![]() This is Harry's first experience with Veela, who have a natural ability to bewitch men. The Bulgarian National Quidditch team brings a troupe of beautiful Veela as their support. However, I think we can look at this match and draw some general conclusions. ![]() Specifics are difficult to pin down because, well, the last book isn't available for analysis. I have explored this game with the idea that it could be foreshadowing the final showdown between Harry and Voldemort in the last book. The fact that the winner is the acknowledged world champion leads me to believe that this game is more than it appears. It is the only non-Hogwarts match that we see, and its position within the fourth book gives it prominence. The Quidditch World Cup is a unique game within the books. ![]() After reading an intriguing essay in Scribbulus by Matilda, I was hooked! I began to enjoy looking for the hidden symbolism in the Quidditch matches and I couldn't believe how much fun I had missed for all those years. Rowling used to mirror the plot within the book fascinated me. Quidditch, for me, was the boring but necessary part of the Harry Potter books, the part that I usually skipped and skimmed to get to the "good stuff." Then I joined a Leaky Lounge reading group for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and a thread that discussed the symbolism and foreshadowing that J.K.
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