Chapter 34 - Neal joins Quidditch team (2/2)

Draco must be there and taunting Harry again”. As he went towards the Quidditch stadium, he saw Malfoy and Ron were again arguing as he expected.

Neal frowned when Draco called Hermoine a ”mudblood”, which made the rest of the Gryffindors of the Quidditch team almost beat up Malfoy. He was very lucky that Flint arrived in time coincidentally and stopped them while Harry and Hermoine carried Ron who was vomiting slugs as his spell was backfired by his broken wand.

When Flint spotted Neal, who is coming towards him, he said, ”Ah, Neal. I was about to look for you. You arrived just in time”. Neal asked, ”what's the matter?”. Flint asked, ”I was wondering whether you want to try out for the team. Your performance was amazing last year”.

Neal thought for a while and replied, ”I can't attend all practice sessions like you guys. Is that ok?”. Flint nodded, ”it's fine. As long as your performance is up to the par with others. Next week is our tryouts. Don't miss it”.

After Flint went away, Draco was excited to hear, ”really? You are going to join the team? What position? Don't me you want to try as a seeker?”.

Neal replied, ”no. I'm happy with being a chaser. Although I think there's going to be a lot of competition in tryouts”. Then, he suddenly turned serious and lectured him, ”by the way, when will you grow up, Draco?.

Why are you still entangling with that trio's matter and disgracing yourself? Every time you try to harm them, they will benefit something from it. Didn't you still get it even after experiencing for a whole year?”.

One more week completed. The members in the Quidditch were looking forward to the tryouts. When they saw Neal on the grounds, the first years including other houses and a few from Slytherins sit in the stands to see Neal's tryout as he is widely popular.

He was the most loved and most hated person among the first years because the Professors of all the subjects kept on bringing his name whenever they fail their work like how perfect he was and how he got a 120% percentage score in all the subjects and broke the record.

Soon, Neal's turn came up. He flew and stopped in mid-air. Flint then said, ”You will be against three people and a keeper. You will have one partner. Work with him and score a goal”.

Neal looked at them and mumbled, ”compared to Zora, these have a lot of holes in their defense. It's easy as a pie”. He dashed towards them with lightning speed and took two simultaneous sharp cuts at the very last second and made it seem to them as he passed through them.

As the Keeper was stupified to see such a performance, he quickly threw the Quaffle in the goal post within a few seconds which made them excited. The three of them, one who was put into defense murmured, ”I was frightened that he would crash into me, you know”. ”Me too. He disappeared right in front of me and appeared behind me before I know what's going on”.

Just when Flint was about to praise him, he saw Neal was taking heavier breathes than before. After Neal calmed down himself, he replied, ”it's a special skill I practiced. But as you can see, it uses a lot of stamina and concentration. I can't use it indefinitely”.

Flint nodded, ”you passed. Welcome to the team”. Neal smiled along with Draco who was excited to play along with Neal as his teammate in the future, while Flint warned him in a low tone, ”don't use it too frequently around others. It can be used as our new weapon to win the cup.