The 10 best Quidditch players in the ultimate ranking – will Harry make it into the top 3?

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Quidditch is the most popular wizard sport in the world of Harry Potter. Harry himself is also a gifted player. But does he make it into the top 3 of our ranking of the ultimate best Quidditch players?

In the wizarding sport of Quidditch, two teams compete to see who can score the most points. There are five balls, six goals and seven players per team who have different tasks:

  • hunter (three each): They try to throw the “Quaffle” through an opponent’s goal ring, which earns 10 points.
  • Guardian (one each): They try to prevent the opponents from scoring goals.
  • driver (two each): You try to hit the “bludgers” at opposing players.
  • Viewfinder (one each): They try to catch the “golden snitch”, which scores 150 points and ends the game.

    • How was the ranking created? For our list of the best Quidditch players from Harry Potter, we considered all the characters that appear in some form in the films or books.

    Characters who are only briefly mentioned by name do not play a role.

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    10th place: Fred and George Weasley

    Fred and George – or George and Fred?
  • Position: driver
  • Title: “human Bludgers” (by Harry Potter); “invincible Beaters” (by Oliver Wood)

    • Fred and George are not only excellent at inventing joke items. They are also excellent Quidditch players.

    For almost their entire school years, they roamed the Quidditch field as beaters.

    Even though they sometimes struggle with their outdated brooms and their temper, the twins work perfectly together and have their team’s backs.

    9th place: Cedric Diggory

  • Position: Viewfinder
  • Title: captain

    • Cedric Diggory is best known for his participation in the Triwizard Tournament. Along with Harry, he is the school champion of Hogwarts.

    He also shares his talent for flying with Harry. He was the seeker and Quidditch captain of Hufflepuff.

    When Fred and George make fun of the Hufflepuff team, Oliver Wood rightly remarks: “Diggory has put together a strong team, he’s an excellent Seeker!”

    Cedric actually manages to catch the snitch and give Hufflepuff the win, but maybe that’s only because Harry was eliminated in the middle of the game because of the Dementors.

    8th place: James Potter

  • Position: Hunters (books)/ Seekers (films)
  • Title: “Quidditch Hero” (by Snape)

    • We don’t know much about Harry’s father James’s Quidditch skills, but they seem to have been quite impressive.

    For example, Snape disparagingly refers to James as a “great Quidditch hero.” Sirius praises Harry’s Quidditch skills, comparing them to James’.

    Harry also learns that his father liked to play with a golden snitch, letting it fly away for a while and then skillfully catching it again.

    However, after his marriage to Lilly and the birth of his son, he did not pursue the sport any further, otherwise he might have become a famous Quidditch player.

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