The Noble Sport of Warlocks: notes

I just participated in the 2012 Harry Potter Interhouse Fest on LiveJournal. This was prompt 73:

Characters: Heidi Bell, Katie Macavoy

Female bonding over being two women in the British and Irish League. Despite the presence of an all-female team (which neither of them play for), professional Quidditch is still very much a man's world. Friendly competition and kickass women!

 

So, my reactions to this were, in no particular order:

-“Quidditch gen? Awesome! I want to write for this!”

-“To what extent is Quidditch a man's world? How do we know?”

-“Who the **** is Heidi Macavoy?”

 

Well, I eventually did write for the prompt. But not before trying to dive into what we can learn about the world of professional Quidditch, and a bunch more we can guess and wonder.

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