Harry Offers to Resign from Quidditch After Gryffindor’s Loss but Wood Refuses

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Burdened by guilt, Harry Potter offers to relinquish his position on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Team Captain Oliver Wood, emphasizing the strategic importance of Harry’s role, dismisses the resignation. However, tension among team members persists, affecting morale during practices.

It was a bit late to repair the damage, but Harry swore to himself not to meddle in things that weren’t his business from now on. He’d had it with sneaking around and spying. He felt so ashamed of himself that he went to Wood and offered to resign from the Quidditch team.

“Resign?” Wood thundered. “What good’ll that do? How are we going to get any points back if we can’t win at Quidditch?”

But even Quidditch had lost its fun. The rest of the team wouldn’t speak to Harry during practice, and if they had to speak about him, they called him “the Seeker.”

Hermione and Neville were suffering, too. They didn’t have as bad a time as Harry, because they weren’t as well known, but nobody would speak to them, either. Hermione had stopped drawing attention to herself in class, keeping her head down and working in silence.

Harry was almost glad that the exams weren’t far away. All the studying he had to do kept his mind off his misery. He, Ron, and Hermione kept to themselves, working late into the night, trying to remember the ingredients in complicated potions, learn charms

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and spells by heart, memorize the dates of magical discoveries and goblin rebellions...