Elena woke up very early, and the habits she had developed in the orphanage for six years did not fade so easily.
For a moment, Elena was still thinking about today's breakfast in a daze. However, the steady breathing of the girls around her, Hermione, Hannah, and Luna, quickly brought her back to reality. She was already a Huo
Gwartz is a sophomore.
"Elena? Hmm...is it dawn yet?"
Luna turned over and murmured drowsily. Her eyes were closed tightly and she didn't know whether she was awake or talking in her sleep.
"It will be a while before dawn, so you should continue to sleep more..."
Elena touched the owl alarm clock next to the bed and looked at it. It was half past five.
Well, it's very punctual, which is in line with the biological clock she developed when she was a little cook and eldest sister in an orphanage.
However, the curfew in the corridors of Hogwarts Castle will not be lifted until 6:30 at the earliest. If you are woken up by urination at this time, the best choice is to return to the warm quilt and continue to sleep. But since she
It was automatically awakened by the biological clock, so it would be very difficult to fall asleep again. Besides, she didn't intend to tease the sleeping little wings at this time.
In a few hours, they would go to the Quidditch pitch outside.
As the first day of Quidditch this season, two games are scheduled this morning and afternoon:
The much-anticipated opening match [All-Star Team VS Gryffindor House Team], and [Hogwarts Freshman Team VS Hufflepuff House Team exclusively titled with Mrs. Malkin’s robes], were “sleeping” last night
All the girls will be playing today.
Of course, Elena will also appear on the field before the game starts.
At her suggestion, starting from this semester, the Quidditch Cup at Hogwarts added a ceremony to display the trophy - but the Quidditch trophy will still be temporarily placed with the team that won last year until the finals.
That week.
On the other hand, as the head coach of the Gryffindor team, she had to go to the stadium for pre-game mobilization after breakfast.
Compared with previous games that were limited to within-school competitions, starting from this year, the Hogwarts Quidditch game has released a few "spectator tickets" for the wizarding society, managers of professional teams, Quidditch enthusiasts, relatives and friends
The group... all have the opportunity to arrive at Hogwarts to watch the game on-site, and at the same time, enjoy lunch and dinner from different houses according to the seating area they have obtained.
Under such circumstances, Elena had very high expectations for the opening game.
Obviously, this must be a wonderful, high-level, script-reversing performance.
"Ugh, if you think about it carefully, there are still a lot of things to do today..."
Elena yawned, got up, got dressed, deftly took out the food reserves from the cage and stuffed them into her chest, opened the door and quietly walked out of the dormitory - if she wanted to think about tactics and process news, then she had better do it
It's better not to stay in the room, otherwise a little guy with a serious sixth sense will definitely be awakened.
"Has Lockhart gone to carry out the ruling? He is such a diligent leader of wizards in black."
In the common room, the silent fire was lit by the flame rune. Elena looked through the action log that Gilderoy Lockhart had entrusted the elf to send to her. She had to admit that this "WIB"
The leader's recent performance has been quite good.
Taking into account Quirrell's loss of magic, Lockhart will accompany him throughout the opening of Hogwarts.
This is both a protection and an insurance measure.
During the crisis derivation of the "Tarot Club", if an outsider sees through Quirrell's state, intends to use magic to peek into the secrets in Quirrell's mind, or even uses magic to control him, Lockhart will be the first to do so.
Complete the execution - whether it is to directly erase the memory or modify the memory, all these can be decided by the WIB chief on the spot.
"Well, everyone from the British Quidditch team will also come... The seats have been spread out, which will help to liven up the atmosphere."
"Ministry of Magic official? Gryffindor stand, so that the kitchen's supply pressure will be less at noon and evening."
"Reporters...it looks like they need to recruit some elves to keep an eye on them to prevent them from wandering around..."
Elena was in front of the fireplace dealing with the unprocessed documents that had accumulated yesterday. From time to time, she took out some snacks from the "universal chest pad" on her chest to satisfy her cravings. Whenever she finished writing something, she would directly crumple the parchment into a ball and face it.
Throw it into the fireplace.
A certain castle administrator maintained the Hogwarts fireplace LAN some time ago.
Now, as long as the fireplace is activated by the magic word "kenaz", it will also be connected to the fireplace in the Hogwarts kitchen by default.
Although it is impossible to directly transmit living people like the Floo Network, simple command transmission can still be done - as long as Elena attaches the magic flame to the parchment ball, it will pass through the flame and appear in the kitchen for the "mission"
In front of the fireplace.
A few hours later, sounds gradually appeared in the corridor of the Hufflepuff lounge and dormitory.
Elena had already finished processing the documents, and was roasting sweet potatoes in the charcoal fire with tongs boredly. She guessed that it was almost the normal time to get up, so she took a gentle breath and "ate" the swaying fire, and took the
Walking towards the dormitory with sweet potatoes in hand.
Devouring fire will not fill her up, it will even consume Elena's magic power.
It's just that...it's so handsome!
"Wake up, hey, look at my awesomeness——"
Elena opened the door and looked at the little wings huddled together, still lying on the bed. She chuckled, grabbed a corner of the quilt and opened it violently. Then, taking advantage of the girls' slow reaction, she rushed forward and kissed them one by one.
Provide wake-up service.
This is the advantage of waking up early. When they are half asleep and half awake, the wings in bed do not have any strength to resist.
…………
"Elena, just wait, you will regret it sooner or later!" Hermione yelled, her face red.
"Oh, Hermione, I think you might be more in danger when Elena is confused -"
Luna said with a slight yawn, holding her broomstick and walking side by side with Hannah at the back.
This afternoon, in the second match of the Quidditch Cup, the freshman team will face off against Hufflepuff House.
However, Miss Lovegood, who serves as the seeker, does not feel that she and Hannah will have too many opportunities for a head-on confrontation - Hannah has never hit her in so many long-range sniper training matches before.
.
And, more importantly -
"Why do you still use this old broom, Hannah?" Luna glanced at her best friend beside her curiously.
"Elena said that the new broom can only be used in the second round of the round robin——"
Hannah replied with some disappointment, thought for a while, and then added quite seriously.
"Moreover, I haven't fully mastered it yet. Although its performance is powerful, it is also very physically demanding to use, and if you accidentally hit other players at full speed, it is really dangerous... I still need to adjust it more. After practice
That’s all.”
"There's another reason. The launch of that product hasn't happened yet."
Elena explained casually, looked at the list in her hand, and turned her head with a smile.
"It is also a commercial brand after all. It has signed a confidentiality agreement with the national team. The public debut of the secret weapon will definitely have to wait until the international competition. By the way, Hannah, everyone from the national team who trained together during the summer vacation will also come today.
.”
"Secret weapon? That broomstick you're talking about...can it really fly?"
Hermione raised her eyebrows and looked at the three people behind her suspiciously.
"And I searched a lot of documents and couldn't find the predecessor of the company with the strange name you mentioned - if it is really a well-known company in the field of aviation, then it must have corresponding technical sources..."
"First of all, its name is not surprising at all."
Elena raised her finger, shook it, and whispered meaningfully.
"[sugoi] means 'powerful' in the Eastern wizarding world. Of course you can't find any relevant records about it in the British wizarding Quidditch literature, but as far as I know, it
It almost represents the current upper limit of the sky field. After the test flight is successful, you will know what the meaning of the cross-era flying broomstick is, after all-"
Elena's blue eyes shone with excitement, and she shook her head incomprehensibly and did not continue.
If the "special cold potion" is a combination of the fields of chemistry, pharmacy and magic, then the new version of the flying broomstick that is undergoing final parameter adjustments outside the school can be regarded as the first "magic" industrial product in modern times.
…………
At the same time, outside Hogwarts, in the research area.
"Oh, come and see her, how fascinating she is..."
Several wizards and former Soviet researchers lay on the table, carefully stroking the strange "flying broomstick" that exuded metallic light and looked like a small missile as if they were stroking a lover.
If it weren't for those fine broom tails behind it, the shape would really look like a missile.
On a mobile whiteboard not far away, some test parameters are roughly listed.
【sugoi-M-17(name to be determined)】
[Empty weight: 1216 kg]
[Theoretical maximum flight speed: Mach 1.02]
【……】
Further away, Mr. Ognechka, who is the general person in charge of this area, is squatting on the ground, discussing with several goblins very seriously some things that have nothing to do with scientific research. Beside them, there are two more
There are two wizard employees of the Destiny Group wearing black trench coats. One person is responsible for recording the conversation, and the other is responsible for mediating and answering some questions.
"...Oh, okay, okay -"
Ognechka scratched her remaining hair angrily and said impatiently.
"As for the name of the company, it's up to you. You guys in the wizarding world have such a bad taste in naming. I really don't want to talk about it anymore. Just sugoi. Although it still sounds weird, compared to other Peter Pans, it's great.
Flying Elephant still sounds much better.”
"As long as you understand, this is also a suitable name that we found after discussing for a long time..."
The goblin commissioner smiled and put away the contract in his hand, carefully placing it in his carry-on document bag.
"Due to confidentiality considerations, the risk of using Sukhoi directly is still too high, so we chose [sugoi], which has a similar pronunciation and has a special meaning. On the one hand, it can
As a camouflage layer for the main body of the company, on the one hand, it can also make it easier for everyone from the Sukhoi Research Bureau to accept psychologically..."
"The name of the company is a trivial matter. After all, it sells magic broomsticks, not fighter jets."
Ognechka waved her hand, frowned, and said in a rough voice.
"But the deployment mode and cockpit you requested, without a fixed steel frame, it is difficult for me to design them while taking into account aerodynamics. This is simply making blind optimization suggestions - supersonic flight in the aircraft
The requirements in terms of appearance and thrust are already quite stringent. This is not a matter of sacrificing speed, it will kill people!"
"No, please believe in magic... Mr. Ognechka, people's bodies are different..."
The senior employee from Tianming smiled and shook his head, looked at the panel in his hand, and said.
"If the information I wrote here is correct, you probably haven't seen with your own eyes the movement of wizards riding broomsticks and moving at high speed in the sky, right? There happened to be two Quidditch matches at Hogwarts today. I have them here.
Two special audience tickets.”
"In terms of dynamic vision, reaction speed, and physical strength, the students at Hogwarts—especially those who have been selected for the Quidditch teams of various houses—may not be much worse than those ace pilots you call
.And after watching those few games, we hope you can add a limiter to the broom according to the actual situation..."
"Limiter? You wanted to fly at supersonic speed before, and now you want to reduce the speed?"
Ognechka repeated in confusion and looked at the wizard with wide eyes.
As a senior researcher, what he hates most is the changing demand side, especially when they finally debugged a supersonic cross-generation product, the other party actually asked him to change it back to the original one.
plan.
"Well, the theoretical upper limit determines how many rounds of iterative products we can release..."
The goblin commissioner of Gringotts raised his finger and said in a sharp voice, his face full of cunning and shrewdness.
"Whether it is for the market, for people's psychological tolerance, or for fairness, of course when we launch these products, we must slowly iterate and continuously improve the speed and performance of the broom - only in this way can there be follow-up
R&D support, you can understand that, right? Besides, we still have to divide military and civilian use..."
"So what do you mean by that outline idea?"
Ognechka frowned, tapped the shorthand notebook in her hand, and asked in a low voice.
"You asked for the most streamlined flight structure and asked us to optimize the broom, but I have to remind you again that even if all wizards fly tightly on the broom, there will still be obvious differences..."
"Don't worry, regarding this, we have a professional team to take over the subsequent magic development..."
The wizard from the Tianming Group straightened up, exchanged a look with the goblin, and said confidently.
"Anyway, you tidy up a little, then select a researcher, and then go with me to watch the Quidditch match next to Hogwarts Castle... By the way, due to the protective effect of the Muggle Expelling Curse, you
You may have to sleep for a while while passing through the castle area, and dining can only be done at the grandstand..."
"There are also some corresponding precautions. I will explain them to you in detail next."
"As for your identity, one of the core researchers of [Sugoi Broomstick Company], please make sure you don't say it wrong. This is very important, because we may be arranged to sit with some professional Quidditch players... Of course
, if you have any details that you need to ask, I will convey them to you as before..."