Portrait of a Quidditch player
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Portrait of a Quidditch player
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- "Who do you think they're going to listen to? You two, or someone who's actually taken these benches on test flights and lived to tell the tale?"
- — To theportrait of a female etiquette teacher and theportrait of a Professor, on usingenchanted benches[src]
Thisindividual (fl.1862) was awizard who was, in his lifetime, a youngQuidditch player[2] He had a portrait of himself hung inGryffindor Tower by the1990s.[3]
He seems to have been an adventurer in his youth: he claims to have takenenchanted benches on test flights "and lived to tell the tale", to have flown aChinese Fireball from theSouth Pole to theNorth Pole ("my shoes didn't arrive until the next day"), to have scored the winning goal in the 1862League Championship wearing nothing but a smile ("The other side jinxed off all our robes"), to have raced a dragon with a firework tied to its tail on anenchanted bench ("In fact, the last time I raced one, it caught fire"), and to have taken a party of ladies for a spin over theHimalayas onenchanted bench ("If I knew where they landed, I would've brought them back, too").[4]
Behind the scenes[]
- InThe Wizarding World of Harry Potter, this portrait, along with theportrait of a female etiquette teacher and thePortrait of a Professor, explains in magical terms how the ride portion ofHarry Potter and the Forbidden Journey will work.
Appearances[]
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter(Appears inportrait(s))
Notes and references[]
- ↑J. K. Rowling stated at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 August 2014 (source) that all portraits atHogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are of deceased individuals.
- ↑We Take You Inside The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter onMTV.ca
- ↑Seethis image
- ↑"Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey" atParkpedia

