r18novel Chapter 156 The Despicable Qin
Chapter 156 The Despicable Qin
"Haha, I've arrived just in time! I saw Little Katie snatch the Quaffle just now, it was so exciting!"
The towering giant Hagrid squeezed in with a laugh and plopped down between Ron and Neville, making all the children in that row huddle together and drastically reducing their space to move around.
"Hey, Hagrid!"
Hermione turned around and greeted Uncle Hagrid. After receiving a response from Hagrid, she continued to concentrate on watching the game.
Although it was her first time watching a Quidditch match live, she could still tell how powerful Qin's seemingly casual strike was. It created an excellent opportunity for his teammate to attack, and she still thought that strike was incredibly cool.
Therefore, she didn't want to miss any of the exciting moments of the competition—especially those related to Qin—which is why her greeting to Hagrid was hurried and brief.
"...I'm so excited! Let me tell you what just happened!"
Just now, after Qin created the opportunity, Arya feigned closeness to Slytherin's Chaser Kerry, who was carrying the ball, causing the latter to instinctively dodge. However, it was Katie who actually made the steal! That's right, it was a classic Parochie pincer feint!
Under normal circumstances, Katie's snatch might not have been so easy. However, Kerry was already struggling to stay airborne after being hit by Qin's ball, and now, after being startled by Aria, he couldn't pay attention to Katie next to him, which allowed Katie to succeed!
Sigh, you two are such young and kind girls, yet you bullied an injured player like this. I have to say, you're both really wicked!
Lee Jordan's "replay" showed viewers who missed the scene what had just happened.
Unsurprisingly, his concluding remark once again drew the ire of the Slytherin students and a stern reprimand from Professor McGonagall.
The chase on the field did not stop in the slightest because of the commentators' or the audience's reactions. The Slytherin players, who were slow to react, frantically closed in on Katie Bell, who had the ball. Derian Pursey was the first to rush over, looking as if he wanted to devour this damned Gryffindor newcomer.
However, Katie was not afraid at all. She charged at the interceptor with the same fierce attitude and used her flying skills to hit Puse's left shoulder, forcing him back. She also took the opportunity to adjust her direction and continue to rush towards the opponent's goal.
"...Drian Pursey's interception didn't work. Now it's up to the rest of Slytherin... Let's look for their captain and Chaser, Marcus. Oh, he's on Katie's right wing, looking aggressive, but he's stronger and more powerful than Pursey. Katie's in danger!"
As Lee Jordan provided commentary, Hermione and the others also worried about Katie on the court. With Marcus's massive size, it would be really difficult for the petite Katie to get past him.
Just as everyone's attention was focused on these two key figures in the offensive and defensive battle, unexpectedly, a small black ball flew over and hit Marcus hard in the waist!
Marcus's movements seemed to be suddenly brought to a halt, his body bent over like a shrimp, swaying and lying on the broom handle, clearly suffering great pain and unlikely to recover his fighting ability in a short time.
"It's Qin! Qin made his move at the crucial moment! He delivered a precise strike and successfully intercepted Marcus!"
Katie's biggest obstacle has been cleared, and she continues her advance towards the enemy goal!
Lee Jordan's passionate commentary continued, but the stands became unusually quiet during such a brilliant interception, as if everyone was on the edge of their seats for Katie, who was dribbling the ball. Everyone held their breath and dared not make a sound.
"On the other hand, Slytherin, facing a formidable enemy, hastily used the 'Double Figure-Eight Flying' move. Wasn't it too late to use this move at this point? Slytherin made a complete mistake in their haste, making a series of blunders!"
The goalkeeper, dressed in a green team uniform, flew in a figure-eight pattern around Slytherin's three circular gates.
This move is a classic goalkeeper defensive flying maneuver under normal circumstances, covering all three goals. However, in a panicked situation, a wider coverage area actually creates more openings, so it's better to stay put and wait for the right moment.
Sure enough, Katie took advantage of the opponent flying to the upper right and adjusted her flying broom to fly to the lower left, as if she was about to charge.
Upon noticing this, the goalkeeper hurriedly retreated to the lower left to defend, but almost tripped and fell because he turned too sharply.
However, just as he arrived at the lower left to defend, Katie changed direction and headed straight for the upper right goal that he had just been defending!
"...Kitty seized the moment when Slytherin's defense was weak and threw the Quaffle as she approached the goal!"
Katie, goal!
She earned Gryffindor their first ten points of the season! Let's cheer!
Amidst the despair of the Slytherin goalkeeper and the other arriving players, Gryffindor rookie Chaser Katie Bell broke through the defense and scored, earning Gryffindor ten points!
"Katie! Katie!"
"Gryffindor! Gryffindor!"
A burst of enthusiastic cheers immediately erupted from the crowd.
The cheers from the Gryffindor stands were, of course, the loudest.
Harry Potter, participating in the game for the first time, was so excited when his teammate scored that he did two somersaults on the spot to express his excitement.
As Qin Yu passed by the kid, he said to him in an annoyed tone, "Save your energy, you'll be tired later."
Harry grinned, chuckled foolishly, and readily agreed.
Qin Yu was too lazy to say much to the kid. He met up with Katie and Aria and encouraged them with satisfaction: "Well done, all your hard work in training has paid off! Keep up our rhythm and just keep playing like this."
The two new team members were overjoyed to receive the praise, and they flew around Qin Yu together, paying tribute to him in a unique Quidditch style.
"Qin! Qin!"
At this moment, the stands seemed to realize it belatedly and started shouting Qin Yu's name, because it was obvious to everyone that his two shots were the key to this goal.
Before long, that familiar slogan resounded throughout the stadium.
Qin Yu waved helplessly toward the Gryffindor stands where the shouts were the loudest. From a distance, he could still vaguely see the brown-haired girl cupping her hands around her mouth and shouting along—this girl is quite energetic, he thought to himself.
He didn't come here on purpose to steal the spotlight. The words of encouragement for the team should have been spoken by Oliver Wood, who was the captain. However, Wood was their goalkeeper, and he couldn't very well fly into the middle of the field during the game, could he? That would be inappropriate.
Among the veteran players, Angelina Johnson isn't influential enough, and George is even less of a factor, so he's the only one left to step up.
After giving a brief pep talk to the two goal scorers, Qin Yu told everyone to return to their positions and prepare for the next round of attack and defense.
……
As the saying goes, under the sun, the earth is in turmoil, and some are happy while others are sad.
After recovering, Marcus gathered his team and said angrily, "We've been tricked by Qin! He was just using Harry Potter to mislead us!"
"That's so insidious! Using a useless finder to distract us, how despicable!" one of the batters cursed angrily.
Then, everyone started denouncing Qin's dirty tactics, calling them despicable acts.
"Alright, no more rambling!" Marcus cut everyone off, not wanting to dwell on his earlier misjudgment. "Let's stick to our original plan and focus on attacking those two chasers. Don't get distracted!"
……
It was somewhere in the stands again.
"I understand now, Qin truly deserves to be called a tactical genius!"
“I understand now. He made others believe that Harry Potter had an important mission, but Harry Potter was just a ‘feint’ to distract Slytherin!”
"That's right, that's exactly it! Qin is truly amazing!"
Then, the group analyzed how many classic baiting tactics Qin had used and how professional the trajectories of his two shots with the Quake were.
Meanwhile, a viewer sitting next to them, watching their spittle flying as they analyzed the situation, and recalling their previous conversation, couldn't help but roll his eyes, thinking to himself: I see now, none of you really know anything, you're all just talking nonsense.