Chapter 328 Announcement And Harry's Choice

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In summary, after spending a while in the bathroom as usual, Hermione and Elena put on dry clothes and dried their hair with a towel, reappearing in the warm and spacious Gryffindor common room.

At that moment, Elena wore a golden-red Gryffindor uniform, perhaps due to the steam. Both of them had slightly flushed faces, as if they were attractive red apples, charming.

However, their appearance didn't attract the attention of the other students in the common room.

It seemed that between their bathroom activities and jokes, there was something more happening in the Gryffindor common room. Almost everyone was clustered in front of the notice board, pointing and talking about something.

It was an announcement that wasn't too lengthy, placed between the Quidditch team practice schedule and the school rules regularly reminded by Argus Filch. The new announcement looked extraordinarily simple. The only decoration was the Hogwarts crest and the floral signatures of Professor Dumbledore, Madam Huo Qi, and four other college deans below.

"Hogwarts Quidditch Test Team Selection."

Elena took off her shoes and stood on the chair, tiptoed, looked over the heads of the crowd in front of her, and read the notice word for word, then happily jumped off the chair and nodded in satisfaction.

"It seems that Mr. Argus Filch is very efficient, and the announcement has been posted so quickly."

Now that this message has appeared on the notice board of the Gryffindor common room on the eighth floor of the castle, there is no doubt that most of the notice boards in the common rooms of the other three colleges have also been posted.

And the main notice board at the entrance of the school hall closest to Filch's office is even more unnecessary to mention.

"Hogwarts Quidditch Test Team. Sounds interesting, do you know if we can still participate?" asked one of the Gryffindor boys, tapping his friend's shoulder.

"I'm afraid I can't." His friend shrugged and pointed to one of the notice boards. "This test team is not limited to colleges, but only for first-year students... unless you now ask Professor McGonagall to apply for repetition, otherwise, you could only keep applying to join Quidditch with Wood."

"Actually, I submitted an application to Wood yesterday, and you know I've always liked the goalkeeper position."

The boy who spoke first sighed helplessly, spreading his hands. "But still, after confirming that I wasn't willing to play in other positions, Wood didn't hesitate to reject my application."

"Come on, Wales. This has happened three times in a row. I don't think Wood has directly rejected you. He already has a good character. You have been a goalkeeper, can't Wood consider you as a substitute?"

A tall girl with a long twisted ponytail sighed softly and spoke with annoyance.

Angelina Johnson, the Gryffindor Quidditch Seeker, and the Weasley twins are third-year students at Hogwarts. If Elena remembers correctly, she will wait until Wood graduates. She will take on the role as the new captain of the Gryffindor team.

"First-year mixed college test team? This is an interesting attempt. You can check it out at that time."

As she spoke, Angelina looked up and carefully read the new notice posted on the notice board, raised her eyebrows, and seemed to be thinking about the game she lost to Slytherin last year. She murmured to herself.

"I don't know if the first-year students of Gryffindor have done well this year. I hope in the end, a first-year student from Gryffindor is not selected, um, it would be too embarrassing."

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Among all the activities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, two things are the most talked about: Quidditch and exams.

At this particular moment, the school suddenly announced that it will form the first-year Quidditch team at Hogwarts, which undoubtedly became the hottest topic at the dinner table in the auditorium tonight.

You know, in comparison to the four academic confrontations that occur every year, this new selection mode greatly satisfies the curiosity of the young wizards for novel things.

Since it is the first time that the mixed college Quidditch team is formed, and the first-year students are all members, almost all college students have expressed great expectations. Even before dinner was over, the betting market on how many new students will be selected for each college tomorrow secretly opened.

The notice posted on the notice board was written very clearly. This Quidditch team formed by first-year students not only can provide a reference for the official player selection in the second year, but, more importantly, will accompany the four college teams in training competitions. Only these two points can be welcomed by all Quidditch teams.

As for the possibility stated in the upper corner of the notice about the first-year students participating in official competitions, of course, once again, it is selectively ignored by all older students. Anyone with a keen eye knows that this is mostly a blank check to boost the spirits of the young ones.

In these circumstances, Elena is naturally the most concerned by the older students.

Elena has almost been designated as the captain of the first-year Quidditch team, and her impressive performance in the flying class this afternoon has been circulated in various versions by the rest of the first-year students. It has spread throughout the school.

The only odd situation might be that, whether in Hufflepuff or Gryffindor, whenever the gaze falls on the white-haired bun sitting at the table and eating and drinking, accidental sparks will collide. There is no doubt that the idea of competing for new talents is not just a matter that the deans will consider.

Furthermore, Draco Malfoy and Ron Weasley are also the two first-year students who have argued the most.

From a descriptive standpoint, Malfoy seems to excel, but Ron's bonus aura is almost a protagonist-like existence. After all, not everyone is like Ron, with five siblings who have studied at Hogwarts, and four of them are also noteworthy members of Gryffindor's Quidditch team. Even Percy Weasley, who didn't join the Quidditch team, is a strong contender for the next president of the boys' student union.

However, in the midst of this heated debate, Harry suddenly fell unexpectedly silent.

After dinner, Harry didn't return to the common room with Ron to engage in discussions about Quidditch and chats about various magical novels but followed Hermione, Elena, and others to the library.

Because for Harry, the Quidditch test tomorrow afternoon was not the most important thing on Friday.

"Mom's news..."

A flash of determination crossed Harry Potter's green eyes as he solemnly flipped through "Magical Potions" in front of him, patiently reviewing it word by word once again.

He couldn't remember how many times he had opened this potion textbook. Harry was so familiar with it that he could memorize most of it without even closing his eyes.

This Friday morning, he was going to have his first potions class since enrolling.

According to the clues Elena had accidentally given him earlier, Professor Snape, who seemed difficult to deal with, might know something about his mother...

For Harry, this hope, which was so hard to see, was obviously much more important than Quidditch, of which he didn't even understand the rules, and he couldn't bear any failure.

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