*★* WATTPAD FRIENDS AND FAMILY, WATTPAD FEATURED STORY & 2017 WATTYS WINNER!! *★* Preceded by rumors of their prophetic birth, pure-blood twins, Fred and George Weasley, follow in the footsteps of their three older brothers by attending a school for...
Hope you're liking the book thus far. As you can tell by the title of Chapter 13, we're mere days away from witnessing Fred and George's debut on the Quidditch pitch! Now, you may have been asking yourselves already how the game will be as enjoyable to read from the twins' point of view — Beaters are hardly as glorified as Seekers — but I would be quick to remind you that Quidditch was almost always a device that J.K. Rowling (JKR) implemented to move the plot forward and to break up the repetitiveness of lessons through a bit of suspense, whimsy, and adventure.
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Although this novel was written fifteen years ago, I can warmly recall my first days of envisioning Quidditch. If I'm remembering correctly, I had to go back and cut a few thousand words because I'd so enjoyed working through all the intricacies of the game on the first go-round. As with everything I wrote in the wizarding world, I tried as best I could to replicate the feel of Quidditch so that my conceptualization of the game with Fred and George would harmonize perfectly with what my readers had experienced in Harry's books. And, before long, Quidditch became my favorite scenes to write!
Although I tend to keep elements from J.K. Rowling's tweets and interviews (JKR-Canon) out of my original source novels (OS-Canon), I thought it was interesting to note that JKR reaffirmed in a tweet this week that she had first imagined Quidditch while in Manchester, UK.
Going back to an interview from 2013, she stated that this mixture of lacrosse, rugby, and dodgeball "was invented in a small hotel in Manchester after a row with my then boyfriend. I had been pondering the things that hold a society together, cause it to congregate, and signify its particular character, and knew I needed a sport."
And what a sport she created!
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Since Potterheads are the best fans on the planet, you can't be surprised to learn that this fictional activity has now become an actual sport (underground though it may be, at present)! And while I have yet to watch a game, or play in one myself, I've heard it's absolute fun — even in the absence of enchanted balls and flying broomsticks. I mean, how couldn't it be fun? Some of the best content from the books and movies came from Quidditch, when the main characters were thrust into unexpected physical struggles that mirrored the enigmatic conflicts and personal difficulties they were experiencing off the field.
I recall being pretty disappointed when Quidditch took a back seat in the later novels, so I was eager to perfect my own scenes. Isn't that really why Fanfiction exists in the first place? We, as story lovers, long to invent new realities, to regain something that is missing from our favorite fictional worlds, or to reimagine existing events with our own interpretation. What could be more fun than that?
If you liked how the Quidditch matches were "played" in JKR's original novels, I think you'll appreciate the way I've written them in this book, and the ones to follow!
Back to the story, Quidditch fans!
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