A Lovely Day for a Game of Quidditch

A student plays "keeper" and guards the goalposts.

Hogwarts week is over. Yesterday was the big finale, the annual Quidditch Match. The orange team and the white team came out in all their caped glory to fight it out for the Quidditch Cup

The referee and "The Golden Snitch"

Quidditch here in the "muggle" world is like a mixture of tag, dodge ball and ultimate Frisbee. You get points by tossing the Frisbee through the round goalposts but it you get hit with a "bludger" you have to turn the Frisbee over to the other team. All the while, a player wearing all yellow is running around as the snitch. Whoever tags him gets a lot of points and as I understand it most likely wins.


The game was pretty chaotic, but it was fun. I think the only way everyone could have looked sillier running around in their capes was if they actually had brooms between their legs. "That's how the hardcore people play" says Hannah Boresow one of the players for the orange team. Hannah's team took home the prize at the end of the game and their celebration could be heard throughout Collins.

Hogwarts week has come to a close, but I'm sure everyone at Collins will remember it fondly. Especially the members of the orange team who have secured their bragging rights until Hogwarts Week 2010 rolls around. I know I can't wait.