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Chapter 80: Flying Lesson! Part -2

{Quidditch Pitch, Hogwarts}

{7th Sep 1991}

{3rd Person POV}

*Piiiiiiiiii*

Rigel kicked off the ground hard as he slowly levitated. Even if normally he didn't focus on any hobbies after arriving in this world as magic and its existence had taken a lot of his time, he quickly realized that this flying class wouldn't be a one-time thing. He didn't force himself to fly away too much though, his bottom line would not let him risk performing stunts in the air.

His broom hovered a solid couple of meters off the ground, and the feeling of looking down, levitating, was exhilarating. A soft breeze tousled through his hair and as he looked around he couldn't help but lean back and enjoy the view. 

A sudden jolt from his broom indicated that posture mattered a lot more than he thought it would. The Flying experience was a lot different than what Rigel was imagining, simply it was different at the very first step because there was no uncomfortable situation of the broomstick giving him a wedgie. Although completely illogical, and he could see the broomstick underneath him passing through between his legs, he felt like he was sitting on a cushioned seat like that of a motorcycle.

Magic would be Rigel's easiest guess and a stare at the old-looking broomstick gave him a response.

...

[Cleansweep VI (Rare): An enchanted artifact made through careful manipulation of a specific runic scheme, The Cleansweep VI is the sixth iteration model of the famous Cleansweep I launched in 1926. Built for professional Quidditch matches in 1948, the broom is outdated from today's standard but has good and stable performance.

+ Cushioning Runic Scheme.

+ Levi-Hydro Runic Scheme.

+ Hydro-Deacceleration Runic Scheme.

+ Hydro-Acceleration Runic Scheme]

...

The magic of the broomstick and its description once again fascinated Rigel, he knew he had lost himself in learning spells, but it seemed like other than spells most of Wizard's innovation had gone into the making of runes and other artifacts. 

...

"Whoh~ Whaa~ H-Harry~" 

*Gasp*

"Look!"

...

Sounds of surprised gasps and Neville's screams brought Rigel back to the real world. It seems like Neville couldn't escape the fate of a faulty broom, or was it something else?

Quite a lot of his classmates were hovering in the air carefully but Neville somehow managed to get himself into a mess again. 

During the potions class, Neville hadn't blown up his cauldron so Rigel was more than inclined to think that just like a lot of things, his situation had changed, he wasn't a nervous 11 year old kid. But when Rigel's eyes looked at Neville's trembling arms that were grabbing onto the broomstick and Neville's bobbing head, he realized that maybe some things just couldn't be changed.

'Was there a prophecy or something that Neville would have a broken arm?' Rigel questioned but Madam Hooch's words cleared the situation for him.

"Mr. Longbottom stop jerking your broom around and grab it with confidence, your trembling arms are messing with the control scheme of the broom." Her powerful voice cut through the chaos but unfortunately, Neville was too far gone. Rigel couldn't see his face but his trembling hands didn't stop and with every second the absurd motions of the broomsticks kept on increasing as the chaotic momentum kept building up. 

Rigel hesitated, Neville was not too far away from him and he was confident he could pull the boy off by grabbing his robe. But they were in the air and although he was quite sure he could pull it off, he was not really inclined to rush at Neville when his broom was making such erratic movements.

"Neville cal-" Professor Hooch tried again but her voice was cut off as Neville hugged the broom in fear. His actions caused the broom to accelerate straight down and a second later he collided with the ground.

*Thud* *Snap* *Snap*

Rigel winced as he heard two snaps, and while one of them could be from the broom he was pretty sure the second one was from Neville's arm. Now the question remained as to which one.

"Everyone down now!!" Professor Hooch shouted as she ran to Neville, her concerned face was relieved when she saw that there was no blood. The broom was clearly broken into two and Neville was whimpering slightly as he hugged his broken arm. 

Rigel grabbed onto the end of his broom and slightly lowered the end, he had seen what happened to Neville's broom just now so he was very careful with his manipulation. His broom followed a graceful descent and a second later his feet touched the ground. 

"Just a bad break, nothing more. Madam Pomphery would fix you up in a jiffy." Madam Hooch consoled Neville who nodded slightly, even if he was suffering from a clearly broken bone his face had a relieved expression. 

"You lot, I'll be taking young Mr. Longbottom to the infirmary, in the meantime I don't want any brooms in the air-" Madam Hooch continued her speech along with her dialogue about quidditch but Rigel had tuned her out. He lifted his leg slightly and pulled out the broom from under him. 

His first taste of flying had been quite good and as Madam Hooch walked away he turned around to see the perfect divide that existed between the two houses. Most of the Slytherin's weren't fazed by the accident but Rigel saw that Hermione looked rather pale. 

He walked a couple of steps toward her before he stopped and walked back toward Daphne, it was not a wise idea to comfort Hermione in public.

"You alright?" He asked Daphne who gave him a small nod.

"Yeah... I heard that Longbottom was incompetent but not by this much..." Her face scrunched up at the thought of a Pureblood behaving in such a shameful manner.

"You heard much about him?" Rigel asked curiously, considering Neville was the one to destroy the final Horcrux and him also being the only other candidate for the Prophecy, it wouldn't be bad to know about him.

"Well, he's a pureblood..." Daphne shrugged, "...even if his magical qualifications are quite questionable, he comes from an ancient and powerful family. His grandmother is a formidable figure in the Progressive faction." 

After saying a couple of good things about the Longbottom family her voice lowered some more and she continued, "I heard that he was a late bloomer, with him being considered basically a squib until his teen years when his magic saved him from a rather dangerous fall." Daphne finished, she paused and then shook her head.

"Our Family don't run in the same circle so I don't know much more..."

Rigel nodded at her as he watched Madam Hooch take Neville away, he waited for a couple of moments before turning to Tracy.

"So future quidditch star, will you teach me how to do this?"

...

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AN - At first I was thinking about exploring more quidditch, but I saw your guy's comments and they made sense. I had to change a lot of this chapter because of that and a couple of chapters were ruined because of that so thank you very much for that :P!!

Instead, I'll use this incident to change Rigel's focus to Runes!!

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Chapter 81: Flying Lesson! Part -3

{Quidditch Pitch, Hogwarts}

{7th Sep 1991}

{3rd Person POV}

"So, future quidditch star, will you teach me how to do this?" Rigel asked as he turned his attention to Tracy. He hadn't known both Daphne and Tracy for very long, and although they weren't very close friends, he got the purest smile he had every scene from Tracy.

"Of course," Tracy said confidently. She motioned toward the broom and spoke, "Since we can't actually fly right now, I'll tell you the basics of how to control your broom."

At Rigel's eager nod, she mounted her broom, his attention shifted toward her thighs for a moment before he looked back up into her eyes.

"Madam Hooch already explained the grip to you, so I won't go into too much detail regarding that. Let's focus on the three main ways you control your broom. First and the most basic would be the angle of your broomstick." Tracy explained, her fingers pointed to the angle of her broomstick, which was a little elevated.

"After you kicked off, you noticed how your broom was pointing upwards, but when you came down, did you push the angle down?" Tracy questioned, getting a nod from Rigel. 

"This is the first and most basic control of your broomstick. Your broomstick knows at which angle it is, so if you want to go up or down, all you need to do is push or pull the broomstick toward you. Got it?" she asked.

"Yeah, I got it," Rigel nodded. It was easy enough to understand, as he had unconsciously already managed to do that.

"Good, then we come to the second way to control your broom. It is posture," Tracy spoke, getting a confused look from Rigel.

"Posture?" Rigel asked. His thoughts flashed back to how Nevellie was trembling, likely due to his fear of heights, which most likely caused his broom to go haywire.

"Yes, posture. Look at my hands," Tracy spoke as she gripped the broom with both hands, "...if I pull the broom upward, I would fly up, but at the same time, my posture would also change, and I would fly forward. Think of it this way, the runic schemes that are embedded in the broomstick could tell where your center of mass is, so if you lean forward without pulling the broom upward like this," Tracy demonstrated the standard movement of leaning forward onto a Motorcycle to gain speed, "...then you would fly forward."

She then pulled back, her back straight and perpendicular to the broomstick, "This would trigger the deacceleration of your broom, and if you lean a lot more backward along with pulling your broom back then the emergency braking system of your broom would trigger. Unfortunately, I don't think the Cleensweep VI has this feature but most of the modern broom would have them."

"Alright, got it. Pull and push the broom for up and down, and lean forward and backward for speed and brake. And turning would be just pulling the broom left and right?" Rigel asked.

"Well, yeah," Tracy acknowledged, though she seemed a bit put off by being interrupted. After searching for another set of words, she continued, "For simple low-speed turns done in an arc, yes, that would do. But if you are traveling at a high speed, most of the time, the arc of your turn would be too large, making turning a lot harder, especially on these older brooms. So in that case, we use more advanced maneuvers like the corkscrew turn of other barrel rolls."

Rigel waved away Tracy's recommended advanced moves for now. He knew she was talking about Quidditch's moves, and he let her play in her fantasy. His attention, though, was primarily focused on the broomstick in his hands. His curiosity regarding the runic schemes kept on increasing.

From all the walls and most of the magical artifacts, he could see that runes' influence on the world was pretty deep. Since he would have to learn or cramp quite a lot of runes to create that ward in the second-floor toilet, he might as well focus on expanding his knowledge in the subject. 

'And since I got a special tab when I made my first potion alone, I'm sure I would unlock special tabs for runes as well. Maybe one for Rituals too?' Rigel thought. He looked at Daphne, who was staring at Tracy's vacant expression with an amused face.

'There is still time before Halloween when I have to perform the Core Expansion Ritual...' Rigel thought. Although earlier he was planning to do the Ritual with Evelyn since the difference in doing it with anyone wouldn't do much, after much research, he had realized that the number of opportunities to do Rituals was a lot less as most of them needed the power of celestial events.

'If I could only do a limited number of Core Expansion Rituals, then doing one with Evelyn and doing one with Daphne would be a difference of 25% mana,' Rigel thought. The benefits of locking himself out of Evelyn's requirements weren't worth much, but still, he was a little hesitant to give up the 2% increase in his affinity for the Dark Arts.

'I have a lot of stuff to do and not much time. With Runes, Rituals, and Dark Arts, I have three extra-curricular study projects going on at the same time, plus if you add finding the Diary and catching Pettigrew...' 

Rigel's thoughts wandered for a minute as he sighed. The ever-changing situation was slightly overwhelming him. He noticed the shift in the people around him and noticed that Madam Hooch was walking back to join their group.

Her eyes scanned through everyone, and after giving a slight nod to herself, she continued, "Now, I don't want any more stupidity. Each of you would hover no more than 1 foot over the ground until you get a feel for flying. No rushing around, I want you to move around a bit but be careful not to collide with anyone, each collision would result in the loss of one point for each of your houses."

*Piiiiiiiiii*

After giving her little speech, she tugged on her whistle again, and after the sharp sound reverberated around everyone, Rigel kicked off again. His worries did vanish for a moment as he flew around lazily. The feeling of saying fuck you to gravity was a little exhilarating.

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AN—This ends Rigel's first week at Hogwarts! I know the story started a little slow, but it picks up pace soon, with days blurring by. At the same time, the next few chapters will focus more on magical theory and Rigel's sexual escapades!

P.S- 40+ Advanced Chapters on P.atreon!


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