QUIDDITCH
The sport of Wizard's...
Just as
baseball, football, soccer and golf are important to Muggles,
Quidditch is the only sporting pasttime
adored by Hogwart students and professors!
The game is similiar to soccer, but is played in the air
on broomsticks
with the action taking placing 10 to 120 feet in the air!
Quidditch
101
a quick overview...
Players:
Seven players on each
team
Balls:
One Quaffle (red soccer
sized ball), used for scoring
Two Bludger balls (black)
One Golden Snitch, a
tiny, winged, walnut-sized ball that the Seeker (a player)
has to catch.
Brooms:
Nimbus 2000, Cleansweep
Seven, Comet 260, Nimbus 2001, - light, speedy first-class
Quidditch brooms. (vol. 1, p. 152) Firebolt - The most
magnificent broom Harry had ever seen; the fastest broom
in the world. (vol. 3, p. 57 & p. 254) A gift from
Sirius. (vol. 3, p. 432).
Scoring:
Points are earned each
time the ball goes through the hoop; the catching of
the Golden Snitch signals the end of a game. (vol. 1,
p. 167, also,vol. 3, p. 143)
Plays:
Wronski Defensive Feint
Dangerous Seeker Diversion
Hawkshead Attacking Formation
Porskoff Ploy
Plays used during Quidditch World Cup. (vol. 4, pp.106
&109)
Who Does What
and What is What?:
Throw the Quaffle to each other
and try to through it through the goal post to score.
One Quaffle
Used for scoring; can be thrown through any one of the
6 goalposts for 10 points.
One Keeper
Flies around the goals trying
to stop the opposing team from scoring.
Two Beaters
Equipped with large clubs, these
players zoom after the bludgers trying to knock them toward
the opposing team.
Two Bludgers
Big, heavy balls that rocket around
trying to knock players off their brooms.
One Seeker
The Seeker is usually the
smallest, nimblest player on the team. They ride around
between all the chaos looking for the Snitch. In addition
to the game ending when it is caught, the team that caught
it earns an additional 150 points.
One Golden Snitch
Very fast and hard to see, the
Snitch is the most important ball in the game. The game
only ends when the Snitch is caught.
Goalposts - Six in all,
these fifty foot-high structures are the main way of scoring
in Quidditch. Each time a Quaffle is thrown through one
of the hoops, ten pioints is earned. There are three on
each end of the field, gouarded by the team Keeper.
Clubs - The Beaters use
these large, heavy clubs to knock the Bludgers toward
enemy players.
Be creative and
devise of game of Quidditch
at your next party,
here's how:
From Head
Mistress, Rhea Alder:
I used an area in the yard to set up this game.
It had a big tree on either side of the field and on each
tree
I hung up hoola hoops for the goals.
(Walmart had some really cool metallic ones.)
We used a cantaloupe-sized red kids ball as the quaffle
and played
with soccor rules but using hands instead of feet.
The spectators threw out black water bombs (bludgers)
every so often to make it interesting.
Each team had
One goalie
2 chasers
2 beaters
a nd there were
2 snitches on fishing line that flew around the field
every so often.
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