[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hogwarts-learning-panel":3,"chapter-hogwarts-learning-panel-hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-58":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Hogwarts Learning Panel",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2250296,4210,"Chapter 58: Nimbus 1500","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-58",58,"\u003Cp>Sometimes, Wizard Sean felt wizards were just barbarians in robes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cause of this thought came from the painting hanging beneath the stands—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ganter the Fist” Is the Winner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It depicted an ancient German pole-ball game, a famous painting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene showed a group of wizards holding sharpened brooms, surrounding a wizard with a rope tied around his waist, the rope leading to a large, inflated “bladder.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wizard had to use magic to fend off attacking wizards and protect the bladder behind him from being destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that alone weren’t enough to make Wizard Sean think this,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>what left him speechless was that the bladder was a dragon’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant each match cost a dragon its… “bladder.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean suspected this might be pure wizard-made fiction, meant to display their brute strength and assert dominance over the magical world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like some hunters hanging animal skulls on their walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet wizards’ obsession with bladders was truly strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the northern stands,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>hung a painting of Ireland’s once-popular stilts-and-fire-barrel game,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a theme endlessly sung in Irish wizarding ballads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The legendary wizard “Fearless” Fingal was said to have once been the champion of stilts-and-fire-barrel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Contestants raced one after another, carrying a “dome”—or ball—through a series of fire-lit wooden barrels suspended high in the air by stilts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The winner was the one who passed all barrels with the dome intact and without catching fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ball was a sheep’s bladder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now consider the painting beneath the western stands: broomstick jousting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Athletes rode their brooms upside-down, using the bristled ends to strike bladders back and forth between a ring of hedges; hitting the bladder scored points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They used pig bladders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Undoubtedly, these bladders were punctured and exploded after each use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean silently thanked today’s spectators—if this tradition had survived, modern Quidditch might be even more “exciting.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it added an explosion-based spectator interaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The paintings on the stands faded behind him as Wizard Sean reached the broom shed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A special charm seemed to have been cast here,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>allowing Wizard Sean to see raindrops falling slowly from the shed’s roof, yet never splashing inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Madam Hooch.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean approached the gray-haired lady with anticipation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mr. Green, punctuality is indeed a good habit,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Hooch waved her hand, and a broom leapt into her grip,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We have much to do today. See those tall poles? They’re the focus of today’s training.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean raised his hand, and his broom leapt to him in the same way; together, he and Madam Hooch gazed toward the Quidditch goalposts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their identical movements made him look like a miniature version of Madam Hooch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the two wizards—tall and small—flew close to the Quidditch goalposts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since you can already hover and fly properly, why not try some sharp turns?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Hooch’s voice cut clearly through the wind, as if enhanced by magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under her guidance, Wizard Sean made repeated attempts circling the poles,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>her requirement being:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even at top speed, your turning radius around the pole must not exceed three feet, and you must execute turns from every angle.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was undoubtedly a difficult goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Remember, this was only Wizard Sean’s third day touching a flying broom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But magic never cared about logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It only cared about talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You practiced flying at an adept standard, proficiency +10】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You practiced flying at an adept standard, proficiency +10】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【You practiced flying at an expert standard, proficiency +50】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean heard the system prompts keep sounding; his movements grew sharper under some instinctive guidance,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and he began unconsciously seeking the most efficient, least strenuous posture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, his connection with the broom grew stronger—he could almost sense every thread of magical force, guided by his will, flowing through the broom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the true secret to fully mastering a flying broom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean couldn’t help recalling Madam Hooch’s words:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A true flying wizard doesn’t ride a broom—he commands it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This command might not be limited to flight alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps it also applies to potions…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean remembered the strange magical sensation he felt while performing the modified ritual in the cauldron,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>just like controlling a broom—perhaps brewing potions also required the wizard to Making Guide magical energy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he thought this, he hit a bottleneck in his turning control—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the broom beneath him was too old; some enchantments, or combinations of enchantments, were malfunctioning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Added to that, its complex web of overlapping enchantments\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>made him think of certain ancient programmer’s spaghetti code.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t fathom how this broom still even worked…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Magic was simply too all-encompassing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Remarkable progress!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Hooch took Wizard Sean’s broom, floating it gently toward a separate storage area,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You plan to fly back to Ravenclaw Tower, correct?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean looked up, startled, then understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t the only wizard with that thought—and Ravenclaw Tower was famously tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Ravenclaw students’ stamina dropped noticeably when climbing stairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you happened to be on the tower’s spiral staircase at night, you’d hear plenty of young wizards offering their “greetings” to the tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Every year, many Ravenclaw students train extra at the Quidditch pitch,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but only a handful ever receive flight permission…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Madam Hooch spoke, Wizard Sean grew tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, she only vaguely hinted at how rare this permission was—almost once every few years—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but gave no clue on how to obtain it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they left the pitch, Madam Hooch held her arms crossed and handed Wizard Sean a parchment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean memorized it at a glance:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“On Flight Permission for First-Year Wizards at Hogwarts”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Master at least ten common flying techniques;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Obtain approval from the Hogwarts Flying Instructor;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Pass the flight test;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—After passing, possess a broom of at least the Nimbus 1500 quality (updated 1990).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean tucked the parchment into his bag, pressing it against the innermost copy of “Advanced Potion-Making.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this document, his goal became clearer—but what weighed on Wizard Sean’s heart was this:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the flight permission explicitly required a Nimbus 1500, an impossible feat.\u003C\u002Fp>",990,"2026-06-19T10:00:40.768Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","eb44a7de35f91207ec2b61b97eaaf68c2ecd1cfdd3fed070c358df4a15d5dda5","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-59","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-57",526,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-learning-panel-cover.jpg"]