Chapter 438: Tryouts(2)

Chapter 438: Tryouts(2)

The twins looked speechless at this answer but decided to humor Nick and jumped as high as they could towards the water with their hands outstretched. To their surprise the moment their fingers touched the water gravity seemed to invert and they "fell" into the field. Those watching this looked surprised and interested in trying it themselves. Nick noticed that the twins were holding their breath and felt the need to remind them that they can in fact breath under water at the moment. "Wicked!" Fred said in a distorted way as the air left his lungs and they instead filled with water.-

"Bloody hell this feels strange!" George said clearly after the air in his lungs got swapped with water. Nick picked up the ball he made and threw it into the water and everyone watching seemed surprised to see it cut through the water without issue until it landed perfectly on the center piece of the field. The ball wasn't completely without drag or gravity so Nick merely threw it in just the right way to get it where he wanted it. The twins swam around for a bit to get used to it before more and more people showed up and entered the field.-

"Aye , they made the rest of us look like a bunch of slugs with how well they handled the exercise." Seamus said bitterly from nearby. He had played the left defender on the team going against the twins and was a little worse for wear as a result. He had a few bruises from getting bulldozed by the twins but was otherwise fine. "Besides quidditch players I think most wizards are actually out of shape from overly relying on magic for everything , the new teams will need serious training to catch up it seems." Nick said with a sigh.-

He had expected something like this but had apparently underestimated how out of shape the average wizard was. "Yeah but at least we have the potions to make it easier. Need to settle who all is on the teams first though." Fred said seriously. "Aye some of these folk can't even swim proper." Seamus said while pointing at a older girl floundering in the water as she clearly had no clue what she was doing. "Before that we need to find out who will be the captains of the new teams and as much as it may suck people like wood fill those roles best." Nick said and the twins and Seamus groaned.-

Most good team captains were those that were responsible yet inspired loyalty in their team but the ratio of those two things differed from person to person. Oliver Wood was more responsible than friendly but still held the team together well enough but the issue was finding someone at least similar who wanted to captain a team. There were a few of course but all of the choices were less than optimal. A good example was Malfoy that fit the responsible description well enough but failed on the personality front.