Quidditch

A fully playable sport where you train skills, buy equipment, and compete in matches. Flying broomsticks sold separately (but required).

What Is Quidditch in Hogwarts Live?

Quidditch is a fully implemented mini-game system where you can train six different skills, purchase equipment and broomsticks, choose a position (Chaser, Keeper, Beater, or Seeker), join a team (house teams or professional teams), and compete in matches to earn rewards, house points, and glory.

Unlike many game features that are just lore, Quidditch is actually playable. You'll spend gold and forest fights to train, buy better equipment to improve your performance, and compete in matches that are determined by your skills and equipment. It's a complete progression system with meaningful choices and rewards.

Getting Started

To start playing Quidditch, you need:

• At least 1 Voldemort Encounter (VE) — Minimum requirement to begin training
• Gold for training — 100 gold per training session (default)
• Forest fights for training — 1 forest fight per training session (default)
• A broomstick — Required to play matches (available from Equipment Shop)

Visit the Quidditch Department in any village to get started. You'll find options for training, equipment shopping, and playing matches.

Training Skills

Quidditch has six trainable skills that affect your performance in matches. Each skill can be trained by spending gold and forest fights. As you train, you gain experience points (XP) in that skill, and when you accumulate enough XP, your skill rank increases.

Training Levels

As you train your skills, you'll progress through training levels that unlock better equipment and opportunities:

• Wannabe — Starting level, basic training available
• Fan — 3 skills at rank 1+, unlocks Cleansweep 7 broom
• Amateur — 3 skills at rank 3+, unlocks Comet 260 broom
• Buff — 3 skills at rank 5+, unlocks Comet 290 broom, can play matches
• Pro — 3 skills at rank 10+, unlocks Cleansweep 11 and Firebolt brooms, can join professional teams

Five tiers, not six. There is no secret "All-Star" rank waiting past Pro — Pro is the ceiling, and the Firebolt is simply the most expensive thing you can buy once you get there.

Equipment

Equipment improves your performance in matches. You can purchase broomsticks and protective gear from the Equipment Shop.

Broomsticks

Broomsticks are required to play matches and provide significant bonuses to your skills. Better brooms cost more but provide better bonuses:

• Bluebottle — 500 gold, +1 Quickness
• Silverarrow — 1000 gold + 2 gems, +2 Quickness
• Cleansweep 7 — 1500 gold + 5 gems (Fan level), +3 Quickness, +1 Style
• Comet 260 — 2000 gold + 5 gems (Amateur level), +3 Quickness, +2 Style
• Comet 290 — 2500 gold + 10 gems (Buff level), +4 Quickness, +2 Style
• Cleansweep 11 — 5000 gold + 5 gems (Pro level), +7 Quickness, +3 Style
• Firebolt — 10000 gold + 20 gems (Pro level), +10 Quickness, +5 Style

Protective Equipment

You can also purchase protective equipment that provides small bonuses:

• Goggles — Improves visibility and Alertness
• Gloves — Better grip, improves handling
• Boots — Better broom control
• Robes — Aerodynamic, improves speed

Positions

When you're ready to try out for a team, you'll choose a position. This choice is permanent, so choose wisely! Each position has different skill requirements and playstyles:

Teams

Once you've chosen a position, you can try out for a team. There are two types of teams:

House Teams

If you're sorted into a Hogwarts house, you can try out for your house team:

• Gryffindor — Known for bravery and reckless flying
• Hufflepuff — Known for teamwork and reliability
• Ravenclaw — Known for strategic play and clever tactics
• Slytherin — Known for ambition and winning at any cost

Winning matches for your house team earns house points (2-5 points per match, 3-15 points for tournament victories).

Professional Teams

Once you reach Pro training level (3 skills at rank 10+) and have at least 5 VEs, you can try out for professional teams:

• Chudley Cannons — "Let's just keep them under 300 points" (longest losing streak in the league)
• Holyhead Harpies — All-female team with a vicious approach to sexist opponents
• Puddlemere United — Most successful team in the league, very competitive
• Falmouth Falcons — Known for aggressive play and a motto ("Let us win, but if we cannot win, let us break a few heads") that their team healer takes very seriously

Playing Matches

Once you have a broom, a position, a team, and at least Buff training level, you can play matches. Each match costs:

• Gold: A flat fee per match (default 200 gold) to cover pitch maintenance, equipment wear, and exorbitant magical insurance premiums
• Forest Fights: 1 per match (default) — flying around for an hour apparently costs the same energy as one good forest scuffle

Match outcomes are determined by your skills, equipment, position, and a bit of luck. All positions have meaningful impact on the outcome — it's not just about the Seeker catching the Snitch. Chasers, Keepers, and Beaters all contribute to team scoring and Snitch catch probability.

Daily Tournament

Once per game day, you can participate in a Daily Tournament match. It costs the same gold and forest fights as a regular match — "Daily" refers to the schedule, not the price tag. This is still a great way to earn rewards and climb the standings without a separate match slot.

The Quidditch Cup Tournament

The house Quidditch Cup runs on the calendar: a brand-new tournament every month, opened automatically on the 1st and settled on the 28th, no committee meeting required. Its phases advance by the date, not by anyone's results — sign-up the first week, the group stage through the middle of the month, and the knockout stage in the final third. The stadium tells you which phase is live; you do not get a vote.

To compete for prizes you must register at the Stadium, which is open all the way through the group stage and locks the moment the knockout bracket is set. Registration wants a position, a team, at least Buff training, a broom, and no active injuries — the desk witch has a clipboard and no patience. Anyone can still play tournament matches for gold and house points, but only registered wizards appear in the final reckoning, so signing up is the difference between "played some Quidditch" and "in the running."

Each tournament match you play adds to your tournament points (3 for a win, 1 for showing up) and, on a good day, MVP points. When the cup closes on the 28th the top three registered wizards are crowned automatically — 1st takes the full gem prize (50 by default), a Gold Trophy, and 20 house points; 2nd takes 60% of the gems, a Silver Trophy, and 15 points; 3rd takes 30%, a Bronze Trophy, and 10 points. The wizard with the most MVP points gets a badge and 10 bonus gems. Prizes are mailed to the champions whether or not they happen to be logged in, the board wipes, and a fresh cup opens on the 1st as though nothing at all had happened.

The Quidditch World Cup

AND WE'RE LIVE, PERPETUALLY. The World Cup no longer waits for a broadcast window to open and slam shut at Federation whim — it runs on the calendar now, a brand-new tournament every month, champions crowned on the 1st, no offseason, no mercy, no refunds on your emotional investment. You declare for one of eight national teams off an approved list, clear a naturalization fee the Federation pockets without blinking, and receive a flag in colors that are, for liability reasons, approximate. Phases — group stage, knockout, final — advance on the calendar itself, not on your results and not on a Federation timetable it refuses to share with the booth: early in the month it's the group stage, the final third is knockout, and the last days are the final.

Betting on the Fixtures

Here's the new wrinkle, folks: the eight nations play a full schedule of fixtures against each other, resolved daily, and you may bet gold on the outcomes. The odds posted on the board already have the Federation's cut baked in — a 7% house edge, levied for your protection and, far more importantly, the ratings — so the favorite pays short and the underdog pays long, exactly as arithmetic and avarice demand. Stake between 50 and 5,000 gold per fixture, up to 25,000 gold a day, no more than you actually carry. Your stake is taken the moment you bet; if your nation comes through you collect your stake times the odds (rounded down, in the house's favor, because of course it is); if it doesn't, the Federation collects a funny story. Settlement lands automatically when the fixture resolves. Should a fixture somehow never play — a skipped sunrise, an act of Federation — your stake is refunded in full when the season closes, the one act of mercy in the entire enterprise and, rest assured, an unintentional one.

Personal Play

You may also lace up and contest fixtures yourself: up to 3 matches per day, after which a mandatory rest-and-hydration protocol kicks in for the ratings. Each match pits your full Quidditch strength — the very same strength your House tournament matches use, injuries deducted identically — against an opponent of escalating menace, and the points go up on a personal-play leaderboard: provisional, official, audited by no one.

At each month's close TWO champions are crowned, folks. The champion nation, whichever flag topped the fixture standings, lifts the cup and a commemorative stamp. The champion player, whoever led personal play, is paid 50 gems (the default prize) and etched into the hall of fame, a sacred ledger the Federation keeps mostly so future committees have something to fight over on camera. Then the board wipes, a fresh month begins, and the Federation insists it always has.

Rewards

Playing Quidditch earns you:

• House Points — If you're on a house team, wins earn points for your house
• MVP Points — Track your performance across matches
• Experience — Skill XP to improve your abilities
• Glory — Bragging rights and leaderboard rankings

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