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You can look down and actually feel it. What it’d be like to fly up there. It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to real magic." Not only is this a rather garish way to make your protagonist look good, it makes the rest of the game totally irrelevant. Who cares about the quaffle? Why even bother with goalies and beaters and all the other Seussian bits and bobbles that comprise a Quidditch match? Just have two seekers chase a Snitch around until one of them catches it and call it a day. That’s all Quidditch really is. The rest is window-dressing.

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Cut it out entirely. Excise it. Make the Seeker the equivalent of a point guard. They’d play out front. They’re the fastest and best at lobbing the Quaffle through the Whatsit-thingy. Natural leader and all that. Harry could still be Very Good At Brooming. He could still Score The Winning Point. And we could all enjoy a fictional wizarding sport that actually makes sense. The Snitch ruins Quidditch. It’s an absolutely pointless game mechanic that’s only in the books to make Harry look good. Oh, Harry, you’re so fast on that broom, you were able to catch the Snitch before that mean old Slytherin! You won the game singlehandedly, Harry Potter, gosh gee aren’t you just the bees knees! This tattoo is a fun illustration of the Golden Snitch that any fan will definitely appreciate. The work of art, completed by Brittany Mater, is a fun portrayal of the Quaffle going into the hoops, which, of course, is what gains each team points. I invented the game of Quidditch after a huge row with the boyfriend I lived with in Manchester. I stormed out of the house, went to the pub - and invented Quidditch" ( Scot, 2002). I played around with words beginning with 'Q' for ages I don't know why 'Q', it was just a whim and then I came up with Quidditch and knew it was the one" ( CR).Writing by J K Rowling on Imgur ( Daily Prophet coverage of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, originally from Pottermore): But jumping — and hopefully throwing the Quaffle — through those hoops just might be worth it, because the best way to describe the experience of Seeker VR is that it's magical. While there have been other Harry Potter games, a VR version feels special because of its ability to transport you inside the world, where you become an active participant. AKA a wizard. When asked if it was based on a real game: "Completely new. In America they say it’s a game like soccer, and if you've ever seen a game of football anything like Quidditch then ... um ... no, I just made it up. I always want to see a game where there were four balls in play at once .. or more than one ball in play, I just thought it would be funny ... and violent and it is and so it just loads of fun to write and that's probably the thing in the film I'm most looking forward to seeing, because I've been watching this inside my head for so long" ( BP).

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This tattoo pays tribute to this magical sport as well as to another important element of the Harry Potter series. This tattoo shows a perfect illustration of the Golden Snitch, as well as an illustration of the symbol for the Deathly Hallows. Mashable is a registered trademark of Ziff Davis and may not be used by third parties without express written permission. Instead, anyone with enough technical know-how can find games that are experimental or still in development by using alternate content libraries and installation mechanisms. This is a practice called "sideloading." Some tech platforms — notably Apple— take a hard stance against sideloading. But it's ok on Facebook's Oculus for now, as long as you enable "Developer Mode," which requires confirming your identity with a credit code or phone number. Potter fans, there are some things to know before you go running to your Quest (or start planning to buy one). Seeker VR is an "unofficial" game in two ways, which means playing it requires jumping through some hoops. Multiplayer gameplay probably isn't in the cards for Seeker VR — it would require overhauling the game with even more advanced coding, and server hosting costs would be prohibitively expensive. But Team Eldritch is still working, and he said that playing with a virtual team against some AI opponents is more likely.Another element that makes the game feel real is sound. Team Eldritch himself "voiced" the spitting and hissing Bludgers, but the tech that powers Quest experiences allowed him to go much further. Oculus supports an "open source spatial audio plugin" that lets developers play to the way our brains process sound in three dimensions. Right well, if you want to create a game like Quidditch – what you have to do is have an enormous argument with your then boyfriend, you walk out of house, you sit down in pub and you invent Quidditch. I don’t really know what the connection is between the row and Quidditch except that Quidditch is quite a violent game and maybe in my deepest, darkest soul I’d like to have seen him hit by a 'bludger'" ( RAH). He's also hoping that the fact that the original game is no longer really playable will give him some legal leeway. Team Eldritch extended that philosophy to other media assets, too. The Quidditch fields and their famous towers and hoops are something that every fan of this series easily recognizes. This part of the Hogwarts grounds is perfectly portrayed in this cute and colorful tattoo. According to "Quidditch Through the Ages", the name "Quidditch" comes from Queerditch Marsh, the place where the game originated in the 1000s.