Much Like Quidditch, Lawson's Red Bull Drive Made No Sense

Break Point Column

I would like to take a moment to address something that has been on my mind for, oh, perhaps the last 20 years, if not longer.

It developed around my first contact with the Harry Potter universe, when I became aware of Quidditch.

Now, I dont mind fantasy inventing sports. In fact, as a world-building tool, it adds much-needed depth and colour a sense of unity and familiarity to the world of the other , perhaps even a bit of comedy and drama.

For instance, if JRR Tolkien is to be believed, golf was invented at the Battle of the Greenfields, when the hobbit Bandobras Took swung his club so hard as to decapitate the Orc king, Golfimbul, the severed head landing in a rabbit hole some 100 yards away.