Quidditch

asleep. Percy having claimed a couch for himself was drooling slightly when Annabeth silently walked over to him and shoved him of the couch once more. Piper was a much lighter sleeper than Percy and simply required a gentle nudge before she was awake. The Stolls weren’t actually asleep as it turned out, they instead been pretending to sleep so they wouldn’t have to workout and could instead plan new pranks. Nico, ironically slept like the dead and it took the Stolls producing one of their pranking items that made a large alarm sound to wake him up. After everyone was done yelling at each other, mostly Nico and the Stolls, the group made their way down to the Quidditch pitch, which was about the size of a American Football field and perfect for running laps. After a few laps the group reconvened at the edge of the Quidditch pitch, each slightly out of breath and holding a water bottle Annabeth had made sure that each of them had one. Out of all of them Nico, the Stolls, and Leo were probably the most winded. Annabeth, Percy, Jason, Piper, and Thalia all got regular exercise and trained nearly every day. After they had more or less recovered from their jogging they group decided to do a few hand to hand combat drills, which mainly consisted of Leo and Nico, who were the least experienced with fighting without a weapon getting their buts kicked, sometimes literally. Annabeth, Percy, and Thalia were the most experienced in the hand to hand combat area, with Jason close behind.…

The norms and traditions of sport still reinforce and perpetuate notions of hegemonic masculinity, and for women who want to play in these sports, they are either given supportive roles in coed sports or must play the sports with all women teams, which can turn away female participants. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of the coed aspect of the sport of quidditch on its participants, and to determine how the structure and rules of the sport influenced participants’ attitudes…

This paper will mainly be connecting Durkheim’s ideas of social solidarity and collective consciousness with the movie. There are three symbols in this movie that create a group identity and that is: the wand, the sorting hat, and the quidditch game. These symbols and rituals exemplify the various…

remember when the last Harry Potter book released. I was still in elementary school. Many of my friends and their siblings were camping out in the mall waiting to buy the book. Though I couldn’t join them (my parents thought it was crazy for a rising fourth grader to camp out for anything, let alone a book), it was the first time I felt a connection with people through the books. That summer marked an important part of my childhood and a key fact to my identification: I, Jasmine Shabazz, am a…

the 4th Harry Potter book, the goblet of fire. In the beginning Harry’s at the Dursley’s and he has a dream that there’s an old man that attends to a garden. He’s asleep, but he wakes up and goes in the other room, and is killed by Lord Voldemort. Harry wakes up and his scar is hurting. He goes down for breakfast and the Dursley’s get a letter from the Weasley’s asking if Harry could go to the Quidditch World Cup. The post card had 40 post stamps on it, the Dursleys said yes. The Wesley’s tried…

In Prisoner of Azkaban the Quidditch matches are huge plot points in which Harry finds out he’s weak against the dementors which leads him to learn the Patronus Charm. Harry’s loss of the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff Quidditch game leads him to a rocky start with Cedric Diggory in the beginning of Goblet of Fire, but in the movie adaptation of Goblet of Fire Harry and Cedric start off as good friends. People may think that the games aren’t important but they are. In the Sorcerer’s Stone Snape, the…

the famous book Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, a wizarding school called Hogwarts chose Harry. At Hogwarts he is sorted into a group of young witches and wizards who have the same values as he does. He then joins the wizarding world’s most popular sport, Quidditch, with some of the other wizards. Later he becomes part of the Order of Pheonix, a group that is fighting against the main antagonist; Lord Voldemort. These are all discourse communities that Harry is part of.…

Bravery has always been a very important trait. Evolutionarily speaking, bravery is what has allowed our species to survive. The importance of bravery is indisputable but the necessity of bravery to achieve a better life can be debated on. In this essay, I will examine the rituals performed in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone directed by Chris Columbus to prove that bravery is absolutely essential in order to achieve an overall better live. By examining Harry’s first Quidditch match and the…

replaces Vernon's cruelty with Hagrid's over-the-top kindness. Second creation: Draco. Draco is Harry's first attempt to create a best friend, an image of himself as wealthy and wanted in this new fantasy world. Draco has Dudley's hair because, like Dudley, he is unconditionally loved by his parents (a fantasy aspect that proves too difficult for Harry to reconcile). Draco is pale and skinny, moderately good at magic, very good at Quidditch, heir to a lot of money, and the leader among his trio…

Again, Snape didn't care, but why he would. Quidditch day, it was cloudy, rainy and windy. Umbrellas were flying on the sky with the thundering. The Golden Snitch was flying all over, and everyone on the team kept chasing it. Flying further, Harry's broom became to…