The only thing I want you to worry about is this
the Golden Snitch
This week it's wicked fast and damn near impossible to see you catch this and we went
The Golden Snitch is one of the most iconic objects from the vast Harry Potter series
We were introduced to it in the very first book as part of the sport Quidditch
While making my video on everything you need to know about Quidditch
I decided that the snitch deserved its own video Rowling released information on the object in the book Quidditch through the ages
While rereading it. I realized how interesting this chapter of the book is so in this video
I'm going to go through that chapter as I explain the origins of the Golden Snitch
The Golden Snitch was the last big thing to be added to the game Quidditch
The balls pitch and positions had already been set in place
Although many of these had different names and the ones that we know today
the sport had grown in popularity very much and it was becoming more and more organized with crowds gathering to watch the
Matches, but our story here is not about Quidditch
It's actually about another sport called snitch it hunting it too grew in popularity around the same time
They Quidditch did although a little bit earlier
This is where the creation of the snitch started in the sport snitch at hunting the snitch
It is a completely round and fat bird with red eyes. It's covered in golden feathers and has a long beak
It has rotational wings that let the snitch it move in any direction with remarkable agility and speed
they were common in northern Europe and they're difficult to detect by muggles because of their speed and
Aptitude at hiding because they were so small and had such talent avoiding predators
It was very prestigious for a witch or wizard to catch one of them those that did were oftentimes
Presented with a big bag of gold hunters that participated in the sport of snitching hunting rode on broomsticks and used Nets
Wands and oftentimes their bare hands to catch them when they were caught the hunters would often crush the snitching in their hand
Killing it because the creatures were so elusive
Much of the sport went on during the day as they would be too hard to find at night this led to many muggle sightings
Of witches and wizards on broomsticks the council in power at the time tried to stop and take control of it
But they were unable to do this due to the sports popularity, but looking more closely
It appears that the council itself saw a little wrong with it. Now. How does this relate to Quidditch?
well
The two sports finally crossed paths in 1269 and a match that was heavily attended by spectators
One of the spectators was Barbara's Bragg who was the chief of the wizard council. He brought a cage snin
J't to the match and told the assembled players that he would award
150 galleons to the player who caught it during the course of the game this led to the players rising as one into the they're
Ignoring the Quaffle and dodging the bludgers both keepers also abandon the goals and join the hunt
The poor little snitches shot up and down the pitch
Seeking a means of escape but wizards and witches in the crowd forced it back with repelling spells a witch named Madame rabbit
Who hated stench at hunting and whose temper was going up ran onto the pitch and yelled at Bragg chief Bragg
This is not sport
Let the snick go free and let us watch the noble game of Quidditch
Which we have all come to see Bragg responded by laughing in her face and throwing the empty birdcage at her
Ravening now even more angry and upset so a chance to do right by the snitch 'it when it flew her way
She used a summoning charm and it shot toward her. She stuffed it in the front of her robes as she ran for it
They caught her but not before she released. The snitching brag was furious and had to have his advisers calm him down
He ended up finding rabbit ten galleons for disrupting the game, which at the time was a lot of money
Well Rabbinate might have saved that snitching which actually led to her losing her house when she couldn't pay the ten galleons
She couldn't save all of the snitch
'it's that were now becoming part of the sport brags idea had forever changed the nature of Quidditch Golden Snitch
'its were soon being released during all Quidditch matches the position of the hunter which would later be known as seeker was
created with one player on each team
They had the sole task of catching the bird when the bird was caught and killed the game was over and the hunters team was
awarded in extra
150 galleons promised by Chief Bragg the crowd worked together to keep the snitchin on the pitch by using repelling spells
This went on for many years, but at the middle of the following century Golden Snitch at numbers had fallen
So low that the Wizards Council now headed by the considerably more enlightened
Alfie de clack made the Golden Snitch it a protected species outlawing both its killing and its use in Quidditch games
They started a safe house where they had the preservation of the creatures
They named it the modesty Rabbinate snitch
't reservation named after madam rabbinate the first person to ever take a stand in defense of these birds
People were frantic to find a substitute for the creatures that were now off-limits
People were desperate for matches to resume and were fearful
They Quidditch as they knew it was gone forever. The invention of the Golden Snitch came to the rescue
however
The creation was made by a wizard named Bowman Wright of Godric's hollow while Quidditch teams all over the country tried to find bird
substitutes for the snitch 'it Wright who was a skilled metal charmer set himself to the task of creating a ball that mimicked the
Behavior and flight patterns of the snitch in his invention worked perfectly there were orders from all over the country when he died
He left behind many rolls of parchment with those orders
The Golden Snitch as Bowman called his invention was a walnut sized ball
Exactly the weight of a snitchin it had the same wings and rotational joints
Enabling it to change direction with the lightning speed of its living model unlike the snitch at however
The snitch had been bewitched to remain within the boundaries of the field
The introduction of the Golden Snitch is said to have finished the process of creating this amazing sport after this invention
Quidditch had truly been born
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