Post by Phoenix on Jul 9, 2011 11:17:42 GMT -5
Rules
1.) Players must not stray over the boundary lines of the pitch, although they may fly as high as desired. The Quaffle must be surrendered to the opposition if any player leaves the boundary. Quidditch matches in the Wizarding schools such as Hogwarts, however, show players often deliberately flying over the boundary lines and even around the spectator towers. This is possibly because these are just school matches and thus are not as strict regarding the rules.
2.) Time out may be called at any time by a team Captain. It may be extended to two hours if a game has already lasted for more than twelve hours. Failure to return to the pitch afterward disqualifies the offending team.
3.) The referee can impose penalties if a foul occurs. A single Chaser from the fouled team takes a penalty shot by flying from the central circle towards the scoring area. The opposing team's Keeper may attempt to block this shot, but no other player may interfere. There are 700 fouls in all.
4.)Contact is allowed, but a player may not grasp another's broomstick or any part of his or her body.
5.) No substitution of a player is allowed, even if one is too badly hurt to continue (rare exceptions may be made when the game continues for a great length of time, and players become too fatigued to continue).
6.) Players may take their wands onto the pitch, but they must not be used on or against any players, any players' broomsticks, the referee, any of the four balls, or the spectators. (The right to carry wands at all times was granted during the height of wizard and witch persecution by Muggles, according to Quidditch Through the Ages).
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Fouls
1.) Blagging: No player may seize any part of an opponent's broom to slow or hinder the player. (Draco Malfoy commits this foul in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, thus preventing Harry from seizing the Snitch.)
2.) Blatching: No player may fly with the intent to collide. (Substitute Slytherin seeker Harper breaks this rule when he collides into Harry after insulting the latter's friend and Gryffindor Keeper Ronald Weasley. This occurs in the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.)
3.) Blurting: No player may lock broom handles with the intent to steer an opponent off course.
4.) Bumphing: Beaters must not hit Bludgers towards spectators (although Harry jokingly orders one of his Beaters to send one at Zacharias Smith in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), or the Keeper, unless the Quaffle is within the scoring area. (In the first film, however, Marcus Flint, a Chaser, commits this foul with a Beater's bat, and Madam Hooch penalises him for it.)
5.) Cobbing: Players must not make excessive use of their elbows against opponents. Marcus Flint, the Slytherin Chaser, once committed this foul against the Gryffindor Chaser, Angelina Johnson, and was also committed by a Bulgarian Chaser against the Irish in the 1994 Quidditch World Cup
6.) Flacking: Keepers must not defend the posts from behind by punching Quaffles out of the hoops – goals must be defended from the front.
7.) Haversacking: Chasers must not still be in contact with the Quaffle as it passes through a hoop - the Quaffle must be thrown in order for the goal to count
8.) Snitchnip: No player other than the Seeker may touch or catch the Golden Snitch.
9.) Stooging: No more than one Chaser is allowed in the scoring area at any one time.