Chapter 217 Ghost Ball and Bludger (page 12)
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.