novelraw Chapter 132 Cedric's Trouble
Chapter 132 Cedric's Trouble
Hogwarts' recognized good old man - Cedric Diggory has been depressed recently.
Quidditch has always been a crazy sport in the wizarding world. Whether it is a team coach, manager or fans, they will always talk about death threats and stare at players who do not perform well.
Own goals and so on have long been out of the "embarrassment of the game" list. The Quidditch field for more than 1000 years has witnessed various disasters-such as the batter who knocked out his own goalkeeper, except for the seeker. Other players "accidentally" caught the Golden Snitch (this is a violation of the rules, and your team will be directly sentenced to lose). *
For players, especially national team players, Quidditch is indeed a sport that is life-threatening at any time, but being attacked to death by fans with a curse is the most shameful way to die.
Especially the players who "all on their own" cost the entire team a game - better to hide when it's over.
Cedric used to not understand the hoarseness of those national team players after losing the game, but now he understands, and it is even very possible to experience this extreme despair firsthand - just in Devon, England At the 422nd Quidditch World Cup held in Dartmoor, in front of wizards from all over Britain and the world...
No one understands why Barty Crouch, Director of the Department of International Magic Exchange and Cooperation, and Ludo Bagman, Director of the Department of Sports and Sports of the Ministry of Magic, suddenly decided to make the warm-up before the World Cup finals by the traditional auspicious The animal performance was changed into a school team exhibition competition of magic schools in various countries.
As a result, all the teachers and students of Hogwarts, and even the wizards of the whole of Britain, are staring at their improvised school-level team. This makes Cedric feel more terrible than last year's OWL exam that made all the fifth-grade students suffer. .
In the past week, the professors didn't even give homework to the players who have already been selected for the school team.
What's more, Professor McGonagall, an avid Quidditch fan, gave him a few encouraging (but also hard) shoulders every time he saw him in the corridor.
"Come on! Good boy! You are the most qualified person to be the captain!"
Cedric decided to avoid her from now on.
For Professor McGonagall's encouragement, Cedric's heart was broken, and he really wanted to protest loudly to the dean of Gryffindor - "Obviously the captain should be Wood of your college!"
Unlike most Hogwarts students, Cedric understood that Oliver Wood, captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, the original Hogwarts captain, had passed on the responsibility to I am definitely not letting the virtuous.
Wood understood that because of his Gryffindor status, he was naturally at odds with Slytherin, and Marcus Flint and the substitute Seeker Draco Malfoy obviously didn't listen to him.
Originally Cedric was not so pessimistic—he had never been such a pessimistic person.He was quite excited when he first learned that there was an exhibition competition for school teams from various countries. This was a good opportunity to communicate with outstanding wizards from other countries.
However, when he saw that the current invincible team, which supposedly gathered the elite of the whole school, was still in disarray, he gave up hope for the result of the exhibition match.
Just like now, at the first group meeting held on the field, as expected, the Gryffindors represented by the Weasley twins, and the Slytherins represented by Flint and Malfoy were exchanging ideas. Opening with an eye knife.
At least they didn't draw out their wands and greet each other with jinxes.
As for the reason why Malfoy is here, it is because the Slytherins are actually willing to contribute the few Nimbus 2001s they sponsored by the old Malfoy—of course, there is a condition, that is, some exhibition games must let the substitute Malfoy play.
If you can't even hold a meeting calmly, how can you cooperate with each other to play?Cedric wanted to touch his forehead, and looked at Wood again with resentful eyes.
"We're a team now," he said, as softly as possible, "and we have to come together and get rid of those academy prejudices -- not throw shame in front of [-] people from all over the world."
"Are we really going to play in that newly built stadium? The one that can hold [-] spectators? Thinking about that number, I feel like I'm going to throw up..." The substitute goalkeeper, another Wayne from Gryffindor Sly—Ron, looked pale again.
His game has been arbitrarily switching between the extremes of "world-class" and "freshman just on the broom", and there is no middle state.
"Come on, Ron, look at your face, you're wrinkled like a screaming Mandrake again. It's not your turn unless Oliver Wood and No. [-] backup Cormike McLaggen* both He was crushed to death by the opponent's Bludger." Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Ginny was right." The twins said in unison.
Cedric nodded helplessly, feeling that "helpless" could already sum up his overall mood in the next few months, "Very...inspiring speech, Ginny. I believe Wood and McLaggen will try their best to ensure that they are not crushed to death ..."
“I think it’s a lot more fun than a mascot show,” Angelina Johnson shrugged. “Aren’t you excited to give the next generation of players a chance to play on a world-class course—world-class course?! "
"Seriously, who wants to see a ghost show in Haiti? It's hard to say which country is the weirdest. As far as I know, Nigeria's mascot is a kind of vampire." Angelina flicked her ponytail, full of energy, "I don't know It was the idea of some official at the Ministry of Magic, to whom I am personally very grateful."
"Father said that after a sudden meeting one day, Crouch made his decision. He didn't listen to any objections." Cedric answered for Angelina.
"More than half of British wizards are protesting this change—they just want to see Bulgarian Veela, man... tsk." Ginny shook her head contemptuously.
The tall Slytherin Quidditch captain - Marcus Flint pouted at this, unable to hide his disappointment.
Because this time the best is selected, most of the female student players' physical fitness is not as good as that of boys in the trials, and the only position that requires flying skills more than physical fitness already has Cedric.
So Angelina was the only girl in the starting lineup, but under the leadership of Cedric, the selection competition was completely open, fair and transparent, so no one from the female student union protested.
Cedric Diggory, Captain Hufflepuff, wasn't the most Quidditch gifted and talented of them all, but he was indispensable, and no one said it, but everyone knew it— Between the Gryffindor and Slytherin players who can be lit at any time, a good old Hufflepuff is needed as a buffer.
After many rounds of competition, the batsmen finally settled on the Weasley twins-the tacit cooperation between them was unmatched by the stronger Slytherin batsmen.
The final Hogwarts starting lineup was: Cedric Diggory - Seeker and Captain, The Weasley Twins - Beaters, Roger Davies, Marcus Flint, Ann Gilina Johnson - Chaser, Wood - Keeper.
Gryffindor, which has not won the school-level Quidditch trophy for many years, can be shortlisted so many players in the starting lineup this time, which also reveals their obvious disadvantage in recent years-the lack of a seeker.
Ginny Weasley would have been promising, but she was only in her second year and had only been selected to the team this year.
Every position has at least one substitute: Seekers' substitutes - Ginny Weasley, Draco Malfoy; Batsmen's substitutes are some muscular Slytherin men; Chasers are many more Now, Cedric has a company ready.
Anyway, everyone is going to watch the finals. Adding a few more substitutes can not only appease the mood of the unselected players, but also improve the morale of the players-this is not a scheming, it is called overall planning...
"In the quarter-finals, we should be able to face the United States..." The substitute goalkeeper Ron Weasley checked the schedule booklet.
"Then can we meet Harry Potter! She must be one of the team members!" Ginny's expectation was clearly written on her face.
Cedric himself was looking forward to it, but it wasn't as obvious as Ginny's performance—ahem, how embarrassing it is.
He could see that the eyes of a few boys were also brightened-in fact, Harry Potter is indeed one of the highlights of this year's World Cup that has been circulated in the UK and even in Europe-after all, not every third-grade student can have the following A Quidditch move named after himself - even if that move is very unorthodox.
Father was one of the opponents of Harry Potter's actions - he read the newspaper with a frown, thinking that the girl was just showing off.
"Too long in the Muggle world!"
"Where is this playing Quidditch!"
"Why don't we just paint the Quaffle in black and white! Then everyone kicks it into the net! Rename it Muggle Football!"
"That's football, not football... Dad..."
Trailblazers and leaders will be attacked by most conservatives at the beginning-Cedric himself is very optimistic about Harry Potter.
"You can definitely beat her!"
"It's just a little girl's film!" The father continued.
"Victor Krum's successor?" He snorted, "I didn't expect our traditional European magic world to degenerate to such an extent——we actually started to appreciate the American style of play!"
Cedric didn't care much about the result—he didn't plan to engage in Quidditch after graduation, and his father had too high demands on him—he hoped that after graduation, he could enter the Ministry of Magic according to his wishes; Hope Diggory's surname shines at the World Cup...
The author has something to say:
* Played his own goalkeeper and other players caught the Snitch, both appeared in the 2014 quarter-finals.
*Cormike McLaggen is the one who chased Hermione in Harbin (at the Christmas party in Slughorn's club, he wanted to kiss Hermione under the mistletoe), his goalkeeping skills are not bad, but he is more arrogant, Not very cooperative.
* Actually found the broom used by the United States (the official broom of the national team) in the entry of the American Quidditch national team - "StarsweeperXXI"
I don’t know how to read it, Star Cry 21? Emmm, let's do this first, which reader will greatly improve the translation.