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Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library) QUOTES

Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library) QUOTES

1 " Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

2 " Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

3 " The club motto was changed in 1972 from “We shall conquer” to “Let’s all just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.” Falmouth "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

4 " Club motto: “Let us win, but if we cannot win, let us break a few heads.” Holyhead "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

5 " Guthrie Lochrin, a Scottish wizard writing in 1107, spoke of the 'splinter-filled buttocks and bulging piles' he suffered after a short broom ride from Montrose to Arbroath. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

6 " The Harpies’ defeat of the Heidelberg Harriers in 1953 is widely agreed to have been one of the finest Quidditch games ever seen. Fought over a seven-day period, the game was brought to an end by a spectacular Snitch capture by the Harpy Seeker Glynnis Griffiths. The Harriers’ Captain Rudolf Brand famously dismounted from his broom at the end of the match and proposed marriage to his opposite number, Gwendolyn Morgan, who concussed him with her Cleansweep Five. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

7 " The most successful Japanese team, the Toyohashi Tengu, narrowly missed a win over Lithuania’s Gorodok Gargoyles in 1994. The Japanese practice of ceremonially setting fire to their brooms in case of defeat is, however, frowned upon by the International Confederation of Wizards’ Quidditch Committee as being a waste of good wood. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

8 " Records show that witches and wizards in Europe were using flying broomsticks as early as A.D. 962. A German illuminated manuscript of this period shows three warlocks dismounting from their brooms with looks of exquisite discomfort on their faces. Guthrie Lochrin, a Scottish wizard writing in 1107, spoke of the “splinterfilled buttocks and bulging piles” he suffered after a short broom ride from Montrose to Arbroath. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

9 " I've read worse.'
Rita Skeeter, Daily Prophet "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

10 " The full list of these fouls, however, has never been made available to the wizarding public. It is the Department's view that witches and wizards who see the list 'might get ideas'. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

11 " Our Chasers Aren’t Cheating! That was the stunned reaction of Quidditch fans across Britain last night when the so-called “Stooging Penalty” was announced by the Department of Magical Games and Sports last night. “Instances of stooging have been on the increase,” said a harassed-looking Departmental representative last night. “We feel that this new rule will eliminate the sever Keeper injuries we have been seeing only too often. From now on, one Chaser will attempt to beat the Keeper, as opposed to three Chasers beating the Keeper up. Everything will be much cleaner and fairer.” At this point the Departmental representative was forced to retreat as the angry crowd started to bombard him with Quaffles. Wizards from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement arrived to disperse the crowd, who were threatening to stooge the Minister of Magic himself. One freckle-faced six-year-old left the hall in tears. “I loved stooging,” he sobbed to the Daily Prophet. “Me and me dad like watching them Keepers flattened. I don’t want to go to Quidditch no more.” Daily Prophet, 22 June 1884 "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

12 " While there have been no proven referee slayings since, there have been several incidences of broom-tampering over the centuries, the most dangerous being the transformation of the referee’s broom into a Portkey, so that he or she is whisked away from the match halfway through and turns up months later in the Sahara Desert. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

13 " Oh, the thrill of the chase as I soar through the air With the Snitch up ahead and the wind in my hair As I draw ever closer, the crowd gives a shout But then comes a Bludger and I am knocked out. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

14 " Quidditch unites witches and wizards from all walks of life, bringing us together to share moments of exhilaration, triumph and (for those who support the Chudley Cannons) despair. It was with some difficulty, I must own, that I persuaded Madam Pince to part with one of her books so that it might be copied for wider consumption. Indeed, when I told her it was to be made available to Muggles, she was rendered temporarily speechless and neither moved nor blinked for several minutes. When she came to herself she was thoughtful enough to ask whether I had taken leave of my senses. I was pleased to reassure her on that point and went on to explain why I had taken this unprecedented decision. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

15 " Agatha Chubb, expert in ancient wizarding artefacts, has identified no fewer than twelve lead Bludgers dating from this period, discovered both in Irish peat bogs and English marshes. "They are undoubtedly Bludgers rather than cannonballs," she writes. The faint indentations of magically reinforced Beaters' bats are visible and one can see the distinctive hallmarks of manufacture by a wizard (as opposed to a Muggle) - the smoothness of line, the perfect symmetry. A final clue was the fact that each and every one of them whizzed around my study and attempted to knock me to the floor when released from its case, "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

16 " the transfiguration of a Chaser into a polecat, the attempted decapitation of a Keeper with a broadsword, and the release, from under the robes of the Transylvanian Captain, of a hundred blood-sucking vampire bats. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

17 " The club motto was changed in 1972 from “We shall conquer” to “Let’s all just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

18 " I would advise you to buy it, because if you read too long without handing over money you will find yourself the object of the Thief's Curse "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

19 " Let us win, but if we cannot win, let us break a few heads. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)

20 " She suggested several alternatives, such as telling the people from Comic Relief and Lumos that the library had burned down, or simply pretending that I had dropped dead without leaving instructions. When I told her that on the whole I preferred my original plan, she reluctantly agreed to hand over the book, though at the point when it came to let go of it, her nerve failed her and I was forced to prise her fingers individually from the spine. "

― J.K. Rowling , Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)