Nearly 17 years ago in the United Kingdom, a fictional sport known as Quidditch was born into a story that many did not know would captivate the world and eventually become more than people ever dreamt.
Quidditch, found in the Harry Potter series, is a competitive sport that is extremely rough, semi-contact sport played by wizards and witches. Each match is played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks. The seven players include: three chasers, two beaters, one keeper, and one seeker. There are four balls that are used during each match: the Quaffle, two Bludgers, and the Golden Snitch. There are six ring-shaped goals, three on each side of the Quidditch pitch, that stand tall above the ground.
During each match, the Chasers try to keep possession of the Quaffle, a spherical ball about 12 inches in diameter, and try to score a goal, which is worth ten points, by throwing it through one of the opponents’ three hoops. They can pass it among themselves, but only one player is allowed in the scoring area at any time. The two Beaters have to protect the rest of the team from the Bludgers, round, jet black balls, made of iron, and 10 inches in diameter, by hitting them at the other team with a wooden bat (like a baseball bat), which they hold in one hand. The Keeper has to protect the team’s goal hoops by flying in front of them and stopping the opponents from throwing the Quaffle through them. The Seeker’s job is probably the most important one on the team, and it is to catch the Golden Snitch before the opposing team’s Seeker. The Snitch is a small golden ball the approximate size of a walnut 1 inch in diameter with silver wings that move so fast that it nearly impossible to see. Catching the Golden Snitch ends ...
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... is a magical object within the canon of the Harry Potter novels, in Muggle quidditch, the snitch is simply a tennis ball contained in a sock tucked in the waistband of a snitch runner. The snitch runner is a neutral player affiliated with neither team dressed in all gold or yellow. After release, the snitch is allowed to roam an area beyond the playing field. The seekers search for the runner, but if they fail to catch him, he returns to the pitch after a pre-determined time.
The game begins with the Quaffle and Bludgers placed in the center of the field and all players in line with their respective goalposts. After the Snitch is out of sight, the referee yells 'Brooms Up!' to start the game. The game is played for as long as it takes to catch the snitch. 30 points are awarded to the team who captures the Snitch, and the team with the highest number of points wins.
The sports, games, and pastimes of the time of Shakespeare have not just been set aside and paid no attention to, but they have been effectively abandoned and omitted. The Elizabethan hobbies have been thoroughly overshadowed by many modern sports such as baseball, football, soccer, hockey, and an abundant amount of other games. The 16th century English pastimes included many activities that were impeccable examples of both simplicity and amusement intertwined. With all of these amusing yet transparent games, the era was most acknowledged for theater- a prominent art that is still valued today. The sports, games, and pastimes of the time of Shakespeare are rarely played today because they would be considered illegal, barbarous, and inhumane.
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of the sport was a game called rounders, which was played in England (Lewine 27). Players hit a ball with a bat, which is
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