The vivid image connecting in my mind for now is Harry Potter’s Quidditch. Knowing that JK Rowling is classically educated herself and brings all sorts of allusions into that magical, fictional world, could it be that the game of Quidditch is so named because she created it to represent all that is most real abour Harry’s world, his passions and bliss, his holistic identity and all his highest, best striving, all the stories and truths of that “real world” — and all outside the classroom and school walls. Indeed quidditch is a whole world of itself, often in direct conflict with his teachers, homework, schedules?

And I’m thoroughly inspired by these top ten (intellectual?) fouls, can’t wait to write this up as how we clash with each other in public problem-solving:

Fouls

There are seven hundred Quidditch fouls listed in the Department of Magical Games and Sports records, but most of these fouls are explicit instances relating to the breaking of one of the major rules, and need not be listed in their entirety. There are, however, ten common fouls, named below:

* Blagging: No player may seize any part of an opponent’s broom to slow or hinder the player.
* Blatching: No player may fly with the intent to collide
* Blurting: No player may lock broom handles with the intent to steer an opponent off course
* Bumphing: Beaters must not hit Bludgers towards spectators
* Cobbing: Players must not use their elbows against opponents
* Flacking: Keepers must not defend the posts from behind by punching Quaffles out of the hoops - goals must be defended from the front
* Haversacking: Chasers must not still be in contact with the Quaffle as it passes through a hoop
* Quaffle-pocking: Chasers must not tamper with the Quaffle in any way
* Snitchnip: No player other than the Seeker may touch or catch the Golden Snitch
* Stooging: No more than one Chaser is allowed in the scoring area at any one time