Snakes in Hogwarts

"He also targeted you? But aren't you a Slytherin student?"

In the library, Hermione was talking with Andros, the voices of the two people were very quiet, because Mrs. Pince was patrolling the library.

The thin and old witch has sharp eagle-like eyes, and looks like a malnourished vulture.

She has a very violent temper. If she finds someone whose voice is too loud or doesn't care for books, she will use a feather duster to drive these little wizards out.

"Who knows?" Andros spread his hands helplessly.

"I really don't know why President Dumbledore would hire such a person as a professor." Hermione frowned. She had a very bad view of Snape now.

Hermione hated this bad guy who answered the question correctly but didn't give him any extra points.

"Maybe it's for the unity and stability of the other colleges." Andros told Hermione about the friendship he established with a Gryffindor yesterday.

This allowed the little girl to keep covering her mouth, preventing Mrs. Pins from hearing her giggles.

"Ander, you really have you!"

"Okay, let's not talk about it. Anyway, there is only one potion class every week. Shinnin is over. What book are you reading?"

"The Magical Quidditch Ball," this book mainly tells the origin and evolution of Quidditch." Hermione closed the book gently and showed Andros the cover.

Perceiving the doubt in the boy's eyes, the girl continued to explain.

"Flight lessons will be held next week. I want to know the history of Quidditch in advance. Can you believe that Quidditch has been developed for a thousand years!"

"What do you say?" Andros was also interested when she heard Hermione say this.

"Quidditch is the first (and so far only) broom sport that has been loved by wizards almost all over the world.

Of course, it is not the first broomstick movement.All ancient broomsticks were only popular in a certain area, and did not have the appeal of Quidditch today.

Since the emergence of the Quidditch sport, it has been continuously developed for nearly a thousand years."

"Those ancient broomsticks, can you tell me what they have?"

"Well, as far as I know, there is a bollard play. This game originated in Germany. A wizard acts as a guard or goalkeeper, trying to protect an inflated dragon bladder.

The rest of the athletes will fly to the bladder in turns, trying to pierce it with the sharpened broomstick.The first person to pierce the bladder is the winner."

"Wow, Long Bladder? I didn't expect the thing to have this effect."

Don't tell me, sometimes it is interesting to look at the history of wizards.

At the very least, Andros didn't know that dragon bladder had such a usage.

I hope they have cleaned the little thing in the dragon's bladder before the game.

But I feel that the possibility is unlikely.

"There are even more weird ones!" Seeing Andros listen to her own words attentively, Hermione was also interested, and she continued talking about the weird ball games of the wizards.

To be honest, apart from Andros, girls have nothing to talk to.

"Fire barrels on stilts. This Irish game requires the contestants to take Dom one by one through a series of burning barrels supported on stilts and suspended high in the air.

The player who succeeded in getting Dom through all the barrels at the fastest speed, if there is no fire on his body, is the winner."

"Dom? What is that, a magical creature?"

"No, it's a ball, made from the gallbladder of a goat." Hermione explained.

"There is also an overhead crucible. This is an extremely violent and extremely dangerous game originating in Scotland. Every player uses a belt to tie a crucible to his head.

As soon as I heard the sound of horns or drums, as many as a hundred large and small stones, large and small, that had been hanging one hundred feet above the ground, began to smash against the ground.

At this time, the players went up and down, using the crucible above their heads to catch the falling stones.The one who catches the most stones is the winner."

???

Isn't it, can you still play like this?

"These wizards can really play," he commented.

"Can you believe it, Ender, wizards used to popularize such a dangerous ball game, and it almost became popular all over the world!"

"It's just that Quidditch appeared later, and this kind of movement was too dangerous, so it was gradually replaced by Quidditch."

"Thank you Quidditch, otherwise you and I might wear the cauldron on my head to flight class."

Andros made a cross on his chest insincerely, and this ridiculous look made Hermione laugh.

"No loud noises in the library!"

Perhaps their movement was too great, and Mrs. Pince's dissatisfied humming sounded not far away.

The two hurriedly lowered their heads, pretending to be studying earnestly, and after Mrs. Pins looked away from them, they continued to mutter quietly.

The two were sitting close together, and the girl's exhaled heat slapped Andros' earlobes, making him unconscious.

Calm down, she is only eleven years old!

"The Quidditch movement got its name from the Quidditch Marsh where it originated.

A witch named Getty Kidder, who lived near the swamp in the 11th century, recorded what she had seen and heard in her diary.

She described the development of the Quidditch game in the diary for several days, and mentioned how various elements of the game were introduced.

Getty only complained about her troubles at the beginning, because a group of people riding broomsticks to play ball over the swamp, the ball fell into her vegetable field.

She confiscated the ball and cast a poisonous curse on the person who asked her for the ball, but the next day, the players did not give up, they made a new ball.They also started throwing the ball into the woods at the end of the swamp to score.This is the earliest prototype of the ghost flying ball and scoring ring.

On the third day, the players brought two rocks and flew up and down in the sky, trying to knock them off the broom, which was the predecessor of the wandering ball."

"As for the Golden Snitch, that was a later thing. There was no Golden Snitch in the early Quidditch competitions. It appeared mainly from a kind of magical creature, the Golden Snitch."

"Jin Fei Xia?" Andros raised his eyebrows lightly.

"A kind of bird in the magical world, I guess it is similar to the hummingbird in the Muggle world, you know?"

"Well, a very small bird that feeds on nectar."

"Yes, it may be the smallest bird in the world, of course, I mean what the Muggles recognize, you know what I mean."

After seeing Andros nod, Hermione continued.

"Jin Fei Xia is like this. It is about the same size as today’s Golden Snitch, and it flies very fast and can move within a certain range instantaneously. It is a very difficult creature to capture, which gives this creature a high collection. value.

In 1269, Baboru Breg, then chairman of the Wizarding Council, came to watch the game.Because hunting King Pan was very popular at the time, Breg brought a King Pan to the game.

He told the players on the field that whoever caught the King Fei Xia in the game would get 150 gallons, which was a lot of money at the time."

"Later, this custom was established by convention. In every subsequent game, a Golden Flying Man was released, and each team had a player, who was originally called a "hunter" and later became a "hunter". The golfer is responsible for catching it.

If a hunter can catch and kill Jin Fei Xia, his team can win 150 points."

"As for the Golden Snitch, that's something more to come. Because of the decline of Golden Snitch, the wizards have to choose a new way to replace Golden Snitch.

Two centuries later, an alchemist living in Godric Valley invented a golden ball, which was thrown into Quidditch competitions as a fake flying man who inherited the flying method of Golden Pan.

And this is today's Golden Snitch."