Harry Potter - Quidditch & sports - Pinz - (Geek Gear Discount Crate)
Quidditch is a fictional sport, created by author J. K. Rowling in her fantasy fiction series Harry Potter. The story of Harry Potter centers around wizards and witches studying their magical craft at Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Born out of the lore of witches using flying broomsticks for transportation, Quidditch was developed by the author as the most popular sport in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter; a complex game played completely in the air by players on flying broomsticks.
The objective of Quidditch, as with most sports, is to be the team that has gained the most points by the end of the match. Matches are played between two opposing teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls: a Quaffle, two Bludgers, and a Golden Snitch. Centered around the use of each ball, there are four positions: the Chasers and Keeper (who plays with the Quaffle), the Beaters (who play with the Bludgers), and the Seekers (who play with the Golden Snitch). Each team has three Chasers, one Keeper, two Beaters, and one Seeker. Matches are played on a large oval field called a "Pitch," with three ring-shaped goals of different heights on each side. It is an extremely rough but very popular semi-contact sport, played by wizards and witches. In the wizarding world, Quidditch has a fervent fan following.
Harry Potter plays an important and coveted position for his house team at Hogwarts: he is the Seeker. Regional and international Quidditch competitions are mentioned throughout the series. Throughout the fantasy fiction, Harry uses his Quidditch skills for gaining respect from his peers, connecting to his ancestry, and even uses them in his hero's quest to defeat the main antagonist of the series, Lord Voldemort. Aspects of the sport's history are revealed in Quidditch Through the Ages, a book published by J.K. Rowlingin 2001 to benefit Comic Relief.
A modified version of the game (without magic) has been adapted and is played in the real world in a number of countries. In this game the players still play with brooms, but run instead of flying. Nevertheless, the basic rules are the same.
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Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling. The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films, beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). A spin-offprequel series will consist of five films, starting with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). The Fantastic Beasts films mark the beginning of a shared media franchise known as J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series)
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A pin-back button or pinback button, pin button, button badge or simply pin-back or badge, is a button or badge that can be temporarily fastened to the surface of a garment using a safety pin, or a pin formed from wire, a clutch or other mechanism. This fastening mechanism is anchored to the back side of a button-shaped metal disk, either flat or concave, which leaves an area on the front of the button to carry an image or printed message. The word is commonly associated with a campaign button used in the United States and abroad during a political campaign. The first design for a pin-back button in the United States was patented in 1896, and contemporary buttons have many of the same design features.
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