Northwestern University is lucky because it has a manly, athletic reputation; steak-head fans and “student-athletes” prowl the campus looking for women to aggressively hit on and nerds to wedgie up on flagpoles. It’s a rough environment and exactly the type of place you would expect to find a Quiddich team.
Yes: a freaking Quiddich team — like the flying game they play on brooms in Harry Potter, a fictional book in which MAGIC IS REAL AND THEREFORE NOT POSSIBLY HOLDING ANY TRUTH AT ALL. Sigh.
“There’s actually an Intercollegiate Quidditch Association that organizes teams across the country,” said Marc Bourgeois, a sophomore who’s trying to put together an NU Quidditch team. “It started at Middlebury College in Vermont and has really caught on.”
Of course the Northwestern squad is still in the “planning stages” so right now they’re still gathering equipment, like brooms and wands and purple caps (no, seriously — this is the shit they’re putting together.)
The best part, of course, is that they actually use the brooms in the game; you have to keep a broom between your legs at all times as you attempt to throw a deflated volleyball past some sort of wizard or goalie or dude with a wand.
Even more sadly, Middlebury College — where the Quidditch leagues originated — has been taking money from dining halls and service organizations and actual important things in order to fund (YES, FUND) their Quidditch.
