Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp
Author: Kennilworthy Whisp
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Source book: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
Hermione Granger gets Quidditch Through the Ages from the school library, and lectures her fellow first years at breakfast. She and Neville are particularly nervous about learning to fly.
Did you know that there are 700 ways of committing a foul in Quidditch? Apparently all of them had happened during a World Cup match in 1473. The game first began to evolve on Queerditch Marsh? That Puddlemere United (founded 1163) is the oldest team in the Britain and Ireland league? And although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published in 1997, and then in 2001 JK Rowling published a real world book of Quidditch Through the Ages using the nom de plume Kennilworthy Whisp.
Kennilworthy Whisp is also the author of Beating the Bludgers: A Study of Defensive Strategies in Quidditch and The Wonder of Wigtown Wanderers, He Flew Like a Madman.
Also available for Quidditch fans of all ages: The Beater’s Bible by Brutus Scrimgeour; Flying With the Cannons; The Noble Sport of Warlocks by Quintus Umfraville; Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland; and Handbook of Do-It-Yourself Broomcare.
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