Chapter 35 - Restricted section (2/2)
It also surprised the Gryffindor team. Not just because of the addition of Neal to the team but also everyone in the Slytherin team have Nimbus 2001 in their hands which Malfoy sponsored again. As everyone took positions, Madam Hooch whistled and threw the Quaffle up in the air to start the match.
10 seconds later, the entire stadium including Slytherins and professors went silent as they saw a Quaffle was thrown into one of the Goal Posts. Everyone looked at Neal like what the.....
As soon as the Quaffle was thrown up. Flint and another chaser flew fast on his Nimbus 2001 towards an open space in the Gryffindor's side. A couple of chasers from Gryffindors went aside to cover them as the remaining one focused on catching the Quaffle.
But before he catches it, Neal caught the Quaffle in a blink of a second and flew straight towards the Goalpost. Seeing this the chasers moved back and tried to move before him to restrict his movements. But before they knew what's going, Neal disappeared right in front of them and appeared behind them and didn't slow down there and continuously made another sharp cut and evaded the twin Weasleys with accelerating the broom and Quickly threw the Quaffle in the Goalpost before even 10 seconds have been passed.
One hour later, the commentator shouted, ”Harry Potter catches the snitch and Slytherin wins the match with 240-170”. While all the Slytherins are cheering loudly, Neal slowly descended his broom. He slowly walked with Draco's help as the match drained a lot of energy from him due to pushing himself to limits performing the sharp cuts over and over again.
Slytherin began to chant Neal's name who scored 13 goals alone and gave 4 ȧssists in his very first match. While looking at him, Tracey spoke, ”I guess Neal, really wanted the team to win”. Daphne snorted, ”don't spout out nonsense. It's just a facade he's putting up. Don't you know him, already? Since when did he even care about our win? He just wanted to create the record to get more House points. That's the reason he entered Quidditch. Did you forget the last day of our first year?”.
Flashback. The day of House Cup.
After Dumbledore announcing Harry 100 points for Quidditch and awarded him 50 points for best in academics, Neal stared at Dumbledore and mumbled, ”I guess creating records in Quidditch gives more points, eh”.
Present-day.
After going to the waiting room with Draco's help. He sat down while everyone changed their clothes and left. Only Draco, Flint and Neal remained in the room. Then, Flint suddenly said, ”everyone has gone, Neal. You can stop it”. As Draco got confused, Neal smiled and stood up as if nothing happened which made Draco stumped. he pointed his finger at Neal in a shock, ”You... weren't exhausted?”.
Flint replied, ”him? don't kid around. I overlooked his training you know. His energy levels are way higher. It's just an act we prepared to make them think he has a limit and won't specially train harder than necessary to stop him”.
One week later, Neal was in the Restricted section once again. He put back the Spell of Books as he completed it. He only needs to practice the spells in his cast-a-spell kit that has a training room to practice spells.
As he roamed around, he found an interesting book that featured Dark creatures. As he was reading it while sitting in a corner interestingly without making any sound, the librarian briefly walked around and locked the door after the closing time is over.
Neal only realized about the time when it became dark. He went towards the door and found that it is locked outside the door. At first, he wants to get out but then, Neal thought, since it's a weekend, and the next day is the Sunday, he might as well spend the rest of the night reading other books.
He mumbled, ”it's a spell. Petrieseo Arachniego. What does that spell do....” Before he even speaks out his thoughts, suddenly the book self-raised and a door appeared magically. He mumbled, ”it's just like the chamber of secrets. Might be an entrance to something. Who knows what might be inside. Let's open it after I come back with enough preparations”.
then after trying different things, he finally closed the entrance by speaking the same spell again. After arranging all the books just how they should be, he went towards the door and apparated to out of the door. He mumbled, ”I, really wonder why I can only do apparition between the two sides of a wall or a door but not to my room directly?”.