Quidditch

Tail-Twig Clippers • Broomsticks A maintenance tool for keeping a broomstick‘s tail in peak condition. Read More

Tanzania • Countries A country in Africa and home to the Sumbawanga Sunrays Quidditch team. (QA8)… Read More

Tarapoto • Cities A small, South American city perched on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, this “city of palms” is the home of South America’s most famous Quidditch team, the Tarapoto Tree-Skimmers (QA8). Read More

Tarapoto Tree-Skimmers • Sports teams The Tarapoto Tree-Skimmers are a South American Quidditch team who come from Peru (QA8). Unlike most of South America, who play the North American game of Quodpot, Peruvian wizards learned to play Quidditch from the European wizards who came to oversee the breeding and numbers of… Read More

The First Task of the Triwizard Tournament • Event The champions take it in turn to try to steal a golden egg from the clutches of a different kind of dragon. Harry summons his broom to help him get the egg from his dragon a Hungarian Horntail, and he completes the task in the shortest amount of time. Before… Read More

Tchamba • Place A small city in central Togo, Tchamba is home to the Tchamba Charmers, a Quidditch team known for being “masters of the reverse pass” (QA8).  … Read More

Tchamba Charmers • Sports teams The Tchamba Charmers are a Quidditch team from Togo in Africa. The Charmers are known for their ability to do the difficult “reverse pass” move (QA8). Read More

Tents • Thing Wizards attending the Quidditch World Cup have been known to customise their tents both inside and out, even though they are supposed to be keeping a low profile. Read More

End of term feast: Gryffindor wins both the Quidditch Cup and House Cup • Event “Gryffindor house, meanwhile, largely thanks to their spectacular performance in the Quidditch Cup, had won the House Championship for the third year running. This meant that the end-of-term feast took place amid decorations of scarlet and gold, and that the Gryffindor table was the noisiest of the lot, as everybody… Read More

Thinking up the name for Quidditch • Quote I like inventing names. Quidditch — the name Quidditch — it took me ages to find the right name for it, took me about two days and I’ve still got the notebook I did it in and you can see Quidditch at the bottom of the last page of this… Read More

Dean Thomas • Character Dean Thomas was a “half-blood” Gryffindor boy from London in Harry’s year at Hogwarts. History He was a classmate of Harry’s and best friends with Seamus Finnigan (GF7). He was a black Londoner (JKR) who grew up as a Muggle, and thus had always been a… Read More

Thorsten Pfeffer • Character Thorsten Pfeffer played Seeker for the German National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Read More

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Thundelarra Thunderers • Sports teams The Thundelarra Thunderers are a Quidditch team from Australia (QA8). The Thunderers, along with their traditional rivals the Woollongong Warriors, dominate the Australian league. Their competition is so fierce that refereeing a game between the two is seen as “asking for” personal injury, which has given rise to the… Read More

Thunderbolt VII • Broomsticks Thunderbolt VII brooms were ridden by the Nigeria National Team at the Quidditch World Cup in 2014. Thunderbolt Broom Manufacturers have a bad reputation for designing brooms that favour speed over safety (Pm). After the tail of a Thunderbolt VII broom disintegrated when hit by a Bludger during… Read More

Timothy Blenkinsop • Character Timothy Blenkinsop is a supporter of the Puddlemere United Quidditch team in the 1990s (DP4). Interviewed by the Daily Prophet, Blenkinsop was 23 at the time of Puddlemere’s 30 September match against the Holyhead Harpies. He was caught in the ensuing riot and still had a tail resulting from… Read More

The Tinderblast broom is released by Ellerby and Spudmore of the Black Forest • Event

Sidney Todd • Character Sidney Todd was a fan the Montrose Magpies Quidditch team (DP3). Read More

Todoroki • Character Todoroki was the Keeper for the Japanese Quidditch Team at the Quidditch World Cup tournament in 2014 (Pm). An unsung participant in the 2014 tournament, Todoroki’s skill at saving goals passed by almost unnoticed in the tournament, as he or she was a member of such an outstanding Quidditch team… Read More

Togo • Countries A country in West Africa and home to the Quidditch team, the Tchamba Charmers. (QA8)… Read More

Tony Silva • Character Tony Silva played Seeker for Brazil’s National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Read More

Tournament that Nobody Remembers • Quidditch The Tournament that Nobody Remembers is the name given to the Quidditch World Cup of 1877. Background The tournament was scheduled to take place in the Ryn desert in Kazakhstan (QWC). While the evidence is that something, possibly the tournament, took place, no one has any memory… Read More

Toyohashi • Cities The most successful Japanese Quidditch team is based in Toyohashi – the Toyohashi Tengu. From an international perspective, this team is rather unusual in that it ceremonially sets fire to its brooms following each defeat (QA8). The city of Toyohashi, located on Japan’s southern Pacific coast, is thousands of years… Read More

Toyohashi Tengu • Sports teams The Toyohashi Tengu are a Quidditch team from Japan. Although Quidditch has not yet caught on with wizarding communities in the Far East, one of the notable exceptions is the the Toyohashi Tengu, a popular and successful Japanese team (QA8). In 1994, the team narrowly lost… Read More

The Toyohashi Tengu from Japan narrowly miss a win over the Lithuania's Gorodok Gargoyles • Event The successful Japanese Quidditch team, Toyohashi Tengu, narrowly missed a win over the Gorodok Gargoyles of Lithuania when they played each other in a 1994 match. With Quidditch growing in popularity in Asia only during the last century, this was considered a good result against… Read More

Transylvania • Regions, counties, and territories Though once a sovereign nation in its own right, Transylvania became part of Romania after World War I and has remained so ever since. It is of course also known for being the setting of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, giving it a stereotyped association with vampires and… Read More

Transylvania National Team • Sports teams The Transylvanian National Teams come from the Eastern European country of Transylvania. Quidditch The first Quidditch World Cup final was held in 1473 between Transylvania and Flanders (QA8, Pm). It was also notorious for having been extremely violent and officials recorded 700 known types of fouls during the match,… Read More

Transylvanian Tackle • Quidditch A Transylvanian Tackle is a Quidditch move which was first seen at the 1473 Quidditch World Cup, a match between the national teams of Flanders and Transylvania. This Quidditch World Cup was where instances of all 700 known fouls were committed in the one match (QA6, QA10). Read More

The trio notices Snape limping when he takes Harry's copy of Quidditch Through the Ages • Event Harry, Hermione and Ron are standing in the Hogwarts Courtyard on a cold November day, staying warm with a jar full of Bluebell Flames. Snape approaches and they notice he is limping. He tells Harry that library books are not allowed out-of-doors, and takes away Quidditch Through the… Read More

Troy • Character Troy was a Chaser for Ireland’s National Team at the 1994 Quidditch World Cup. During the final match of the 1994 Quidditch World Cup, Troy and fellow Irish Chasers Moran and Mullet were set to outscore Bulgaria, when Bulgarian Seeker Viktor Krum decided to catch the Snitch… Read More

Turkey • Countries Bridging the border between southeastern Europe and the Middle East, Turkey (and the former Ottoman Empire) has found itself literally and figuratively caught in the middle of a number of large events throughout history, though the country as it currently stands has existed for less than a century. Read More

Turkey National Team • Sports teams The Turkish National Teams come from the Eurasian country of Turkey. It is considered to be part of both Europe and Asia. Quidditch The Turkish team played against the English national side that included Ludo Bagman during the 1980s (GF30). Read More

Tutshill • Towns Tutshill is a small town in southeastern Wales, east of Newport. Tutshill is located in the Forest of Dean, on the banks of the River Wye.  It is the home of the Tutshill Tornados, a member of the British and Irish Quidditch League with a… Read More

Tutshill Tornados  • Sports teams The Tutshill Tornados are an English Quidditch team from Tutshill in Gloucestershire near the Welsh Borders, founded in 1520 (QA7). robes: sky-blue with a double “T” in dark blue on the chest and back home: Tutshill They have a “nine-hundred year history,” according to the Daily Prophet,… Read More

Tutshill Tornados lead the British and Irish Quidditch League • Event Ron Weasley, who supports the Chudley Cannons, accuses Cho Chang of being one of Tutshill Tornados fans to have only begun following the team since they started winning. Cho coolly answers that she has been a fan since childhood. Hermione Granger starts arguing with Ron afterwards,… Read More

The Tutshill Tornados Quidditch team is formed • Event The Welsh team goes on to be very successful (QA7). Read More

The Tutshill Tornados win five consecutive British and Irish Quidditch League titles • Event The Tutshill Tornados Quidditch team were dominant over the British and Irish Quidditch League in the early 1900s and had a record-breaking five consecutive League Cup wins. They were captained to all five by their famous Seeker, Roderick Plumpton (QA7). Read More

Twigger 90 • Broomsticks The Twigger was developed by Flyte and Barker in 1990 as an alternative to the popular and technically advanced Nimbus series of brooms. The Twigger was an expensive and good-looking product but ultimately its defects meant that it was only bought by wizards who wanted to flash their money… Read More