In 2007, the first intercollegiate quidditch match - not Quidditch, as the IQA uses a lowercase spelling in order to separate it from the sport depicted in Harry Potter – took place.īy 2012, the Global Games were hosted in Oxford, England, featuring teams from the US, Canada, the UK, France, and Australia. The wizarding sport entered the real world in 2005, according to the International Quidditch Association, when two students at Middlebury College in Vermont, Xander Manshel and Alex Benepe, dreamed up a way of playing it in reality. Harry goes on to become Gryffindor’s Seeker, the player who is meant to catch the Snitch, the flying golden ball worth 150 points and which ends the game when it is captured. It’s like – like soccer in the Muggle world – everyone follows quidditch – played up in the air on broomsticks and there’s four balls – sorta hard ter explain the rules,” he’s told. “So what is Quidditch?” Harry asks Hagrid, early in the first Potter book. It’s an unexpected revelation, given that quidditch is lifted from JK Rowling’s novels. “I’d never read the books when I started playing … It’s more the sport that I picked up.” “If anything I’m more a Lord of the Rings fan.” “To be honest, I was never a huge Harry Potter fan,” says UK quidditch coach Ashley Cooper, who has just graduated in medicine from Oxford.
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