Chapter 88: Professor McGonagall: I finally have my chance (Edited)

Everyone's eyes darted back and forth between the two Seekers, and for a moment there was no sound on the huge Quidditch pitch.

"Fish McGonagall!!!"

After a long silence, Professor McGonagall's roar echoed across the pitch.

In fact, she didn't need to remind them, the teachers and students of the school already knew that Fish had an ownerless golden Snitch in her hand, and now, one of the two Snitches on the pitch must belong to Fish.

A furious Professor McGonagall approached the group of Gryffindor cheerleaders, her sharp eyes sweeping the faces of Ron and the others like a hawk, she suppressed her anger and asked in a low voice, "Where's Fish?!"

"Ahem, Professor McGonagall, it's... not all Fish's fault..."

The group of young wizards was silenced by Professor McGonagall's aggressive stare, so Hagrid, a fellow wizard, stepped forward and gave a brief explanation of what happened, and to spare Fish some of the blame, he deliberately lied to take some of the blame himself.

"Fish didn't mean to cause trouble, it's just that, in rushing past, I accidentally bumped into him and the golden Snitch in his hand took the opportunity to slip away..."

"..."

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and stared at Hagrid, seeing him turn his head sheepishly and squirm uncomfortably.

Judging by Hagrid's reaction, he had been protecting Fish, but he hadn't been lying in general, so Professor McGonagall nodded slowly, "Still, it's true that he did interfere with the Quidditch match, so.... Twenty points off for Gryffindor! As for Fish... I'll go talk to him myself."

It had been a long time since they had heard of House points being deducted because Fish caused trouble, and this time it was a mere twenty points, and the Gryffindors present were in a stable mood.

On the other side of the pitch, the problem is not too big, after so many years of development in Quidditch, there is already a detailed set of rules and regulations, with over seven hundred fouls recorded alone.

It was rare, but not unheard of, for a golden Snitch to sneak into the middle of a match, and the Quidditch rulebook was replete with ways to fix it.

In general, there are two types of situations in which the golden Snitch appears in the game, and the methods for resolving the situations are different.

One situation occurs when a Snitch enters the field. If only one side catches the Snitch, regardless of whether the game Snitch is caught, it will score points according to the normal game procedure and end the game.

However, if both players have caught the Golden Snitch, the game will still end, but the referee will make a decision on the Snitch caught by both players, with the player who caught the game ball receiving 150 points and the other player receiving 100 points, or if neither player has caught the game ball, then both players receive one point and the game ends.

In the second scenario, one team intentionally sets a Snitch, in which case the sneaky player has a special method of identifying the location of the Snitch, and even if the opponent catches the actual game ball, he can rely on the rules to close the score.

After the first rule was introduced, some unscrupulous teams found ways to cheat, and when they were discovered, the International Quidditch Federation quickly introduced penalties for doing so, which not only resulted in no points being scored, but additional penalties and bans.

In this case, although the extra Snitch had been released by Gryffindor's Fish, it was determined that it was not a deliberate foul by Gryffindor, so Lady Hooch continued with the first situation.

After a brief identification, Lady Hooch determined that the Snitch Harry had caught was the actual match ball, so Gryffindor received 150 points and Slytherin 100, and Gryffindor won the match by a narrow margin of 170 to 160.

Since it was Fish who released the golden Snitch, and Flint had snuck in five goals to the hoop unguarded while Harry was having trouble with his flying broom, the Slytherin only muttered a few words about how it didn't count that Harry caught the golden Snitch with his mouth, and didn't get too upset.

Quidditch wasn't about winning or losing a single match, it was about which team had the most points at the end of the season, so a ten point difference was nothing compared to hundreds of points scored over the course of a season.

The Slytherins, who had caught Fish's golden Snitch, were the beneficiaries, so of course they had no problem with Lady Hooch's decision.

So, after much commotion, the matter was resolved and Professor McGonagall confirmed the final result, praised Harry and the other Quidditch players and angrily left the pitch to find the culprit, Fish.

Harry and Ron followed Hagrid to his hut, accompanied by Hermione, the girl who had spotted Snape's anomaly in the confusion and had run to burn his robes so that Harry would come to no harm.

While the three of them were still talking to Hagrid, Professor McGonagall also found Fish, who was sleeping soundly by the fireplace, in the Gryffindor common room.

"Meow?"(=Φω??=)

Fish, who was picked up by Professor McGonagall, stretched his little paws and rubbed his eyes, after seeing who was in front of him, immediately opened his two front paws and let out a cute meow.

"Meow~" ?●ω●?

"Transform and talk to me!"

The experienced Professor McGonagall was not so easily fooled, she put Fish back on the ground and scolded him with a straight face.

"Meow?" (=?ω?)

Fish, who had been scratching his chin ever since he was put down, stopped moving and, with one hind paw raised, cocked his head toward Professor McGonagall, his round cat face full of confusion.

But Professor McGonagall didn't want to say it twice, so she crossed her arm and stared at Fish with a stern face.

Fish had to transform into his cat-man form, sitting cross-legged on the floor, tail wagging restlessly behind him.

"What's wrong, Meow?"

Fish cocked his head to one side, looking confused at Minerva, who looked annoyed.

"Did you leave this Snitch on the Quidditch pitch?" questioned Professor McGonagall, holding up the golden Snitch she had asked Mrs. Hooch for and putting it in front of Fish's face.

"Meow!" ∑(●ΦДΦ●)

Only when Fish saw the golden Snitch in Professor McGonagall's hand did he remember what he had done on the Quidditch pitch, but clever Fish was already prepared.

"No meow! Fish's Snitch is still here!" (●ΦωΦ●●)?

After speaking, Fish pulled out a golden Snitch from his pocket, just like the one held by Professor McGonagall, and raised it high.

After returning to the castle from the Quidditch pitch, Fish had gone to the Room of Requirement to retrieve a couple of Snitches, both to replenish his Snitch stock, but also as a precaution.

And now, it was time to use them!

Fish held the golden Snitch in his hands, thinking his plan was perfect.

However...

"Don't lie! Hagrid told me everything!"

Professor McGonagall cupped Fish's cheeks, gently pulling them sideways.

"Meow! The big man's a traitor!" ?(●｀Д′●)?

Fish waved his hands in exasperation, his perfect plan was ruined by Hagrid!

"And... "continued Professor McGonagall with a slight wiggle of her fingers, pretending to be wicked, "You think I don't know? you have more than one golden Snitch in your hands."

"What? how do you know, Minerva?" ∑(●ΦДΦ●)

Professor McGonagall paused sheepishly and pinched Fish's cheeks again, "I just know! Anyway, since you got in trouble, you're confined again starting tonight! Confinement is...doing homework in my office!"

"Meow-!!!" QAQ