is there really no other way?Everyone told him that, but he felt that he had to do something.

"... unless you catch the Snitch at the beginning of the game, you can win the game..." Harry's mind suddenly popped out.So far, few people have been able to catch the Golden Snitch at the beginning of the game, because if they can be so successful, then they don't need other players to do anything, just finish it in a second.The world record is even less than one second. Although everyone firmly believes that this kind of thing happens mostly depends on luck rather than strength...but he doesn't want to break this record. to the golden snitch.But Hermione also said that there will be various accidents during the game. The Irish team can score 150 points in two and a half minutes conservatively. It is best for him to catch the Snitch in the first minute, before their tactics take effect. .

If he was able to do this when the two were confronting each other, what was missing now was other interference factors in multiplayer matches.Coach Terry arranged for him to train with multiple people, but the level of those people is obviously not as good as that of the Irish team.Harry thought of the Quidditch game model that Sirius gave him, which could replay various real-life games in three dimensions.If only he could get smaller..just put the Ireland game tape in..

Harry, who figured out a way, excitedly went to Voldemort to learn a new transformation spell.

So in the semi-finals of the World Cup, there was a scene that everyone talked about for a long time.Within half a minute of the game between Ireland and Wales, the result came out—thirty to 150.When the referee blew his whistle to indicate the end of the game, the players on both sides didn't react.

The Irish Chasers, Moran, Troy, and Mallett, were in a hawk-headed attacking formation, froze on the way to the fourth ball; Walking the ball to Harry, because their Chasers clearly had no pressure to score, and Lynch the Seeker, he could have sworn to Merlin, he just thought it was silly to use the Ronsky feint in the first place— Turns out it wasn't a feint.A group of people looked at each other, and they all saw shock on each other's faces: they imagined many situations, but they didn't consider that Harry could end the game in the first minute.

No one in the Welsh team expected this result.The Irish were attacking so ferociously that they couldn't help themselves and could only hope that Harry avoided the big balls as cleverly as he had done on previous occasions.He has good skills, but after all, he is still young, so it is hard to say that he was hit.If something happens, it is commonplace to break a bone, and it will be miserable... They still don't imagine it.

Harry raised the struggling Golden Snitch in his right hand and slowly went up, with a triumphant smile on his face.He succeeded, grabbing the opening opening -- the riskiest, most unlikely tactic no one expected him to employ.The stadium was boiling, everyone stood up and shouted Harry's name, even the fans who wore four-leaf clover hats were cheering for him.This game will always be a miracle in the history of Quidditch in the world, and they have witnessed this miracle with their own eyes.

In the audience, Voldemort showed a helpless smile.Exactly as he had thought... Harry had thought of what he wanted to do when he was learning the shrinking spell with him.And the boy did it...he wasn't surprised by it, but proud of the boy.His boy is spreading his wings step by step and will soon be able to soar in the sky.