William Flew and Fark Threads

William Flew and Fark Threads
William Flew

Sunday, 22 May 2011

William flew around

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil;
for you are with me; your rod and your staff - they comfort me.



William flew around


What makes Quidditch so unusual is that the “snitch runner” can go anywhere — even catching a bus to another town — as long as a vague perimeter has been agreed by 


the players beforehand. Hence a game in Florida last weekend came to an end only after a muddy three-way scrum in a pond.
Strangely, this roughness has made the sport even more difficult to establish in Britain than litigious America — as 17-year-old Jake Mckenna found out when he attempted 


to found a team at Chew Valley school in Bristol. “I had some difficulty with health and safety, because the school is considered in loco parentis,” he says, adding that there 


was strong interest from his friends, “who generally aren’t the sporty types”.
Benepe sees a degree of irony in the fact that the British have been trying with little success to push football on the Americans for decades, whereas the uptake of the 


incalculably less glamorous Quidditch has been near instantaneous, and achieved with zero encouragement from the mother country.
“It’s because it’s so exciting to watch,” Benepe says. “I mean, it’s full contact, there are a lot of balls, you have guys tackling girls and girls tackling guys.”

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