Quidditch Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Quidditch is a fictional airborne ballgame (played on broomsticks), a sort of magical variant of football or polo, devised by J. K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series of children's books.

Quidditch is very popular in the fictional world of Harry Potter. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has four Quidditch teams, one for each house in the school. There are several professional Quidditch sides. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry attends the Quidditch World Cup for international teams.

Table of contents

1 History 2 Rules 3 House Teams 3.1 Gryffindor 3.2 Slytherin 3.3 Ravenclaw 3.4 Hufflepuff 3.5 Commentator 4 League Teams 5 Quidditch in the real world 6 Reference

History

It has been suggested that the name "quidditch" is derived from the names of the balls: Quaffle, Bludger and Snitch, though the book Quidditch Through the Ages suggests that the game is named after Queerditch Marsh, where the earliest version of the game was played in the eleventh century.

According to Quidditch Through the Ages, Quidditch began as a simple broom-based game, with players passing a leather ball, the quaffle, which they attempted to place in goals at either ends of the pitch. Soon after, the Bludgers (see 'Rules', below) were added as charmed rocks, possibly an influence from the Scottish game Creaothceann, in which players attempted to catch falling rocks in a cauldron attached to their heads.

The addition of the Golden Snitch (see 'Rules', below) also derived from an earlier wizarding sport, in which wizards attempted to catch a Golden Snidget, a fast-moving magical bird. In 1269, the Chief of the Wizards Council, Barberous Bragge unleashed a Golden Snidget, offering 150 galleons to the player who caught the bird. A value of 150 points was later added to the bird as a tribute to this event, though in time the Golden Snidget was replaced with an enchanted ball, as the Golden Snidget became endangered.

A variant of Quidditch, Quodpot, is popular in the USA and South America.

Rules

Main Article: Rules of Quidditch

As in many games, the aim of Quidditch is to score more points than one's opponent. There are three tall goal hoops on posts at each end of the pitch, and it is into these that a large red ball, the Quaffle, must be thrown to score. Each goal is worth ten points. The three players who handle the Quaffle are known as the Chasers; the Keeper guards his or her goal hoops.

As well as the Chasers and Keeper, there are also two players per side called Beaters, who defend their team from the heavy black Bludgers with bats, and the Seeker, whose job it is to catch the tiny, winged Golden Snitch. The Seeker who catches the Snitch earns his team 150 points and ends the game, generally winning it in the process. Several fans feel this is a plot device intended by the author to make Harry Potter (a Seeker for Gryffindor house team) as singlehandedly responsible for his team's victories as possible.

House Teams

Note that these teams include several players who have left Hogwarts, and do not include present players who are not mentioned by name in the books.

Gryffindor

• Katie Bell
• Angelina Johnson
• Andrew Kirke
• Harry Potter
• James Potter
• Jack Sloper
• Alicia Spinnet
• Oliver Wood
• Charlie Weasley
• Fred Weasley
• George Weasley
• Ginny Weasley
• Ron Weasley

Slytherin

• Miles Bletchley
• Bole
• Vincent Crabbe
• Derrick
• Marcus Flint
• Gregory Goyle
• Terence Higgs
• Draco Malfoy
• Montague
• Adrian Pucey
• Warrington

Ravenclaw

• Cho Chang
• Roger Davies

Hufflepuff

• Cedric Diggory
• Zacharias Smith
• Summerby

Commentator

• Lee Jordan

League Teams

• Appleby Arrows
• Ballycastle Bats
• Caerphilly Catapults
• Chudley Cannons
• Falmouth Falcons
• Holyhead Harpies
• Kenmare Kestrels
• Montrose Magpies
• Pride of Portree
• Puddlemere United
• Tutshill Tornados
• Wigtown Wanderers
• Wimbourne Wasps

See also List of Quidditch Teams.

Quidditch in the real world

• There have been computer games that simulate playing Quidditch.

• There have been small-scale attempts to adapt Quidditch to the technology available in the real world, using e.g. bicycles instead of broomsticks.

Reference

• Quidditch Through the Ages, Kennilworthy Whisp/J. K. Rowling, ISBN 0747554714

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