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    When on Reddit I used the sub section of Quidditch to access more information. One interviewee from reddit said “Communication between clubs is through public Facebook events and directed invitations, public advertisement such as posters, word of mouth (messaged or spoken), and by messages (email, FB, WhatsApp) between committees. Communication intra club is generally through the same means. Communication from 'official' bodies is through the same means, but using more advanced/expensive means of

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    Nearly 17 years ago in the United Kingdom, a fictional sport known as Quidditch was born into a story that many did not know would captivate the world and eventually become more than people ever dreamt. Quidditch, found in the Harry Potter series, is a competitive sport that is extremely rough, semi-contact sport played by wizards and witches. Each match is played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks. The seven players include: three chasers, two beaters, one keeper, and

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    My Long Term Goals

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    Helping in impoverished communities has been a goal of mine for many years now. I go on mission trips to Jamaica for two weeks at a time, every year, for the past three years. These mission trips have shaped me into the person I am today and they have also carved out the path in which I want to lead my life. For many years now, I have wanted to work in a place like Jamaica and provide medical care. This is obviously a long-term goal, because who would let an 18 year old give them medical advice?

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    Reading a good book can give readers a new experience and someting that readers can relate to. We can see our own reflection in the characters and experience the growth with them. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer?s Stone, is the story of a young boy who finds out he is a wizard. Harry Potter loses his parents when he is one year old. Then his aunt takes him into her family. But Harry Potter does not have a happy childhood there. His aunt and cousin treat him very hard. It a kind of unfortunate. When Harry

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    debt repaid, I still lived with regret and a heavy burden. He needed to stop creating panic in the school. The next day, I discovered Harry and his group out in the frosty Quidditch grassland and trudged with my injured leg toward them. “What's that you've got there, Potter?” I questioned. He held up a book titled Quidditch Through the Ages. “Library books are not to be taken outside the school,” I strictly mentioned. "Give it to me. Five points from Gryffindor." I proclaimed hoping they didn't

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    see Neville, tell him to come too, cool?” Harry said. Luna, Ron, his sister, and I showed signs of affirmation and Luna and Ginny scattered, probably to their common rooms to get their coats for the match. A few hours later, I was sitting in the Quidditch stands with Ginny, Lavender, and Parvati. Ron was actually playing quite well and had stopped several attempts on the rings. Harry was flying around very high, looking for the snitch and vaguely watching the proceedings with the Quaffle meters

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    One example is also during the Quidditch game where they were not working together and playing as a team, and Billy had to go in and give them pep talk to make them feel better and help come up with strategies to solve the conflict and work as an effective team. And after that they brought

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    Quidditch in the Olympics Introduction Would it interest you to know that the newest game in the Olympics was going to include flying on booms 200 feet in the air and smacking away balls that are hurdling towards you at 70 miles per hour? I would personally be VERY interested, but sadly we have to settle and fight for the next best thing. Grounded (or mugglized, as the Potterheads would call it) Quidditch. History of Quidditch The sport quidditch was first played in 2005 at Middlebury College by

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    players as well. This sport is known as Quidditch. Because it is a newer pastime, many do not know anything about the rules of the game or even that it exists as a real-world hobby outside of its original mention in the Harry Potter universe. Well, rest assured it is a very real and recognized form of athletics which will be explained in this paper by detailing the origin, development, values, and finally gameplay of the fantasy

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    Rowling uses brilliant literary techniques to create symbolism in Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone. Rowling used 3 crucial pieces in the novel for the reader to read in-between the lines to grasp the entire concept. She incorporates Harry's Scar, Quidditch, and The Mirror of Erased to create an indirect subliminal message to the readers.

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