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About a year ago, I found out about live-action Quidditch. Remember that sport from the books? With the brooms, the flying...things...and the golden flying thing? Or something. Let me repeat that. Apparently, there is a league...In the real world, that does live-action Quidditch. You are probably thinking to yourself, "How would they do that?" That, or you probably just don't care. I don't either, but I think its worth bringing up the futility of this "sport". In our real world, last I checked, we didn't have any magical crap that would allow us to do stuff like this. If we did, I'd probably be writing a completely different blog called "Live-Action Quidditch Gives Me More Joy Than Riding a Pink Dragon." But we don't.
How do they play this "sport"? When I first caught a video of it on Youtube, I didn't believe it was real. Aside from the fact that I didn't know what was going on half of the time, it highlighted the fact that there was an "Intercollegiate League". That means college...This "sport" is being played all of the country at some the finest institutions in our country. I honestly thought that this would be the last I'd see of it. Fast forward a few months at the Boston Common, I couldn't believe what I saw. You can guess. College students. Playing Quidditch. The whole game as described from the books. Minus sanity. And anything resembling the actual game itself, like the flying. Which will never happen, no matter how hard you clutch the broom between your legs. So many things were going on. Running drills. Throwing balls through hoops. Someone dressed up in all gold running around. Thats right. Someone who was willing to dress in all gold and run around and pretend to be the snitch. And be serious about it. No flying objects. No brooms. No magic. What the hell? When was this considered a good idea? Someone, or a group of someones, decided that reading and enjoying the books wasn't good enough. I can only picture how THAT conversation went:
Random College Kid 1 : Those Harry Potter books were some of the finest pieces of literature I have ever read.
Random College Kid 2: Indeed. I found them ever so engaging. But you know what was my favorite part of these facinating books that depicted such a struggle of youth and the battle of good vs. evil?
Random College Kid 1: The strong character developments?
Random College Kid 2: No, my good sir. Quidditch. That, my dear friend, should exist in real life.
Random College Kid 1: Oh yes. I can't see anything wrong with trying to make that real. We have brooms, grassy knolls and we can surely build the rest of the things we need. We have friends who can help us in this seemingly fantastical endeavor.
Random College Kid 2: Yes. We must do this as it will surely catch on and no one will ever make fun of us.
And so it was born. Remember being in college? Picture yourself, or rather someone random from school you knew, running around with a piece of wood between their legs, throwing balls and spazzing out. This is by far one of the most idiotic things I have witnessed. I understand that they wanted to create something fun and from what I gathered, they really do look like they're really enjoying themselves. That is surely commendable. For about 30 seconds. But you know what's also fun? Not playing Quidditch and playing a real sport. But there are college students who do it. From schools all over this area. And the country. And there are people who come see this. Oh yes. Did I mention that there are fans? And uniforms for the teams? What? Was there nothing to do that day in the city? Let me rephrase that. Was there nothing to do in the city that didn't require watching people flail about screaming magical obscenities at each other? I only wonder if there was one who realized that this was silly idea and was banned because he/she wasn't magical enough. Or they realized that they were right. I recommend you read that last paragraph again, in case you blacked out from the stupidity..
Freaking live-action Quidditch. I'm going to start reading "Game of Thrones" again.
