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"Thanks, Professor!" Abra replied gleefully to Stewart after he had successfully knocked down the wicker.
Then he'd had his go at batting, and then Noble was speaking to him and Abra looked slightly nonplussed for a moment, looking between the professor and the bat, and then the wicker behind him. Keep the bat... down... right. Lower in the knees... riiiiiight. As Noble went through each instruction, Abra tried to copy what he was doing. "Ohhhh... okay, I get it... Because I'm meant to be protecting the wicker-... wicket, right?" Right. He remembered now.
Abra's second try at batting went a lot better than his first had. He was a little more conscious of how he was holding it, for a start, and once he kept it in his head to keep the bat down, it was a lot easier. He did, of course, have a little experience hitting bludgers (to let off steam, rather than while playing as a beater) and not only was the cricket ball smaller and more predictable than a bludger, but the bat had a bigger surface area for hitting it away with. He felt reasonably confident that he could manage it this time, with the bat in the right place.
So when that second ball came and Abra took a swing at it, he did indeed manage to get it with a good thwack, though almost at the end of the bat, and sent it careening off to Merlin only know where. Hey, that was pretty fun!
"Thanks Professor Noble!" Abra said with an enthusiastic grin towards the man. He felt downright intimidated by Noble sometimes, and found him to be such a professory professor, but Abra liked him in spite of that. Perhaps maybe actually because of that, actually.
But it was time to move on again, and so Abra moved with the rest of the group to where they were being led. He hoped that this next part would have something to do with catching, because that was absolutely where his talents lay (although it would have been better if he could be on a broom at the same time), and he was not disappointed. At Professor Stewart's go-ahead, he quickly headed out to one of the plates relatively far away, and got ready to start doing some catching. Fielding. Whatever.
Abra didn't have to wait long at all for a ball to come flying in his direction. Almost before Adi hit the ball Abra got a feeling like it would be coming his way, and he immediately perked up. The ball was hit, and off it went flying, sort of towards Abra but mostly to his right. Naturally, Abra went running after it with an "I've got this!", arm outstretched and ready to catch it. He ran, he ran, he put on a last burst of speed, LeAPT INTO THE AIR... and caught it. Seeker skiiiiiiills.
Beaming to himself (but also breathing heavily because Merlin, running was so not his thing), Abra returned the ball and went back to his plate.
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