Ravens 2 – The Original Quidditch Games?
Trying to snatch the Quaffle?
By: Pat Coate
As mentioned last week, there was a group of about 20 ravens hanging out near where I stayed in Ontario. It was amazing to watch this group soar and play. I really think that J.K. Rowling got her inspiration for the game of Quidditch from watching ravens. Quidditch is an aggressive, somewhat contact sport played by teams of wizards/witches flying on brooms in Rowling’s wildly popular Harry Potter series. The teams represent the four houses of Hogwarts, a school for wizards and witches. Furthering my suspicion that Ms. Rowling drew her inspiration from ravens, I note that one of the four houses is named Ravenclaw.
Quidditch is played with a Quaffle, or enchanted ball, that is used to score points by shooting it through a hoop. In the raven version of quidditch, it seems that a pine cone or twig serves as the Quaffle.
The ravens seemed to play with such joy
Look out below, here I come!
Gotcha!
Every once in a while, one of the ravens would land in a tree to grab a new Quaffle – a pine cone or twig.
Here I come again, this time a sneak attack
Note bottom raven carrying tree material.
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Mon@rch's Nature Blog 
Great post and pictures!
19 October 2012 at 12:51 pm