Chapter 61 It Is Natural for Cats to Play with Balls
Gryffindor Quidditch captain Oliver Wood has been very manic recently.
Wood was very happy to have discovered a flying genius who was also the school's favorite. After he learned about Phish's situation, he immediately began to fantasize.
If Phish could be recruited into the school team, not only would the team's hard power be improved, but it would also get the support of most of the audience during the game, which would be of great benefit to the morale of the entire team.
As a result, before Wood had time to trick Phish into the team, he was cruelly rejected by his own dean.
It doesn't matter, Phish's situation is special, and Wood can understand it.
Anyway, he later relied on the selection competition to find a good seedling for the seeker, or the legendary "boy who survived a catastrophe", which can be regarded as a weakened version of Phish, and compared to the naughty Phish, Harry should be easier to communicate with. The only drawback is that he doesn't know the rules of Quidditch very well, so it takes some time for training.
What was the result?
Harry, the Seeker, had just received his broom, and before he could even start training, he and Ron, the substitute player, went to fight with the Slytherin students and were locked up for three days!
Their team was already in a time crunch due to the lack of players! Now this situation has occurred!
If it weren't for the fact that there were still nearly two months before the start of the Quidditch season, Wood would have suspected that Harry and his team were tricked by the Slytherin guys.
Because Gryffindor's first game was against Slytherin, and Slytherin had a precedent of using off-field tactics.
Fortunately, with the end of Harry and Ron's detention, their team is finally complete.
Wood wiped his face vigorously, waved his hand to gather the players together, and everyone stood in a circle on the Quidditch field.
"Although our training progress has been delayed due to various reasons, we Gryffindor will not be defeated by such a small difficulty!"
Before the training began, Wood cheered up the players as in previous years. He raised his fist and shouted: "This year's champion must be our Gryffindor!"
"Oh--!!!"
The Gryffindor players also raised their fists and shouted in unison.
"Then... everyone take off!"
With Wood's order, Gryffindor's Quidditch players boarded their brooms, rose into the air and spread out their formations, and began today's training.
"Meow?" (=ΦωΦ=)
Fish, who was lying on the windowsill of the tower in the form of a cat, blowing the evening breeze and looking at the sky, naturally saw the flying brooms rising slowly in the distance, and next to those brooms, Fish also saw a few flying balls.
There is only one Quidditch pitch at Hogwarts, so the training times of the four colleges are staggered. When the teams of the other three colleges are training, Firth is either attending classes with Gryffindor or wandering around the castle.
So this is the first time Firth has seen a Quidditch team training.
Now he is immediately interested.
Although Firth has reconciled with Minerva now and does not intend to go against her, and his interest in flying brooms has also decreased a lot now, if he only sees a group of people riding flying brooms, Firth will at most look at them from a distance.
But who can blame the fact that there are several balls flying around?
No kitten can refuse a ball that flies around!
What's more, there is more than one!
Firth just watched from a distance, and his little paws were already eager to move, and the tail behind him was wagging restlessly.
Fish stood up from the windowsill and estimated the distance. He found that it would take a long time to run over there. It would be possible to float over there directly by gliding, but he would fall directly to the ground and would not be able to reach the balls in the sky.
So Fish thought about it, turned around and jumped off the windowsill, and ran to the owl shed.
After reconciling with Minerva, she finally gave in and allowed Fish to ride the owl to play, but the premise was that he could not fly too far away from Hogwarts and was not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest.
Fish was a good boy, so he agreed.
Anyway, as long as he was not caught by Minerva, he was an obedient cat.
When they arrived at the owl shed, Austin was out delivering letters and was not there, so Fish went directly to Hedwig, the snowy owl raised by Scarhead.
Hedwig would naturally not refuse Fish's request. Anyway, Harry rarely needed it to deliver letters. As an owl with an owner, it could not deliver letters for others like the public owls in Hogwarts, so Hedwig was usually very idle.
And Fish naturally would not treat his friend badly. He took out a few pieces of dried meat and nuts from the small bag given by the bad old man and fed them to Hedwig as a reward for this flight.
After Hedwig swallowed all the rewards given by Fish, Fish returned to his original appearance and gently jumped on Hedwig's back.
Hedwig flapped her wings and flew out of the window with Fish on her back.
"Meow~" (There.)
Fish, who was lying on Hedwig's back, stretched out his little paw and pointed to the training position of Wood and others. Hedwig's wings turned slightly, drew a beautiful arc in the air, and flew towards the Quidditch field.
Harry, who was riding Nimbus 2000 in the night sky looking for the Golden Snitch, suddenly noticed that in the corner of his eye, there seemed to be a familiar white figure flashing by.
He stopped the broom and looked to the side. A white snowy owl was flying towards this side.
"Hedwig?"
Harry was slightly stunned. Although he couldn't see clearly in the night, and he was not the only one in the school who had a snowy owl, he was inexplicably sure that the white bird in the distance was his Hedwig.
"Harry! What are you doing so stupidly?!"
Wood noticed that Harry suddenly stopped and yelled at him at the top of his lungs.
Fred quickly flew to Harry's side to protect him. This situation of standing still in the air was the easiest way to attract Bludgers.
"Sorry, Wood." Harry also knew that he had delayed his training. He apologized first, and then pointed to Hedwig in the distance, "My owl seems to have flown to me."
"Did you buy anything important?"
Wood blew the whistle hanging around his neck, and everyone stopped training when they heard the sound. George and Fred worked together to put the Bludger back into the crate, and he himself flew to Harry's side, frowning and asking road.
"No……"
Harry Potter looked confused. He didn't know why Hedwig suddenly flew to find him.
At this time Hedwig was very close, and everyone noticed that it seemed to be carrying something behind it.
Before anyone could take a closer look, Fish jumped up from Hedwig's back, transformed into a human form in the air, and floated over with his gliding technique.
"Where are those balls?! Take them out and let me play with them, meow!" (●ω●)
Fish, who was floating in the air, shouted at Harry and the others with bright eyes.
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Gryffindor's training is all in the evening, three times a week. Not counting extra training, seven days a week is not enough for four houses. There is also astronomy class in the evening, and there is no mention of joint training in the book. The situation is that the Snake Academy often comes to grab the Lion Academy's space with Snape's help, so other academies must be training during the day.