The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

As soon as Halloween is over, the Quidditch League will begin. For the young wizards at Hogwarts, Quidditch is definitely a top priority. After Victoria recovered, the impact of the secret room was minimized. It was just a house that had been hidden for a thousand years and a dark magic item. It was not worth their energy. The next Quidditch game was much more important than the Chamber of Secrets.

After Victoria regained consciousness, she had a long conversation with Dumbledore. After Dumbledore left, she cried and wet the front of her nightgown. For this reason, Madam Pomfrey complained about Dumbledore for a long time. She believed that patients who had just recovered from a serious illness should not be allowed to have such violent mood swings.

Before Dumbledore left, he asked Victoria if he wanted to erase this unpleasant memory of hers. Victoria thought about it for a long time and decided to keep it.

"This lesson is very important to me." was her reply.

Victoria was recuperating in the school hospital for a while, and when she came out she looked better than before she went in. Riddle's possession had previously caused severe damage to her body and mind. Victorique, who got rid of Riddle, was like a loader who had shed his burden, finally having a chance to breathe.

Victoria, who had been lying in the hospital for some time, desperately needed some fresh air. So even though the weather was humid and hot, there was faint thunder in the sky, and even though Madam Pomfrey told her that she had to rest for a while, she still came to the Quidditch pitch to watch the Gryffindor vs. Slytherin game.

One side is well-equipped, the other is well-trained, and more importantly, the two teams have always been at odds with each other. There is no more exciting game than this. Not to mention the young wizards of Gryffindor and Slytherin, the students of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw houses are also looking forward to this game. On the one hand, the level of these two teams is very good, on the other hand - they can collect first-hand intelligence!

They were really curious about how strong the full Nimbus 2001 team was, and how Gryffindor would respond.

This situation is extremely rare for the Slytherin team. Because there are many things in the magical world that are updated very slowly, such as textbooks, but there is one thing that is updated as fast as the Muggle world, and that is broomsticks.

Harry received a Nimbus 2000 last year, and its performance was the best in the school. Then the company launched the Nimbus 2001 the next year, and its performance was much better than the Nimbus 2000. By Harry's fourth year, the Firebolt had become the best broom ever again, and affordable brooms developed by other broom companies, such as Sideswipe Broom Company and Comet Trading Company, had already caught up with Nimbus 2001 in terms of performance.

This is reminiscent of mobile phone companies in the Muggle world. In particular, the Nimbus Racing Broom Company's behavior of launching a new broom every year makes people wonder. Does this company have a branch called "Apple" in the Muggle world?

Since the upgrades are so frequent, little wizards who are not professional game players are naturally "waiting party" per capita. How can they spend krypton money to buy the most advanced brooms until they meet a big dog?

Therefore, this is the first time for the little wizards to see a broom that can crush their opponents. So almost all the little wizards came to the Quidditch pitch.

Before the game started, the little wizard's mentality changed subtly. Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff House actually supported Gryffindor this time. They all wanted to see Slytherin defeated. It was like the Slytherin team was playing on the road.

Colorful flags fluttered on the court and fireworks flashed.

Tom also found a seat in the Ravenclaw stand. Seeing Professor Lockhart appear, a group of young wizards gathered around him, wanting to hear his stories about his adventures in the secret room.

"There is no thrilling adventure story this time, but it took a little effort to solve the puzzle in the early stage," Tom said modestly. At the same time, he felt a little guilty: why were all the female students around him! He casually glanced at Hermione sitting two rows of seats away and found that she seemed to be anticipating the game with her roommates.

He secretly approached the boys around him, and invisibly distanced himself from the girls who had stars in their eyes.

"Reading is very important. There is a lot of unexpected knowledge in the book. At this point, I would like to praise Miss Granger. You may not have imagined that her paper has been included in the magazine "Magic"..."

At this time, Fred and George's good friend Jordan also squeezed over. He wanted to get some gossip before the game started. He pulled his neck and shouted: "Professor, tell me what it's like in the secret room!" "

Tom did not hide anything, and patiently described the layout of the secret room to the surrounding audience: the long pipes, the mechanisms that can only be activated by Parseltongue, the exquisite doors and the gloomy hall...

When we talked about the Chamber of Secrets, the topic inevitably turned to Slytherin.

"Slytherin is such a bad guy! I don't understand why the other three founders would hang out with such people." The speaker was Justin Finch-Fletchley. A second-year Hufflepuff student from a Muggle family. It was only natural that he had a very bad impression of Salazar Slytherin.

What Professor Lockhart said next shocked him.

"Actually, in Slytherin's time, his theory had some merit."

Professor Lockhart is actually defending Slytherin!

"Is Professor Lockhart also a supporter of the pure-blood theory? But Professor Lockhart is a mixed-blood." Hearing Professor Lockhart say such remarks, the thoughts of the surrounding students came to mind.

Tom had a different understanding than others of what Slytherin meant by "purification". When people in later generations mentioned Slytherin, their first reaction was that he was a fanatical supporter of pure blood theory, and he wanted to get rid of all the little wizards from Muggle families in Hogwarts.

In fact, this is the stereotype of later generations. Slytherin did not agree with students from Muggle families entering Hogwarts because he could not trust these people. Considering the era in which Slytherin lived, it makes some sense. Young wizards who come from Muggle families are more likely to lean toward the Muggle world. At that time, confidentiality laws had not yet been introduced. Once a conflict arises between wizards and Muggles, they can easily fall to the Muggle side or be bribed by Muggle nobles. Referring to Nearly Headless Nick, wizards who are caught often end up very tragic. Ultimately, it's because of the conflict between Muggles and wizards.

Tom explained his point of view to several children.

"As for the theory of pure blood, I think it's very funny," Tom also took the opportunity to tell these young wizards his views on the theory of pure blood: it is completely nonsense, nothing more than a rhetoric to gain a higher status.

"What is half-blood? What is pure-blood?" Tom asked and answered. "Mix-blood usually refers to wizards whose parents or grandparents are Muggles or Muggle-born. Pure-blood refers to those in the family tree - I mean In the family tree - there are no wizards or wizarding families with Muggles or Muggle-borns. But in fact, as long as you go back far enough, you can find Muggle ancestors in almost all wizarding families."

The young wizards were shocked by this definition. Before, they only knew that so-and-so was a pure-blood, so-and-so was from a Muggle family, and the rest were all classified as mixed-blood. But they still don't know anything about the definition of pure blood and mixed blood.

"It turns out that pure blood only refers to ancestors who are all wizards in the family tree, ah..." Among the young wizards present, the smarter ones have already discovered the problem: it turns out that those so-called pure-blood wizard families are only on paper. pure blood.

Something went wrong and the family tree was changed? Isn’t this deceiving oneself and others?

In fact, in order to maintain the purity of their blood, most pure-blood families will only choose to marry members of other pure-blood families. However, this will obviously lead to the phenomenon of incest marriage, and because the number of pure-blood families is small, there are not many marriage partners of the right age. many. Therefore, some wizarding families turn a blind eye and allow family members to marry half-blood wizards - the Malfoy family is one such family. And those pure-blood wizarding families who abide by the creed of "only marrying pure-bloods" will gradually become unsustainable and come to the end of the road... The most representative ones are the Gaunt family, the Lestrange family, and the Crouch family. and the Black family.

"Actually, the number of pure-blood families has been decreasing. In a few decades, some of the current twenty-eight pure-blood families may disappear." Tom counted on his fingers, "The Gunter family decades ago There are only two direct descendants of the Black family. One died during the Wizarding War and the other was imprisoned in Azkaban. The Crouch family is also a single descendant..."

Many people didn't know it, but they were shocked to find out that the famous twenty-eight pure-blood families had reached the end of their rope, and a large number of families were in a state of being passed down by a single line. They may have many wizard relatives, but they are really the only ones left in their group.

Mainly because it's so easy for purebloods to disappear! Harry is technically a half-blood wizard, as Lily is a witch from a Muggle family. The Potter family is one of the three Peverell brothers, a long-established pure-blood family, but starting from Harry's generation, it is no longer a pure-blood family in theory.

From the perspective of a pure-blood young wizard, this issue is a very serious topic, but almost all of the people present are mixed-blood wizards, and they don't care about it. Compared with the news that a large number of pure-blood families were about to die, the Quidditch game began to attract their attention significantly more.

At the beginning of the game, Gryffindor fell into a disadvantage. The Slytherin team's super broomsticks worked. They scored consecutive goals and caught Gryffindor off guard. The Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff Quidditch players in the audience looked serious. Asking themselves, they feel that if they change to their own team, their performance may not be as good as Gryffindor!

"Is that the end?" They stared at the leaden sky, feeling depressed: this year's Quidditch Cup might go to Slytherin.

As if matching the mood of the few little wizards, it started to rain. Big drops of rain beat on the roof of the stands, and small water droplets stuck to the faces of the audience with the wind, disturbing everyone's vision.

Tom remembered something: it was not a good day for Harry to play ball.

boom! Fred used all his strength to hit a Bludger flying towards Harry. The Bludger spun towards Adrian Pusey. Unexpectedly, it changed direction midway and headed straight towards Harry. Li Fei came.

"Damn it!" Fred shouted, "There's something wrong with this Bludger!"

At this time, the heavy rain in the sky blocked the players' sight, and Harry could not even see clearly what was going on on the field. The rain slapped on his face, and the cool water droplets rolled into his clothes, making his cloak and trousers wet.

He also has to dodge the crazy Bludgers.

As the rain blinded his eyes, Harry suddenly understood what the wipers did. He breathed out hard and shook the water off his face. Then he heard the voice of commentator Lee Jordan:

"Sixty to zero, Slytherin is ahead."

I really don’t know how he could clearly see the situation on the field. Of course, he might not have seen anything and was just reading the numbers on the scoreboard.

At Fred's signal, Wood called a timeout.

The team members all knew that the Bludger was out of control, but according to the outrageous rules of Quidditch, if the Gryffindor team stopped the game now and initiated an investigation, they would be disqualified from the game and automatically lose.

Harry didn't want to do this. He insisted on continuing the game and asked Fred and George to stop covering for him.

In the field of vision of the spectators in the stands, due to the heavy rain, they could only see roughly. They knew that the Gryffindor team called a timeout, but the game continued shortly after. After the game continued, Harry flew around in the air in very funny postures, causing many people to laugh - they didn't know that Harry was being chased by a Bludger.

After a while, Harry suddenly sprinted, and a Bludger hit him hard on the arm. But he didn't stop, and instead accelerated towards the Slytherin team's seeker: Malfoy. Everyone thought there seemed to be some conflict between the two, but in the end Harry just passed by Malfoy, then lost control of the broom and fell straight to the ground.

Fortunately, a lot of water accumulated on the ground and became muddy. With a "bang", Harry fell into the mud and splashed a large amount of water. At the same time, the whistle sounded at the end of the game, and the game was over! Harry caught the Snitch.

Harry noticed that his arm was bent at a very strange angle - the Bludger had broken his arm. His teammates and the Gryffindor students who noticed something was wrong gathered around him, but Harry felt that their voices seemed far away from him...

Madam Pomfrey was summoned.

In less than a second, she had healed Harry's arm so that he could move freely. Harry struggled to stand up from the muddy water and walked towards the castle surrounded by his classmates. But before Harry could take a few steps, he suddenly fell down again and covered his forehead: a burning pain came from his scar without any warning.