Twitter: tracycbrown. Tracy Brown is a digital editor and writer working in entertainment for the Los Angeles Times. She helps provide digital content for the Arts and Entertainment sections and has also written for the Travel, Books and Image sections. Photographer Gordon Parks inspired a new generation of artists. Here are some of their stories. All Sections. About Us. Quidditch is always played in a series. The Quidditch Cup at Hogwarts goes to the team with the most total points, not the one who has won the most matches.
Nowhere in the standings does it note how many matches each team won. In the original books, there was no evidence of whether a similar scoring system was used for the Quidditch World Cup , and speculation was that finalists Bulgaria and Ireland were the top scorers in the world during the Quidditch World Cup qualifying year GF8. However, after new writing by J K Rowling appeared on Pottermore for the Quidditch World Cup playoffs leading up to the final match QWC , we now know that it is a knock-out tournament, with the point score tally reset to zero after each match.
Quidditch pitch. Quidditch stadium. Quidditch World Cup stadium. International Association of Quidditch. British and Irish Quidditch League. International Confederation of Wizards Quidditch Committee. The colourful, exciting history of this thousand-year-old sport is detailed in the excellent book, Quidditch Through the Ages , also available in a Muggle edition.
Proceeds from the early editions went to a worthy cause. According to "Quidditch Through the Ages", the name "Quidditch" comes from Queerditch Marsh , the place where the game originated in the s. I love making up words. There are a few key words in the books that wizards know and muggles, as in us - no-magic-people, don't know.
Well, "muggle" is an obvious example. Then there's "quidditch. A journalist in Britain asked me She said to me, "now, you obviously got the word "quidditch" from "quiddity," meaning the essence of a thing, it's proper nature," and I was really really tempted to say, "yes, you're quite right," because it sounded so intellectual, but I had to tell her the truth, which was that I wanted a word that began with "Q" -- on a total whim -- and I filled about, I don't know, 5 pages of a notebook with different "Q"-words until I hit "quidditch" and I knew that was the perfect one - when I finally hit "quidditch.
Lexicon timeline of Quidditch. Rules of play Quidditch is played up on broomsticks up in the air. Scoring On the face of it, Quidditch scoring is unfair. British and Irish Quidditch League International Confederation of Wizards Quidditch Committee Further information The colourful, exciting history of this thousand-year-old sport is detailed in the excellent book, Quidditch Through the Ages , also available in a Muggle edition.
During the match, the Snitch flew up the sleeve of a Haitian Beater, Instead of shaking it out, the Beater took the Snitch out by hand forcing the Haitian team to be disqualified. Following up with the rules centered on catching the Snitch we talked about previously if a chaser caught the Snitch, his team would be forced to forfeit the match and the team would be disqualified if the match was a part of a tournament.
However, this is unlikely to happen as all three of the chasers are quite busy during the match. Since Quidditch matches are extremely dynamic and quick-paced, the chasers are constantly busy and least likely to be able to focus on anything else than the task they already have on their hands.
Table of Contents show. Can a Quidditch match end without catching the Snitch? Can you win Quidditch without catching Snitch? Can you catch the Snitch and still lose? What happens if a player other than the seeker catches the Snitch? What happens if a chaser catches the snitch?
About The Author. Apart from that, he likes to read comics, play games and collect action figures. Load More. From the letter it can be seen that early Chasers were known as " Catchers ", and the Bludger began its life as the " Blooder ". Kneen's letter also revealed a new innovation: using three barrels mounted on stilts to use as the goals. This was undoubtedly a massive improvement from using trees as the goals and is a clear precursor to the hoops used in the modern game.
Therefore it can be seen that the sport of " Kwidditch " played by Kneen was already very similar to what Quidditch came to be. The one missing element was the Golden Snitch. The history of the Snitch was perhaps the most interesting of all the Quidditch balls, and its introduction came as the direct result of a game played in in Kent.
This was over a century on from Goodwin Kneen 's letter to his cousin, and it seems that during this time, the game had acquired a great deal of popularity and organisation, and had altered in its format very little.
It was, however, now routinely attended by large crowds of people who wanted to watch the game. As a nod to the sport of Snidget -hunting, which was also popular at the time, Bragge brought such a bird to the game and released it from its cage.
He told the players that one-hundred and fifty Galleons — a large sum of money, particularly in those times — would be awarded to the player who caught the bird. This was easier said than done: the Snidget was very fast, very small, and could make sudden changes of direction at high speeds. The considerable challenge posed by the flight patterns of the bird was what made Snidget-hunting so popular in the first place.
What happened at the Quidditch game in question was rather predictable: the players totally ignored the game, and each and every one simply went off in pursuit of the Snidget, which was kept within the arena by the crowd using Repelling Charms.
A witch named Modesty Rabnott , who was also watching the game, took pity on the Snidget and rescued it with a Summoning Charm before rushing away with it hidden inside her robes. She was caught by a furious Bragge and fined ten Galleons for disrupting the game, but not before she had released the Snidget.
This saved the life of this bird, but the connection with Quidditch had been made, and soon a Snidget was being released at every game. From then, each team had an extra player — originally called the Hunter, later the Seeker — whose sole job was to catch and kill the Snidget, for which one-hundred and fifty points were awarded in memory of the one-hundred and fifty Galleons offered by Bragge in the original game.
The vast popularity of the sport led to quickly declining Snidget numbers, and in the middle of the 14th century it was made a protected species by the Wizards Council, now headed by Elfrida Clagg.
This meant that the bird could no longer be used for Quidditch purposes, and indeed the Modesty Rabnott Snidget Reservation was created in Somerset to safeguard the Snidget's future survival. The game of Quidditch, however, could not continue without a substitute. Whilst most people looked for a suitable alternative bird to chase, a metal-charmer called Bowman Wright from Godric's Hollow had a different idea: he invented a fake Snidget which he called the Golden Snitch.
His invention was pretty much what was seen on the modern Quidditch pitch : a golden ball with silver wings, the same size and weight as a real Snidget, bewitched to accurately follow its flight patterns.
An additional benefit was that the ball was also charmed to stay within the playing area, removing the need for the continual use of Repelling Charms by the crowd. The Snitch was approved as a Snidget substitute, the game of Quidditch could continue, and the modern sport as we know it was complete. All of the balls used in the modern game were now present, organised teams played against each other, and vast numbers of people came to watch.
Whilst this may sound exactly like the sport as it came to be, there were still a few modifications to be made in terms of the playing pitch, and this continued to evolve until when the format of modern Quidditch pitches was finalised.
The International Confederation of Wizards' Quidditch Committee was the international body that oversaw the game of Quidditch. Quidditch pitches were typically in the shape of an oval, five-hundred feet long and one-hundred and eighty feet wide, with a small central circle of approximately two feet in diameter, from which all the balls were released at the start of the game. At each end there were three hooped goal posts of different heights, surrounded by a scoring area.
As Quidditch is an aerial sport, Quidditch pitches usually feature spectator seating at high vantage points, whether in towers such as at Hogwarts or in a fully-encircling platform style such as the British stadium that held the Quidditch World Cup. The three hooped goal posts were originally barrel-goals, introduced during Goodwin Kneen 's time. At the time of the introduction of the scoring area, they were replaced by baskets on stilts, but whilst these were practical, they did carry an inherent problem: there was no size restriction on the baskets, which differed dramatically from pitch to pitch.
By , scoring areas had been added at each end of the pitch, and an additional rule in the game, a 'stooging penalty', meant that only one Chaser was allowed in these areas at any given time, as noted in Quintius Umfraville 's book The Noble Sport of Warlocks. In addition, the size of the baskets themselves had reduced considerably, although there was still a certain amount of variation between pitches. Regulations were finally introduced in which replaced the baskets with hoops of a fixed size, and the modern Quidditch pitch was complete.
Both these changes caused a considerable amount of controversy, which resulted in riots and threats against the Minister. Quidditch pitches were built in places where they would not attract Muggle attention. This began in when the wizard Zacharias Mumps emphasised the need for anti-Muggle security while playing the game: " Choose areas of deserted moorland far from Muggle habitations and make sure that you cannot be seen once you take off on your brooms.
Muggle-repelling charms are useful if you are setting up a permanent pitch. It is advisable, too, to play at night. This was amended in , possibly due to growing popularity of the game. This amendment made the playing of the sport within one-hundred miles of a Muggle town illegal, famously worded as not to play "anywhere near any place where there is the slightest chance a Muggle is watching, or we'll see how well you can play while chained to a dungeon wall.
The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy of made all Ministries of Magic responsible for the consequences of magical sports in their territories. The Department of Magical Games and Sports was created for this purpose.
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