Running around in a cape after a ball with a broomstick between your legs may sound silly
Running around in a cape after a ball with a broomstick between your legs may sound silly.
But try telling that to the hundreds who invaded New York last weekend to reenact Harry Potter's magical game of quidditch.
Wannabe wizards converged on the Big Apple from all over the United States for the fourth annual Quidditch World Cup.
Even if they couldn't fly, and even if the winged, golden snitch ball from the books was reincarnated as an earthbound student wearing yellow, competition was every bit as fierce as in the mega-selling JK Rowling series.
"We don't take it too seriously," said Zach Doleac, a 20-year-old student from Middlebury College in Vermont, as his team prepared to defend its three consecutive championship titles.
On Sunday, after two days of games between 46 teams from colleges like Harvard, Yale and from as far away as Florida and Ohio, Middlebury kept their crown, defeating Tufts University in the final by 100 to 50.
The game resembles something like rugby, volleyball, lacrosse, basketball, dodgeball on brooms.
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