abnormal hogwarts

Chapter 257 Roll Up

After Halloween, the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup in November finally begins.

Slytherin's Quidditch team has become the public enemy of the other three houses' Quidditch teams.

The biggest contributor is none other than Albert.

Some time ago, after they played a training match with Gryffindor, Slytherin played another match with the Hufflepuff team led by Cedric.

Even though Cedric is only in his fourth year, he has already been promoted to captain of the Hufflepuff team by their dean, Professor Sprout.

Cedric was tasked with finding a way to target Albert. He and Quidditch players from the other two colleges gathered together to discuss how to prevent Albert, the chaser, from scoring. After gathering everyone's wisdom, Finally came up with a barely feasible plan.

This was the reason why they found Slytherin to play a training match again - they wanted to test whether the plan was feasible.

If Cedric succeeded, they wouldn't have to worry about that Quidditch demon Albert.

However, when the game came on that day, everyone was disappointed to find that Albert was holding a bat in his hand.

This is undoubtedly an announcement that Albert has changed his career to a batsman.

The training match that day was very brutal.

Albert played with them like a cat playing with a mouse, by hitting bludgers at them.

They only lasted 5 minutes before they were declared dead.

The person who ended up had either a broken arm or a broken leg.

Even Cedric, a talented seeker with superb flying skills and the reputation of "Magician", could not escape the subsonic Bludger played by Albert.

If it weren't for the fact that his body was much tougher than ordinary wizards after merging with the blood of Brother Flathead, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to survive the subsonic Bludger played by Albert.

Of course, the biggest problem was his bloodline. It was precisely because he resisted beatings, otherwise Albert would not have specifically targeted him.

No matter what, Cedric could not escape the fate of having his legs broken by Albert.

In the end, all the players on the Hufflepuff team were carried off the field on stretchers.

From then on, Albert also became known as the Quidditch Devil.

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On Saturday morning, the first match of the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup officially began.

According to the original schedule, the game this morning was supposed to be Gryffindor versus Slytherin.

But because no one wanted to face the Slytherin Quidditch demon, it became Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw after repeated struggles from the other three teams.

As a result, Hufflepuff will face Slytherin again next week.

Faced with such an arrangement, Cedric refused.

But others spoke softly and could not refuse the organizer's arrangement.

Cedric was a little broken. How about using the Disillusionment Curse to sneak into the Slytherin common room and burn all their broomsticks before the game next week?

This way, they don't have to deal with Quidditch demons.

All the teachers and students in the school began to gather in the direction of the Quidditch pitch.

Today was a rare sunny day. Albert was sitting in the stands of Slytherin, not focusing on the game in front of him.

There was a thick notebook spread out on his knees. He was holding a quill in his right hand and holding his chin in his left hand, wondering what he was thinking about.

The appearance of the Ravenclaw team ignited the entire Quidditch pitch.

"Hiss! Did I read that correctly!?"

"The broomsticks in their hands! They're all Firebolts!"

The words of the student next to him reached Albert's ears. Albert, who captured the key information, looked up and knew whose handiwork it was.

The players of Ravenclaw each have a Firebolt, which is a configuration only available to the top clubs participating in the Quidditch World Cup.

It was definitely sponsored by Woz, that inhumane rich man.

The configuration of all Firebolts caused a great sensation among the students. Albert thought expressionlessly, why don't he also arm the members of the Slytherin team?Anyway, this little money is just a drop in the bucket to him.

Hey guys, is it starting to roll up?

In this case, Gryffindor will probably follow suit.

Harry has the support of Sirius, a wealthy godfather, and the Weasley twins also have a lot of savings. They can definitely arrange Firebolts for the other six members of the Gryffindor team.

Harry already had the Firebolt broom.

So on the Hufflepuff side...

It just depends on Cedric and Professor Sprout. According to Professor Sprout's financial resources, this shouldn't be a problem.

Don't look at the fact that the monthly salary of professors is only a few hundred gold galleons, which is enough to buy a broomstick for a Firebolt.

But these deans of the school are all hidden rich people.

In his spare time, Professor McGonagall teaches wizards and writers who are interested in learning Animagus. The courses are paid in Galleons per hour, and you can even pay for it by taking a day off to teach on the weekend. It's worth several months' salary.

Professor Flitwick was a dueling champion when he was young. Like Professor McGonagall, he usually went out to be a dueling coach for others and earned a lot of money.

Snape is a master of potions. Potions like Elixir of Felixir are basically priceless on the market. Albert was once lucky enough to "visit" Snape's collection. There are as many as a water tank.

Wouldn't that small jar of blessed elixir be sold for hundreds of thousands of gold galleons?

As for Professor Sprout, although her dress is very inconspicuous and she doesn't look like a rich person at all, she should be the second richest among the four deans in terms of wealth.

After all, she is the largest supplier of potion materials in Hogwarts, and it can be said that she provides almost all of Snape's potion materials.

The potions in the greenhouses outside the castle alone are equivalent to the wealth of most pure-blood families, not to mention how much savings Professor Sprout has accumulated over the years.

Therefore, if all members of the four Quidditch teams from the four houses switch to Firebolts, there will be absolutely no problem.

There was no need for this in the past, but now Ravenclaw has taken the lead and set an example. If the other colleges don't follow suit, they will not be Ravenclaw's opponent at all.

Except for Slytherin.

The result of everyone switching to Firebolts is that everyone is back on the same level.

So everyone's brooms are exactly the same. What's the difference from when everyone used the old Sweep series brooms provided by the school?

In the end, everyone still has to rely on Quidditch technology to speak for themselves, and the biggest profiteer is the manufacturer of Quidditch brooms.

This phenomenon of snipe and clam competing for the profits of capitalists is generally called in the Muggle world - involution.

But it's impossible not to roll up. The Quidditch team has already rolled up under the leadership of Woz, the biggest capitalist among the Hogwarts student body, forcing the other three houses to follow suit.