A week after the match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, another match took place.
Compared with the miserable weather during the previous match, the weather for this one was remarkably good. The sun shone brightly, its light warm, and even though it was already mid-November, it still felt pleasantly warm.
It was the only day with such fine weather in all of November.
Yet at that moment, the members of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team felt a chill down their spines.
This match was Ravenclaw against Slytherin.
Ravenclaw crushed Slytherin three hundred and ninety to sixty. Their winning margin of three hundred and thirty points was even more staggering than Gryffindor's victory over Hufflepuff.
But Slytherin was not like Hufflepuff, which had replaced more than half its starting players. Hufflepuff had only suffered such a crushing defeat because of circumstances such as being unaccustomed to playing in the rain and being caught off guard.
Slytherin had retained practically its entire starting lineup, and its players rode the best broomsticks in the school on average-seven Nimbus 2000 and Ones.
After all, apart from Harry, the only students in the school with such broomsticks were the Twins, who had two new Cleansweep Eights, and Cedric, who had a Nimbus 2000 and One.
Most of the other players were still using broomsticks from three years ago-which was perfectly normal, since these were only matches between Houses.
Harry had once remarked to Ron and the others that if Quidditch in the wizarding world could have an interschool league like football and basketball in the Muggle world, the level of competition would certainly improve considerably.
But that idea was undoubtedly unrealistic.
Across the entire wizarding world, excluding the ancient eastern nation that seldom communicated with the western wizarding world, and the Northern Great Power, which had gone