Games, sports,
and diversions
games & sports
The
Triwizard Tournament
Quidditch
card games
- Exploding Snap - cards which explode
- building a house of cards out of an Exploding Snap deck (GF
- self-shuffling playing cards
- Hagrid played a game of cards at the Hogs Head and won a dragon egg (SS
other
games
- Gobstones (CS10) - stones which spit disgusting liquid at you when you lose
- Wizard chess - animated, semi-sentient pieces actually fight it out
- Wizards' Duel
- Dueling Club
- Flitwick was a champion once?
- Potter vs. Malfoy at midnight
- efforts to ban dueling
- Quidditch
- Quodpot (USA) (QA)
- annual broom race (Sweden) (QA)
- Stichstock (Germany - died out in 14th century) (QA)
- Aingingein (Irish) (QA)
- Creaothceann (Scotland - banned in17620) (QA)
- Shuntbumps (survives only as a children's game) (QA)
- Swivenhodge (still played) (QA)
- Horseback Head Juggling (CS
- Head Polo (CS
- collecting chocolate frog cards of famous witches and wizards (SS
- Ron collects these avidly, as does Hannah Abbott. Harry started collecting them on the Hogwars Express
- music and dance
- Dr. Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start, No-Heat Fireworks (
- These excellent fireworks are a favorite of Fred and George Weasley. They fed one to a salamander once just to see what would happen.
- WWN - Wizarding Wireless Network
- collecting vintage broomsticks (QA)
- Belch Powder (CS8)
- Canary Creams - invented by George and Fred Weasley (GF
- Dungbombs (CS11,
- These magical stinkbombs are handy when you want to create a diversion
- Frog Spawn Soap (PA14)
- Grow Your Own Warts kit (PA12)
- Hiccup Sweets (PA14)
- non-explodable luminous balloons (PA12)
- Nose-Biting Teacup (PA14)
- Stink Pellets (CS8)
- Self-Shuffling Playing Cards (CS3)
- Ton-Tongue Toffees (GF
- Whizzing Worms (CS8)
- fake wands (chicken, haddock, etc.)
- Screaming Yo-Yos (GF12)
- Fanged Frisbees (GF12)
- Ever-Bashing Boomerangs (GF12)
suppliers
- Gambol and Japes (Diagon Alley)
- Quality Quidditch Supplies (Diagon Alley)
- Weasley's Wizard Wheezes (coming soon!)
- Zonko's Wizarding Joke Shop (Hogsmeade)
