Have you ever though that sports can be related to imagination too?
By Gabriel Martins
Quidditch is a fictional sport created by J.K. Rowling that appears in all Harry Potter books. It consists in a game that occurs while the players are flying in each brooms of their own. Each team has seven players and everyone has their own function. The chasers must pass the ball called the quaffle, through one of the other team’s hoops, it gives the team 10 points and each group has 3 chasers as well. The keepers must defend the hoops preventing the chasers to score the goal, each team has one keeper. The two beaters use a special quidditch bat to throw a black ball called the bludger on the other players, this way they prevent them to make their moves and tactics. On the other hand, every team need a seeker, this person completes the seven people on a team and is responsible for the Golden Snitch. The golden snitch is a very fast little ball, which gives a hundred fifty points to the team correspondent to the seeker who catches it and also ends the game.
Have you ever though that imagination and fiction can also be related to sports?
By Gabriel Martins
Quidditch is a fictional sport created by J.K. Rowling that appears in all Harry Potter books. It consists in a game that occurs while the players are flying in brooms of their own. Each team has seven players and everyone has their own function. The chasers must pass the ball called the quaffle, through one of the other team’s hoops, it gives the team 10 points and each group
has 3 chasers as well. The keepers must defend the hoops preventing the chasers to score the goal, each team has one keeper. The two beaters use a special quidditch bat to throw a black ball called the bludger on the other players, this way they prevent them to make their moves and tactics. On the other hand, every team need a seeker, this person completes the seven people on a team and is responsible for the Golden Snitch. The golden snitch is a very fast little ball, which gives a hundred fifty points to the team correspondent to the seeker who catches it and also ends the game.
This sport became very famous because its peculiarities, so Harry Potter fans decided to invent a Muggle Quidditch, worth to remember that muggle is the name for non-magical people. The Muggle Quidditch is very similar to the Wizard Quidditch, with a few changes. The seeker who grabs the snitch owns only 30 points for their team, because 150 points, as the original rule, it’s too much and many times the winner is defined just in which team catches the snitch. The beaters don’t use a bat to throw the bludgers on people. And, of course, the brooms don’t fly (unfortunately). With those adaptations, anyone can play the game, including kids. These rules were made by the United States Quidditch (USQ) league. The league and the adaptations were created by the freshman Xander Manshel at Middlebury College in 2005. The USQ also have no problem to divulgate their manual to any other league who participates on the International Quidditch League.
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