How gammal är quidditch?

Jason Bakers svar är ett bra jobb att svara från Rowlings utökade skrifter, men OP har angett en preferens för information som finns i huvudserien själv.

Den första specifika Quidditch-referensen i huvudserien är världscupen 1473, men Quidditch själv måste vara äldre än den.

Harry learned that there were seven hundred ways of committing a Quidditch foul and that all of them had happened during a World Cup match in 1473; that Seekers were usually the smallest and fastest players, and that most serious Quidditch accidents seemed to happen to them; that although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Chapter 11

Observera att om alla 700 Quidditch-fouls redan hade kodifierats, verkar det som att Quidditch själv var mycket äldre.

Det finns också en eventuellt äldre referens i Goblet of Fire angående världscupens nummer.

“Ladies and gentlemen . . . welcome! Welcome to the final of the four hundred and twenty-second Quidditch World Cup!”
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Chapter 8

Det verkar vara underförstått att världscupen hölls vart fjärde år vid den tid böckerna ägde rum (gör den första ena vägen tillbaka till 310), men för att de skulle ha varit en turnering år 1473 måste inte alltid ha varit fallet. Eller det är bara Rowling matematik igen.

Det finns en hel bok om detta ämne: "a-href=" https://www.amazon.ca/Quidditch-Through-Ages-World-Potter/dp / 140880302X "> Quidditch genom åren .

Enligt denna bok spelades det första spelet av vad som skulle kunna erkännas som quidditch i det 11: e århundradet; några poster i en dagbok av perioden beskriver några igenkännliga element:

Tuesday. Hot. That lot from across the marsh have been at it again. Playing a stupid game on their broomsticks. A big leather ball landed in my cabbages. I hexed the man who came for it. I'd like to see him fly with his knees on back to front, the great hairy hog.

Tuesday. Wet. Was out on the marsh picking nettles. Broomstick idiots playing again. Watched for a bit from behind a rock. They've got a new ball. Throwing it to each other and trying to stick it in trees at either end of the marsh. Pointless rubbish.

Tuesday. Windy. Gwenog came for nettle tea, then invited me out for a treat. Ended up watching those numbskulls playing their game on the marsh. That big Scottish warlock from up the hill was there. Now they've got two big, heavy rocks flying around trying to knock them all off their brooms. Unfortunately didn't happen while I was watching. Gwenog told me she often played herself. Went home in disgust.

Quidditch Through the Ages Chapter 3: "The Game from Queerditch Marsh"

Det sista igenkännliga elementet, Golden Snitch (ursprungligen ett levande djur, kallat Snidget), var ursprungligen en del av en annan sport av samma period:

From the early 1100s, Snidget-hunting had been popular among many witches and wizards.

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The diminutive size of the Snidget, coupled with its remarkable agility in the air and talent at avoiding predators, merely added to the prestige of wizards who caught them. A twelfth-century tapestry preserved in the Museum of Quidditch shows a group setting out to catch a Snidget. In the first portion of the tapestry, some hunters carry nets, others use wands, and still others attempt to catch the Snidget with their bare hands.

Quidditch Through the Ages Chapter 4: "The Arrival of the Golden Snitch"

Boken beskriver hur de två sporterna kom samman:

Snidget-hunting finally crossed paths with Quidditch in 1269 at a game attended by the Chief of the Wizards' Council himself, Barberus Bragge. We know this because of the eyewitness account sent by Madam Modesty Rabnott of Kent to her sister Prudence in Aberdeen (this letter is also on display in the Museum of Quidditch). According to Madam Rabnott, Bragge brought a caged Snidget to the match and told the assembled players that he would award one hundred and fifty Galleons to the player who caught it during the course of the game.

Quidditch Through the Ages Chapter 4: "The Arrival of the Golden Snitch"

Även om sporten skulle fortsätta att förfinas genom århundradena (och en fullständig omräkning av dess historia är alldeles för lång för det här formatet) är detta det tidigaste namnet på det kända i universum.