Quidditch looking for a new name "to distance themselves" from JKR

Also the game can go for days and days with people getting hurt so I guess sometimes you would just want to be finished with it win or lose. I do seem to remember Wood being over the top with Harry in one book and insisting that he not catch the snitch unless they are an appropriate amount of points up so they are able to move up the league.

That’s proper quidditch. In muggle quidditch I imagine you catch the snitch and end the game as soon as possible so nobody sees you pretending to play quidditch in the park.

Sorry thats my suggestion for the new name 😂

Bawbag!

[quote Waitwhat23]@GreenWhiteViolet In the Goblet of Fire, Krum purposely catches the Snitch despite not having enough points to win because the Irish side are just too good and he wants to lose on his own terms.[/quote]
Interesting! It's far too many years since I read the books. That makes a bit more sense now.

One a link to his band's website featuring their song 'Fukdapolice'.

@GreenWhiteViolet In the Goblet of Fire, Krum purposely catches the Snitch despite not having enough points to win because the Irish side are just too good and he wants to lose on his own terms.

Nick Ferraro on LBC this morning:
www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/uk/episodes/2zGmvutgLNXJGRrrZHiemDGY3T/

From 2:38:39 onwards

Made me laugh!

It's all ridiculous. The 'gender' riles. People are running around with sticks between their legs pretending they can fly and calling it a sport. I'm fond of nerdy things like D&D but this is going much too far even for me.

I was once part of a fandom group that tried to ban anything to do with JKR but had no problem with certain popular male authors from the first half of the 20th century whose views would be very unacceptable now. I left. I don't agree with banning anyone, but the sexist hypocrisy made it even worse.

Sidenote: why would a team catch the snitch when they're more than 150 points down? Unless they're losing by about 500 points and want to put the game out of its misery - but if there's not too big a gap, surely you'd want to avoid catching it until doing so would get you the win?

Running around a field, with ‘broomsticks’ between your legs, a ball in an old sock attached to your backside and maximum gender rules, sounds very Pythonesque. They’ll probably want to distance themselves from John Cleese too, I’d imagine.

Another sent us a link to his latex insect mask modelling website.

I'd be very careful how I rejected that one.

WTF @PenguindreamsofDraco I can't imagine the interview which there would be just for fun some places.

Matt Bateman, president of QuidditchUK

Imagine that on a CV. Fuck.

I joined my university team thinking it would be a bunch of HP fans having a laugh. Turns out they took it really seriously, so I got the T-shirt and never went back

I posted a thread here about it years ago when they announced that trans women counted as women under the gender rules. There was a trans woman on my team, who’d turn up in fishnet tights under denim shorts when everyone else was in sporting gear. I can only imagine what people would have said if a woman did that.

@Kanaloa, no, they were referring to the original game, as I checked and the 'muggle' game only gives 35 points for the Snitch... (not a geek, really )

@Horizons83

To be absolutely fair if the snitch is attached to a guy in a yellow shirt it’s probably quite easy to catch so I imagine in grass pitch quidditch the catcher of the snitch is usually the winner of the game. Maybe that article was specifically referring to ground quidditch?

Otherwise surely they’d have mentioned the iconic Viktor Krum performance at age only 18.

I KNOW this is not the point of any of this discussion, but this has wound me up (from the BBC article):

The team with the most points at the end wins, unless one side locates and catches the Golden Snitch which scores them an unassailable game-winning 150 points.

No, catching the Golden Snitch does not give an unassailable score! Of course it doesn't. I've seen this incorrectly stated so many times. Even in the bloody books the World Cup final ended with the Snitch being captured by the losing team.

Arghhh!

Sorry, pedant rant over.

This has to be the ultimate illustration of male privilege.
Woman invents game involving broomstick flying for children’s story.
Woman makes millions of pounds from story.
Men start playing game for real.
Men change fictional game’s name to dissociate themselves from female author/inventor.
This is reported as a serious story.

They could even produce the noodles in Hogwarts house colours. Editorial note, No they couldn’t , you have clearly misunderstood the whole issue.