Chapter 892 The Dark Clouds in the Sky

As Quidditch season approaches, it's not just the seniors who are getting anxious.

If students in fifth grade and above carry a layer of "irritable" status by default, then all players on the Quidditch team also have such a status, and this situation is still in Gryffindor House. Will get double bonus.

After all, as the most active house in Hogwarts, they are definitely the most stressed before the exam.

On the other hand, the schedule of the new season has also cast a layer of confusion in the hearts of Gryffindors.

“We’re going to have our first game on Saturday!”

Before Percy Weasley could answer his two twin brothers, the arch of the lounge suddenly opened, and a tall and burly boy walked in from the outside, speaking in a hoarse voice with indescribable fatigue in his voice.

"We must increase our training intensity, guys, as long as we can win the first game..."

"...That means we are only one step away from the championship. We all understand the truth. Oliver, you are almost echoing these words in our ears, but there is one thing you must also know - "

Percy Weasley glanced at his two younger brothers who were winking at him and sighed helplessly.

He put down the book in his hand, walked up to Oliver Wood, and patted the current captain on the shoulder.

"Based on our current strength and level of integration, if we want to defeat the 'All-Star Team' at the beginning, unless we use Miss Kaslana's right to play, the chance is very slim - I know Charlie, he will never It will put a damper on the game."

The opening match of this school year's Quidditch match was between Gryffindor House and the "All-Star Team."

After witnessing the debut of the team composed of previous champions, at least half of the students believed that they would win this year's championship with an overwhelming advantage. They didn't even need sophisticated coordination, just relying on muscle memory. and personal strength, you can easily complete the matchup in every position.

In fact, the gap in pure strength is not even the most disappointing thing.

"Charlie really knows the Gryffindor team very well, and our current system is built around him..."

Percy Weasley pushed up his glasses and analyzed softly and calmly, somewhat ruthlessly, "Although I'm not an expert on Quidditch, I also know that our victory lies with the Seeker— -I'm not questioning your ability, I believe you will be quite good in a few years, Harry - but not now, Wood, don't be too anxious..."

Percy glanced at the thin black-haired boy who seemed to be lifted out of the water from behind Wood, and shrugged.

"Harry and Charlie are eight years apart. This is not a gap that can be erased with just a few weeks of hard work..."

The Hogwarts Quidditch Cup is a points match.

If Elena Kaslana's appearance is equal to the victory plus one by default, then theoretically speaking, the appearance position of this "Queen of the Sky" is almost fixed-appearing in the finals and playing for Gryffindor The team locks in the Quidditch championship trophy.

Even if there is an accident in the middle, in order to ensure qualifications for the finals, we have to wait until the semi-finals.

In other words, Gryffindor House must at least be among the top three in the points competition.

Ignoring the freshman team, which has no threat, there are only three teams left: Hufflepuff House, Slytherin House, and the All-Star Team. These three teams are all extremely difficult for Gryffindor today.

After all, this is what the core players of each team look like:

Based on the previous year's championship lineup, Slytherin added three new members of the "ex-Hogwarts Moonlight Team" who are faster, younger, and sharper. On Hufflepuff's side, Cedric Diggory finally became the team's new captain, and they also have the terrifying "Elena Two", the new Disciplinary Committee member Hannah Abbott.

In comparison, Gryffindor, which only added a head coach and seeker, is obviously much poorer.

"I understand, but we can't give up just yet." Wood said painfully, "We have been trying to change our style of play. Miss Kaslana has given us a lot of advice. If we can win a game in the first round, At least when facing the Hufflepuff representative team, the pressure will not be so great - we don’t want to repeat the nightmare last year this year..."

Last year was arguably the darkest year ever for Hogwarts Quidditch.

If we use Fred's words to describe it, they faced a team led by Death, and in addition to Elena Kaslana as the main attacker, there was also Hannah as the auxiliary attacker. Once they fly into the sky, their lives completely depend on the thoughts of the two female devils.

Even the once arrogant Slytherin Quidditch team was firmly nailed to the rack of shame in the finals.

"Be clear-minded, Wood, no one can defeat the devil..."

George Weasley patted his shoulder sympathetically and clicked his tongue in fear.

As the goalkeeper, Oliver Wood is undoubtedly the one who has suffered the most damage. Whenever either Elena or Hannah gets the Quaffle, it is almost equivalent to a fatal multiple-choice question:

If you block in front of the goal, you may have a certain chance of preventing the attack, but you will definitely be shot down once.

Or just give up with the goal wide open and place your hopes on the opponent's accuracy.

It was obvious that Oliver Wood's pride would not allow him to leave the goal behind.

In last year's game against the freshmen team, Fred couldn't even remember how many times Wood was knocked down - even if Elena kindly healed their injuries every time, the pain could not go away - but, The information on the scoreboard did not lie. In such a hellish game, Gryffindor still maintained the lowest goal-conceding rate in the school.

"Yes, this year is different. The big devil is on our side!"

Fred said excitedly, suddenly smirking.

"And we also have champions, right, Harry... In short, George and I will protect you. In the first year of playing on the Gryffindor team, we only need to reach the semi-finals to be successful - the rest , that is the civil war between the devils..."

"Uh, um, I think...it seems inappropriate for you to call Coach Kaslana this way..."

Wood blinked and spoke slowly and numbly, as if the clockwork was stuck.

"What? Coach Kaslana? The big silver-haired devil and the little round-faced devil. Isn't this what you said at the beginning?"

Fred said, waving his hands disapprovingly, "She is indeed very good at Quidditch, but I don't think her tactical arrangements will be of any use... For decades, we in Gryffindor have been around We are looking for players to play. If we really play the game the way she said, our backcourt will definitely be sieved by the opponent."

"Fred, back, back -" Percy's mouth twitched and he mouthed silently.

"...But it turns out that I am too superficial!"

Fred Weasley was stunned for half a second, then quickly changed the subject and said, "High-frequency passing, high-speed movement, one-on-one full-court press on defense, and offense using time to create offensive rounds. This is simply The flaming art that only angels can come up with..."

As he spoke, Fred slowly turned around, his face full of surprise and sincerity.

"Hey, coach Kaslana, when did you come back!"

"I heard you, Fred."

Elena smiled slightly, stood on tiptoes and patted the boy's shoulder lightly.

“If you take matters into your own hands on Saturday, it gives you a chance to remember what the Devil looks like – when we were training last term, you broke an entire bat in five minutes, remember? "

As a little angel with knowledge of the hereafter, Elena has many training methods in her mind that she can learn from.

A fully accelerated Bludger can easily break an adult's arm, which means that its speed is close to the critical power shot in football, and the batsman's job is to hit it with the bat. Opposing players, then standing still and receiving attacks at a high frequency is obviously a good way to form muscle memory.

Anyway, there is healing magic, and even if the sternum is smashed through, it can be cured, let alone the arm or something.

"Well, actually I'm not Fred, I'm George..."

Fred scratched his cheek and said cautiously, trying to save himself one last time.

"Well, I believe you, George—"

Elena nodded disapprovingly and pointed to the girls who were looking at astrology charts by the fireplace, "Then go over and tell Angelina that you like the Ravenclaw student union president the most, Miss Streep. ."

"...This...um...Abba Abba..."

Fred Weasley stayed in place like a sculpture, looking helplessly at the brothers around him for help.

There weren't many people in Hogwarts who could tell him apart from George. Even Percy would get them confused sometimes, but only Angelina and Meryl would never mistake their boyfriends. If he really Having said this in the past, he might be able to avoid hell training, but it also meant that he would become a single dog like Charlie and Bill again.

"Fred, I said, falling in love too early will cause you to have flaws..."

Wood grinned and patted Fred on the shoulder, then turned his head to look at Elena and asked seriously.

"If we use the original tactics, what is the approximate winning rate? What about the new tactics? Charlie Weasley is almost the best seeker in Hogwarts in the past ten years! If we want to win the championship, we have to defeat them at least once. OK."

"Following Gryffindor's previous strategy of six guarantees and one, the winning rate is almost zero."

Elena looked at Harry's thin body for a while and said calmly.

Now Harry has just entered the second grade. Most boys have just entered the developmental stage at this time. Not to mention that due to living in the stairwell all year round and not receiving adequate nutritional supplements, Harry's physical development is slower than that of other students. Go slower.

No matter how good Harry's Quidditch talent is, his physical disadvantage is too great.

Especially when his and Charlie's styles are very similar, this is even more bad news for Gryffindor.

"Whether it's arm length, experience, endurance... Harry will be completely crushed when facing off against Charlie. Even if Harry sees the Golden Snitch first, unless the distance is very close, with Charlie's skills he can strike first. To. As for the new tactics, they are also almost equal to zero - it has only been running in for less than a month. It is conservatively estimated that it will take at least half a month to see the effect."

Elena said, narrowing her eyes thoughtfully and speaking softly.

"Actually, there is another way, but it's definitely too late now..."

Just like playing games, in some cases, the gap in strength and level can be made up with equipment, and now Gringotts Wizarding Bank and Destiny Group are about to become the top broomstick manufacturers in the world.

However, most of those samples have not yet undergone final debugging.

That batch of era-defining broomsticks is not expected to be shipped to the research institute outside the school until after Christmas, where a group of researchers from the Sukhoi Design Bureau will conduct final flight testing and fine-tuning... Speaking of which, Griffin There are so many little lions, it seems that they are very suitable to find a part-time job. At least a Quidditch fanatic like Oliver Wood will definitely not refuse... right?

Of course, as the most conscientious capitalist in the magical world, Elena would not overly squeeze the value of her classmates.

According to the design plans she had briefly seen before, the new batch of "high-energy high-speed" brooms were all designed based on the theoretical data of supersonic flight. If you want to control a broom with that specification, in addition to flying skills and magical abilities, you must also The physical fitness requirements may be slightly higher than those for fighter pilots.

Fortunately, in the magical world, physical fitness can be easily enhanced - as long as you are willing to spend money.

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Meanwhile, the Quidditch pitch.

The first Quidditch match is approaching, but the weather is getting worse and worse.

Except for the Gryffindor House team and the freshmen team, the number of applications for training venues for several other teams has obviously dropped a lot, which finally allowed the members of the All-Star team to find free time to train alone.

As the oldest students in this school, they had mostly given up their opportunities to the little guys before.

Of course, in addition to being humble, on the other hand, I feel that there is no need.

If it weren't for the fact that the official game was about to start this Saturday, and captain Charlie Weasley insisted on getting used to it, they wouldn't even have participated in this individual training - and it turned out that the training was not of much use. .

As star players who have led their respective colleges to championships, everyone knows what they should do.

As for deeper cooperation, some people disdain it, while others are not allowed by their mission...

"I told you before, this is a complete waste of time!"

Gerald crossed his arms and complained impatiently.

"I have already asked Professor Snape. The girl named Elena Kaslana will not appear in the opening game. If you want Gryffindor House to lose less, try to catch the gold as soon as possible. Snitch would be fine.”

"If you underestimate Gryffindor too much, you will suffer a big loss. Miss Kaslana is now the head coach of Gryffindor."

Charlie Weasley said seriously that he had disliked Gerald since his school days.

"Big loss? Ha! The Gryffindor team with you in it was defeated by us, let alone the little guys now——"

Gerald shook his head, with a look of disdain in his eyes.

"I heard that Gryffindor's Seeker this time is the "Harry Potter Who Lived". Weasley, you can't even compete with a second-year student, right? Or, you plan to Fighting match-fixing, oh, that’s a bit difficult..."

"As for the head coach? After all these years, have you ever heard of any Quidditch team that relied on the coach to win?"

"Don't worry, as an old rival, I will help you recognize the reality in Saturday's game... The current Gryffindor team is just a bottom third-rate team, just like-" Gerald Di grinned, "After you left, I led the team to massacre Gryffindor for several consecutive seasons."

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