Why'd Rowling Name It "Quidditch"?
Anybody know? I'm reading another philosophical paper, and it keeps talking about "quiddity" (a term I vaguely recall from undergrad readings) and it sounded so close, I can't think she didn't know the relation, especially as she loves Latin references throughout.
That being said, I always wondered in general why the game was there at all. It really seems to have little to do with the main plot(s) and is just a kind of comic relief or bit of trivia about wizardly life.
That being said, I always wondered in general why the game was there at all. It really seems to have little to do with the main plot(s) and is just a kind of comic relief or bit of trivia about wizardly life.
posted by KPaffenroth at
11:08 AM
3 Comments:
Clive Barker used the word well in THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW and EVERVILLE.
As for Rowling, I think she simply thought it sounded cool. Regarding the purpose for the game in the books: it probably doesn't go much deeper than the fact it's a story about life in school, and those stories tend to have football/baseball/basketball interludes.
I always found it amusing that Harry gets to be both the nerd AND the jock.
So Harry can also be the school's soccer star. Everyone loves the soccer star.
Yes, I think your comments confirm what I was trying to say: it seems just a "typical" element, or what's expected, and not worthy of the higher aspirations of the series.
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