"A warning: If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them. "
- Irma Pince, Hogwarts Librarian
Noted ma'am.
I obviously had to read this book because I'm planning on trying out for the quidditch team 'Holyhead Harpies' (I'm NOT kidding).
Here are some fascinating things I learnt about quidditch:
* Apparently before the quaffle was invented , they used inflated bladders of goat( okay that's weird).
*The goalposts used back then were baskets instead of hoops.
*A small bird called a snidget was used instead of a snitch back then. The game was won once you caught and killed the snidget. The M.O.M banned this because.... ANIMAL ABUSE!!
*Quidditch was first played at a place called Queerditch marsh and the players were referred to as numbskulls by the onlookers . (oof)
"Oh the thrill of the chase as I soar through the air,
with the snitch up ahead and the wind in my hair.
As I draw ever closer the crowd gives a shout,
But then comes a Bludger and I am knocked out. "
Haha so anyway I have to go. I've got team trials now. I'm trying out to be a beater , wish me luck ;)
After having said all this, why did I give this three stars? I don't know.