Chapter 67: Even Replacing Them with a Bunch of Dogs on Brooms Could've Played Better!

If you want to taste the sweetness of revenge...

You must learn to endure patience and pain beforehand.

Before the Christmas holidays, or rather, before the Quidditch match, the students of Slytherin House had already accepted a temporary truce. Even their daily verbal insults towards Hufflepuff had ceased.

This behavior made the environment at Hogwarts much friendlier.

December

Like Muggle schools, Hogwarts would have holidays before Christmas, allowing all students to go home and spend the New Year festivities with their parents.

Before the Christmas holidays, the Hogwarts Quidditch match arrived as scheduled.

The four houses took turns competing, and the Slytherin Quidditch team was unstoppable, first defeating the strong Gryffindor House and then the weakest Ravenclaw House.

The Hufflepuff Quidditch team played terribly. Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw's Quidditch teams were originally evenly matched, but due to a mistake by the Chaser, they lost to Ravenclaw.

As for the second round of the Hufflepuff and Gryffindor Quidditch match, many Hufflepuff students were pessimistic about the outcome from the beginning. However, they still held a glimmer of hope and cheered for Hufflepuff.

What if the Seeker caught the Golden Snitch?

This is a miraculous Quidditch match; anything could happen in Quidditch!

However, twenty minutes into the game, the Hufflepuff students present began to wonder why they were wasting their time watching a match they knew Gryffindor would dominate.

The final score was 30 to 340.

Such a terrifying point difference was truly despairing.

Cedric and a group of Hufflepuff first-years sat in their seats with ashen faces, feeling like their lives had been overturned. How could a Quidditch team have a score difference of three hundred points?

"Don't be so despairing..."

Wilson looked at the circle of disheartened young wizards and finally found a way to comfort them. "Cedric, Elvin, actually, the gap between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor isn't that big."

"Huh?"

A group of young wizards couldn't help but lift their heads.

"It just looks like the score is very different..."

Wilson casually spread his palms and continued to explain, "If Hufflepuff had a good Seeker who could catch the Golden Snitch in time, it would mean we would lose to Gryffindor by 180 to 190, which is just losing by one goal..."

"Even catching the Golden Snitch wouldn't make us win..."

Elvin Bones truly felt that the Hufflepuff Quidditch team had no hope and couldn't help but cry a few tears. "And just now, it was the Gryffindor Seeker who caught the Golden Snitch first..."

Yes.

If it weren't for the Gryffindor Seeker catching the Golden Snitch first, this match that tortured all Hufflepuff spectators would have had an even larger point difference.

Cedric pulled himself together again and seriously suggested to his friend, "Wilson, I'll apply to join the Quidditch team in our second year. Let's do it together."

"..."

Wilson was silent for a while.

Then the gray-haired boy looked at his friend and suddenly said, "I've already applied to Professor Sprout to allow me, a first-year student, to join the house Quidditch team."

"???"

Cedric was full of question marks.

According to Hogwarts rules, only second-year students can join the Quidditch team. If a first-year student wanted to join, the head of the house would likely not approve it.

After all, it is a dangerous sport.

Wilson's reason for applying to Professor Sprout was that the Hufflepuff team couldn't possibly play worse than now; they had already played the worst Quidditch match with the biggest point difference in history.

And as for the danger...

Hufflepuff players were flying around on brooms without touching the ball, which wouldn't change the final result. Honestly, even if they replaced all the players with first-year students practicing flying, the result would be the same...

In the next and final match...

Hufflepuff would face the strongest Slytherin House!

Wilson joined the Quidditch team early because he knew the Slytherin team was very good at playing violent Quidditch. The chances of these guys taking revenge on Hufflepuff were too high...

It was just a safety measure.

Not just for the reward of a system task.

As it turned out, Wilson's choice was not wrong.

Before the match, the Slytherin students were very friendly. Marcus, a Quidditch player, even approached Wilson, showing a very fearful appearance of Hufflepuff's revenge.

"Do we... need to make the score look better?"

Marcus was hesitant when he said this, "Hufflepuff's team is playing too poorly. If we deliberately lose..."

"Just follow the Quidditch rules."

Wilson naturally refused Marcus, even a bit indifferent about it. "Hufflepuff never minds losing. You should know that what I value most is following the rules."

"Well... alright."

Marcus looked very conflicted.

"Anything else?"

Wilson looked at Marcus, his expression becoming somewhat playful, "I actually always thought you guys would do something in the Quidditch match..."

"That's indeed the case!"

Marcus's expression immediately became serious. He looked at Wilson and revealed all the plans. "Many Slytherins want revenge on Hufflepuff. They want to injure Hufflepuff players in the Quidditch match. I want to stop them..."

"It's alright."

A smile appeared on Wilson's lips as he patted Marcus's shoulder, "Marcus, I know you've tried your best. Just do what you need to do..."

As expected of Slytherin...

They are very good at protecting themselves.

In fact, not only Marcus, but five other Slytherin players also approached Wilson, and their words were concise in shirking responsibility.

Yes.

They wanted to stop it too.

But they couldn't change the result.

Because most of the Slytherin team wanted to get some payback in the Quidditch match, they could only explain their helplessness to Wilson before the match started.

The only problem was...

The entire Quidditch team had only seven members!

Counting Marcus, six Slytherin team members had approached Wilson, meaning that out of seven, six said they wanted to stop the revenge...

When the first person came, Wilson thought he was prescient for applying to join the Quidditch team early with Professor Sprout to avoid dangerous situations.

When the second person came, Wilson still didn't change his mind...

The third person...

The fourth person...

The fifth person...

The sixth person...

Wilson felt numb after sending away the sixth Slytherin player who came to report. He felt like he had been deceived and could only helplessly wait for the last Slytherin Quidditch player to come, probably the Seeker...

However...

The Seeker never appeared.

(End of Chapter)

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