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 past
Most impressively, perhaps, the IQA has avoided the Voldemort-like wrath of Rowling’s lawyers, who tend to sue at the merest hint of copyright infringement.
“We’re a non-profit organisation,” Benepe explains, adding that he’s been in close contact with Warner Bros, which runs the Hollywood end of the franchise. “I don’t think she
[Rowling] has any interest in creating a real-life Quidditch league,” he laughs, a little uneasily.
Injuries are a growing problem, with last year’s World Cup resulting in six hospital visits for everything from concussion to broken ribs. Players have been known to display
horrific photographs of their battle scars on their Facebook pages.
“The worst I got was when somebody ran head-on into me, and I ended up with a broom-shaped bruise,” recalls Megan Shaw, a 19year-old psychology and criminology
student at Keele University in Staffordshire, who picked up the sport during a term at Old Dominion University in Virginia. “But you do tend to be more careful if you know
there’s a risk of impaling someone.”
Real-life Quidditch is perhaps best explained as a combination of two different games.
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