Chapter 509: Shattered Ambition

The two girls accepted Harry's suggestion readily, which made him feel good, and he sincerely felt that he had come up with a great idea, much better than amnesia or something. After all, Eve's changes this year were obvious to all. Relying on solid Quidditch theory, although she didn't play, she still established many common topics with Luo En, and through this, she truly walked into his heart.

However, he ignored a serious problem, that is, the people in the snake house, their natural way of thinking is a bit different from others.

In mid-January, a desperate comeback from Hufflepuff quickly became the hottest Quidditch topic in the school. In this game, the audience successively saw the air combat ace, top-level fake fall, high-profile comeback, head coach warming up, god-inviting, imperial city PK, on-the-spot retirement, and other famous scenes that were about to be recorded in school history.

In the first three minutes of the game, Cui Ge, as the goalkeeper, directly gave up the goal, scattered the formation of the badger house chasers at the cost of one ball, connected to the fast maneuver and then the broom tail drew an arc to shoot down a player, picked up the Quaffle in the air and smashed down another person with relative speed, and then repeated the same trick, using the landing of the third chaser to completely imprint his name on the Barents Sea scalpel of the Quidditch field.

At that moment, Draco was in high spirits, raised his hands high, and cheered "never seen such a wonderful start."

But soon, in the fifth minute, Astoria appeared to have a relapse of her old illness; she swayed while coughing up blood as she flew toward the Snitch. The Hufflepuff Seeker, Ernie, moved to make a probing challenge, but the moment the two met, Astoria's broom suddenly disintegrated, and she had to make a difficult exit under the protection of Madam Hooch's protective spell.

Facing the protest of the snake house audience, Ernie had to admit his accidental collision caused bad effects and was forced to accept the penalty and leave the field.

Facing the embarrassment that both teams lost their seekers and the game could not end, both team captains refused the proposal of "waiting for the players to come back from the school hospital" and made corresponding countermeasures.

The Hufflepuff team captain Zacharias threw away the bat symbolizing the beater on the spot, changed into Cedric's old jersey, announced that he had transferred to the beater, and also took out the broom used by Cedric, which was bought by badger house students after the Triwizard Tournament and was equipped with a reflector, attracting the endless cheers of the audience.

Lu Na on the commentary stand couldn't help but shout: "What did Zacharias summon? A canary that seems to be able to turn back time! We seem to have returned to the golden age led by that man! The greatest legend of the badger house has never left! He wants to use his shadow to help the desperate current captain make a desperate fight!"

To deal with this, Draco also took off his gloves with a black face, announced that he had given up his status as a chaser, and returned to his old job as a seeker. Some flatterers in the snake house also cheered, but Draco himself had no bright seeker record, and the situation in the snake house could not arouse the sympathy and resonance of other colleges.

Only Lu Na gave face and continued to shout: "The love is still there, the story has never ended, Draco's comeback as a chaser after many years..." Her voice became smaller and smaller, because in fact, it hadn't been long, and Draco didn't have many bright performances when he was a chaser. Even if she really wanted to say a few good words, Lu Na searched her stomach and finally ran out of words helplessly.

"What did we see? The head coach is warming up!" When she didn't know what to say, she chose to shift her attention, letting the eyes of the whole audience gather toward the edge of the field—Pan Xi was preparing to replace Draco as a chaser, but sharp-eyed audience could see that she was wearing high heels.

The lineup of the snake house suddenly became abstract. The air combat ace had no ball in his eyes, only enemy players. The only remaining beater of Hufflepuff, Richie, only needed to try his best to protect himself with that small stick, and he inadvertently restricted the strongest player of Slytherin, and also took away their goalkeeper.

And Crabbe and Gao Er, two followers with survival wisdom, chose the latter without hesitation between "using the Bludger to completely defeat the enemy player" and "prioritizing the protection of the big brother and sister to be foolproof." After a short accompaniment, and then being scolded by Draco for "getting in the way," the two gripped their bats and followed Pan Xi, swearing to protect her from the Bludger... even if the enemy beater was already too busy to take care of himself, they must do so.

After Pan Xi threw in a few painless Quaffles, everyone's eyes began to concentrate on the seeker. Draco rode the most familiar and top-level Firebolt, while Zacharias's broom was a Beauxbatons model, and its performance was visibly worse—but he relied on his full dissatisfaction and suppressed Draco's hand touching the Snitch several times.

Finally, after one high-risk action after another, the two seekers fell to the lawn together without any accident. Under Pan Xi's flustered protection spell, Draco was not harmed, but the price was—the bruised Zacharias was able to grab the Snitch in his palm.

"Cedric let me! On his behalf!" He held up the Snitch and shouted, "Ask you well!"

Draco angrily threw the Firebolt onto the lawn, almost breaking the broom. He raised a finger at Pan Xi, cursed angrily: "I could have won! I could have! You idiot!"

When Madam Hooch picked up the expensive Firebolt with a hint of heartache and handed it to Draco with a gentle smile, the young master who was on the verge of emotional breakdown shouted on the spot: "Donate it to the school! If I touch Quidditch again, I am Muggle-raised!"

Madam Hooch's expression immediately changed from sympathy to joy. She grabbed the Firebolt tightly, directly confirming the first half of Draco's sentence. But this meant that it was difficult for him to change his words and say that the second half was also angry words.

In the evening, in a corner of the eighth-floor corridor where no one cared, Draco squatted on the floor with his knees in his arms. He wanted to find a corner to be quiet alone, but was stabbed by Luo En again—not only did he occupy the Room of Requirement with Eve for three hours, but after coming out, he mocked Draco in a gloating tone, and in front of the girl he loved, he defeated Croze with fantasy omnipotence again, making Draco's eyes lose all light, and at this moment he could only fall on the cold floor without any vitality.

"You are a bit too much, he is miserable enough today." Harry heard Luo En's mockery and couldn't help but sympathize with Draco. Thinking that they didn't have any deep hatred with Draco, he put on his robe and wanted to go out to see.

Sure enough, Draco was still lying on the floor, looking like he hadn't moved at all.

"Sorry, Draco, I sincerely apologize for Luo En, he went too far." Harry's kind nature drove him to say so, "But I think what you are really sad about is the loss of the game. For this, I want to say, you don't have to..."

"No, Potter, all this just makes me feel tortured." Draco interrupted him softly, "It seems like nothing belongs to me, brooms, teams, even my fiancée... I only have this power of the dragon, but he can't change anything."

"Doesn't belong to you?" Harry felt this statement was a bit strange.

"The broom is donated to the college, the team is now intervened by Pan Xi... I know she has looked for you, not blaming you, I also saw Eve's situation, I originally thought this would be a beautiful thing for the relationship to go further... but she doesn't understand the ball, she only makes things worse—later I found out that she cast a spell on Astoria's broom."

"This is simply murder!" Harry couldn't help but exclaim. He didn't expect Pan Xi to do such a thing.

"She won't have anything to do in full view, and won't even break her skin. And you think Greengrass is a fuel-efficient lamp?" Draco sneered, "She deliberately vomited blood, showing weakness is also a means. Crabbe saw her stuffing blood bags into her arms."

The girls in the snake house, their minds are really complex, Harry secretly sighed. Immediately after, he immediately found another angle of comfort: "Oh yes, you mentioned Crabbe, at least Gao Er and Crabbe are loyal to you."

"Gao Er and Crabbe, loyal to Malfoy, you understand? Not Vincent and Gregory loyal to Draco, it is Gao Er and Crabbe, loyal to Malfoy, hehe, if another Malfoy is here, it is the same for them."

"Pan Xi is also, she just wants to marry Malfoy. If another one is here, is there any difference? As long as the word behind is Malfoy, the attitude of these people will not change—in the end, nothing belongs to me."

Harry was silent. He thought Draco didn't know Pan Xi's sincerity. Of course, it was also possible that he just knew it.

"At least, the power of the dragon is what I found back myself, even if it is not strong." Draco laughed at himself, holding up the blue energy bottle: "This is the only thing that belongs to Draco and not Malfoy."

"If you want, Qiu can ask that Master to make magma dragon gauntlets for you..."

"No need." Draco put the bottle back in his pocket, "Power is the most useless thing. Look at Dumbledore and Grindelwald, aren't they? People will eventually be troubled by unattainable things all their lives, and emotions are never controlled by power. If you resort to this, I am afraid it will be counterproductive."

Today's Draco is like a philosopher, Harry thought helplessly. However, the meaning of power, for Harry who obtained power confusedly, is also a topic worth exploring—he seems to have nothing unattainable, but he has too much that cannot be recovered.

"You get up first, the ground is cold." Harry extended a friendly, helping hand to this little young master he looked down upon for the first time. ===== CHAPTER 510 =====