Chapter 23 - Hogwarts Annual Festival part 3 (1/2)

Finishing his debate, he went to the Talent show to pass time until the games at dungeons start. Many people one by one did tricks with various combinations of spells to impress the judges who are actually the seventh year Prefects of four Houses. Some students sang songs from the Muggle world and did different styles of dances too.

Especially the twins Parvati and Padma did a style of traditional south Indian dance with wearing different kinds of jewelry and their traditional clothes but the judges were very impressed with it and applauded their effort.

Later, other twins Fred and George Weasley did several tricks producing different kinds of sparks along with other genius things but were eliminated unanimously as they pulled out a stunt which made a swamp underneath the Judges and almost made them sink and also made a mess out of the room with other things as well.

After winning all of his Gobstones matches and advancing to finals, he returned to the Great Hall for lunch. Later, with Daphne and Malfoy, he went to the Quidditch stadium to see his teammates. After seeing the names, Daphne and Neal began to laugh so hard while Malfoy is cursing Tracey's tongue.

In the Mini Quidditch team, by a great coincidence, Ron, Harry, Draco, and Jean from Ravenclaw end up as a team. Meanwhile, for Neal, it's even more of a coincidence to end up with Wood, Flint and Cho Chang which all of his three teammates are official team players.

Each match was for only 15min since there are like 30 teams playing in the competition. as his match is the next one, he went to the waiting room where he saw all three of them are already there. The atmosphere inside wasn't good as Flint and Wood are enemies in Quidditch while Cho Chang is also rival to Flint as she caught the snitch last time and eliminated Slytherin.

Flint greeted him as soon as he saw Neal. Neal greeted back everyone. Cho chang raised her hand to handshake, ”it's the second time today as teammates. Let's do our best, Neal”. Neal smiled, ”likewise” and shook her hand.

But then, the atmosphere turned silent as no one was speaking. So, Neal cleared his throat, ”can I say something?”. Cho Chang replied, ”yes, go on”. Neal replied, ”the first team is just mediocre. We can easily defeat them. But we don't know about future opponents.

Unlike you guys, who are official players, I don't know how to play it. I know the rules but I never played it. Can I practice with them and you guys let me improve my game?”.

Since Flint was from the same house and the other two are good people, they readily accepted it. Their match soon started. While the stadium is packed, Draco, Daphne, Tracey and the rest were cheering for him by his surname. Although it is unclear whether they are cheering for the House or him, alone as both are the same.

As soon as the match started, the Quaffle rose in the air, Neal flew like a lightning on the Nimbus 2000 which he borrowed for the match temporarily from the Club and caught the ball but as his control is bad, he went a bit a too far and almost collided with the Pillar before he stopped.

While the students in the Gryffindor laughed along with Ron in the audience section, FLint shouted, ”careful. You fly too fast”. Neal looked at him, ”I'm ok. I'm just lacking control over the broom”. Neal threw the Quaffle to him and he flew towards one of the goalposts.

Flint who easily understood his intention quickly flew towards the keeper while dodging all three of them and threw it to Neal which he caught and threw into one of the Goalposts and scored it. ”Good job, Neal”.

Just like that, they took all the 15minutes of the match to train Neal, how to score, dodge them while opponents intercept and how to intercept them and steal the Quaffle. Neal made mistakes a few times which got a chance for them to score four to five times but all were perfectly blocked by Wood and ending the score at 40-0, going into the next round.