What is Quidditch?
Quidditch is a creation from the pen of J. K. Rowling in her famous Harry Potter Series of fantasy books. Quidditch is a fantastic sport played by the wizards while riding on the broomsticks in the air. The immense popularity of Quidditch in Harry Potter books forced J. K. Rowling to write a supplementary book exclusively about Quidditch, which is named “Quidditch through the Ages”. In Quidditch, each team has seven playing members. The playing team consists of three chasers, two bludgers, a goal keeper and a seeker. On each side of the field there are three goal hoops that stand vertically. In Quidditch, a goal is scored by putting the quaffle, a ball similar to soccer ball, through any of the vertical hoops by the chasers only. Each goal is worth 10 points. The job of the goal-keeper is to block the quaffle from going through the vertical goal posts which the chasers of the opposing team throw. In addition to the quaffle, there are two bludgers. The bludgers are two enchanted balls t
The most comprehensive answer can be found by reading Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp and the Harry Potter books written by J.K. Rowling. The game is played on an open field with two sets of three hoops atop fifty-foot poles located at opposite ends of the field. The pitch is an oval 500 feet long and 180 feet wide at the center. There is a two-foot circle in the center of the pitch where the game starts. Quidditch is, in some ways, a three dimensional basketball game played on broomsticks. That similarity can be seen in the play with the red ball, the Quaffle. The Quaffle, red leather and 12 inches in diameter, is handled by the three Chasers on a team, who attempt to take the ball down to their opponent’s end of the pitch and throw it through one of the three hoops. Every time they succeed they are awarded 10 points. The Quaffle is charmed to slow its fall to ground. Unlike basketball, not only is “goal tending” legal, there is a player assigned to that task, the Kee
Quidditch is the fantastic sport created by J.K. Rowling in her series of Harry Potter books. Rowling further explored the origins of the sport in a short book specifically devoted to Quidditch, Quidditch through The Ages. The great popularity of the Harry Potter books has led muggles, or non-magic folk, to develop muggle Quidditch.
