From Hogwarts to Strixhaven

Quidditch is a rather irrational sport.

Ivy understood it when he first read about it in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as a child.

Although playing on a flying broom is indeed cool, this is not why Ivy likes Quidditch.

The rules of Quidditch are simple to say. The oval field is divided into two teams, each team occupies a half of the field, and there are goals for the two teams at the tip of the oval.

There are three goals, each with different heights. As long as the Quaffle is thrown into the goal, it counts as a score, 10 points per time.

That's all the settings of the field.

Quidditch is a ball sport after all, so the ball is also indispensable in Quidditch.

In addition to the Quaffle mentioned above, Quidditch also needs two other balls - the Golden Snitch and the Bludger.

In a Quidditch game, there are two Bludgers in total. They are iron balls with a diameter of about 6 inches, or 15 cm, slightly smaller than a football, and are cast with flying magic that can automatically track the players riding on the broom. They will fly in the air restlessly, constantly trying to interfere with the players' movements and trying to knock them off their brooms.

The last one is the Golden Snitch, which can be regarded as the most important part of Quidditch. Because only when the Golden Snitch is caught in the game does it mean the end of a game, otherwise a Quidditch game may last for several months.

It is a metal sphere painted gold, the size of a walnut, with a pair of silver wings, which can fly flexibly in the air. Although for magic, floating and flying can be completed without wings, the Golden Snitch is originally intended to replace a magical creature called the Golden Snitch, so it is equipped with silver wings with symbolic meaning.

At the same time, in order to distinguish the first player who touches the Golden Snitch, each Golden Snitch is enchanted, and it can remember the skin of the first person who touches it. To ensure this, a Golden Snitch will be re-activated for each Quidditch game, and they have never been touched by anyone's skin before they are launched, not even the craftsmen who make them, because the craftsmen wear gloves when working.

In order to distinguish it from the Bludger and the Snitch, the Quaffle is a leather ball painted red, similar in size to a soccer ball, but since it is a flying sport, it is also enchanted. Although it cannot fly automatically like the first two balls, the Quaffle is cast with a "grasping spell" to facilitate players riding broomsticks at high speed to easily catch it. In addition, the Quaffle is also attached with a "slowing fall spell", which ensures that it will not fall quickly after being thrown out by careless players, so that the game can proceed smoothly without multiple restarts.

At this point, the pitch and ball used in Quidditch have been introduced. Next is the position and responsibilities of each player.

A Quidditch team on the field consists of a total of seven people. There is a goalkeeper who is responsible for guarding the three hoops, a seeker who is responsible for catching the Snitch and ending the game, two beaters who are responsible for holding a bat to deal with two Bludgers, and three seekers who are responsible for competing for the Quaffle and scoring.

Everyone in the team must do their job and concentrate on their work. In other words, they cannot touch the ball other than the target they are dealing with.

Well, now that you have read this, I believe you have thoroughly understood the rules of Quidditch, right? Then quickly ride on the flying broom and have an exciting Quidditch game with your friends!

What? No venue? Just find an open space and use magic to create three circles as the ball frame!

What? No partners? To be honest, are you really a student of Hogwarts? Don't they like to act in groups the most? Use the four colleges to classify, and you can always find partners!

What? No flying broom? Are you really a wizard? Affordable flying brooms can also be used to play Quidditch? You are not a Muggle, are you? Don't be kidding, then all the things I just said are in vain?

Ivy closed the "Easy Start, Quidditch Quick Manual" and sighed silently in his heart.

It's really a very simple rule.

Apart from the basic introduction, this quick manual does not even list the fouls. Compared with all the Muggle sports, Quidditch, which wizards love, is too "free".

According to the records of the Department of Magical Games and Sports, there are a total of 700 Quidditch fouls. However, the details of these fouls have never been made public to the general public in the magical world (in the view of the Department of Magical Games and Sports, wizards who see this list "may get inspiration").

In other words, the referee is very important in a Quidditch game. He can almost influence the progress of the game by himself. After all, no one knows clearly what is a real foul. Even the players in the game are the same.

Not only that, there is only one rule about magic in Quidditch games, which is that wands are not allowed to be used. To be precise, "wands shall not be used against the opposing team." In other words, if you want, you can even add a levitation spell to all the players to reduce the weight in the hope that the flying broom will gain more power; or apply a protective spell to the players to prevent the opponent's bludger attack.

For Ivy, this rule simply does not limit his ability to cast spells. After all, in most cases, he can cast spells without relying on his wand. And now that he has the "Gaze Spell", he can prepare the 2nd-level spell "Human Immobilization" in his two eyes in advance, and only need to look at each other to make the opponent's body fall off the broom. Or the 1st-level "Suggestion" is also good, making two players of the opponent team turn sides instantly. If it is a goalkeeper, wouldn't it be equivalent to having countless opportunities for empty goals?

Even if no magic is used, Ivy still has countless tactics that can easily win. Because compared with football and basketball, which are popular in the Muggle world, the wizards' Quidditch is too simple.

One of the most important points is holding the ball.

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As the main goal of attacking and scoring, Quidditch does not stipulate the holding time of the chaser. Basketball requires hitting the floor once every three steps, and soccer cannot even be run without kicking the ball out with your feet first.

Quidditch, which uses flying brooms to move in the air, does not stipulate how long the chaser can hold the ball. This means that as long as your broom is good enough, you can even fly the Quaffle around the field forever!

In fact, this is exactly the case. In the 1994 Quidditch World Cup, the Irish team, equipped with Firebolts, won a comprehensive victory thanks to the advantage of flying brooms. Even if Viktor Krum finally caught the Golden Snitch, he was unable to reverse the decline, because before he found the Golden Snitch, the Irish team had already had an advantage of more than 150 points.