“You can't cancel Quidditch!”

“I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team."Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it.”

“Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down.”

“Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?”

“Oh, come on, Harry,” said Hermione, suddenly impatient. “It’s not Quidditch that’s popular, it’s you! You’ve never been more interesting, and frankly, you’ve never been more fanciable.”

“Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.”

“Play Quidditch at all?”“No,” Harry said again, wondering what on earth Quidditch could be.“I do — Father says it’s a crime if I’m not picked to play for my House, and I must say, I agree. Know what House you’ll be in yet?”“No,” said Harry, feeling more stupid by the minute.“Well, no one really knows until they get there, do they, but I know I’ll be in Slytherin, all our family have been — imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I’d leave, wouldn’t you?”