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Blagging

Blagging

Blagging is the Quidditch foul of grabbing onto the broom tail of another player (QA6).

Every known foul was committed at the first Quidditch World Cup in 1473 (QA6).

Although it is not specifically labelled as “blagging”, Draco Malfoy commits this foul on Harry Potter by holding on to the tail of his Firebolt during the Quidditch Cup final in their third year (PA15).

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Commentary

Etymology

Blag means to get something by using guile or persuasion. It can also mean to obtain it by robbery (Oxford English Dictionary).

Notes

Lexicon list of Quidditch fouls

From the Web

WizardingWorld.com (Pottermore) features:

Writing by J K Rowling on Imgur (Daily Prophet coverage of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, originally from Pottermore):

Harry Potter Wiki: Blagging

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Quidditch
All-Africa Cup Attack of the Killer Forest Australian Quidditch League Beat Back Those Bludgers, Boys, and Chuck That Quaffle Here Beater Beaters’ bats Blagging Blatching Blooder Bludger Bludger Backbeat Blurting Bottom-of-the-Table Bumphing Captain of Quidditch Catcher Chaser Cobbing Cuaditch Dissimulators Dopplebeater Defence Double Eight Loop European Cup Flacking Flier Formation Looping
Foul Goals Golden Snitch Haversacking Hawkshead Attacking Formation Hunter Keeper Kwidditch League Cup Long Goal Mascot Restriction Parkin’s Pincer Penalty Pennifold Quaffle Pitch Plumpton Pass Porskoff Ploy Quaffle Quaffle-off Quafflepocking Quidditch Cup Quidditch Team Quidditch Team Manager Quidditch Team Mascots Quidditch Teams of Africa Quidditch Teams of Asia and Oceania
Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland Quidditch Teams of Europe Quidditch Teams of Hogwarts Quidditch Teams of the Americas Quidditch Through the Ages Quidditch Tryouts Quidditch World Cup Quijudge Reverse Pass Royston Idlewind and the Dissimulators Scoring Area Seeker Skinning Sloth Grip Roll Snitchnip Starfish and Stick Starfish Without Stick Stingers Stooging Tournament that Nobody Remembers Transylvanian Tackle United States Cup Weasley is Our King Woollongong Shimmy Wronski Defensive Feint
Timeline
Sources
Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 15 Quidditch Through the Ages Chapter 6