Quidditch. Chapter II

## **THE ROAD TO TRYOUTS**

*ДОРОГА ИСПЫТАНИЙ*

**Explore ways to get a Quidditch tryout.** *Найдите способы попробоваться в команду по Квиддичу.*

## **Task 1: Meet Penny**

 Найдите Пенни в Большом зале.

**- You:** Brilliant! Let's hear it...
**- Penny:** The captain will be scouting top talent. He won't invite a novice, no matter how determined you are. So if you want an invitation to Chaser tryouts, you need first-rate Quidditch training... And you should get that training from... Skye Parkin!
**- You:** What? That's the whole plan?
**- Penny:** Skye is right over there. You can go and ask her now if she'll mentor you...
* Brilliant idea!
* Rotten idea!

**- You:** It's a brilliant idea, Penny! I don't have much time to learn, so I should try to learn from the best.
**- Penny:** Yes! Exactly! And Skye is poised to be Hogwarts' best Chaser. Perhaps our best ever! You told me that your first impression of Skye was a good one. I'm sure she'll be glad to see you.
**- You:** You always think everyone is glad to see me, Penny.
**- Penny:** Because it's true! Quick, go and ask! I think Skye's leaving!
**- You:** Hi Skye, remember me?
**- Skye:** Mia, right? I never forget a face I save from a Bludger. What's up?
**- You:** It's about the open Chaser position on our house team. I'd like to try and get an invitation to tryouts.
**- Skye:** Smashing! Perhaps I'll see you on the pitch...
**- You:** Skye, wait! I actually wanted to ask you if you'd train me?
**- Skye:** Train you? In Quidditch? How much have you played?
**- You:** Well...
**- Hagrid:** Mia! Penny was just tellin' me yeh went teh see yer first Quidditch match! What did yeh think?
**- Skye:** That friendly was the first match you had ever seen, Mia?!
**- Hagrid:** I get the feelin' I shouldn' o' said that.
**- You:** It's all right, Hagrid.
**- Hagrid:** I'll, uh, just leave yen ten whatever it is yer doin'.
**- You:** The answer's yes, Skye. That friendly was my first Quidditch match.
**- Skye:** And now you want to go from seeing one match to trying out for the team?
**- You:** I know I'm new to Quidditch. But only because I've been rather busy dealing with the Cursed Vaults.
**- Skye:** Oh, so you're Mia... Johnson? The curse-breaker? I've heard about you. You've done some impressive things
**- You:** And I'm a fast learner, you'll see...
**- Skye:** But I can't train you. Might not be on the team much longer myself.
**- You:** What? Why not?
**- Skye:** Poor marks. Everything's riding on my next Charms exam. So I have to focus on that
**- You:** I could tutor you? And then you could train me? It would be a fair trade...
**- Skye:** Would it? You know I'm an ace at Quidditch but I don't know if you're any good at Charms...

Пообедайте со Скай. Это вам обойдётся в **175** . Обратите внимание, что минимальные требования для успешного прохождения **13** , **13**  и **11** . В награду вы получите **175**

### **Barter with Skye**

Здесь приведены правильные (отмечены **зеленым**), нейтральные (отмечены **оранжевым**) и неправильные (отмечены **красным**) ответы.

По завершении станет доступным следующий диалог.

**- Skye:** Just this once, though.
**- You:** What do you mean?
**- Skye:** I've got this one Charms exam I need to pass, so I need one tutoring session. Then you'll get one Quidditch lesson from me.
**- You:** Will one Quidditch lesson be enough?
**- Skye:** Better than nothing. But then it's up to you to get a tryout.
**- You:** So when would you like to study? How soon is your Charms exam?
**- Skye:** Quite soon. Today.
**- You:** Skye! I'll have to tutor you right now,
**- Skye:** Smashing! I know just the place. Let's go...

Нас ждёт кулдаун **3** часа (можно пропустить за **55** )

## **Task 2: Study with Skye**

По завершению кулдауна, встретьтесь со Скай на стадионе для квиддича.

**- Skye:** Quieter than the Library. I keep telling Pince.
**- You:** That must drive Pince mad.
**- Skye:** It does. I like the roar of the crowd, but some of my best times in a Quidditch stadium have been when it's just like... this.
**- You:** I doubt many witches and wizards get to spend much time in empty Quidditch stadiums...
**- Skye:** When you're a Parkin, you pretty much get to go wherever you want in the Quidditch world. So when does the tutoring start? How does this work?
**- You:** Have you never been tutored before?
**- Skye:** Explains the poor marks, right?
**- You:** Well, you brought your Charms textbook so that's a start. Let's check the Table of Contents... What will vour exam cover?
**- Skye:** Right, right... Looks like I need to brush up on the material on page forty-three... Forty-four and forty-five... And look here, page fifty-two...
**- You:** Skye! What are you doing?
**- Skye:** Taking the pages I need. Is that all right with you?
* No, it's wrong
* Yes, it's brilliant

**- You:** No! It's wrong to go around just ripping pages out of textbooks!
**- Skye:** Just the important pages. Won't need most of the rubbish in here for the exam.
**- You:** So you always study like this...
**- Skye:** Only when I'm using books. You can think it's wrong but that's your problem, not mine. My family was always on the road for Quidditch. You learn to travel light, take only what you need.
**- You:** But still, studying out here, all it would take is one strong gust of wind and...
**- Skye:** My pages! Quick! Get them!

Нам дают задание **Collect Charms Pages** *(Соберите зачарованные страницы)*, на **5** , которое надо завершить в течение **3** часов. По его завершению мы получаем **50**  и **5** очков факультета. Становится доступным следующий диалог.

**- Skye:** So you must play some other sport...?
**- You:** What do you mean?
**- Skye:** Your speed darting around the stands just now... Are you into Muggle football?
**- You:** Skye, we lost some time. We need to review the spells on your exam right now.
**- Skye:** And your accuracy... Like you instinctually knew which move to make next to catch a page...
**- You:** On one of the pages, I thought I saw something about the Disillusionment Charm... Is that on your exam?
**- Skye:** Are you a bog snorkeler? You were barely out of breath.
**- You:** Skye! Please focus. You said you need to pass your Charms exam to stay on the Quidditch team.
**- Skye:** I'll review the pages as I walk to class. I've done it before.
**- You:** Read and walk at the same time? That sounds...
**- Skye:** Productive, right? I'll be late for Flitwick's class if I don't leave now.
**- You:** I feel like I didn't get to tutor you at all. My Quidditch lesson...
**- Skye:** Right, your lesson. Meet me later in the Quidditch Changing Room... And bring your broom.

Вы готовы к уроку квиддича? Встретьтесь со Скай в раздевалке. Нас ждёт кулдаун **5** часов (можно пропустить за **73** )

## **Task 3: Get a Quidditch Lesson**

По завершении кулдауна найдите Скай в раздевалке и возьми у нее урок квиддича.

**- You:** Congratulations, Skye! So this is the Quidditch Changing Room...
**- Skye:** I'd give you a tour but this is pretty much it. Where's your broom?
**- You:** You left so quickly, I didn't get to tell you... I've got no broom of my own.
**- Skye:** So, no broom... You only just saw your first match... And you expect our team captain to just give you a Chaser tryout...
**- You:** I don't expect it. But I'm ready to earn it.
**- Skye:** Right... You can use that Shooting Star. Hooch keeps a few spares around. But any serious Quidditch player will tell you that you'll want a better broom. Like a Comet. My dad swears by them. My brothers, too.
**- You:** I have a brother. I wonder what he'd think about me playing Quidditch...
**- Skye:** Playing Quidditch isn't optional in my family.
**- You:** But are you saying if I can't get a Comet, I've got no chance of making the Quidditch team?
**- Skye:** You've barely got a chance now.
**- You:** Perhaps my chances will be better after my lesson! Can we head to the pitch?
**- Skye:** Let's see how you mount a broom first.
**- You:** Mount a broom? In here?
**- Skye:** Yes. Mount that broom. If you can't do it...? Lesson over.

Нам дают задание **Mount a Hexed Broom** *(Покорите заколдованную метлу)*, на **5** , которое надо завершить в течение **8** часов. По его завершению мы получаем **125**  и **10** очков факультета. Становится доступным следующий диалог.

**- Skye:** I mean, it's about time.
**- You:** So this is how everyone learns how to play Quidditch...
**- Skye:** Are you doubting me. Curse-Breaker?
* Yes, I doubt you
* No, I trust you

**- You:** No, I trust you, Skye. I could do without your reckless teaching methods, but...
**- Skye:** But what, I'm all you've got? Quite sure I am.
**- You:** Let's just carry on with this Quidditch lesson...
**- Skye:** Lesson over.
**- You:** But I did what you asked! I got on that hexed broom. I want my Quidditch lesson now.
**- Skye:** Just meet me on the Quidditch pitch at dawn, Curse-Breaker...

Нас ждёт кулдаун **4** часа (можно пропустить за **64** )

## **Task 4: Begin your Quidditch training**

По завершении кулдауна начните свою тренировку. Найдите Скай на стадионе для квиддича.

**- Skye:** No hex, I swear.
**- You:** It's so different, seeing the Quidditch stadium from this perspective for the first time...
**- Skye:** My first time on a pitch I was in nappies.
**- You:** So, I'm here at dawn. I'm just not sure why...
**- Skye:** You were wrong to trust me in the Changing Room. That rotten stunt I pulled with the hexed broom...
**- You:** It was a stunt? I believed you! I thought it was some odd Quidditch test.
**- Skye:** Never thought you'd pull it off! Even I couldn't have mounted that broom.
**- You:** So you were trying to dodge giving me a Quidditch lesson before we even got started...
**- Skye:** Right.
**- You:** Why? Because our tutoring session went wrong so you felt you could back out of our deal...?
**- Skye:** No. It's my family. Parkins have been playing at Hogwarts famously for generations...
**- You:** My friend Penny told me as much. She's a big Wigtown Wanderers fan.
**- Skye:** And I'm under so much pressure from my dad to lead our house team to win the Quidditch Cup... Every time we talk... The Quidditch Cup... The Quidditch Cup... All I could think about once I passed that Charms test was how fast I could get back to practising... Instead of wasting time giving you a Quidditch lesson...
* Identify with Skye
* Challenge Skye

**- You:** Wast/ng t/me? You don't even know yet if I can play Quidditch! You're not the only one with other things to focus on: My brother... The Cursed Vaults... But those things didn't stop me from keeping my word to tutor you. Or to try, at least.
**- Skye:** Hope you've got this kind of fire in you during a match.
**- You:** So then this Quidditch lesson is still happening?
**- Skye:** Listen, when you were chasing papers in the stands, I thought perhaps it was luck...
**- You:** Perhaps what was luck?
**- Skye:** Your speed, your agility, your precision... Could've been a one-time thing... But when you jumped on that wild broom, I saw it for sure.
**- You:** Saw what, Skye?
**- Skye:** Raw talent. What it takes to be a natural Quidditch star.
**- You:** So then I am getting that Quidditch lesson?
**- Skye:** More than that.
**- You:** What do you mean?
**- Skye:** Your goal? Making the Quidditch team... My goal? Winning the Quidditch Cup... And what could further my goal more than your goal: a Chaser with your raw talent playing beside me?
**- You:** You're getting me a Quidditch tryout?
**- Skye:** No, that's still up to you. The captain and I... Not exactly best mates. But I'll give you all of the Quidditch training I can as fast as I can. Because now it's in both of our best interests that you ultimately make the team.
**- You:** So before... you wanted to see me tossed off a broom. But now... the Skye Parkin wants to take me on as her own personal Quidditch project?
**- Skye:** She does. I mean, I do. I asked you to meet me here because the hard work begins now. Literally now.
**- You:** What's going on?
**- Skye:** These are a few of my mates. They came to play.
**- You:** Me? Play Quidditch now? But I haven't had a lesson
**- Skye:** Don't worry, you're about to get schooled...
**- You:** And I've got no Quidditch robes...
**- Skye:** We'll take care of that, too...
**- You:** Is that Hooch I see? And is that the Quidditch announcer in the booth?
**- Skye:** We do this all the time. And now you'll be joining us... Let's play!

### **Complete Practice Match With Skye**

Пройдите полный тренировочный матч со Скай.

Чтобы начать матч вам понадобится потратить **250** . В награду вы получите **1** и **3** очка факультета.

Вашей основной задачей является перетащить маркер в каждый круг, когда он подсвечивается зеленым цветом. Чтобы завершить маневр удачно, достаточно получить одну галочку.

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