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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