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Quidditch leaves Harry Potter behind as (real) World Cup fever grows

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 | 8:30 AM

From Uganda to Pakistan, quidditch teams from all around the world are gearing up for the international competition of JK Rowling’s fictional sport in Germany next month. But if you can’t fly a broomstick - why would you play?

“To be honest, I was never a huge Harry Potter fan,” says UK quidditch coach Ashley Cooper, who has just graduated in medicine from Oxford. “If anything I’m more a Lord of the Rings fan.”

Team UK captain Ben Morton agrees. “I’d never read the books when I started playing … It’s more the sport that I picked up.”

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