Little Malfoy, Controlled

"This is the Golden Snitch. Once I let it go, it will fly around the pitch at high speed. Whoever catches it first will be the team's Seeker."

Flint, the Captain who was suspected of having a Troll bloodline and was built even bigger than Snape, held up a golden metal ball only the size of a walnut, with a pair of little silver wings, and explained.

"All right, let's begin!"

Flint let go, and the Golden Snitch immediately shot away at incredible speed. Malfoy and George kicked off right after it.

The Golden Snitch was extremely fast and extremely agile. Even if you caught up with it, one turn was enough for it to shake you off with ease, just as it did to Malfoy now.

Because his Flying Broomstick accelerated too quickly, when the Golden Snitch turned, he could not brake in time and flew a long way past before circling back.

George was different. When the Golden Snitch turned, he immediately controlled his Flying Broomstick to turn with it. The inertia of the Flying Broomstick was forcibly twisted back by the Iron Wire under his magnetic control.

Once he had completely caught up with the Golden Snitch, George reached out and snatched forward like lightning. The Golden Snitch dodged swiftly, and at that moment George's magnetic control took effect again.

Although the Golden Snitch was a magical creation, it was still made of metal, so it would naturally be affected by his magnetism.

Forcing it to stop outright would be too obvious, but if he only slightly affected its speed, who could see that?

Because of George's magnetism, the Golden Snitch's reaction speed slowed by one second. And in that one second, George had already caught it firmly in his hand.

"That fast? It hasn't even been a minute!"

Seeing the Golden Snitch caught by George, Snape and the team members below were also startled.

Although this was not an official match, and there was no interference from two teams' players, the Quaffle, or the Bludgers, which greatly lowered the difficulty of catching the Golden Snitch, catching it in one minute was still far too fast.

After all, in past Quidditch matches, there had even been a record of the Golden Snitch taking three months at the latest to be caught. That alone showed how hard it was to catch.

"Harry, if George becomes Slytherin's Seeker, you're finished!"

Among the trio secretly watching, Ron looked at Harry sympathetically, and Harry also wore a bitter expression.

Hermione, however, said from beside them:

"But if George becomes Seeker, Malfoy will definitely be furious. That doesn't seem bad either."

Ron and Harry's eyes instantly lit up at that, and they nodded in agreement.

Watching Malfoy suffer a setback was, of course, something that made them very happy.

"I lost."

After the two landed, Malfoy looked at the Golden Snitch in George's hand. His whole body was like a deflated balloon, collapsing all at once.

From today onward, he would definitely become Slytherin's laughingstock, and he would disappoint his father to the core.

His father had spent so much money to make him the Seeker so he could compete with Harry, but he had gone and lost it.

"Since you want to be the Seeker so badly, then you can be it."

George returned the Golden Snitch to Flint, then looked at the dejected Malfoy and spoke.

Malfoy instantly raised his head and looked at George in disbelief. Snape and the others also stared at George in astonishment, not understanding what he was playing at.

"I think whether it's Seeker, Chaser, Beater, or Keeper, they're all equally important. And I have confidence that I can win honor for Slytherin in any position.

"But after trying just now, Seeker seems a little boring. There isn't much of a challenge."

George shrugged, then looked at Malfoy with a half-smile.

"And I don't like taking away other people's dreams, either."

The other players' gazes toward George instantly softened a great deal.

"Thank you."

Malfoy was silent for a few seconds, then thanked George for the first time.

Before this, he had disliked George very much, because George had not only stolen all his spotlight, but had also openly mocked him.

But now, he suddenly felt that George did not seem so annoying after all. Deep down, he even felt a little grateful to him.

After all, George really was impressive. In this situation, he was still willing to leave Malfoy some dignity and give him a way out.

"We're both Slytherins. We should help each other and work hard for Slytherin's honor, shouldn't we?"

George patted Malfoy on the shoulder, and this time Malfoy's face did not show any dislike.

Little Malfoy, handled!

That was how Slytherin was. If you were weak, no matter how much goodwill you showed, the other party would only think you were easy to bully.

But if you were strong enough, they would instead feel admiration and be willing to follow you from the heart.

Was Malfoy someone guilty of the most heinous crimes?

Of course not. He was just a somewhat proud child. By nature, he was actually a little kinder than his two lackeys.

Previously, because the other party had provoked him first, he had deliberately suppressed him.

But if there was a chance to subdue him, that was not bad either. The Malfoy family had considerable prestige among the pure-bloods, and before Voldemort's resurrection, there might be many ways to make use of them.

As for Seeker, Beater, Chaser, and Keeper, in his eyes, there really was no difference. In fact, he actually felt that being a Chaser would make it easier to raise his reputation than being a Seeker.

In a normal match, the Seeker was the one who drew the most attention.

Because only when the Seeker caught the Golden Snitch did the match count as over, and the Seeker who caught the Golden Snitch could add a full hundred and fifty points for the entire team.

In most cases, as long as the two teams' skill levels were not too far apart, there would not be a situation where the score differed by a hundred and fifty points.

So it was generally taken for granted that whichever team's Seeker caught the Golden Snitch had won the match.

If, as a Chaser, he could pull the score more than a hundred and fifty points ahead before the Seeker caught the Golden Snitch, then he would shine even brighter than the Seeker.

Even in the history of Quidditch at Hogwarts, that was an extremely rare thing to see.

Of course, what he was doing worked on the inexperienced young Malfoy. If he were dealing with an old fox like Lucius Malfoy, it definitely would not have much effect.

Lucius Malfoy did not even have much loyalty to Voldemort, after all.

"Well said. What Slytherin needs most is unity. Since George has taken the initiative to give it up, Malfoy will be the Seeker, and George will be a Chaser."

Snape, in a rare moment, once again revealed that smile of his, which looked uglier than crying.

As the head of Slytherin, seeing such a harmonious scene naturally made him very happy, and his opinion of George rose another level.

For someone of this age to have such breadth of mind and such thoughts was truly rare.

Back then, if he had possessed even a fraction of George's breadth of mind and way of thinking, instead of spending all his time researching Dark Magic, he would not have let that damned Potter find an opening and steal Lily away.

"Train properly."

After Snape left, everyone began their Quidditch training, and George, as the new Chaser, also displayed his superb skill in the position.

The Seeker's role was to catch the Golden Snitch, the Keeper's was to guard the goals, the Beater's was to hit the Bludger to interfere with opposing players, and the Chaser's was to seize the Quaffle and then shoot.

That shot could be made by hand, by foot, or by striking it with a Flying Broomstick. As long as no magic was used, anything was allowed.

George's physical ability was comparable to Captain Flint's, who had troll blood, but because his build was much more agile, and with his absolute control over the Flying Broomstick added on top of that...

From stealing the ball to dodging to shooting, he basically did it all in one smooth motion.