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Harry Potter's Quidditch Lesson

Harry is excited to learn how to play Quidditch using his new broomstick, a Nimbus Two Thousand. He struggles to focus in his lessons as his mind keeps wandering to his broom under his bed or imagining playing Quidditch. That evening, Harry admires his broom with his friend Ron. Harry then goes to the Quidditch pitch where he sees the stadium for the first time, including the three tall golden hoops at each end. Unable to wait for his mentor Oliver Wood, Harry takes his new broom for a ride, enjoying the responsiveness as it turns wherever he wants at his lightest touch. Oliver Wood arrives and is impressed with Harry's natural flying ability, saying Harry will

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Harry Potter's Quidditch Lesson

Harry is excited to learn how to play Quidditch using his new broomstick, a Nimbus Two Thousand. He struggles to focus in his lessons as his mind keeps wandering to his broom under his bed or imagining playing Quidditch. That evening, Harry admires his broom with his friend Ron. Harry then goes to the Quidditch pitch where he sees the stadium for the first time, including the three tall golden hoops at each end. Unable to wait for his mentor Oliver Wood, Harry takes his new broom for a ride, enjoying the responsiveness as it turns wherever he wants at his lightest touch. Oliver Wood arrives and is impressed with Harry's natural flying ability, saying Harry will

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CHAPTER-1, HARRY POTTER LEARNS QUIDDITCH

What if one day you open your eyes and find that you have turned into a wizard? How would you feel? The following
extract from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone shows how a young wizard discovers the joys of his
magical world. The other characters in this extract are Ron, Harry’s friend, and Oliver Wood, Harry’s mentor.

Harry had a lot of trouble keeping his mind on his lessons that day. It kept wandering up to
dormitory, where his new broomstick was lying under his bed, or staying off to the Quidditch
pitch where he’d be learning to play that night. He bolted his dinner that evening without
noticing what he was eating and then rushed upstairs with Ron to unwrap the Nimbus Two
Thousand at last.

“Wow,” Ron sighed, as the broomstick rolled on to Harry’s bedspread.

Even Harry, who knew nothing about the different brooms, thought it looked wonderful.
Sleek and shiny, with a mahogany handle, it had a long tail of neat, straight twigs and
Nimbus Two T housand written in gold near the top.

As seven o’clock drew nearer Harry left the castle and set off towards the Quidditch pitch in
the dusk. He’d never been inside the stadium before. Hundreds of seats were raised around
the pitch so that the spectators were high enough to see what was going on. At either end of
the pitch were three golden poles with hoops on the end. They reminded Harry of the plastic
sticks Muggle children blew bubbles through, expect that they were fifty-feet high.

Too eager to fly again to wait for Wood, harry mounted his broomstick and kicked off from
the ground. What a feeling – he swooped in and out of the goalposts and then sped up and
down the pitch. The Nimbus Two Thousand turned wherever he wanted at his lightest touch.

‘”Hey, Potter, come down!”


Oliver Wood had arrived. He was carrying a large wooden crate under his arm. Harry landed
next to him.
“Very nice,” said Wood, his eyes glinting. “I see what McGonagall meant . . . you really are
naturally. I’m just going to teach you the ruled this evening, then you’ll be joining team
practice three times a week.”
He opened the crate. Inside were four different-sized balls.

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