Chapter 105: Cleansweep 1500

Sometimes, Sean would feel that wizards are like barbarians wearing robes.

The reason for this sentiment comes from the painting hanging under the stands—

" 'Violent Hand' Gunter is the Winner."

That is a scene of ancient German Shunt-Sticks, and also a very famous painting.

The picture shows a group of wizards holding sharpened brooms, they surround a wizard tied with a rope around his waist, and behind the rope is a large, inflated "bladder."

This wizard has to try his best to use magic to drive away the attacking wizards and protect the "bladder" behind him from being destroyed.

If this alone wasn't enough to make Sean have this thought,

but what makes one speechless is that this "bladder" is a dragon's.

This means that every time a game is played, a dragon will lose its... "bladder."

Sean suspected that this might be a lie completely fabricated by wizards, in order to show their martial power and show their dominant position to the magic world.

Just like some hunters would hang animal heads at home.

But wizards' preference for "bladders" is indeed very strange.

Under the north stand,

hangs a painting of Ireland's once-prosperous Stilts-Fire-Barrel competition,

which is a theme repeatedly sung in many Irish wizard folk songs.

The legendary wizard "Fearless" Fingal in the picture is rumored to have been a champion of Stilts-Fire-Barrel.

The contestants on it one after another carry a "Dom," or a ball, quickly passing through a series of burning wooden barrels suspended high in the air on stilts.

The contestant who successfully lets the Dom pass through all the barrels at the fastest speed, and doesn't catch fire along the way, is the winner.

The ball is a sheep's bladder.

Let's talk about the painting of riding a broom backward under the west stand.

Athletes ride brooms backward, hitting the bladder back and forth between a circle of hedges with the bristly end of the broom; hitting it is scoring.

That uses a pig's bladder.

Undoubtedly, these bladders will be poked to explode after use.

Sean silently rejoiced for the current audience; if this tradition were unfortunately preserved, then the current Quidditch match might be even more "exciting."

After all, it increased the audience interaction segment after the explosion.

The paintings in the stands gradually moved away, and Sean also walked to the shed full of brooms.

This place seems to have been cast with a special spell,

Sean could see the raindrops on the shed falling slowly, but they could never drip into the shed. ===== CHAPTER 106 =====