Muggle Quidditch
Anne
anneu53714 at sbcglobal.net
Sat May 31 04:18:10 UTC 2003
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Ripleywriter at a... wrote:
>
> > Or, does anyone have any information they themselves can share to
> > the opposite point of my article: the "actual" dangers (which are
> > mostly directly related to faulty parenting) of Harry Potter.
Such
> > as...knowing a child who got the idea to try to create a magic
> > potion from the HP books and had to go to the hospital for
> > ingesting poison of some kind.
>
> I hate to say anything that could give aid and comfort to the
> Harry-haters, but ... some years ago, an allegedly grown-up (17
> IIRC) member of the main list and her siblings became fond of
> playing 'Quidditch' by jumping onto an outdoor trampoline from a
> second-floor (I guess that would be first-floor to Brits) balcony
> with a broom between their legs and trying to catch a ball thrown
at
> them by a non-jumping person while bouncing ...
Welll.... the jumping out of a second-story window doesn't sound very
smart. My daughter and I "play Qudditch" but we do it a different and
safer way. We sit on the swings in our yard and swing back and forth
and pass a Nerf football between us (all the while I'm doing running
commentary a la Lee Jordan) and occasionally one of us will throw
the "Quaffle" over a part of the swing set and we shout "Gryffindor
scores!" (Note, we are always Gryffindor :-)
Anne U
(anybody have any good noms de plume for fan fiction writers? I need
one)
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