The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Padma had a feeling that by the last step of the test flight, it was much easier to control the broom on her side. This was really not her imagination. She kicked off the broom with both feet and floated up from the ground. The whole process was extremely smooth, which was in sharp contrast to the trembling classmates beside her. It was almost like those big guys in the first echelon. Same guys.

She could feel the love for the broom, and it seemed that it was also very happy and excited that she could fly. The broom has always been in tune with her movements too, allowing her to even change her sitting position!

According to the dress code of Hogwarts and the influence of the weather, generally speaking, both boys and girls will wear a black wizard robe, a gray sweater, a white shirt and a tie. The difference between wizards and witches is the lower body. Boys usually wear whatever pants they have, jeans, suit pants, sweatpants, etc. Girls have to be more particular. They often wear a gray pleated skirt - Gryffindor House The little witch will also wear a checkered skirt and gray stockings, which can outline the graceful curvature of the calf to the maximum extent. The space left at the top of the stockings and the bottom of the pleated skirt is called the absolute realm. It is a big killer for adolescent girls. This kind of dress, paired with a pair of black or brown leather shoes, is the most beautiful scenery on campus. Even if they only have a vague understanding of it, girls will pursue beauty. This is a girl's instinct.

But, there are big flaws in dressing up like this, especially when you have to ride a broomstick. It's okay for boys, just spread your legs and step on it. The most important thing is to pay attention and don't put your eggs on it. Girls are not suitable for such ungraceful movements. As a result, another way of riding a broom came into being, which was a posture specially developed for elegant ladies - side sitting.

There are two main ways to ride a broomstick: astride and side riding. The advantage of riding astride is that it is stable, the hands can use the force, and the blind area of ​​the field of vision is smaller. These advantages make it a special position for Quidditch games. All Quidditch players, regardless of gender, use straddle. Riding style.

Side-riding has nothing to do with competitiveness. Sitting this way is quite unstable, and you may fall off the broom accidentally. But what are the advantages of this? Elegant and beautiful, and much more comfortable. After all, having a hard wooden stick stuck in the crotch and lying across the butt are completely different experiences. Of course, high-end broomsticks have invisible cushions, but it is impossible for old antiques like Hogwarts to have such a user-friendly design. For the little witch wearing a skirt, it can also prevent exposure.

Of course, side riding is actually a little more difficult than straddle riding. And Padma actually became the first witch among the two college freshmen to master the straddle style.

When Padma pressed her skirt and sat on the broom as comfortably as sitting on a swing, the little witches around her cast envious glances. Among them, Hermione's gaze was particularly intense because of the situation on her side. Not good.

From the moment she "got up", Hermione felt something bad: her previously invincible magical talent seemed to have disappeared. Potions, Charms, Transfiguration... Hermione had successfully mastered every subject. Even the courses as complex as Transfiguration and as tricky as Snape's, she could survive them all.

Hermione, who had conquered countless required major courses, fell in front of a flying class that was only open to first-year students. You can practice spells, learn potions, and study transformations, but if you can't fly, you can't fly...

If you push people hard, they can do anything except math problems. For Hermione, this sentence means: push her to the limit and she can do everything except flying.

Therefore, Hermione, who was already in a state of anxiety, couldn't help but reveal the envy in her heart when she saw Padma who was so at ease. Her envious eyes wandered over Tom and Padma, her cheeks gradually puffed up, and she looked a little unconvinced.

Padma also noticed Hermione's gaze and laughed: "Granger, did you encounter any difficulties? Do you want me to tell you the trick?"

Hermione's previous behavior of rushing to answer questions in every class made many people secretly unhappy, and Padma was one of them - this was a somewhat strange and twisted emotion. Seeing Hermione deflated, she felt deep in her heart. There was a strange pleasure in it.

But with this emotion filling her mind, she didn't notice that her broom was getting higher and higher from the ground. When she came to her senses, she was nearly ten feet off the ground!

She looked at the ground gradually getting away from her, and suddenly panicked. She tried to control the broom to bring herself back to the ground, but the previously obedient broom suddenly became stubborn and refused to lower at all. Instead, it accelerated its climb even further.

In just an instant, Padma rose to an altitude of thirty feet. The broom stopped at this height. Padma glanced at the ground and felt dizzy. She could not see the faces of the students clearly. Several students around her didn't realize the problem. After all, how could Padma, who had just performed so well, not even know how to adjust the height? But Hermione noticed something unusual. She pulled Maury McDougal who was standing aside, pointed at Padma in the sky and said, "Is her broom out of control?"

Murray McDoug squinted his eyes and looked at it with some hesitation: "It seems...that's it?"

"Madam! Madam!" Hermione quickly shouted to Mrs. Hooch. As soon as Madam Hooch turned around, she saw a scene that made her blood pressure rise: Padma in the sky was already crumbling, and it seemed that she was about to fall from the sky in the next second. The broom fell off, and to make matters worse, Mrs. Hooch's broom was now in the hands of Roger Malone. Mrs. Hooch was now unable to react immediately.

Her face turned pale all of a sudden - she had just made a mistake yesterday, causing a Gryffindor student to break his wrist, but today she made a mistake even though she had paid great attention to it.

"Come back, kid!" she shouted feebly, but Padma, who was high up in the sky, could not even hear her, let alone react.

[Mission Trigger: Rescue Padma Patil]

Tom, who had already clamped the broom between his legs, received such a task. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, showing an inconspicuous smile: System, you look down on me.

Even if there is no such mission, I will definitely save her!

Tom kicked the ground with all his strength, and his whole body rose into the sky like a champagne cork, flying towards Padma.

Hermione saw all this, her eyes widened in horror, and she shouted: "Come back! Tom, come back!"

But her voice was lost in the wind in Tom's ears.