Chapter 334 Bombarding the Dementors
A flash of lightning crawled in the dark clouds, and there was a rumble of thunder.
Harry brushed away the wet hair that stuck to his forehead and anxiously looked for the Snitch.
Suddenly, he saw a big black dog squatting on the top seat of the stands and met his eyes.
Harry didn't think much about it, because Cedric, the Seeker of the Hufflepuff team, seemed to have discovered something and was rushing towards the ground.
In recent days, Harry had heard Wood and Charles mention more than once that Cedric was a very good Seeker and that he might lose to him.
So Harry would not underestimate Cedric. Now that he might have discovered the Snitch before him, he would rush over at the fastest speed.
The Nimbus 2000 broom used by Harry was better than the flying broom used by Hufflepuff College, and Charles had taught him to estimate the lead time since he was a child, so he accelerated and dived in front of Cedric's flying direction.
But this was a fake move made by Cedric. There was nothing below, and he just wanted Harry to fall "smack" on the grass.
Cedric's feint was very realistic. He even stretched out his hand to pretend that the Golden Snitch was in front of him, but Harry finally saw through it. The tips of the tails of the two brooms rubbed the grass on the ground and flew back into the air.
Harry looked around and found that the big black dog had disappeared.
He suddenly saw a golden reflection in the direction of the Ravenclaw College audience, and hurriedly turned and rushed over.
Cedric was just below Harry and immediately chased him with all his strength.
He thought it was probably a fake move made by Harry to retaliate against his previous fake move, but he didn't dare to bet. What if it was real?
Half a second later, Cedric also saw a golden light over there, so he leaned down and made the flying broom go faster.
In the audience, Luna was stunned to watch the two seekers rushing towards her at full speed, and then left helplessly, and couldn't help but adjust the big gold-framed rain glasses on her nose.
The game continued, and a bludger targeted Harry.
Harry signaled George to stay away, and increased the flying speed, trying to lead the bludger to Cedric.
When he was less than five meters behind Cedric, he climbed almost at a right angle, and the Bludger rushed straight forward towards Cedric's back.
But Cedric suddenly did a sideways roll, and it seemed as if he had eyes behind him, avoiding the Bludger.
Time passed little by little, and the battle between Wood and the others was extremely fierce.
The players of the Gryffindor team had Ginny's spell on their faces, which would not be affected by the rain, and they thought they would have an advantage.
But the players of the Hufflepuff team seemed to be unaffected by the rain. The Bludgers and Quaffles could be easily found, and those who should be intercepted were intercepted and those who should be avoided were avoided.
However, the strong wind and rain still had an impact on the players of both sides, and the defense became more difficult. The two sides started a goal battle.
The scores of the two teams rose alternately. During this period, Gryffindor sent out a wave of goals, and once led Hufflepuff by 50 points, but it was soon overtaken by 20 points.
The sky gradually darkened, and the players on the field quickly consumed their physical strength in the wind and rain. At this time, the physical strength that the Gryffindor players had stored for many days came into play.
The Hufflepuff players were hungry, tired and cold at this time. Their hands began to tremble, and mistakes such as passing errors occurred frequently.
The Gryffindor team seized the opportunity. Although they felt very cold now, they still had a lot of strength. They seized the opportunity to play a series of wonderful counterattacks.
As the Seeker, the terminator of the game, had not found the Golden Snitch yet. Wood planned to seize the opportunity to increase the score difference to more than 150 points. Even if the opponent caught the Golden Snitch, they would not win.
Wood was the captain and had to consider the win or loss of the entire team, not just Harry's performance.
This wave of Gryffindor's counterattacks scored a wave of goals, and the score was pulled to 110 points. The mentality of the Hufflepuff players was almost broken.
Next, the Hufflepuff team defended the goal tightly. The players chose to believe in their captain Cedric Diggory and believed that he would bring victory.
The offensive momentum of the Gryffindor team was curbed. They were a little irritable after a long time of attacking, and the opponent took the opportunity to counterattack and scored two goals.
This is what the audience wants to see. There were waves of cheers in the stands.
At this moment, Harry saw the Golden Snitch through the cracks in the rainstorm and found that it was above the Slytherin Academy audience seats.
Harry glanced at Cedric and found that he was turning, and he had obviously found the Golden Snitch.
Harry did not hesitate to block his flight path in front of Cedric, and took advantage of the speed of the broom to catch the Golden Snitch first.
However, Harry suddenly found that the sounds around him disappeared, and everything in front of him changed from color to black and white. A large mass of black things flew from the direction of the Forbidden Forest like a dark cloud, and countless white meteors crashed into the dark cloud, blowing it to pieces...
Today Hermione has been sitting behind the Slytherin Academy, and her eyes kept switching between Harry and Snape.
In Hermione's perspective, Snape once wanted to control Harry's flying broom to make him fall from a high altitude in the first year, and controlled the Bludger to knock Harry down in the second year. This year, he must make trouble.
The result was just as she thought.
Hermione looked up and saw that Harry was about to catch the Golden Snitch, but suddenly his body shook unnaturally, and it seemed that he was about to fall from the flying broom.
She lowered her head and found that Snape had indeed stood up from his seat!
Hermione thought, as expected, fortunately she was prepared.
Sneak, spray explosive liquid on the back of the robe, ignite, evacuate, do it in one go.
In front of the greenhouse, Dumbledore saw a large group of Dementors flying towards the Quidditch field, and his face changed instantly.
At this moment, a warm white light appeared next to him. Turning his head, he found that Charles had taken out a 460mm long wand and was drawing circles.
Dumbledore was a little curious. Charles taught Seamus the Patronus Charm, but he never used it. He didn't know what his Patronus would be.
"It should be a phoenix." Dumbledore thought. After Fawkes came to him, his Patronus became a phoenix.
The answer came out soon.
"Expecto Patronus!"
Charles waved his wand.
There were horns on the head, long knives in the hands, umbrellas, cat ears and cat tails, and two wearing wedding dresses. Six female Patronuses with strange mechanical weapons appeared.
Dumbledore blinked. What was going on?
Charles pointed his wand, and four shipgirl patronuses with artillery began to fire fiercely at the Dementors.
The white shells were like a meteor shower, unaffected by wind and rain, smashing into the Dementors, and then blasting out a large ball of white light, blowing the Dementors to ghosts and wolves howling and fleeing in all directions.
The two shipgirl patronuses in wedding dresses released dozens of ruby-sized fighters, which rushed into the sky and then pounced on the scattered Dementors in groups of two.
A Dementor fled into the sky above the Quidditch pitch in panic, and the pitch also launched a counterattack.
There seemed to be an explosion in the audience seats of Slytherin College, and a black figure flew straight up, brushed past Cedric, and hit the Dementor's belly.
The shipgirl patronuses on Charles' side first continued to cover the Dementors that gathered in a group with artillery fire, and after they were completely dispersed, the fighter patronuses could call out their names one by one, making sure that every Dementor was beaten.
On the other side, Harry held onto the Nimbus 2000 before he fainted and did not fall down, but was blown away by the wind along with the out-of-control broom.