Quidditch 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

  People, Desert, Sahara

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• Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

  J. K. Rowling

  Sports, School, Important

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• George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Team, Trying, Bumps

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• He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world

  J. K. Rowling

  Sports, Sleep, Class

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• Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.

  J. K. Rowling

  Winning, Thinking, Long

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• Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Taken, Player

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• Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down.

  J. K. Rowling

  Play, England, Hagrid

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• You always know when one of the first ["Harry Potter" movies] are on TV, because you'll get a text message from one of your friends saying, "How high was your voice?" It's like watching a home movie, in some sense. But you just remember because the audience sees the scenes as they're written, but we remember shooting [the scenes] and all the stories that came around it. Like the Quidditch World Cup in ["Harry Potter and the] Goblet of Fire," it's like the Glastonbury Festival at Leavesden [Studios].

  James Phelps

  Home, Fire, Voice

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• Warrington’s aim’s so pathetic I’d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Next, Worried, Aim

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• I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.

  Megan McCafferty

  Girl, Running, Silly

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• Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.

  Megan McCafferty

  Taken, Cutting, Progress

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