Quidditch
By Matt Mason
The Game
The game is a fictional sport created in the harry potter series.
The game consists of 7 players ( 3 chasers, 2 beaters, 1 keeper and 1 seeker)
It is played on an oval shaped pitched with three hoops on big posts’ on either side of the field,
with players flying around over the field on broomsticks. There is 3 types of balls, 2 bludgers, 1
quaffle, and the golden snitch.
The aim of the game is to get the most points by the end of the game, you get 10 points by
throwing the quaffle through a hoop, the game is ended 150 points is awarded to the seekers
team.
Quaffle
There is 1
quaffle, it floats
through the air,
and the chasers,
must try and get
the quaffle and
throw it through
the hoops for 10
points
Bludger
There is 2
bludgers, they
are enchanted to
chase after
players trying to
knock them off
there broom and
injure them. The
2 beaters are
given bats too hit
them off.
The Golden Snitch
There is 1 snitch, this is
the most important, the
seekers must chase the
snitch around the pitch
and try to catch it.
Catching this ends the
game. It fly's incredibly
fast and is very hard to
see.
Chasers
There are 3
chasers in a team,
there job is
simple, try to stay
on their brooms,
and get the
quaffle’s through
the hoops. They
are the ones on
the team that
must work
together the most
Beaters
Seekers
There are 2
beaters in a
team, they are
given bats and
fly around
trying to hit
the bludgers at
the opposition
team trying to
knock them
off their
brooms
There is 1
seeker on a
team, they
could be called
the most
important
player, they
must chase the
snitch around
the pitch trying
to garb hold of
it, once they do,
the game is
ended and they
usually win.
Keeper
There is 1 keeper on
a team, they must
guard the hoops, to
try and make sure
the opposition team
does not get the
quaffle through
them. The keeper as
well as the rest of
them team, can
easily get badly hit
by a quaffle or
bludger hitting
them.
Broomsticks
Broomsticks are what separates quidditch from
other sports, they are what the players ride, and
they come in many different sorts, the two best
well known and they two best in the wizarding
world are the nimbus 2000 and the firebolt.
The pitch
The pitch, is what quidditch is played over, it has
the dimensions of 150m by 55m.
Evolution of the Flying
Broomstick
Records back up the fact that witches and
wizards in Europe had been using the Flying
Broomstick since as early as AD 962. The first
flying broomsticks are described as, ‘A thick
knotty handle of unvarnished ash, with hazel
twigs bound crudely to one en, it is neither
comfortable nor aerodynamic’.
Ancient Broom Games
Sports with brooms, were involved as soon as
brooms could turn corners, and vary their speed
and height. There is the annual broom race of
Sweden, The German game of Stichstock, The
Ireland game of Aingingein, Shuntbumps in
Devon England, and Swivenhodge in
Herefordshire are games which stand out in
ancient broom sports.
Stichstock
A twenty foot high pole that held a inflated
dragon bladder. The bladder guardian is tied to
the pole and can not go ten feet away. The rest
of the team would fly at the bladder trying to
puncture the bladder with specially sharpened
ends of there brooms before the other team did,
the guardians were allowed to use magic, to try
and defend the bladder. When one bladder was
destroyed the game was finished.
Aingingein
One by one, the players would take the ball, and
speed, through burning barrels that were held
up by stilts, when at the end, the player must
throw the ball through he final barrel, whoever
did this in the fastest time was the winner.
Shuntbumps
• The sole aim of this game is to knock as many
of the other players off their brooms , the last
person that was still on their broom after all
other players had been knocked off their
brooms was the winner.
Swivenhodge
• This involved an inflated bladder (usually a
pigs), players sat backwards on their brooms
battling the bladder back and fourth across a
hedge with the brush ends of there brooms.
The first person to miss, a point was given to
the opposition, first to reach 50 points was the
winner.
Professional Quidditch
There is a professional league of quidditch.
There is many national teams, two are the
Bulgarian National Quidditch Team and the Irish
National Quidditch Team. There is a quidditch
world cup held at the end of each season which
the top 2 teams compete in.
Quidditch at Hogwarts
• Hogwarts is known to have one of the best
quidditch teams out of all schools, they have
some of the best players, and there second
last team, before the epic battle of good and
bad, is known to be the best they have ever
seen, it consisted of, Oliver Wood, Angelina
Johnson, Katie Bell, Alicia Spinnet, Fred and
George Weasly, Ginny Weasly, and last of all
their famous seeker Harry Potter
Hogwarts Quidditch Cup Winners
• 1991/1992- Ravenclaw
• 1992/1993- Cancelled, said unsafe to play.
• 1993/1994- Gryffindor
• 1994/1995- Cancelled, due to Triwizard Tournament.
• 1995/1996- Gryffindor
• 1996/1997- Gryffindor
• 1997/1998- Never played.
Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup
• Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup was
produced in 2003 by EA and EA Sports, it
features the 4 Hogwarts teams that you can
play as, than you can also play in the World
Cup, this is what the game is based around