Over the past several years we’ve reported on the rise in popularity of Quidditch being played at various Harry Potter gatherings and especially now at US universities. This week, the Middlebury College Quidditch club is taking the magical sport on the road with it’s Spring Break tour. This event has garnered media attention, as a recent match played at Princeton University was covered by outlets such as CBS, ESPN, and MTVU which filmed the event. TLC reader Rebecca emailed to say a report on this Quidditch tour and the game is due to be broadcast tomorrow morning on the CBS Early Show. UPDATE:CBS has now uploaded the video of this, which you can watch via this link.
WTG, This is great news I hope that more people try it. ( without hospitalizing themselves as they do in the books) For those who can swim “water quidditch” is great fun.
There is a specific reason why they played at Princeton: that is where the first college football and college frisbee games were played (both times, Rutgers vs Princeton), and the rules of the games were established. So, what we should be hearing next is the establishment of an official Quidditch League with set rules (instead of campus intramural teams/clubs with differing rules, which is the current state of things)
Carla, I’m a college teacher…I’m just delighted to see students with enthusaism for anything constructive! And obvsiously, we’re talking about college students who actually read books! Hey, great stuff, this HP world!
The Harry Potter Club at Penn State University plays Quidditch, as well, though we aren’t involved with Middlebury. (IMHO, the rules we use are better.) A thought for anyone contemplating coming to Penn State!
That is Hi-larious!! The best is the guy in the yellow suit running around as the snitch. I’d never seen quidditch played by muggles – only pics. That’s just awesome. WTG
I read in some interview that JK invented quidditch after a sports argument with a friend or her then husband (don’t really remember that part) and that she had come out angry or something so she ended up inventing her own sport with her own rules and what have you.
I bet that the day JK came up with it, she never, ever, EVER in the EVERS figured it would be played someday in the nearby future at american colleges.
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I really hope they have Quidditch at whatever college I choose!