Well, they aren't in the steam tunnels

Actually, more like fantasy becoming fact. Quidditch, the wildly popular wizarding sport in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, is spreading in our non-magical world. Vermont's Middlebury College hosted a quidditch tournament this weekend, competing in a field of more than a dozen teams. While the tournament was mostly an intramural event, the local winning team competed against visiting Vassar College in a game that has been only slightly modified to accomodate a world without flying brooms, thinking balls, and other magical accoutrements.

The full story is here in the Addison Independent, and thanks to Andrew Wheeler for pointing it out.






For those puzzling over the headline: steam tunnels, D&D fears in the 1980s…