Booking the House Cup in Advance

The match was already over. As Ravenclaw after Ravenclaw rose to their feet and cheered, celebrating their house's Quidditch championship in advance—and even acting as though they had already secured the House Cup for the year...

Jasper and Quirinus remained seated, looking dazed.

Not long ago—

"You're not planning to pay out of pocket to replace all their Broomsticks, are you?"

Quirinus stared at Manus in shock.

From what he knew of Manus's intelligence, Manus certainly would not entertain such an impractical idea as making everyone spend extra money to replace their Broomsticks with the best models on the market.

But from what he knew of Manus's wealth, Manus was fully capable of personally paying to get everyone the best Broomsticks available.

But if he did that...

"How could I possibly do something like that?"

Manus gave Quirinus a puzzled look.

Personally buying the Ravenclaw Team the most premium Broomsticks? What a joke. How much money would that waste?

Manus did not mind increasing his investments in research again and again, nor did he mind paying a reasonable premium, but he was not some gullible fool.

Quirinus froze for a moment, then breathed a sigh of relief.

If Manus truly did that, he would be investing far too much in the Ravenclaw Team—so much that it would place a crushing psychological burden on the players.

Training with the Golden Snitch and using the finest Broomsticks on the market... aside from only training during their usual shared free time, that was already the setup of a world-class Quidditch team.

With that kind of setup, if they could not even defeat the other three school teams at Hogwarts, let alone compete against world-class teams... wouldn't that make these players utterly hopeless?

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