Chapter 29: The Dangers of Flying Lessons
"Remember! When standing on the broom, your feet should be in a moderate position, keep your body balanced, lean forward slightly, and your knees should be naturally bent."
Madam Hooch walked back and forth between the two rows, severely reprimanding anyone with incorrect posture.
"Malfoy, don't keep your arms so stiff, relax a little, make sure you can control the broom flexibly!"
Madam Hooch walked back and forth several times, and each time she saw Malfoy's incorrect posture.
This made her correct him every time.
Malfoy's face also turned redder with each correction, and his movements didn't improve, but became even stiffer.
Ron couldn't stop laughing on the side.
Dylan ignored it and quickly mastered the correct safety posture.
Until Madam Hooch began to check the posture of each student.
Dylan passed smoothly.
Ron, who was laughing just now, was reprimanded by Madam Hooch for his crooked posture.
In fact, it wasn't just Malfoy and Ron who were being corrected by Madam Hooch.
Except for Dylan, everyone else was more or less told off by Madam Hooch.
While Madam Hooch checked the safe flying posture of the other students.
Dylan took the opportunity to check the flying broom in his hand.
Since it wasn't a required item on the admission list, and Hogwarts provided flying brooms for teaching.
Except for some special circumstances, such as students participating in Quidditch matches, they would buy flying brooms at this stage.
So Dylan didn't buy his own flying broom.
But he roughly knew that low-end brooms, such as the Shooting Star commonly used in schools.
The approximate price was twenty galleons.
Comet 140 was about eighty galleons.
And this was already considered a mid-range broom.
The price of mid-range brooms was generally between one hundred and three hundred.
As for high-end brooms, such as the Firebolt, which was still in the development stage, the starting price was probably already five figures.
And the Nimbus 2000 only needed more than three hundred galleons.
Dylan had recently completed various achievements and received a lot of galleon rewards.
It was very easy for him to buy a broom.
But he still planned to wait until he learned how to fly completely and then buy a Nimbus 2000 as a spare.
There was no need to buy a cheap broom as a transition, and he didn't need to take off and fly in the sky usually.
He might as well study Apparition.
"There is indeed a permanent Levitation Charm on this."
Dylan fiddled with the broom for a while and quickly determined what magic was applied to the flying broom in his hand.
Wizards could recite the Levitation Charm again when using flying brooms.
However, the broom itself was also set with Levitation Charms, Propulsion Charms, etc.
In addition, Dylan also felt the aura of the Balancing Charm.
When he watched the show before, there was a question that always puzzled him.
That was, when wizards sat on brooms and flew around in the sky, wouldn't they get stuck in their crotches?
Didn't they feel uncomfortable?
But after studying the broom in his hand for a while, Dylan found that the broom was also applied with a Cushioning Charm.
It seemed to be just a wooden stick, but in fact, after sitting on it, you could sit on an invisible cushion.
"It's indeed a broken broom, only a few pitiful spells are applied."
Dylan shook his head.
He didn't even feel any special runes in this broom, and the whole broom wasn't made of any good materials.
It wasn't worth studying.
So Dylan stopped fiddling and put the flying broom under his crotch.
After sitting on the cushion, he waited for Madam Hooch's next instruction.
Until everyone's posture was strictly corrected.
Madam Hooch was ready to let them try to take off for the first time.
"Listen to my command, as soon as the whistle blows, you immediately kick off the ground, understand? You must kick hard! Imagine you can fly directly!"
Madam Hooch wore a black Quidditch referee robe with a green lining, and when she walked, although she wasn't as imposing as Professor Snape, she was still quite imposing.
At this time, she had raised a wooden whistle.
"Now, get ready, you only need to rise a few feet, hover for a while, and then keep your body tilted and return to the ground."
"Listen to my whistle—three, two..."
Before Madam Hooch finished speaking.
Neville, who was standing next to Dylan, couldn't help but kick off the ground and floated into the air.
"What are you doing? Come down quickly!"
Professor Hooch's eyes were sharp.
She thought that this little wizard deliberately took off before everyone else.
However, after she finished speaking, Neville flew higher and higher in a panic.
Dylan frowned and immediately pulled out the wand from his waist.
"Scatter... I mean..."
"Finite Incantatem!"
Dylan quickly used the Termination Charm.
However, when the spell hit the flying broom, it had no effect.
He frowned.
Because the spell on the broom was engraved inside the broom, since Neville used the spell, he couldn't stop it?
Before he could think too much, Neville had already started flying around in the air.
He threw out two more spells.
"Retardo Motus!"
"Arresto Momentum!"
Two spells were thrown out.
This time, Neville's figure finally stopped shaking in the air and slowed down.
However, because Dylan didn't fully master these two spells, the effect was only average.
But fortunately, it slowed Neville down so that he wouldn't stop flying immediately, so he wouldn't fall directly.
Just as Dylan thought this, Neville flipped over and hung upside down.
"Huh? I didn't use this spell!" Dylan's eyes widened.
"Ah!!!" Neville suddenly screamed.
His hand left the flying broom, and he fell straight from the sky.
"Impedimenta!"
As the spell came out, the tip of the wand bloomed with a strange and shimmering beam of magic.
One by one, it wrapped around Neville's body.
In an instant, his crazy falling momentum stopped abruptly and became much slower.
"Wingardium Leviosa!"
Dylan used the spell again, forcibly controlling Neville's figure, allowing him to be controlled by him and slowly land.
At this moment, Neville was completely stunned, with lingering fear on his face.
His face was still covered with messy hair blown by the wind.
"My goodness!" Harry exclaimed.
Flying lessons were so dangerous!
Hermione also widened her eyes.
But she was surprised that Dylan could use so many spells!
And the proficiency of each spell seemed to be quite high!
(End of chapter)
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