[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wizard-war-at-hogwarts":3,"chapter-wizard-war-at-hogwarts-wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-479":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Wizard War at Hogwarts",{"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},2358452,4612,"Chapter 479","wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-479",479,"\u003Cp>Nicolai and Edith showed little adaptation issues at the Muggle school; though their grades were poor, their excellent physical conditioning won them admiration from many Muggles. After an afternoon of moving reunions with old friends, they set off on their return journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving that small town, Harry was fully at ease about the two children, but he had completely given up on the idea of the Quidditch galactic battleship. What he needed to do now was quickly assemble a functional roster from existing personnel—and he had to consider sustainability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The logic was simple: he could easily promote three Chasers from last year’s rejects and let Ginny play Seeker for another year—but then what? When Harry, Ron, and McLaggen graduated and left school, Ginny would face another collapse. And if she was forced to recruit temporary sixth- and seventh-year players, once Ginny herself left, Gryffindor’s team would plunge into a long dark period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given this, Harry believed they must prepare in advance by selecting more low-year students for training matches and as backups. This year he had plenty of time to properly train these players and leave Ginny a usable roster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the tone for long-term cultivation had been set, Harry turned again to the three loyal little fans beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kids,” he asked, “are you interested in Quidditch? I need decent low-year students as backups to train with, so they can be promoted directly to starters once the seniors graduate.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Karl said happily, “I’m in—I fly well, I can be Seeker.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orion volunteered too, “I want to be Beater!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the two friends had spoken, Quinn, who had been hesitant, shook his fat body and forced himself to say, “I—I can be Keeper.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perfect combination,” Harry smiled at them. “Don’t forget to show up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To quickly build team strength, Harry was eager to start trials immediately. The date was set for the second Saturday after term began. This time, more people showed up—because of the precedent of special admission, first-years had all brought borrowed brooms and gathered along the sidelines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With so many people together, it was chaotic. Harry rubbed his temples, watching the laughing crowd—but soon he realized he didn’t need to be bothered: Ginny was captain now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Listen!” she waved her wand, her voice ringing out. “Everyone not trialing, go to the stands! Don’t crowd here! Those trialing, get ready—we’ll fly two laps around the pitch first. If you can’t even master basic flight, don’t stand around laughing and wasting time—especially you first-years who’ve only had one flying lesson!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her confident stance on the pitch, her fiery red hair flying, made Harry momentarily dazed—and then he understood why: Mrs. Weasley looked just like this in the kitchen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the second lap, many students fell behind and slunk away. Ginny then accelerated on the third lap, eliminating another batch of players with no talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After three laps, she assigned different trial tasks to different people. Harry and Ron were assigned to evaluate Seekers and Keepers respectively. Their job was simple: keep hurling a Bludger at the trainees, then use a spell to recall it, hurl it again—simulating the pressure of being targeted on the pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry admired Ginny’s trial method. He believed players selected this way would have strong pressure resistance—a quality crucial not just in matches, but also in training, where it allowed new players to learn more from experienced veterans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After blasting another trainee off his broom with a Bludger, Harry bellowed, “Next!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No one left,” Dean said, holding his notebook. “You just knocked down the last one.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry glared at the sprawled, disheveled students on the ground with a look of exasperation and shouted, “Anyone who didn’t dodge a single Bludger—leave now. The rest, gather over here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The low-year students lined up dejectedly before him. Harry turned to Dean. “Who performed best?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ritcher Gut,” Dean said. “He dodged six.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry looked at the unremarkable boy. He remembered him—he’d tried out for Beater last year. Maybe he dodged six Bludgers not because he was pressure-resistant, but because he understood Beaters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I remember you, Gut,” Harry said seriously. “Your accuracy as a Beater was good, but you lack power. As a Seeker, you’d still need to find the Snitch.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I believe finding the Snitch can be trained,” he said, forcing confidence into his voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, let’s get you in first. Any other low-year students who performed well?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Natalie McDonald and Dennis Creevey. Both dodged four Bludgers, but Natalie nearly caught the Snitch.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take them both. People can switch positions,” Harry said. “Seeker is easiest to switch from—because flight fundamentals are the most solid.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In casual conversation, the other positions gradually filled. Following the principle of preparation, each selected a few promising low-year students. Now came Ginny’s great test: assigning positions. Harry already had a few vague ideas, but he deliberately kept quiet, hoping Ginny would develop big-picture thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Eve, write this down: I’m assigning Ritcher Gut and Dean Thomas as Chasers alongside me. Natalie McDonald and Quinn Kowalski will rotate as Seekers. Beaters and Keeper remain unchanged. This is our starting lineup.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry had never expected Quinn to show up for trials, let alone be assigned as a rotating Seeker—he wanted to ask Ginny what she was thinking. But out of respect for the captain, he stayed silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Owen Caldwell, Kevin Whitby, and Vicky Frobisher are Chaser backups. Orion Rosier and Karl Tennison are Beater backups. No Keeper backup for now—but Quinn will serve as Keeper in training matches.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything else made sense—cleverly leveraging position similarities for rotation—but Quinn’s assignment left Harry completely baffled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s it for today. First training session is tomorrow at two p.m.,” Ginny said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait, how did you even think of this?” Harry asked the moment the newcomers dispersed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah,” Ron added. “That little fat kid’s clearly a Keeper prospect—why make him a Seeker?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ginny glanced around, then pulled them aside conspiratorially. “I’m pretending to use Quinn as Seeker—but I’m actually leaving room for Edith to come back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How can you—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Polyjuice Potion,” she whispered. “She was already our player anyway. It’s not cheating.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As for Natalie,” Ginny cut in before Harry and Ron could object, straightening up and raising her voice to drown them out, “focus her training on coordination with Chasers. That maximizes scoring and prepares her to transition to Chaser later.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From a team management perspective, that’s correct,” Eve added. “Seekers demand raw talent, but once you have it, you can become competent quickly. Chasers don’t require exceptional flight talent, but without long-term training and chemistry, you can’t play the position well. So we can design innovative player development paths: for Seekers with average talent, integrate them into team play. When a better Seeker emerges, convert them to Chaser—immediately boosting team combat effectiveness.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But then we’ll have too many Chasers,” Ron frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So we implement a Chaser age-displacement system: ensure at least one Chaser graduates each year, and at least one stays. I also believe we can make reasonable adjustments based on talent, playing style, and tactical compatibility—keeping flexible position-switching space to preserve combat strength after top players leave, and quickly converting the talent of low-year prodigies into trophies.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Based on this system, I think we need to add ‘Manager’ and ‘Coach’ roles. Traditionally, the Captain handles both—but if the Captain lacks time or mental bandwidth, we can assign other students. This year, I’ll quickly develop tactical frameworks, propose sub-roles for each position and viable combinations, and provide future captains with as many referenceable team configurations as possible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“First, this year is still golden: Harry and Ron are heavy hitters, McLaggen is a wall—we can prioritize scoring lineups and lock wins against weaker teams. So Natalie needs training in team priority. For Chasers: Ginny as the breaker, Gut as the long passer, Dean must focus on shooting and goal-scoring—he needs to find his own scoring method, strengthen psychological warfare training, or build better synergy with the Beaters.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From this perspective, friends like you—split between Chaser and Beater—maximize synergy. A dual-Beater setup leans toward four-protect-one. If we hadn’t luckily recruited Edith last year, we’d have struggled badly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Eve spoke confidently with her notebook, Harry had to admit: she had found her own Quidditch path—and Ron’s eyes had begun to change.\u003C\u002Fp>",1370,"2026-06-21T04:54:29.438Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b8120635713caf9d1d3415a3b5da023c901603c93beb0b47e3c1fec7fc431b5a","wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-480","wizard-war-at-hogwarts-chapter-478",528,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwizard-war-at-hogwarts-cover.jpg"]