Quidditch Through the Ages Quotes

“Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“I've read worse.'
Rita Skeeter, Daily Prophet”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“The club motto was changed in 1972 from “We shall conquer” to “Let’s all just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.” Falmouth”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Club motto: “Let us win, but if we cannot win, let us break a few heads.” Holyhead”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“The full list of these fouls, however, has never been made available to the wizarding public. It is the Department's view that witches and wizards who see the list 'might get ideas'.”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Our Chasers Aren’t Cheating! That was the stunned reaction of Quidditch fans across Britain last night when the so-called “Stooging Penalty” was announced by the Department of Magical Games and Sports last night. “Instances of stooging have been on the increase,” said a harassed-looking Departmental representative last night. “We feel that this new rule will eliminate the sever Keeper injuries we have been seeing only too often. From now on, one Chaser will attempt to beat the Keeper, as opposed to three Chasers beating the Keeper up. Everything will be much cleaner and fairer.” At this point the Departmental representative was forced to retreat as the angry crowd started to bombard him with Quaffles. Wizards from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement arrived to disperse the crowd, who were threatening to stooge the Minister of Magic himself. One freckle-faced six-year-old left the hall in tears. “I loved stooging,” he sobbed to the Daily Prophet. “Me and me dad like watching them Keepers flattened. I don’t want to go to Quidditch no more.” Daily Prophet, 22 June 1884”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“I would advise you to buy it, because if you read too long without handing over money you will find yourself the object of the Thief's Curse”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“While there have been no proven referee slayings since, there have been several incidences of broom-tampering over the centuries, the most dangerous being the transformation of the referee’s broom into a Portkey, so that he or she is whisked away from the match halfway through and turns up months later in the Sahara Desert.”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Whether you come back by page or the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Let us win, but if we cannot win, let us break a few heads.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“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.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Quidditch unites witches and wizards from all walks of life, bringing us together to share moments of exhilaration, triumph and (for those who support the Chudley Cannons) despair. It was with some difficulty, I must own, that I persuaded Madam Pince to part with one of her books so that it might be copied for wider consumption. Indeed, when I told her it was to be made available to Muggles, she was rendered temporarily speechless and neither moved nor blinked for several minutes. When she came to herself she was thoughtful enough to ask whether I had taken leave of my senses. I was pleased to reassure her on that point and went on to explain why I had taken this unprecedented decision.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“I’ve read worse.” — Rita Skeeter, Daily Prophet”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“By buying this book-and I would advise you to buy it, because if you read it for too long with out handing over money you will find yourself the object of a Thief's Curse- you too will be contributing to this magical mission.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Please be careful how you treat this book. Do not rip out the pages.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“the transfiguration of a Chaser into a polecat, the attempted decapitation of a Keeper with a broadsword, and the release, from under the robes of the Transylvanian Captain, of a hundred blood-sucking vampire bats.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“I've read worse.”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Agatha Chubb, expert in ancient wizarding artefacts, has identified no fewer than twelve lead Bludgers dating from this period, discovered both in Irish peat bogs and English marshes. "They are undoubtedly Bludgers rather than cannonballs," she writes. The faint indentations of magically reinforced Beaters' bats are visible and one can see the distinctive hallmarks of manufacture by a wizard (as opposed to a Muggle) - the smoothness of line, the perfect symmetry. A final clue was the fact that each and every one of them whizzed around my study and attempted to knock me to the floor when released from its case,”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Rules are of course “made to be broken.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“The Harpies’ defeat of the Heidelberg Harriers in 1953 is widely agreed to have been one of the finest Quidditch games ever seen. Fought over a seven-day period, the game was brought to an end by a spectacular Snitch capture by the Harpy Seeker Glynnis Griffiths. The Harriers’ Captain Rudolf Brand famously dismounted from his broom at the end of the match and proposed marriage to his opposite number, Gwendolyn Morgan, who concussed him with her Cleansweep Five.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“The Harrier's Captain, Rudolf Brand, famously dismounted from his broom at the end of the match and proposed marriage to his opposite number, Gwendolyn Morgan, who concussed him with her Cleansweep Five.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Dear Olaf, How are you? I am well, though Gunhilda has got a touch of dragon pox. We enjoyed a spirited game of Kwidditch last Saturday night, though poor Gunhilda was not up to playing Catcher, and we had to use Radulf the blacksmith instead. The team from Ilkley played well though was no match for us, for we had been practising hard all month and scored forty-two times. Radulf got a Blooder in the head because old Ugga wasn’t quick enough with his club. The new scoring barrels worked well. Three at each end on stilts, Oona from the inn gave us them. She let us have free mead all night because we won as well. Gunhilda was a bit angry I got back so late. I had to duck a couple of nasty jinxes but I’ve got my fingers back now. I’m sending this with the best owl I’ve got, hope he makes it. Your cousin, Goodwin”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“Tuesday. Windy. Gwenog came for nettle tea, then invited me out for a treat. Ended up watching those numbskulls playing their game on the marsh. That big Scottish warlock from up the hill was there. Now they’ve got two big heavy rocks flying around trying to knock them all off their brooms. Unfortunately didn’t happen while I was watching. Gwenog told me she often played herself. Went home in disgust.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“She suggested several alternatives, such as telling the people from Comic Relief and Lumos that the library had burned down, or simply pretending that I had dropped dead without leaving instructions. When I told her that on the whole I preferred my original plan, she reluctantly agreed to hand over the book, though at the point when it came to let go of it, her nerve failed her and I was forced to prise her fingers individually from the spine.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“En Alemania encontramos a los Heidelberg Harriers, que”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch a través de los tiempos: Harry Potter Libro de la Biblioteca Hogwarts (Un libro de la biblioteca de Hogwarts nº 2)

“derrotaron a los Heidelberg Harriers pasa por ser uno de los mejores partidos de quidditch que se hayan visto nunca.”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch a través de los tiempos: Harry Potter Libro de la Biblioteca Hogwarts (Un libro de la biblioteca de Hogwarts nº 2)

“Quiberon Quafflepunchers”
― Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through the Ages

“The four brothers and three sisters were by all accounts a formidable team who rarely lost a match, partly, it is said, because of the intimidation felt by opposing teams at the sight of Walter standing on the sidelines with a wand in one hand and a meat cleaver in the other.”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages

“The club supporters’ old practice of shooting arrows into the air from their wands every time their Chasers scored was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894, when one of these weapons pierced the referee Nugent Potts through the nose.”
― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages