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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Quidditch!

So last week I witnessed my first Quidditch match.  Yes complete with brooms and balls and what not. 

Now for those of you who do not know of the Harry Potter world, Quidditch (as defined in Wikipedia) is a popular fictional sport in the fictional world of Harry Potter created by J.K.Rowling . It is described as an extremely rough, but very popular, semi-contact sport, played by wizards and witches around the world. Matches are played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals three on each side of the Quidditch Pitch (field).  The seven players consist of a seeker (who catches the golden snitch), a keeper who more or less functions as a goalie, two beaters who use wooden clubs to hit the bludgers away from their teammates, and three chasers who try to throw the quaffle ball into the three hoops.  So the quaffle balls are used to score goals and each goal is worth 10 points.  The game proceeds with the chasers trying to score goals, the keeper guarding the three goal hoops and the beaters hitting the bludgers at the opposing team.   The game ends when the seeker catches the golden snitch which roams about the area until it is seen at which point the seekers on both teams will chase it until they catch it.  Upon catching the snitch the game ends and 150 points are awarded to the team with the snitch.  In most cases the team who catches the snitch ends up winning the game.  I'm sure you either find this fascinating or you are completely lost as to what I'm talking about.

Now I'm sure you are wondering how does one play Quidditch if you are suppose to be playing on flying brooms?  Well they do have brooms that they stick between their legs and run around throwing balls at each other.  These people are quite serious about their game.  I was walking about the ISU campus and happened upon a Quidditch game just beginning.  Now of course I had no idea what they were doing because most of the time you don't see people running around with toy brooms in between their legs throwing balls at one another.  I asked the student I was walking around with what they were doing and she said they were playing Quidditch.  I have never heard of such a thing and I was highly amused that they would go so far as to invent a Quidditch game that muggles (non-wizards/witches) could play.  First of all I don't think it's particularly fun without the flying aspect and second they just look a little silly trying to run around throwing balls at each other with brooms between their legs.  The balls don't fly either like they would in a real game.  Instead the balls are all lined up in the center of the field and when the game starts all the players, minus the seeker and the keeper, run towards them and starts throwing the balls around.  Now you are wondering where is the golden snitch right?  For those of you who don't know what that looks like it's a golf size golden ball with wings that flies fairly fast trying to get away from the seekers.  So in the Muggle world the snitch is really a person that has a ball in a yellow sock looking like thing attached to his belt.  He then proceeds to run around campus until a seeker spots him and starts chasing him.  The game ends when the seeker can grab the yellow sock thing off of his belt.  

You must think that this is all too incredible to be true?  Or you just think that these people are just silly bordering on ridiculous.  Well let me tell you that there are actual tournaments for this.  Schools will compete with other schools...like Harvard and Princeton...  As you can see the Harry Potter world is spilling into the college scene.  You still don't believe me well I have video to prove it!  


Yes these matches even made it onto the news.  

My conclusion at the end of all this: these college students need GOD to come into them to be their life, enjoyment, and everything.  It's really quite simple, you should try it.  Just call out loud: O Lord Jesus!  The End.

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