The first Quidditch match after the holidays was Ravenclaw against Slytherin. They had two back-to-back matches this term.
Qiu was a little nervous before the match.
Ravenclaw had not chosen a new Seeker, so Qiu, who had originally wanted to leave, had ended up staying on the team.
But with her Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests coming up, she would inevitably have to spend more of this school year studying.
She had not missed any team training, but she had clearly done much less of the practice and research everyone did on their own.
Harry, however, felt that Qiu had nothing to worry about.
"What's there to worry about with Slytherin's two Seekers? They're nothing special. Qiu, even with your eyes closed... well, closing your eyes might be going a bit far, but you can still win easily," Harry reassured her.
Qiu was very touched, then left Harry behind and went back to studying.
Harry felt wronged, but there was nothing he could do.
As the second term began and the Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests drew ever closer, all the students who would be taking them were very nervous.
That included the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team, Katie Bell.
But Gryffindor was still different from Ravenclaw.
When Ravenclaw students were nervous, they really were nervous.
Almost every seventh-year student was studying in the Library. It really proved the saying that some people were not only more talented than you, but worked harder too.
Katie could not manage that. During training and in the Common Room, she often went on about how exams were coming and she had to work harder, harder, and harder still.
Yet when she heard that they could not visit Hogsmeade that weekend, she still stamped her feet in anger.
Clearly, even having been placed under the