Flying Lesson Dangers

Madam Hooch arrived and floating next to her were 20 broomsticks that looked completely new. Everyone started to whisper.

"I heard that the brooms used here were really bad. Aren't those are Comet 260s?" A Hufflepuff student whispered to his friend.

"Yeah, my older brother who attended here years ago told me that they used Shooting Star brooms. A Comet isn't a Nimbus, but it's a 1000x better than the Shooting Star. Did the school finally decide that the students deserve better brooms?" The other Hufflepuff student said.

"Before we start, I would like everyone here to thank the Evergreen Family for donating 40 Comet 260s for the school to use," Madam Hooch said as she laid down the Comet 260s in front of every student. "Mr. Evergreen's father stated that he wanted every student at Hogwarts to have a safe and fun first flying experience,"

'What?! When did father donate this?' Chris thought as he did not receive any owls from his parents about this. After he thought about it, he decided that it was most likely Bradley secretly donating it to the school to allow him create connections faster.

'I suppose it isn't too bad. My reputation should pretty good now even among Slytherin students,' Chris thought.

Everyone started clapping excitedly and the Ravenclaw students all went up to Chris and threw him up into the air.

"Guys, guys no... Let's not do..." However, regardless of what Chris said, the Ravenclaw kids continued throwing him up into the air.

After a while of doing this, Madam Hooch stopped the Ravenclaw kids and Chris was finally able to make it down. He went back to his spot next to Hermione and Kristine.

"Well at least now the brooms are a lot safer so you don't have to worry about hurting yourself as much," Chris said to Hermione groggily.

"Yeah," Hermione said with a huge smile. Madam Hooch started the first flying lesson.

"Hello students, my name is Madam Hooch and I shall be your flying instructor for this year. Today's lesson will be on the most basic of flying. To start, you must be able to summon the broom up to your hand. Everybody, please stick out your right hand and say 'UP!'" Madam Hooch said as the broom flew right into her hand.

"Up!" Everyone in the field shouted as they stuck out their right hand. Fortunately, Chris' broom went straight up to his hand while everyone else most of the other kids' brooms simply rolled on the floor. However, another kid in the Hufflepuff House was able to get his broom up almost a couple of seconds after.

After a bit of time passed and everyone was able to get their brooms flying into their hand, Madam Hooch then explained the correct mounting form of the broom. As mounting a broom wasn't that difficult, Chris, Hermione, and Kristine were all able to get the proper form very quickly. Madam Hooch proceeded to go around and check if everyone had the proper form. She scolded some kids along the way and after getting everyone to do the proper form, she proceeded to the next step.

"Now it is time to fly. Kick off the ground and rise a few feet. To come down, lean to the front of the broom a little. When I blow my whistle go up. One -- Two-- Three!" Madam Hooch blew her whistle and everyone rose a couple of feet.

Chris felt amazing. It felt so surreal that he wanted to fly around everywhere, but he resisted as he knew he would get into needless trouble if he did so. After a couple of seconds, everyone safely came down.

"Alright I suppose that this is going much smoother than before because we have better brooms," Madam Hooch said. "Alright we're going to try again,"

45 minutes passed and now the students were now able to go up 5 meters high. Hermione shook a little during one of the take-offs, but was quickly able to get back.

"Alright students, this is going to be the final one. This time, instead of being still, we're going to move around a bit. First, take it slowly and increase your speed little by little. Also, try going up to 8 meters instead of 5. It's just for practice so remember not to go too fast or else I guarantee you that you will get seriously injured. Anyone who purposefully goes too fast to show off will go to the Headmaster's office for potential expulsion. Do you understand?" Madam Hooch asked seriously.

"Yes ma'am," Everyone shouted. They all slowly rose up and once they got to approximately 8 meters, they slowly started to move around. Some went a little fast, but it wasn't to the point where Madam Hooch had to scold them. Chris also decided to take it easy. Although there was a mission, there really wasn't an opportunity to show off to anyone as he could get expelled for it.

'Am I going to fail this mission?' Chris thought. 'I mean I'm fine with it, but it makes no sense for the System to give me a mission that I don't even have a chance to succeed in,'

Suddenly Chris heard a scream from behind him. When he looked behind, it was Hermione whose broom suddenly went out of control. She started to fly in an erratic fashion and to Chris' horror her broom started to go very high as well.

10 meters...

15 meters...

At around 20 meters high, after she tried controlling her broom, she eventually fell off and her broom flew to the Forbidden Forest.

'Shit!' Chris thought and without thinking twice, he swiftly started to fly to where she fell.

'Come on! Make it! Make it!' Chris thought. However, he saw that Hermione's falling speed was getting faster and faster. He leaned forward even more increasing his falling speed as well. He barely got underneath Hermione and just as they were about to hit the ground, Chris caught her and leaned back so that he was facing forward. However, due to the sudden weight increase, he also fell off his broom with Hermione. Luckily, since they were only a few feet off the ground, they were unhurt. Chris' broom also did not go flying too far even if it went out of control for a couple of seconds.

Madam Hooch quickly ran to where the two of them were.

"Miss Granger, are you alright?" Madam Hooch asked.

"Yes ma'am," Hermione said, but she was a bit shaken from the fall.

"Mr. Evergreen, that was excellent flying,"

"Huh?" Chris cocked his head and was utterly shocked and confused by what she said. He was sure that Madam Hooch would scold him for flying too fast and potentially risking his and Hermione's life.

"I would like to give my apologies Miss Granger for not being able to properly give aid. If you are hurt, please go to Madam Pomfrey to get it healed up. Everyone please come down! Class is dismissed," Madam Hooch said as she checked if everyone was down before walking away with the remaining broomsticks. Fortunately, there were only 30 being used in the class so there were 10 spare Comet 260s so Hermione's lost broomstick could be replaced.