Queerditch Marsh is the place where the game of Quidditch originated. Eight hundred years ago, a group of witches and wizards used an damp stretch of nettle-filled ground called Queerditch Marsh as a place to play a new game they had invented.
This game involved broomsticks and a “big leather ball.” Soon they added a couple of heavy rocks, bewitched to try to knock players off their brooms. The whole business was observed by a witch named Gertie Keddle who wrote about what she saw, in badly spelled Saxon, in her diary.
Over the centuries that followed, the sport evolved and changed, and though the spelling of its name changed, it was always a homage to its birthplace. Eventually “Queerditch” became “Quidditch” and all but took over the wizarding world. Queerditch Marsh itself has since been made Unplottable, and Gertie Keddle’s diary is now in the Museum of Quidditch in London.
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Wizarding World | United Kingdom
Ngẫu nhiênComplete and accurate, this book provides places which are part of the Wizarding World located in UK. Though part of the United Kingdom, separate books will be made exclusively for all the places in the Wizarding World located in London (England) an...
