Clearly the fact that there have been six Harry Pot­ter movies released, (two more in the mak­ing) seven books out in stores, and an upcom­ing theme park in Orlando, doesn’t quite express the extent of society’s obses­sion with the magic wiz­ardly world. Because col­lege Quid­ditch (yes, the broomstick-riding sport) is on the rise.

With over 200 col­leges express­ing their inter­est in the sport, includ­ing Prince­ton, U-Mass-Amherst and Vas­sar Col­lege, Quid­ditch is spread­ing like wild­fire. It even has its own site, (for all you nerds out there) where you can have access to the lat­est Quid­ditch news and his­tory of the sport.

Sim­i­lar to soc­cer, the play­ers try and get the ball, or Quaf­fle that is, into the oppos­ing goal, except they try and do so while rid­ing around on a broomstick…on the ground.

Sounds…er…awesome.

I don’t quite under­stand the whole thing. First, rid­ing around on broom­sticks is not only ridicu­lous, but it’s gotta be uncom­fort­able, right? And what if you get tack­led? How does a broom­stick shoved between your legs react in a sit­u­a­tion like that?

And, more impor­tantly, isn’t the whole point of Quid­ditch the fly­ing part? I mean, isn’t Col­lege Quid­ditch just soccer…with brooms?

Appar­ently I’m miss­ing some­thing, because the sport has been around in the real world for four years, and is only get­ting more and more pop­u­lar. I get the Harry Pot­ter obses­sion, but come on, peo­ple. This is just absurd.

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