Quidditch is a wizarding game, a bit like soccer to muggles. It is played on broomsticks, with seven players on each of two sides, six goalhoops, and four balls. Confused yet?

Players & Balls

Each team contains: 1 Keeper, 3 Chasers, 2 Beaters, and 1 Seeker.

There are four balls used in the game: the Quaffle, which is red and used for scoring; two Bludgers, which try to knock players off their brooms, and the Golden Snitch - worth 150 pooint and which must be caught by the Seeker to end the game.

The Keeper's job is to prevent the Quaffle being thrown through his team's goalhoops by the opposing team.

The Chasers try to throw the quaffle through the opposing team's goalhoops.

The Beaters stop Bludgers hitting their own team, whilst also trying to hit the other team with them. They deflect the Bludgers using short bats.

The Seeker has to catch the Golden Snitch, which is the size of a golf ball and has wings. The Snitch must be caught to end a game - one has previously been recorded as lasting three months before it was caught.

Moves

Hawks-head attacking formation

Porskoff ploy

Wronski feint

Rules

The game is begun by a shout of "Up!", at which all players take off.

Blocking another player on purpose is a foul

10 points for every time the Quaffle goes through the hoops.

It is a foul to attack the Keeper with a Bludger unless the Quaffle is in his scoring area.

If you request an enquiry during a match, the match must be forfeited.

Unprovoked attacks receive a penalty

Deliberate damage to opponents receives a penalty

Hitting a player with a club or elbowing people in the face is a penalty.

Holding on to an opponent's broom is a penalty

Facts

There are 700 ways of commiting a foul, all of which happened in the 1473 World Cup Match.

Referees have previously vanished, only to turn up months later in the Sahara.

Teams

Chudley Cannons - Orange robes

Wimbourne Wasps - Yellow and black striped robes with big wasps on them.

Bulgaria - Scarlet robes

Ireland - Green robes

Gryffindor - Scarlet robes

Hufflepuff - Canary yellow robes

Slytherin - Emerald green robes

Ravenclaw - Blue robes

Broomsticks

Cleansweep Seven - Hufflepuff team broom

Cleansweep Five - An earlier model

Silver Arrow - Discontinued broom make

Comet 260 - Malfoy's broom in book 1

Firebolt - International standard racing broom

Nimbus 2000 - Harry's first broom

Nimbus 2001 - Updated model, Slytherins' broom.

Bluebottle - A family broom.