Quidditch Is A Real Sport. Get Used To It.

This weekend I flocked to the very creepy island of Randall's for some Quidditch World Cup action. Tickets for this popped up on Amazondeals one day and I said to myself "what the hell is this?! I totally need to find out what these weirdos are doing!" So, I bought them. And I wasn't disappointed. Quidditch is my new favorite sport. It's something you can't explain to someone. You really just need to see it. So, we went and we saw and we tried to figure out what was going on. It's just like the book, except (obviously) they are on the ground and not flying on brooms. I mean, if they were, they probably could've charged more for the tickets cuz that's some amazing shit!

There are the chasers, the seekers and the beaters. Some quaffles and a snitch. The snitch was the most entertaining part of the whole game. The snitch is a guy dressed in yellow with a velcroed tail. Their main occupation is to get chased around by two seekers. I wouldn't sign up for that job ever. I think they volunteer for the positon too! We saw a snitch dressed in a jersey a couple hours later. The game on a whole is quite physical. It's like rugby...with a broom. There's no padding, they get tackled,run back and forth constantly, and have to catch a ball with one hand and throw it in hoops with one arm. It's pretty awesome.

I also had a taste of my first Butterbeer. It was delicious. It's kind of like a warm caramel drink. Now I know why those Hogwarts kids couldn't sit still. There was less nerdiness there than I expected to see. These teams (which consist of mostly colleges with a sprinkle of high schoolers and random local teams) ran drills, stretched together and took a bitch down when it was needed without a shred of guilt.
There was merchandise to be bought (most of which was sold out by the time we got there at 1pm on Sunday), a fire-eater and death metal bands that sung Harry Potter themed songs. There's a rockin' song about Diagon Alley that I haven't gotten out of my head for the last two days.

Overall, I would totally do it again! It's held in a different place every year, so I'm really excited to travel for Quidditch next year! And, now I have a plan for my future kids. Cuz if they thought I was paying for their college, they're sadly mistaken. They will be working from the age of 7 for a Quidditch scholarship to Harvard.