Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 149 The Conspirator's Peep
A month later, on the Quidditch field, a match between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff was in full swing.

This was a very ordinary game in the Hogwarts Quidditch League. In the past, not many people would come to watch such games except for the Quidditch fans of the school, especially during the dueling competition. But today, the audience seats were full of spectators, which was unusual.

Because just yesterday, the first round of the duel competition that lasted for a month finally ended.

The draw for the next round of competition will not take place until a week later, and the eight winners who have worked hard for a month can finally have a good rest.

Since the dueling competition was off for a week, everyone's attention was turned back to the long-lost Quidditch game. That is why the match between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff received so much attention.

My eyes returned to the field again, and I saw a huge magic billboard with black background and white letters clearly indicating the current game data: Ravenclaw 92 points, Hufflepuff 13 points.

A crystal snowflake slowly fell, and it was very obvious against the black billboard. Suddenly, a pure black iron Bludger whizzed past and smashed the snowflake into pieces.

In mid-air, Hufflepuff Seeker Cedric jerked his broomstick to the side and narrowly avoided the Quaffle that was flying towards him.

"Mike! You're too cruel!" Cedric stabilized his body and yelled at Mike below.

Seeing that the ball he hit with all his strength did not knock Cedric down, Mike smacked his lips, completely ignored Cedric's roar, and looked for the next Bludger.

Mike has been participating in Ravenclaw Quidditch training for a month. After officially joining the training, Mike finally understood why Roger insisted on participating in the competition himself.

It's not because the Ravenclaw team has reached a critical situation where they will lose everything if they lose one game and are waiting for Mike to be the savior, but because the Ravenclaw team's performance this year is exceptionally good.

You heard it right, it is because the Ravenclaw team has good results that they need Mike, a "genius" player with amazing performance, to participate in the competition.

The Ravenclaw team's performance in previous years was not outstanding, and it always ranked third. After all, you can't expect a group of top students to have excellent academic performance and excellent physical education performance at the same time.

But this year, because the Slytherin team had a Seeker like Draco who came in through the backdoor, even after updating all the equipment, the results were still not very good.

The Ravenclaw team relied on the brainless hitting method (for players) invented by Mike to dominate the field and suddenly became the second place in the standings.

Such results made Roger think about winning the Quidditch Cup, so he invited Mike back, hoping that with Mike's joining they could go further.

But the truth is cruel, Mike's super high precision shots did win many points for the Ravenclaw team in the beginning, and they even defeated the favorite to win the championship, Gryffindor. But after a while, Mike was surprised to find that the dodging ability of the players from other teams had improved by leaps and bounds, and now even if he tried his best, he might not be able to knock them off his broom 100%.

Afterwards, Mike learned from gossip expert Lee Jordan that the day after he took the court, the teams from the other three colleges began using real Bludgers for a hellish dodgeball training.

Only then did Mike understand why those players' faces were covered in bruises, and why they looked at him with such resentment.

The focus returns to the field again.

Seeing that Mike completely ignored him and flew straight to the next Bludger, Cedric felt something was wrong and stopped looking for the Golden Snitch. He quickly distanced himself from Mike.

After all, if you really get hit by Mike, it’s no joke.

But Cedric's worry was unnecessary. After controlling the Bludger, Mike did not rush to launch the next attack. Instead, he slowly approached Cedric and carefully observed his movements. In fact, Mike's goal was not to shoot Cedric down, but to harass him so that he had no chance to catch the Golden Snitch.

This was certainly due to the friendship between the two men, but more importantly, it was because Cedric's teammates were too weak and were completely crushed by Mike's teammates.

To use a popular phrase from the previous life, the Hufflepuff team is like Cedric the Great leading six teams.

In the past, almost all of the games that Hufflepuff had won were won by Cedric catching the Golden Snitch worth 150 points before the opponent's score was pulled away to 150 points.

But this tactic didn't work today, because every time Cedric tried to look for the Golden Snitch, Mike would hit a perfect home run in his direction, forcing Cedric to dodge.

Looking at Mike who was holding the Bludger and ready to go, and the ever-widening score, Cedric showed a bitter smile on his face. He really couldn't lead the team!
Even though he had a bitter smile, the game still had to go on. The word surrender did not exist in Cedric's dictionary!
Cedric forced himself to perk up and scanned the entire place, searching for the golden snitch.

But it was too late.

"boom!"

A brilliant magic firework exploded in the sky, and the game ended with cheers from the audience and the excited voice of commentator Lee Jordan.

Cedric, somewhat dazed, looked below the fireworks, only to see his girlfriend Qiu Zhang cheering while holding up a golden snitch, symbolizing the end of the game. The score on the scoreboard was fixed at Ravenclaw 251 points: Hufflepuff 15 points.

The members of the Hufflepuff team were dejected and lacked any of their usual energy.

In sharp contrast to them is the Ravenclaw side.

Flowers and applause overwhelmed the Ravenclaw crowd.

Mike looked at Cedric, who was in the air, and shook his head with a chuckle. Rejecting his teammates' invitation to celebrate with him, Mike flew straight to the stands, where a girl was waiting for him.

"You are amazing!"

As soon as Mike landed on the stands, he felt a fragrant breeze blowing towards him before he could stand firmly, and then Penelope threw herself into his arms.

After taking two steps back to steady himself, Mike looked at the girl in his arms.

His little nose was frozen red, and his hair was covered with a lot of snow. Reaching out to brush away the snow, Mike said loudly, "Of course..."

Before he could finish his words, two thin lips blocked what Mike wanted to say next.

In the lively atmosphere of the audience seats, the two people hugging each other only felt that the surroundings had become inexplicably quiet, and the only thing they could hear was the other's heartbeat.

However, just as Mike and Penelope were throwing the dogs and wolves around as if no one was around, a pair of eyes filled with hatred were staring at them in a corner of the arena.

(End of this chapter)