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The final Quidditch scene in the books appears in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Rowling experienced "fiendish glee" writing this scene, which features memorable commentary by Luna Lovegood. [3] Quidditch is introduced in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and is a regularly recurring feature throughout the first six books. It ...
Quidditch, [4] officially and commonly known as quadball since 2022, is a team sport that was created in 2005 at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, United States, and was inspired by the fictional game of the same name in the Harry Potter books by the author J. K. Rowling. [5]
The rules were adapted from author J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. [6] In 2007, Alex Benepe founded the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association. [ 8 ] In 2010 the name was changed to the International Quidditch Association , the year it hosted the first Quadball World Cup.
Quidditch, the real-life sport inspired by the game played by muggles, witches and wizards in the “Harry Potter” universe, has a new name: quadball. The sport’s governing bodies in the ...
In the biggest threat to Hogwarts tradition since Lord Voldemort, the game of Quidditch is undergoing a name change. The governing bodies of the real-life sport first profiled in J.K. Rowling’s ...
Two governing bodies of Quidditch, which is based on a magical game in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter," announced a new name for the sport: Quadball.
Quidditch Through the Ages is a 2001 book written by British author J. K. Rowling using the pseudonym of Kennilworthy Whisp about Quidditch in the Harry Potter universe.It purports to be the Hogwarts library's copy of the non-fiction book of the same name mentioned in several novels of the Harry Potter series.
Major League Quadball (MLQ), formerly Major League Quidditch, is an amateur quidditch league based in the United States and Canada. [1] [2] The league is composed of 15 city-based teams—13 in the U.S. and 2 in Canada.