Quidditch

Quidditch is a competitive sport in the wizarding realm of the Harry Potter Universe, featured in the series of novels and movies. Quidditch is a wizarding sport played on broomstick. It is an extremely rough but very popular semi-contact sport, played by wizards and witches. The game is played by two teams of seven people (three chasers, two beaters, one keepers, and one seeker) and involves four balls (a quaffle, two bludgers, and a golden snitch).

There are six elevated ring-shaped goals, three on each side of the Quidditch pitch. The Keeper guards the goal posts, while the three Chasers score goals with the Quaffle by tossing it into one of the opposing team's three goal posts. The two Beaters keep the Bludgers away from their team and hit the Bludgers towards the opposing team, and the Seeker catches the golden snitch to end the game. The team whose Seeker catches the Snitch is awarded 150 points, but this does not necessarily mean they will win if the other team still has more points after the Snitch is caught.

  

The object of the game is to score more points than your opponents. Each goal is worth ten points and catching the Snitch is worth one-hundred fifty points. The game ends when the Snitch is caught or an agreement is reached between the captains of both teams. Some games can go on for many days if the Snitch is not caught.

The game has been adopted in the real world in the form of Muggle Quidditch.

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